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Zięba, Andrzej A. "Konferencja „Ormianie polscy. Siedem wieków istnienia” Warszawa, 19 września 2017 roku." Lehahayer 5 (May 15, 2019): 267–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.12797/lh.05.2018.05.11.

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Conference „Armenians in Poland. Seven Centuries of History”Senator Jan Żaryn, the Culture and Media Committee of the Senate, the Polish Academy of Art and Sciences in Kraków, with the help of the Armenian Culture Association and the Foundation of Culture and Heritage of Polish Armenians, organised an international conference „Armenians in Poland. Seven Centuries of History” on 19th September 2017. The conference was to celebrate the 650 anniversary of issuing the privilege for Grigor, an Armenian bishop of Lwów, by King Casimir the Great on 20 January 1367. The bishop was consecrated and sent to the Kingdom of Poland by M esrob Artazetsi, the catholicos of Sis in Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia.

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Pacuła, Krzysztof. "Report from the conference ”Application of the Succession Regulation in the EU Member States”, Katowice 12 September 2019." Problemy Prawa Prywatnego Międzynarodowego 26 (June 29, 2020): 241–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.31261/pppm.2020.26.15.

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On 12 September 2019, the premises of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland) witnessed one of such events, which will arguably go down in history of private international law in Poland. On that day, the University hosted an international conference on the Regulation (EU) No 650/2012 of 4 July 2012 on jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition and enforcement of decisions and acceptance and enforcement of authentic instruments in matters of succession and on the creation of a European Certificate of Succession (“the Succession Regulation”), and on the various issues relating to the succession matters within the European area of freedom, security and justice.

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Karkowska, Marta. "Pamięć kulturowa a zmiany w krajobrazie miasta. Analiza obchodów rocznicowych lokacji Olsztyna w świetle koncepcji Aleidy i Jana Assmannów." Kultura i Społeczeństwo 54, no. 4 (December 22, 2010): 77–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.35757/kis.2010.54.4.5.

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The author begins her article with a presentation of selected tenets of the concept of cultural memory proposed by Jan and Aleida Assmann, and with reviewing analytical categories used within the framework of this theory, including the following terms: cultural memory, memory figures, memory media, a palimpsest. These concepts form a theoretical and methodological basis for the upcoming analyses. The analyses contained in the article focus around the issues of change and continuity in the cultural memory of the inhabitants of Olsztyn, as exemplified by the transformations of Olsztyn’s cityscape. The author considers two specific moments in the city’s history: 2003, which marked the 650-anniversary of the city’s settlement, and 1953, which marked the 600-anniversary of the same event. Both these anniversaries were naturally celebrated in totally diverse political and ideological contexts. The article focuses not only on the transformations of cityscape, connected to the building of new monuments, plaques, and symbols, and to the renovation of selected buildings, but also on different ways of interpreting cityscape and architectural elements of which it consists in different periods. The conclusions from the analysis form a basis for pointing out several recommendations and limitations for using the Assmanns’ concepts for researching local collective memory in Poland.

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Gałka, Mariusz, Kazimierz Tobolski, Aleksandra Górska, and Mariusz Lamentowicz. "Resilience of plant and testate amoeba communities after climatic and anthropogenic disturbances in a Baltic bog in Northern Poland: Implications for ecological restoration." Holocene 27, no. 1 (July 28, 2016): 130–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683616652704.

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This study explores the history of the development of Sphagnum communities in an ombrotrophic peatland – Bagno Kusowo – over the past 650 years, based on high-resolution plant macrofossil and testate amoebae analysis. Our research provided information related to the length of peatland existence and the characteristics of its natural/pristine state before the most recent human impacts. Changes in the Sphagnum communities before human impact could have resulted from climate cooling during the ‘Little Ice Age’ (LIA). In this cold and unstable hydrological period, among vascular plants, Eriophorum vaginatum and Baeothryon caespitosum dominated in the peatland vegetation. Peat-forming Sphagnum communities survived the drainage conducted during the 20th century at the Bagno Kusowo bog. We provide three important messages through this study: (1) testate amoebae reflect similar hydrological trends in two peat cores despite considerable microhabitat variability, (2) average long-term water level 10 cm below the surface should be a target for active bog conservation and (3) sites like Bagno Kusowo are extremely important to preserve the remains of pristine biodiversity (including genetic diversity of plants and protists) that was completely removed from most of the raised bogs in Europe due to human activities, for example, drainage.

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Małłek, Janusz. "Laudation on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the birth of Prof. Wojciech Polak: Wojciech Polak as a historian." Masuro-⁠Warmian Bulletin 324, no. 1 (April 29, 2024): 169–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.51974/kmw-186122.

