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  Book Title: A Natural
History of the New World: The Ecology and Evolution of Plants in the Americas	 	
  Book Author:  Alan Graham (Author) 
   Hardcover: 408 pages
   Publisher: University Of
Chicago Press (December 1, 2010)
   Language: English
   ISBN-10: 0226306798
   ISBN-13:
978-0226306797
  
  Book Description
  Publication Date: December 1, 2010 | ISBN-10: 0226306798 | ISBN-13: 978-0226306797
  The
paleoecological history of the Americas is as complex as the region is broad: stretching from the Arctic Circle to
Tierra del Fuego, the New World features some of the most extraordinary vegetation on the planet. But until now it has
lacked a complete natural history. Alan Graham remedies that with A Natural History of the New World. With plants as his
scientific muse, Graham traces the evolution of ecosystems, beginning in the Late Cretaceous period (about 100 million
years ago) and ending in the present, charting their responses to changes in geology and climate.
   By
highlighting plant communities’ roles in the environmental history of the Americas, Graham offers an overdue
balance to natural histories that focus exclusively on animals. Plants are important in evolution’s splendid
drama. Not only are they conspicuous and conveniently stationary components of the Earth’s ecosystems, but their
extensive fossil record allows for a thorough reconstruction of the planet’s paleoenvironments. What’s
more, plants provide oxygen, function as food and fuel, and provide habitat and shelter; in short, theirs is a history
that can speak to many other areas of evolution.
  A Natural History of the New World is an ambitious and
unprecedented synthesis written by one of the world’s leading scholars of botany and geology. 
  
  Reviews
  “As uncertainty looms about
Earth’s changing climates and the impacts these changes will have on the stability of its natural systems,
scientists are working hard to predict where changes will be the greatest and most severe. One valuable approach is to
look to past changes to gain an understanding of where we may be headed. This new book by Graham provides a broad
synthesis of the history of natural environments in the New World with a unique focus on plants. . . . This work would
make an excellent textbook for undergraduate or graduate courses in natural history or historical biogeography of the
New World and is an essential reference for professional ecologists. Highly recommended.”(R. B. Pratt Choice)
  
  “For all those who’ve wanted to travel
in a time machine to witness New World plant life and ecosystems since the Cretaceous period, here is your chance. This
is an unprecedented and much-needed account of American natural history that will serve as the leading book of its kind
for many years.”(Dolores R. Piperno, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and
Smithsoni)
  
  “This book is unique in describing the biotic history of the New World from
the viewpoint of plants. It documents, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, the incredible changes in vegetation that have
occurred over the past 100 million years. Studying this turbulent biotic history is vital if we are to understand how
human intervention will affect the Earth’s system; this book should be essential reading for any who wish to
understand how geologic and atmospheric changes induce radical changes in ecosystems.”(Toby Pennington, The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh)
  
  “A
fascinating, comprehensive, and very readable account of past and present lands and life in the New World. Alan Graham
has given us a book full of tales of the wonder, grandeur, and heroism of the New World. It is full of information about
geology, biology, and the history of the people who explored and discovered aspects of the ecology and the evolution of
New World vegetation. It includes a broad range of topics, resulting in a comprehensive account of the natural history
of plants in the Americas and the people who studied them. Graham’s half century of experience, his knowledge,
and his engaging presentation of New World natural history will benefit the politician and the poet as well as the
biologist, conservationist, and well-informed traveler.”(David Dilcher, Indiana
University)
  
  “Vivid and intuitive. . . . Readers emerge with a clearer picture of just
how drastically New World physical and biotic environments have shifted over time.”
  (Donald M. Waller Quarterly Review of Biology)
  
  About the Author
  Alan Graham is curator of
paleobotany and palynology at the Missouri Botanical Garden. 						

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