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SUBMITTER: Valiente-Banuet A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1636537 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Valiente-Banuet Alfonso A Rumebe Adolfo Vital AV Verdú Miguel M Callaway Ragan M RM
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20061026 45
One of the most important floristic sorting periods to affect modern plant communities occurred during the shift from the wet Tertiary period to the unusually dry Quaternary, when most global deserts developed. During this time, a wave of new plant species emerged, presumably in response to the new climate. Interestingly, most Tertiary species that have been tracked through the fossil record did not disappear but remained relatively abundant despite the development of a much more unfavorable cli ...[more]