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Więcek, Aleksandra. "„Najbardziej skondensowana w formie poezja” – zarys międzywojennego fotomontażu polskiego." Bibliotekarz Podlaski Ogólnopolskie Naukowe Pismo Bibliotekoznawcze i Bibliologiczne 53, no. 4 (December 23, 2021): 207–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.36770/bp.653.

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The article presents the history of photomontage, starting from the 1850s. The author presents (sometimes very divergent) concepts concerning its provenance. Then she focuses on the notion itself, attempts to find its oldest definition, breaks down the term into its component parts and searches for the reasons for the great popularity of the photomontage in Poland in the interwar period. She repeatedly draws attention to inaccuracies in research on this technique, at the same time subjecting this fact to interpretation.

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Noińska, Marta. "Oficjalna strona internetowa jako narzędzie kreowania wizerunku głowy państwa w Polsce, Rosji i Wielkiej Brytanii." Przegląd Wschodnioeuropejski 11, no. 2 (December 30, 2020): 419–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.31648/pw.6520.

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The paper analyzes the role of official websites in creating the image of the head of state in Poland, Russia and the United Kingdom. The official website is a convenient tool allowing not only the appropriate presentation of the leader, but also the immediate publication of new content. The wide variety of semiotic resources used on the webpages attracts and maintains the attention of the recipient. The author describes the history of the official websites, identifies the genres characteristic of individual political cultures and observes similarities and differences related to the image of the current head of state.

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Gałaj-Dempniak, Renata. "The History of Poland in the Service of State Promotion: an Example of Activities in Japan." Res Historica, no. 51 (June 30, 2021): 639. http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/rh.2021.51.639-658.

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<p>Historia jest silnie powiązana z krajem i jego obywatelami. Identyfikuje naród i kraj, pomaga zachować tożsamość, przypominając ludziom o ich dziedzictwie. Dlatego jest doskonałym sposobem budowania marki kraju, budząc skojarzenia z jego lokalizacją i społeczeństwem. Polska nieustannie poszukuje nowych rynków dla swoich produktów, nawet w krajach, w których jest ledwo obecna. Jednym z krajów, na którego rynek stara się wejść Polska, jest Japonia, kraj, którego obywatele niewiele wiedzą o Polsce. Aby ułatwić relacje między tymi dwoma krajami, polski rząd postanowił rozpocząć kampanię informacyjną o przeszłości i teraźniejszości Polski, jej możliwościach, znaczeniu na arenie międzynarodowej i jej mieszkańcach. Biorąc pod uwagę charakter japońskiej kultury, komiks został wybrany jako najbardziej odpowiednie medium.</p>

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Matkowska-Jerzyk, Magdalena. "Nazwiska czeskie a Czesi w Polsce w XX w." Slavica Wratislaviensia 166 (June 22, 2018): 161–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0137-1150.166.12.

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Czech names and Czech in Poland in the 20th centuryThe article was based on more than 600 Czech surnames from Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych used by Kazimierz Rymut. The article shows the state of research of Czech anthroponymy in Poland, which was treated by researchers quite marginally. An outline of the history of contacts and Czech settlements in Poland was also presented, which had an important impact on the extension of the Polish anthroponymic system with the Czech genetic names. The four most important areas on which the Czech settlement was developed were: Galicia Galicja, “Czech Corner” Czeski Zakątek, Settlement areas areas of settlements of the Czech brothers and Silesia Śląsk. The article compares the data of names in Poland in the twentieth century with the map of the Czech population, which mostly overlapped. Česká příjmení a Češi v Polsku ve 20. stoletíTento článek byl založen na více než 600 českých příjmeních excerpovaných ze Słowniku nazwisk współcześnie używanych ed. Kazimierze Rymuta. Článek představuje současný stav výzkumu českých příjmení v polském antroponomastickém systému, který doposud byl považován vědci spíše okrajově. Zaroveň představuje také stručnou historii česko-polských vztahu a českého usázení v Polsku, které měly významný vliv na expanzi geneticky českých příjmení do polského antroponomastického systému. Autorka vyčlenila 4 nejdůležitější oblasti, ve kterých vznikaly největší české společnosti, a to: Galicie, Český koutek, místa, na kterých se usazeli čeští exulanti členové Jednoty bratrské a Slezsko. Ve svém článku autorka srovnává údaje tykající se českých příjmení v Polsku ve 20. století s mapou Čechů bydlících v Polsku, a ty se ve vetší míře shoduji.

