Communications Biology (Feb 2021)

Impact of mid Eocene greenhouse warming on America’s southernmost floras

  • Damián A. Fernández,
  • Luis Palazzesi,
  • M. Sol González Estebenet,
  • M. Cristina Tellería,
  • Viviana D. Barreda

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01701-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Reconstructed floras from southernmost South America during the Middle Eocene Climate Optimum show the impact of this warming event on floral diversity. This reconstructed biota reflects a greenhouse world and offers a climatic and ecological deep time scenario of a sub-Antarctic region in the absence of ice.