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Biblioteca(s): 	Embrapa Pantanal.	
Data corrente: 	26/08/1997	
Data da última atualização: 	05/04/2017	
Autoria: 	STEBBINS, G. L.	
Título: 	Coevolution of grasses and herbivores.	
Ano de publicação: 	1981	
Fonte/Imprenta: 	Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, v.68, p.75-86, 1981.	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Conteúdo: 	The appearance of fossilized silica bodies derived from the leaf epidermis of grasses and of mammalian fossils having high-crowned teeth was nearly simultaneous in lower to middle Eocene strata of Patagonia, where these fossils are associated with dry land sediments that indicate the presence of savannas containing shrubs and traversed by rivers that provided mesic habitats. In North America, the earliest clearly identified grass fossils are stipoid fruits of lower Miocene age, while the oldest mammals having high-crowned teeth are rhinoceroses of Miocene age. The abundant stipoid fruits known from the Miocene and Pliocene Epochs in the central United States indicate that the earliest Miocene species were quite different from modern counterparts, but that early Pliocene species have modern counterparts in the pampas of South America. During the Pleistocene, stipoid grasses ceased to be dominant elements of North American grasslands, being replaced by grasses belonging to the tribes Chlorideae and Andropogoneae. This change was assciated with the appearance of a drier, more continental climate and with the appearance of bison and sheep on the North American plains. The evolutionary significance of these cordinated changes is discussed.	
Palavras-Chave: 	Coevolucao; Evolucao; Herbivoro; Herbivory.	
Thesagro: 	Gramínea.	
Thesaurus Nal: 	coevolution; evolution; grasses.	
Categoria do assunto: 	--	
Registro original: 	Embrapa Pantanal (CPAP)	
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