The great american biotic interchange : a south american perspective /
Alberto Luis Cione, Germán Mariano Gasparini, Esteban Soibelzon, Leopoldo Héctor Soibelzon, Eduardo Pedro Tonni.
- x, 97 páginas : 30 ilustraciones, 28 ilustraciones en color.
- SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences, 2191-589X .
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The history of the Great American Biotic Interchange concept -- Continents involved in the GABI -- Landbridges between previously isolated continents -- Chronology, Stratigraphy and Paleoclimatology of South America since Late Miocene to the Recent -- Objectives and hypothesis -- Methods -- Stratigraphic conceptual framework -- Taxonomic diversity: native, immigrant, and in situ differentiated taxa -- Paleoecology: body mass and diet estimations -- Analysis of Immigrant Mammal Fauna through the Diffferent Ages -- Huayquerian Age -- Montehermosan Age -- Chapadmalalan Age -- Marplatan Age -- Ensenadan Age -- Bonaerian Ag -- Lujanian Age -- Platan Age -- Discussion -- The GABI chronology and dynamics -- Integration of South American mammalian faunas: native and immigrant taxa coexisting -- Quaternary mammalian extinctions in South American Composition of recent mammalian fauna of South America.