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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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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 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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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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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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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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Herbicide use history and perspective in South America
Advances in Weed Science, 2022 Abstract Background Agriculture in South America (SA) had a great expansion in the last decades and weed control changed accordingly with region and crop practices. Objective The objective of this review is to present the history of herbicide use and discuss the main changes in weed management in SA.
Aldo Merotto +6 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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, 2016 International audience"The thematic symposium “Contributions of technological approaches to the pre-history of South America: Theoretical perspectives and case studies” took place in Goiânia, Brazil, during the 8th Congress of the Brazilian ...
Machado, Juliana de Resende +2 more
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Arts80 years of Chilean rock art research, from its early descriptive stages in the 1940s to the present-day integration of relational ontologies, archaeometric techniques, and interdisciplinary perspectives, is reviewed.
Daniela Valenzuela +3 more
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