The early Eocene is a key geological time interval to further our understanding of climate
change and biosphere variability under high atmospheric CO 2 concentrations of more than …

Abstract Background and Aims Understanding diaspore morphology and how much a
species invests on dispersal appendages is key for improving our knowledge of dispersal in …

Premise To address the biodiversity crisis, we need to understand the evolution of all
organisms and how they fill geographic and ecological space. Syntrichia is one of the most …

The widening of the South Atlantic Basin led to the reorganization of regional atmospheric
and oceanic circulations. However, the response of the Atlantic Intertropical Convergence …

Hystricognath rodents arrived in South America from Africa during the Paleogene. The
oldest South American rodents (Caviomorpha) were intensively studied in recent years. One …

Oxygen isotope speleothems have been widely used to infer past climate changes over
tropical South America (TSA). However, the spatial patterns of the millennial precipitation …

Abstract Uplift of the Andean Cordillera during the Miocene and Pliocene produced large-
scale changes in regional atmospheric circulation that impacted local ecosystems. The …

Parutaetus is an early-diverging Euphractinae cingulate that inhabited South America during
the middle Eocene–early Oligocene. Four species are known: P. chicoensis, P. clusus, P …

This work presents combined whole-rock element and Smsingle bond Nd and Sr isotopes of
the Eocene syn-rift I alluvial sediments of the Resende Basin (SE-Brazil), aiming the …

Passive margins typically present escarpments that separate high relief coastal draining
catchments from lower-relief inland ones. Widespread drainage reorganization processes in …