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SUBMITTER: Rowe KC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC478575 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rowe Kevin C KC Heske Edward J EJ Brown Patrick W PW Paige Ken N KN
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20040712 28
The contemporary distribution of biological diversity cannot be understood without knowledge of how organisms responded to the geological and climatic history of Earth. In particular, Quaternary expansions and contractions of glacial ice sheets are thought to have played an important role in shaping the distribution of biodiversity among current populations in the north-temperate region. In the central U.S., fossil and palynological data provide support for the maintenance of a large southeaster ...[more]