Angiosperm Biogeography and Past Continental Movements
Angiosperm Biogeography and Past Continental Movements
- Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 61(3), p.539-673, 1974 .
The isolation of land areas by sea-floor spreading, the uplift of new cordilleras, the emergence of new archipelagos and the disappearance of old ones, and the shifting positions of (some)land-masses have both created and destroyed environ- ments to which biota have responded. In this sense, changing physical environ- ments governed by plate tectonics have had a major role in evolutionary history. Plate tectonic theory thus provides a more reliable basis for analyzing changes in land-sea relations and changes in climates, and hence for interpreting problems of evolution and distribution, than has been available earlier
GENERA
FLORA
POLLEN
ANGIOSPERMS
FOSSILS,BIOGEOGRAPHY
EVOLUTION
PLANTS
ANTARCTIC REGIONS
RAVENS
The isolation of land areas by sea-floor spreading, the uplift of new cordilleras, the emergence of new archipelagos and the disappearance of old ones, and the shifting positions of (some)land-masses have both created and destroyed environ- ments to which biota have responded. In this sense, changing physical environ- ments governed by plate tectonics have had a major role in evolutionary history. Plate tectonic theory thus provides a more reliable basis for analyzing changes in land-sea relations and changes in climates, and hence for interpreting problems of evolution and distribution, than has been available earlier
GENERA
FLORA
POLLEN
ANGIOSPERMS
FOSSILS,BIOGEOGRAPHY
EVOLUTION
PLANTS
ANTARCTIC REGIONS
RAVENS