TY - BOOK AU - Graham,Alan TI - A natural history of the New World: the ecology and evolution of plants in the Americas SN - 9780226306803 (pbk.) : AV - QE926 .G73 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - Chicago PB - University of Chicago Press KW - Paleobotany KW - America KW - Tertiary KW - Cretaceous KW - Cenozoic KW - Plant ecology KW - Plants KW - Evolution KW - Plants, Fossil N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Getting started -- Location, location, location -- Floods, temperature, evolution, and it's about time -- How do they do that? -- Early on : middle Cretaceous through the early Eocene -- Transition : middle Eocene through the early Miocene -- Modernizing : middle Miocene through the Pliocene -- Latest touch : the great ice ages -- The bigger picture : implications of past environmental changes in the New World -- Pole to pole : a walk over the landscape, a walk through time ER -