A Natural History of the New World: The Ecology and Evolution of Plants in the Americas by Alan Graham

A Natural History of the New World: The Ecology and Evolution of Plants in the Americas



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A Natural History of the New World: The Ecology and Evolution of Plants in the Americas Alan Graham
Language: English
Page: 404
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0226306798, 9780226306797
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press

“As uncertainty looms about Earth’s changing climates and the impacts these changes will have on the stability of its natural systems, scientists are working hard to predict where changes will be the greatest and most severe. One valuable approach is to look to past changes to gain an understanding of where we may be headed. This new book by Graham provides a broad synthesis of the history of natural environments in the New World with a unique focus on plants. . . . This work would make an excellent textbook for undergraduate or graduate courses in natural history or historical biogeography of the New World and is an essential reference for professional ecologists. Highly recommended.” (R. B. Pratt Choice )

“For all those who’ve wanted to travel in a time machine to witness New World plant life and ecosystems since the Cretaceous period, here is your chance. This is an unprecedented and much-needed account of American natural history that will serve as the leading book of its kind for many years.”

(Dolores R. Piperno, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and Smithsoni )

“This book is unique in describing the biotic history of the New World from the viewpoint of plants. It documents, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, the incredible changes in vegetation that have occurred over the past 100 million years. Studying this turbulent biotic history is vital if we are to understand how human intervention will affect the Earth’s system; this book should be essential reading for any who wish to understand how geologic and atmospheric changes induce radical changes in ecosystems.”

(Toby Pennington, The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh )

“A fascinating, comprehensive, and very readable account of past and present lands and life in the New World. Alan Graham has given us a book full of tales of the wonder, grandeur, and heroism of the New World. It is full of information about geology, biology, and the history of the people who explored and discovered aspects of the ecology and the evolution of New World vegetation. It includes a broad range of topics, resulting in a comprehensive account of the natural history of plants in the Americas and the people who studied them. Graham’s half century of experience, his knowledge, and his engaging presentation of New World natural history will benefit the politician and the poet as well as the biologist, conservationist, and well-informed traveler.”

(David Dilcher, Indiana University )

“Vivid and intuitive. . . . Readers emerge with a clearer picture of just how drastically New World physical and biotic environments have shifted over time.” (Donald M. Waller Quarterly Review of Biology )

Alan Graham is curator of paleobotany and palynology at the Missouri Botanical Garden.

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