Open AccessPalaeogeography and palaeoclimatology of Patagonia: effects on biodiversity
Author(s) -
RUZZANTE DANIEL E.,
RABASSA JORGE
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
biological journal of the linnean society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.906
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1095-8312
pISSN - 0024-4066
DOI - 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01693.x
Subject(s) - biology , arid , paleoclimatology , biodiversity , paleontology , beagle , palaeogeography , darwin (adl) , ecology , natural (archaeology) , palynology , pollen , climate change , tectonics , volcanism , systems engineering , engineering
‘. . . In calling up images of the past, I find that the plains of Patagonia frequently cross before my eyes; yet these plains are pronounced by all wretched and useless. They can be described only by negative characters; without habitations, without water, without trees, without mountains, they support only a few dwarf plants. Why then, and the case is not peculiar to myself, have these arid wastes taken so firm a hold on my memory? . . .’ (Charles Darwin (1839) Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of the HMS Beagle)