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Biskupska, Jadwiga. "Oscar E. Swan Kaleidoscope of Poland: A Cultural Encyclopedia. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015. Pp. 400, 600 illus." Austrian History Yearbook 49 (April 2018): 284–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0067237818000218.

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Potocki, Andrzej. Diecezja przemyska w swe 600-lecie. Przemyśl: [s.n.], 1986.

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Potocki, Andrzej. Diecezja przemyska w swe 600-lecie. Przemyśl: [s.n.], 1986.

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Wieczorek, Jan. 600-lecie bitwy pod Płowcami i historia klasztoru w Radziejowie Kujawskim. 2nd ed. Lubomin: Jan Wypijewski, 1999.

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Instytut historyi (Natsyi︠a︡nalʹnai︠a︡ akadėmii︠a︡ navuk Belarusi). Vi͡alikae kni͡astva Litoŭskae i i͡aho susedzi ŭ XIV-XV stst: Sapernitstva, supratsoŭnitstva, uroki da 600-hoddzi͡a Hrunvalʹdskaĭ bitvy matėryi͡aly Miz͡hnarodnaĭ navukovaĭ kanferėntsyi Hrodna, 8-9 lipeni͡a 2010 h. Minsk: Belaruskai͡a navuka, 2011.

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Kosman, Marceli. Krzyżacy w historii i legendzie wieków: W 600 rocznice grunwaldzkiej viktorii. Toruń: Wydawn. Nauk. Grado, 2010.

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Belarus) Miz︠h︡narodnai︠a︡ navukova-praktychnai︠a︡ kanferėntsii︠a︡ "Vi︠a︡likae kni︠a︡stva Litoŭskae i i︠a︡ho susedzi ŭ XIV-XV stst." (2010 Hrodna. Vi︠a︡likae kni︠a︡stva Litoŭskae i i︠a︡ho susedzi ŭ XIV-XV stst.--sapernitstva, supratsoŭnitstva, uroki da 600-hoddzi︠a︡ Hrunvalʹdskaĭ bitvy: Matėryi︠a︡ly Miz︠h︡narodnaĭ navukovaĭ kanferėntsyi, Hrodna, 8-9 lipeni︠a︡ 2010 h. 8th ed. Minsk: Belaruskai︠a︡ navuka, 2014.

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Radvilienė, Violeta, Danguolė Palačionytė, and Daiva Narbutienė. Arte et Marte: Senieji dokumentai karo tema : Skirta Žalgirio mūšio 600-osioms metinėms : PARODOS KATALOGAS, 2010 liepos 7 - rugpjūčio 3 d. = Arte et Marte : Vetera monumenta argumenti militaris. VILNIUS: Lietuvos mokslu̜ akademijos Vrublevskių biblioteka, 2010.

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Drzyzga, Bernard. Kedyw Okreęgu AK Łódź i 60 Pułk AK: Wspomnienia zastępcy dowódcy "Kedywu" Okręgu Łódź "Kazimierza 60", późniejszego dowódcy 60 p.p. AK w Tomaszowie Mazowieckim. London: Veritas Foundation Publication Centre, 1988.

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Gerasimov, Ilya, Sergey Glebov, Marina B. Mogilner, and with Alexander Semyonov. A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia, 600–1700. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350196834.

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A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia, 600-1700 proposes a new language for studying and conceptualizing the spaces, societies, and institutions that existed on the territory of today’s Northern Eurasia, until recently part of the USSR. Traditional concepts and genealogies that frame human experience have to be avoided or reframed: this is not the story of a certain present-day state or people evolving through consecutive historical stages. Rather, the book’s point of departure is a modern analytical approach to the problem of human diversity as a fundamental social condition. In the form of cooperation and confrontation, various attempts to manage diversity fostered processes of societal self-organization, as new ideas, practices, and institutions were developed virtually from scratch or radically altered when borrowed. Essentially, this is the story of individuals and societies who creatively responded to their natural and social environments and sought answers to universal problems in unique historical circumstances. This volume, which brings together leading scholars from both the United States and Russia, covers a millennium-long period in the history of the region characterized by the coexistence of several local sociopolitical arrangements. The book shows that their mutual interactions and attempts to integrate with one of the universal cultures of the time caused a string of unintended consequences. As a result, the enormous landmass from the Carpathian Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east, from the Polar Circle in the north to the steppe belt in the south was divided among several regional powers. Ultimately unable to overtake each other by military force, they were locked in a zero-sum game until the uneven development of modern state institutions tilted the balance in favor of one of them – Russia.

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O Marcinie ze Sławska: Zapomnianym rycerzu w 600-letnią rocznicę bitwy pod Grunwaldem. Konin: Arkada Jacek Wojciechowski, 2010.

