Preface
1: Evolution and Environment: Introduction and Overview
Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Ann F. Budd.
2: The Geologic Evolution of the Central American Isthmus
Anthony G. Coates, Jorge A. Obando.
3: Graphic Correlation of Marine Deposits from the Central American Isthmus: Implications for Late Neogene Paleoceanography
Harry J. Dowsett, Mathew A. Cotton.
4: Biotic and Oceanographic Response to the Pliocene Closing of the Central American Isthmus
Thomas M. Cronin, Harry J. Dowsett.
5: The Oxygen Isotopic Record of Seasonality in Neogene Bivalves from the Central American Isthmus
Jane L. Teranes, Dana H. Geary, Brian E. Bemis.
6: Environmental Changes in Caribbean Shallow Waters Relative to the Closing Tropical American Seaway
Laurel S. Collins
7: Plio-Pleistocene Turnover and Extinctions in the Caribbean Reef-Coral Fauna
Ann F. Budd, Kenneth G. Johnson, Thomas A. Stemann.
8: Speciation, Extinction, and the Decline of Arborescent Growth in Neogene and Quaternary Cheilostome Bryozoa of Tropical America
Alan H. Cheetham, Jeremy B. C. Jackson.
9: Paciphilia Revisited: Transisthmian Evolution of the Strombina Group (Gastropoda: Columbellidae)
Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Peter Jung, Helena Fortunato.
10: Diversity of Pliocene-Recent Mollusks in the Western Atlantic: Extinction, Origination, and Environmental Change
Warren D. Allmon, Gary Rosenberg, Roger W. Portell, Kevin Schindler.
11: Molecular Comparisons of Transisthmian Species Pairs: Rates and Patterns of Evolution
Timothy Collins
12: Late Cenozoic Evolution of the Neotropical Mammal Fauna
S. David Webb, Alceu Rancy.
13: Quaternary Environmental History and Forest Diversity in the Neotropics
Paul A. Colinvaux
List of Contributors
Index