{"product_id":"evolution-environment-in-tropical-america-9780226389424","title":"Evolution  Environment in Tropical America","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume draws on extensive, multidisciplinary research in its attempt to develop new views of the geological formation of the isthmus linking North and South America, and of the major environmental changes that reshaped the Neotropics to create its present-day marine and terrestrial ecosystems.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  1: Evolution and Environment: Introduction and Overview  Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Ann F. Budd.  2: The Geologic Evolution of the Central American Isthmus  Anthony G. Coates, Jorge A. Obando.  3: Graphic Correlation of Marine Deposits from the Central American Isthmus: Implications for Late Neogene Paleoceanography  Harry J. Dowsett, Mathew A. Cotton.  4: Biotic and Oceanographic Response to the Pliocene Closing of the Central American Isthmus  Thomas M. Cronin, Harry J. Dowsett.  5: The Oxygen Isotopic Record of Seasonality in Neogene Bivalves from the Central American Isthmus  Jane L. Teranes, Dana H. Geary, Brian E. Bemis.  6: Environmental Changes in Caribbean Shallow Waters Relative to the Closing Tropical American Seaway  Laurel S. Collins  7: Plio-Pleistocene Turnover and Extinctions in the Caribbean Reef-Coral Fauna  Ann F. Budd, Kenneth G. Johnson, Thomas A. Stemann.  8: Speciation, Extinction, and the Decline of Arborescent Growth in Neogene and Quaternary Cheilostome Bryozoa of Tropical America  Alan H. Cheetham, Jeremy B. C. Jackson.  9: Paciphilia Revisited: Transisthmian Evolution of the Strombina Group (Gastropoda: Columbellidae)  Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Peter Jung, Helena Fortunato.  10: Diversity of Pliocene-Recent Mollusks in the Western Atlantic: Extinction, Origination, and Environmental Change  Warren D. Allmon, Gary Rosenberg, Roger W. Portell, Kevin Schindler.  11: Molecular Comparisons of Transisthmian Species Pairs: Rates and Patterns of Evolution  Timothy Collins  12: Late Cenozoic Evolution of the Neotropical Mammal Fauna  S. David Webb, Alceu Rancy.  13: Quaternary Environmental History and Forest Diversity in the Neotropics  Paul A. Colinvaux  List of Contributors  Index","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036530803031,"sku":"9780226389424","price":106.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226389424.jpg?v=1750932294","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/evolution-environment-in-tropical-america-9780226389424","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}