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Book chapters on the topic "History.650 – Poland"

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Bountzouklis, Christos, Dennis Michael Fox, and Elena Di Bernardino. "Fire cause classification of undetermined fires in southeastern France." In Advances in Forest Fire Research 2022, 1106–12. Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/978-989-26-2298-9_167.

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Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) covers around 60% of Poland's forests. Pine stands are considered as fire prone, which exposes a large area of forests to the risk of fire ignition and spread. This is confirmed by the statistics, among which Poland belongs to the group of European countries where forest fires occur most often. In addition, the most common cause of fires is deliberate arson. The contemporary fire pattern in lowland forests in Poland is characterised by a large number of fires with a small burnt area. Understanding historical fire regime is important for the correct assessment of contemporary phenomena. However, compared to boreal or Mediterranean biomes, the characteristics of historical forest fires in Poland are not well researched. To fill this knowledge gap, a review of national thematic literature and historical documents was carried out. There is a limited literature describing a historical fire situation and just few studies have quantified the historical frequency of forest fires. Documentary records are often incomplete, both in time and space. In our research, to better understand the forest fire history paradigm, we took a holistic approach, integrating data from archives, historical sources (research literature and handbooks), press reports, scientific papers, and existing fire databases. An attempt to reconstruct the history of forest fires was carried out for Poland, considering that the modern borders were established in 1945. The reconstruction of fire event chronology and statistics (annual number of fires and burnt area) is presented, which will give a picture of this phenomenon in its various aspects, including periodisation in the decades, with particular emphasis on the 20th and 21st centuries. This research allowed for the reconstruction of fire statistics in the period from 1920 to the present day. Due to historical conditions, the data for the period 1920-1945 are incomplete, mainly the information on the number of fires is unavailable. The available data show that at least 210,000 ha of forests were burnt during this period. In the years 1946-2020 in Polish forests 342,204 fires occurred, as a result of which 407,093 ha were burnt. The largest number of forest fires (17,088) was recorded in 2003, while the largest area was burnt in 1992 (43,755 ha). On an annual average, in the years 1946-2020 there were 4,562 fires on an area of 5,428 ha, and the area of a single fire was 1.19 ha. In the analysed period, it was observed that the largest number of fires occurred in the decade of 2001-2010 (approx. 9.4 thousand per year), and the largest area of fires in the decade of 1991-2000 (approx. 11 thousand ha per year). The average area of a single fire decreased from 2.35 ha in the decade of 1951-1960 to 0.44 in the last decade. It is the first such complete study of the history of fires in Poland and it may establish the basis for further work on understanding the fire regime of Central European lowland forests.

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"Havi Dreifuss (Ben-Sasson), Relations between Jews and Poles during the Holocaust: The Jewish Perspective, trans. Ora Cummings. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2017. 304 pp." In No Small Matter, edited by Anat Helman, 264–66. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197577301.003.0017.

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This chapter examines Relations between Jews and Poles during the Holocaust (2017), an English translation of Havi Dreifuss' Hebrew-language doctoral dissertation (completed in 2005). This book is a unique scholarly examination of Polish–Jewish relations during the Holocaust from a perspective of Jewish views. It is not a history of Polish–Jewish relations per se but rather a history of changing Jewish perceptions of Poland and the Poles from the beginning to the end of the Second World War. Based largely on unpublished wartime diaries and writings preserved in Yad Vashem as well as some materials from other archives, it also contains wartime photographs and a sizable, 60-page appendix of documents. The appendix itself, a rich collection of previously unpublished wartime testimonies, makes Dreifuss' book a valuable addition to any Holocaust library.

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Siewierski, Tomasz. "Fryderyk Zbiniewicz. Szkic do portretu historyka z Wojskowego Instytutu Historycznego." In Różne barwy historiografii: Księga z okazji jubileuszu 65. urodzin Profesora Jerzego Maronia, 331–49. Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.12797/9788383680446.016.

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The article discusses the story of Colonel Fryderyk Zbiniewicz, with particular emphasis on his military and scientific career. Born in Moscow in 1922 into a family of Polish communists, he was drafted into the Red Army during the war, coming to Poland as a recent graduate of the NKWD school of political commissars in Kuybyshev. Over the next few years, he worked at the Ministry of Public Security. He began his academic career at the Institute of Academic Cadre Training at the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party. From 1956, he worked at the Historical Bureau of the Polish Army, then at the Military Historical Institute until his retirement in 1990. In 1989, he was appointed a professor. As a historian, he dealt with the most recent history of the Polish Army, and his best-known publication was the monograph Armia Polska w ZSRR (The Polish Army in the USSR).

