A brief history of South American Me...
Goin, Francisco J.

 

  • A brief history of South American Metatherians[electronic resource] :evolutionary contexts and intercontinental dispersals /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 551.78
    書名/作者: A brief history of South American Metatherians : evolutionary contexts and intercontinental dispersals // by Francisco J. Goin ... [et al.].
    其他作者: Goin, Francisco J.
    出版者: Dordrecht : : Springer Netherlands :, 2016.
    面頁冊數: xi, 237 p. : : ill., digital ;; 24 cm.
    Contained By: Springer eBooks
    標題: Paleogeography - South America.
    標題: Paleontology.
    標題: Earth Sciences.
    標題: Biogeosciences.
    標題: Climate Change.
    標題: Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection.
    標題: Biodiversity.
    ISBN: 9789401774208
    ISBN: 9789401774185
    內容註: 1. Introduction -- 2. South American Living Metatherians: Physiological Ecology and Constraints -- 3. Dispersal of Vertebrates from between the Americas, Antarctica, and Australia in the Late Cretaceous and Early Cenozoic -- 4. Evolutionary Contexts -- 5. Phylogeny and Diversity of South American Metatherians -- 6. Paleobiology and Adaptations of Paleogene Metatherians -- 7. Milestones in the Evolution of South American Metatherians.
    摘要、提要註: This book summarizes major aspects of the evolution of South American metatherians, including their epistemologic, phylogenetic, biogeographic, faunal, tectonic, paleoclimatic, and metabolic contexts. A brief overview of the evolution of each major South American lineage ("Ameridelphia", Sparassodonta, Didelphimorphia, Paucituberculata, Microbiotheria, and Polydolopimorphia) is provided. It is argued that due to physiological constraints, metatherian evolution closely followed the conditions imposed by global temperatures. In general terms, during the Paleocene and the early Eocene multiple radiations of metatherian lineages occurred, with many adaptive types exploiting insectivorous, frugivorous, and omnivorous adaptive zones. In turn, a mixture of generalized and specialized types, the latter mainly exploiting carnivorous and granivorous-folivorous adaptive zones, characterized the second half of the Cenozoic. In both periods, climate was the critical driver of their radiation and turnovers.
    電子資源: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7420-8
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