Disambiguation evidence for Great American Biotic Interchange between North and South America via surface form

"Great American Biotic Interchange"


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Triples where this entity appears as subject under the label "Great American Biotic Interchange".

Predicate Object
alsoKnownAs GABI
associatedWith Great American Interchange of plants and marine organisms only indirectly
beganApprox late Miocene
characterizedBy asymmetrical migration success
characterizedBy greater success of North American mammals in South America than vice versa
continuedInto Pleistocene epoch
surface form: Pleistocene
enabledBy formation of the Isthmus of Panama
hasKeyRegion Central America
impactOn composition of New World mammal communities
impactOn terrestrial ecosystems of the Americas
instanceOf biogeographic event
instanceOf faunal interchange
instanceOf paleozoogeographic event
intensifiedIn Pliocene
involved amphibians
involved birds
involved freshwater animals
involved freshwater fishes
involved land animals
involved mammals
involved reptiles
involvedDispersalOf artiodactyls from North America to South America
involvedDispersalOf carnivorans from North America to South America
involvedDispersalOf glyptodonts from South America to North America
involvedDispersalOf ground sloths from South America to North America
involvedDispersalOf opossums from South America to North America
involvedDispersalOf perissodactyls from North America to South America
involvedDispersalOf porcupines from South America to North America
involvedDispersalOf proboscideans from North America to South America
involvedDispersalOf xenarthrans from South America to North America
involvedDispersalRoute Isthmus of Panama
surface form: Panamanian land bridge
precededBy long isolation of South America as an island continent
relatedTo Central American Seaway closure
relatedTo Isthmus of Panama
resultedIn dispersal of North American taxa into South America
resultedIn dispersal of South American taxa into North America
resultedIn establishment of modern Nearctic mammal fauna
resultedIn establishment of modern Neotropical mammal fauna
resultedIn extinctions of many endemic South American mammals
resultedIn major faunal turnover in North America
resultedIn major faunal turnover in South America
studiedIn biogeography
studiedIn evolutionary biology
studiedIn paleontology
tookPlaceBetween North America
tookPlaceBetween South America
tookPlaceIn Neogene
tookPlaceIn Quaternary period
surface form: Quaternary
triggeredBy closure of the Central American Seaway