The Great American Biotic Interchange: Dispersals, Tectonics, Climate, Sea Level and Holding Pens

The biotic and geologic dynamics of the Great American Biotic Interchange are reviewed and revised. Information on the Marine Isotope Stage chronology, sea level changes as well as Pliocene and Pleistocene vegetation changes in Central and northern South America add to a discussion of the role of climate in facilitating trans-isthmian exchanges. Trans-isthmian land mammal exchanges during the Pleistocene glacial intervals appear to have been promoted by the development of diverse non-tropical ecologies.

• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Journal of mammalian evolution

• Publication date

  2010-07-14

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s10914-010-9144-8PMID 21125025PMCID 2987556
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