The Evolution of neogene terrestrial ecosystems in Europe

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1. Introduction J. Agusti, L. Rook and P. Andrews Part I. Palaeogeography of the Circum-Mediterranean Region: 2. Mediterranean and Paratethys palaeogeography during Oligocene and Miocene Fred Rogl 3. Pliocene tephra correlations between East African hominid localities, the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea Peter B. deMenocal and Francis H. Brown 4. Climatic perspectives for neogene environmental reconstructions Eileen M. O'Brien and Charles R. Peters Part II. Miocene Mammalian Successions: 5. A critical re-evaluation of the Miocene mammals units in western Europe: dispersal events and the problems of correlation J. Agusti, L. Cabrera and M. Garces 6. Large mammals from the Vallesian of Spain Jorge Morales, Manuel Nieto, Meike Kholer and Salvador Moya-Sola 7. Trends in rodent assemblages from the Aragonian (Early-Middle Miocene) of the Calatayud-Daroca basin, Aragon, Spain R. Daams, A. J. van der Meulen, P. Pelaez-Campomanes and M. A. Alvarez-Sierra 8. The Late Miocene small mammal succession from France, with emphasis on the Rhone Valley localities Pierre Mein 9. Late Miocene mammals from central Europe Jens Lorenz Franzen and Gerharrd Storch 10. An overview on the Italian Miocene land mammal faunas Lorenzo Rook, Laura Abbazzi and Burkhart Engesser 11. The Miocene large mammal succession in Greece Louis de Bonis and George D. Koufos 12. Chronology and mammal faunas of the Miocene Sinap formation, Turkey Juha Pekka Lunkka, Mikael Fortelius, John Kappelman and Sevket Sen 13. The Late Miocene small mammal succession in Ukraine Valentin A. Nesin and Vadim A. Topachevsky Part III. Palaeoenvironments: Non-Mammalian Evidence: 14. Marine invertebrate (chiefly foraminiferal) evidence for the palaeogeography of the Oligocene-Miocene of western Eurasia, and consequences for terrestrial vertebrate migration Robert Wynn Jones 15. Palaeoclimatic implications of the energy hypothesis from Neogene corals of the Mediterranean region Brian R. Rosen 16. Contribution to the knowledge of Neogene climatic changes in western and central Europe by means of non-marine molluscs Daniela Esu 17. Sedimentary facies analysis in palaeoclimatic reconstructions. Examples from the Upper Miocene-Pliocene successions of south-central Tuscany (Italy) Marco Benvenuti, Mauro Papini and Giovanni Testa 18. Neogene vegetation changes in western European and west circum-Mediterranean areas Jean-Pierre Suc, Severine Fauquette, Mostefa Bessegik, Adele Bertini, Zhuo Zheng, Georges Clauzon, Danica Suballyova, Fiomena Diniz, Pierre Quezel, Najat Feddi, Martine Clet, Ezzedine Bessais, Naima Bachiri Taoufiq, Henriette Meon and Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout Part IV. Palaeoenvironments: Mammalian Evidence: 19. Shrews (Mammalia, Insectivora, Soricidae) as palaeoclimatic indicators in the European Neogene Jelle W.F. Reumer 20. Mammal turnover and global climate change in the Late Micoene terrestrial record of the Valles- Penedes basin (NE Spain) Jorge Agusti , Lluis Cabrera, Miguel Garces and Manel Llenas 21. Palaeoenvironments of Late Miocene primate localites in Macedonia, Greece L. de Bonis, G. Bouvrain and G. D. Koufos 22. The paleoecology of the Pikermian biome and the savanna myth Nikos Solounias, J. Michael Plavcan, Jay Quade and Lawrence Witmer 23. Vicariance biogeography and paleoecology of Eurasian Miocine hominoid primates Peter Andrews and Raymond L. Bernor 24. Conclusion J. Agusti, L. Rook and P. Andrews.