Aim We ask whether contemporary forests of the Chilean Coastal Range can be considered to be direct and conservative descendants of pre-Pleistocene palaeofloras that occurred in southern South America from the Palaeogene ...

Two hypotheses have attempted to explain the development of Mixed Paleofloras during the Cenozoic in South America. One of them postulates changes in the climatic tolerances of its component taxa and the other calls for ...

Some biogeographical features of bryophytes associated with subtropical-temperate ecosystems in Chile are examined, including diversity, concentration of species richness, endemism, biogeographical composition and disjunctions. ...

We report multiproxy analyses of a sediment core obtained from Laguna Aculeo that spans the past 7500 years. Laguna Aculeo (33degrees50'S, 70degrees55'W) is one of the few natural inland lakes located in the Mediterranean ...

Fossombronia valparaisiana Hassel sp. nov. and F. lophoscypha Hassel sp. nov. from the vicinity of Valparaiso (Chile) are described and the spores and elaters are illustrated. No species with spiniferous or verrucose spores ...

Precipitation in northern Chile is controlled by two great wind belts-the southern westerlies over the southern Atacama and points south (>24 degrees S) and the tropical easterlies over the northern and central Atacama ...