GABI as a model for the Second China Shock

Geoeconomics meet biogeography

One of the great puzzles of biogeographic history is associated with the Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI). North and South America had been separated for 65 million years. During that period of mutual isolation, the fauna of the two continents diverged dramatically. When the Isthmus of Panama was formed 2.7 million years ago, it created a land b…