Biotic evolution and environmental change in Southeast Asia /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Systematics Association special volume series Systematics Association special volume. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11830848 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Biotic Evolution and Environmental Change in Southeast Asia; The Systematics Association Special Volume Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; 1: Introduction; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Overview; 1.3 Overall contribution; References; 2: Wallace, Darwin and Southeast Asia: the real field site of evolution; 2.1 Darwin in the Galápagos; 2.2 Wallace in Southeast Asia; 2.3 Facts, fairness and conspiracies; References; 3: Sundaland and Wallacea: geology, plate tectonics and palaeogeography; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Background.
- 3.3 Triassic to Cretaceous: assembly of Sundaland3.4 Mid Cretaceous: collision and termination of subduction; 3.5 Eocene to Miocene: resumption of subduction; 3.5.1 Sundaland palaeogeography; 3.5.2 Sundaland margins; 3.6 Miocene to Recent: Australia collision in Wallacea; 3.6.1 Banda: Early Miocene collision; 3.6.2 Banda: Miocene extension; 3.6.3 Banda: Pliocene collision; 3.6.4 Sulawesi; 3.7 Miocene to Recent: Pacific arcs and northern Australia; 3.7.1 North Moluccas; 3.7.2 New Guinea; 3.7.3 Bird's Head; 3.8 Miocene to Recent: Sundaland collision, uplift and subsidence.
- 3.8.1 Borneo collision3.8.2 Southern Borneo; 3.8.3 Northern Borneo; 3.8.4 Dangerous Grounds; 3.8.5 Sumatra and Java; 3.9 Pleistocene change; 3.10 Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; 4: A review of the Cenozoic palaeoclimate history of Southeast Asia; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Paleocene; 4.3 Eocene; 4.4 Oligocene; 4.4.1 Oligocene climate history of South China Sea pull-apart basins; 4.4.2 Oligocene climate records from the Java Sea; 4.4.3 Summary of Oligocene climate trends; 4.5 Early and Middle Miocene; 4.5.1 Malay Basin and West Natuna climate history; 4.6 Late Miocene and Pliocene.
- 4.7 Late Pliocene and Pleistocene4.8 Controls on climate change; 4.9 Summary and conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; 5: Quaternary dynamics of Sundaland forests; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Old wine in new bottles: palaeoforests of Sundaland in the present archipelago; 5.2.1 Historical distribution of Sundaland rainforest; Significant questions about historical distribution; How quickly did marine sediments evolve into terrestrial soils on the exposed shelf?; Do current population sizes correlate with past population sizes?
- How do refugia form naturally? What are the community assembly processes of contraction?Did a large inland lake exist on Sundaland, in the position of the Bay of Thailand?; How did the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle differ during the glacial period? Does general or supra-annual mast fruiting require a special hypothesis?; Was the Sunda Shelf covered by vast peat swamps?; 5.2.2 Variance in historical biogeography among forest types is predictable; Mangrove forests; Lowland forests; Upland forests; Outstanding questions about specific forest types; Do different biogeographic histories lead to predictable differences in the dominant phenotypic traits and seed dispersal characteristics.