TERTIARY LAND BRIDGES AND THEIR CLIMATE: BACKDROP FOR DEVELOPMENT OF THE PRESENT CANADIAN INSECT FAUNA

• Published in: The Canadian Entomologist
• Main Author: Matthews, John V.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1980
• Subjects: Insect Science; Molecular Biology; Physiology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Structural Biology; Ellesmere Island; Canada; Greenland; Norway; Rockall Bank; Greenland Sea; Iceland; North Atlantic; Tundra; Alaska; Beringia; Siberia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.4039/ent1121089-11; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0008347X00016485

Abstract Studies of Quaternary age Coleoptera fossils from North America and Europe plus recent analyses of insect fossils from late Tertiary (Miocene and Pliocene) sites in northern Canada, Alaska, and eastern Siberia show that many of the species composing the present Canadian insect fauna probabl...