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Emanuel, Kerry. "The Great New England Hurricane of 1938." In Divine Wind, 155–64. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195149418.003.0021.

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Abstract On September 4, 1938—almost exactly a year before Hitler’s Germany invaded Poland and precipitated World War II—a French weather observer at the Saharan station of Bilma Oasis noted a gentle wind shift, signaling the passage of another of the easterly waves that move across Africa and out over the Atlantic with great regularity in summer. Little did he know that this wave was destined to spawn the greatest natural disaster in New England history, leaving 680 people dead amidst terrible wreckage. Like many natural disasters, the Great New England Hurricane was a lethal combination of meteorological chance and human error. The next definitive observation of the system was made by the SS Algegrete, encountering a full-blown hurricane northeast of Puerto Rico on September 16. This drew the attention of the U.S. Weather Bureau office in Jacksonville, Florida, which then had jurisdiction for all tropical weather south of Cape Hatteras. From the sixteenth until midday on the nineteenth, the strengthening storm headed straight toward southeast Florida (Figure 21.1), prompting the Weather Bureau to post a hurricane warning there. Landfall was expected less than a day later, and a storm-wary state prepared for the worst.

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Crame, J. Alistair. "Evolution of high-latitude molluscan faunas." In Origin and Evolutionary Radiation of the Mollusca, 119–31. Oxford University PressOxford, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198549802.003.0010.

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Abstract Two central, and interrelated, questions lie at the heart of investigations into the evolutionary history of polar and high- latitude marine biotas: how old are they?, and how isolated have they been through time? There is, perhaps, still a widespread impression that polar biotas are in some way less mature than their low-latitude counterparts. Because of repeated glaciations through the late Neogene and Quaternary, it is assumed generally that many taxa are still re-adjusting to life in high latitudes; by comparison, the more benign low- latitude regions are thought to be sites where life has proliferated comparatively undisturbed for long periods of time (see Dunbar, 1968 and references therein for a fuller development of this theme). Whereas there may have been open marine connections between the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans over at least the last 30 million years (=m.y.) (Marincovich et al., 1990), links between the Arctic and North Pacific oceans were severed from the Late Cretaceous to late Pliocene (65-3 m.y. ago). A common view of the Southern Ocean marine fauna is that it is the product of a considerable period of evolutionary isolation (e.g. Knox and Lowry, 1977; Lipps and Hickman, 1982).

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Graham, Alan. "Setting the Goal: Modern Vegetation of North America Composition and Arrangement of Principal Plant Formations." In Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic History of North American Vegetation (North of Mexico). Oxford University Press, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195113426.003.0004.

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Vegetation is the plant cover of a region, which usually refers to the potential natural vegetation prior to any intensive human disturbance. The description of vegetation for an extensive area involves the recognition and characterization of units called formations, which are named with reference to composition (e.g., coniferous), aspect of habit (deciduous), distribution (western North America), and climate, either directly (tropical) or indirectly (tundra). Further subdivisions are termed associations or series, such as the beech-maple association or series within the deciduous forest formation. Formations and associations constitute a convenient organizational framework for considering the development of vegetation through Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic time. For this purpose seven extant plant formations are recognized for North America: (1) tundra, (2) coniferous forest, (3) deciduous forest, (4) grassland, (5) shrubland/chaparral- woodland- savanna, (6) desert, and (7) elements of a tropical formation. Several summaries are available for the modern vegetation of North America, including Barbour and Billings (1988), Barbour and Christensen, Kuchler (1964), and Vankat (1979). The following discussions are based primarily on these surveys. Tundra (Fig. 1.2) is a treeless vegetation dominated by shrubs and herbs, and it is characteristic of the cold climates of polar regions (Arctic tundra) and high-altitude regions (alpine tundra). In the Arctic tundra a few isolated trees or small stands may occur locally, such as Picea glauca (white spruce), but these are always in protected habitats. The Arctic region experiences nearly continuous darkness in midwinter, and nearly continuous daylight in midsummer. There is a short growing season of only 6-24 weeks; this accounts, in part, for the fact that 98% of all Arctic tundra plants are perennials (Vankat, 1979). Strong winds are another feature of the Arctic landscape, often exceeding 65 km/h for 24 h or more. They likely account for the frequency of rosettes, persistent dead leaves, and the cushion growth form, in the center of which wind velocities may be reduced by 90%. The harsh growing conditions also result in leaves of the microphyllous size class being comparable to those of desert plants. Vegetative reproduction and self-pollination is common, and phenotypic plasticity is high among Arctic tundra plants.

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