Diversity of Cretaceous continental actinopterygians from Argentina, South America [PDF]
Research & Knowledge, 2017 South America holds a signiicant number of continental ish-bearing deposits of Cretaceous age. The principal purpose of the current article is to illustrate the diversity of continental actinopterygian assemblages of the main Cretaceous localities from ...
P. Guillermina Giordano
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Domestication and human demographic history in South America
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2017 AbstractObjectivesThe early groups of hunter‐gatherers who peopled South America faced significant ecological changes in their trophic niche for a relatively short period after the initial peopling. In particular, the incorporation of cultigens during the Holocene led to a wider trophic niche and probably to an increased carrying capacity of the ...
S. Ivan Perez +2 more
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The palms of South America: diversity, distribution and evolutionary history
Revista Peruana de Biología, 2014 This article presents an inventory of South American palms including 457 species and 50 genera. The distribution of palms within seven phytogeographical entities is analyzed. Factors which influence the evolution of palms in South America are discussed.
Jean-Christophe Pintaud +12 more
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Local Population Structure and Patterns of Western Hemisphere Dispersal for Coccidioides spp., the Fungal Cause of Valley Fever. [PDF]
, 2016 UnlabelledCoccidioidomycosis (or valley fever) is a fungal disease with high morbidity and mortality that affects tens of thousands of people each year. This infection is caused by two sibling species, Coccidioides immitis and C.
Arathoon, Eduardo +15 more
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The palaeobiogeography of South American gomphotheres
Journal of Palaeogeography, 2013 Gomphotheriid proboscideans reached South America as Late Cenozoic immigrants from North America. However, disagreements over alpha taxonomy, age dating and phylogenetic relationships have produced three competing hypotheses about this immigration: (1) a
Spencer G. Lucas
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Mapas manuscritos, práticas de espaço e conhecimento geográfico na bacia platina (sécs. XVI e XVII)
Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2020 Since the early decades of the invasion and beginning of European occupation in America, numerous works and accounts have been written about the nature and geography of the New World.
Tiago Bonato
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Brazilian modernism in the Vanguardia Latinoamericana
Revista de Estudios Brasileños, 2016 Mendonça Teles, G. & Müller-Bergh, K. (Eds.). (2015). Vanguardia Latinoamericana. Historia, crítica y documentos [Tomo VI, Brasil]. Frankfurt am Main/Madrid: Vervuert/Iberoamericana.Following the publication of the volumes of work dedicated to the ...
Hugo MILHANAS MACHADO
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A Tale of Two Continents (and a Few Islands): Ecology and Distribution of Late Pleistocene Sloths
Land, 2023 Late Pleistocene sloths were widely distributed and present in a diversity of habitats in South, Central, and North America and some Caribbean Islands. Late Pleistocene sloths include 27 genera in four families Megatheriidae, Megalonychidae, Mylodontidae,
H. Gregory McDonald
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Chemical characteristics of air from different source regions during the second Pacific Exploratory Mission in the Tropics (PEM-Tropics B) [PDF]
, 2001 Ten-day backward trajectories are used to determine the origins of air parcels arriving at locations of airborne DC-8 chemical measurements during NASA's second Pacific Exploratory Mission in the Tropics B that was conducted during February-April 1999 ...
Avery, MA +9 more
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First steps towards assessing the evolutionary history and phylogeography of a widely distributed Neotropical grassland bird (Motacillidae: Anthus correndera) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Grasslands in southern South America are extensive ecosystems which harbor a unique biodiversity; however, studies on the evolution of their taxa are scarce.
Heraldo V. Norambuena +3 more
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