The Physical Geography of South America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23780717 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas T Veblen (0000-0002-3037-640X), Thomas Veblen, Kenneth R Young (0000-0003-0866-1260), Kenneth Young, Antony R Orme, Antony Orme |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-04-26 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | The Physical Geography of South America (Oxford Regional Environments) (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780195313413.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W593925470 |
| ISBN | 9780195313413 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
The Physical Geography of South America, the eighth volume in the Oxford Regional Environments series, presents an enduring statement on the physical and biogeographic conditions of this remarkable continent and their relationships to human activity. It fills a void in recent environmental literature by assembling a team of specialists from within and beyond South America in order to provide an integrated, cross-disciplinary body of knowledge about this mostly tropical continent, together with its high mountains and temperate southern cone. The authors systematically cover the main components of the South American environment - tectonism, climate, glaciation, natural landscape changes, rivers, vegetation, animals, and soils. The book then presents more specific treatments of regions with special attributes from the tropical forests of the Amazon basin to the Atacama Desert and Patagonian steppe, and from the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Pacific coasts to the high Andes. Additionally, the continents environments are given a human face by evaluating the roles played by people over time, from pre-European and European colonial impacts to the effects of modern agriculture and urbanization, and from interactions with El Niño events to prognoses for the future environments of the continent.
Archaeology · Geography · Physical geography · Steppe · Ecology · Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond · Environmental and Ecological Studies
Late Quaternary paleoenvironments and paleoclimatic conditions in the distal Andean piedmont, southern Mendoza, Argentina
Reconstruction of a complex late Quaternary glacial landscape in the Cordillera de Cochabamba (Bolivia) based on a morphostratigraphic and multiple dating approach
Climate variability over the last 9900 cal yr BP from a swamp forest pollen record along the semiarid coast of Chile
South American Geography and Chronology
South American Geography and Chronology
Climate and Culture
Mountain Ecology, Remoteness, and the Rise of Agrobiodiversity
Macrobotanical remains of wild rice during the Late Holocene in the Southernmost region of the La Plata Basin (Argentina)
Geohistorical records of the Anthropocene in Chile
A (Geo-)Narrative Analysis of Children’s Perceptions of Wellbeing in Relation to Nature as the Basis for Educational Intervention Planning
Some Opinions about Monte Verde
From owl prey to human food
Resource intensification and zooarchaeological record in the southern margins of pre-Hispanic Andean agriculture
Amidst wind, sand and raptors. Small mammal bone remains recovered in open-air archaeological sites from the Monte Desert in Central Western Argentina
Land-Use and Land Cover Dynamics in South American Temperate Grasslands
Rewriting the Late Pre-European History of Amazonia
Climate Change in Eurasia
Ecosystem services and tree plantations in Uruguay
A review of Late Quaternary inland dune systems of South America east of the Andes
La (re)construcción de Chachapoyas a través de la historia e histografía
Nothofagus forest dynamics and palaeoenvironmental variations during the mid and late Holocene, in southwest Patagonia
Plants and early hunter-gatherers at Taguatagua 3
Integrated palaeoecology and archaeology - a powerful approach for understanding pre-Columbian Amazonia
Chinchorro fibre management in the Atacama Desert and its significance for understanding Andean textilization processes
Perception and Resilience of Andean Populations Facing Climate Change
Present-day South American climate
The "Pristine Myth" Revisited
The Journalist's Dilemma
After 1492
| Unique citing works | 29 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,45 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2025 (20) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |