On the Origin of Amazonian Landscapes and Biodiversity: A Synthesis

Amazonia, Landscape and Species Evolution: A Look into the Past

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 421-431

  Wesselingh, Frank P ^a   Hoorn, Carina ^b   Kroonenberg, Salomon B ^c   Antonelli, Alexandre ^d,e   Lundberg, John G ^f   Vonhof, Hubert B ^g   Hooghiemstra, Henry ^b  

^a NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^f Academy of Natural Sciences   (United States)

^g VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amazonia, world's largest rainforest and river system; Andean uplift and Amazonian landscape evolution; Climatic oscillations of Quaternary altitudinal shifts in biomes and changing communities in rainforest; DNA sequence variation divergence times among Amazonian aquatic taxa; Earliest North America immigrants and Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI); Fine grained lacustrine depositional settings to coarse grained fluvial depositional systems; Landscape evolution and driving factors; Northern South America, Cenozoic intense tectonic and climatic interaction; Origin of Amazonian landscapes and biodiversity synthesis; Tectonic processes and role in Amazonian landscape evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84987693857     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444306408.ch26     Document Type: Chapter

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