title: Neogene paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic change in southern temperate ecosystems - a southern perspective.
abstract: Recently, a greatly increased number of macrofossil and pollen analytical records from Australasia and southern South America has permitted, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of past vegetation and climate change in southern temperate ecosystems. While the course of Neogene climatic change has been comparable to that of the temperate northern hemisphere, a distinctive southern hemisphere vegetation has evolved, not primarily because of its common Gondwana origin, but as a consequence of the minor amplitude of Quaternary change, absence of large ice sheets, and failure of full-glacial environments to persist through interglacials.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0450, USA.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Markgraf
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: McGlone
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hope