Introduction: Amazonia, landscape and species evolution / Carina Hoorn and Frank P. Wesselingh -- Tectonic processes as driving mechanisms for palaeogeographical and palaeoenvironmental evolution in Amazonia. Geological evolution of the Amazonian Craton / Salomon B. Kroonenberg and Emond W.F. de Roever ; The Paleozoic Solimoes and Amazonas basins and the Acre foreland basin of Brazil / Joaquim Ribeiro Wanderley-Filho ... [et al.] ; Tectonic history of the Andes and sub-Andean zones : implications for the development of the Amazon drainage basin / Andres Mora ... [et al.] ; Cenizoic sedimentary evolution of the Amazonian foreland basin system / Martin Roddaz ... [et al.] ; The Nazca Ridge and uplift of the Fitzcarrald Arch : implication for regional geology in northern South America / Nicolas Espurt ... [et al.] -- Cenozoic depositional systems in Amazonia. The Amazonian Craton and its influence on past fluvial systems (Mesozoic-Cenozic, Amazonia) / Carina Hoorn ... [et al.] ; The development of the Amazonian mega-wetland (Miocene; Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia) ; Marine influence in Amazonia : evidence from the geological record / Jussi Hovikoski ... [et al.] ; Megafan environments in northern South America and their impact on Amazon Neogene aquatic ecosystems / M. Justin Wilkinson ... [et al.] ; Long-term landscape development processes in Amazonia / Georg Irion and Risto Kalliola -- Amazonian climate, past and present. Climate variation in Amazonia during the Neogene and the Quaternary / Hubert B. Vonhof and Ron J.G. Kaandorp ; Modelling the response of Amazonian climate to the uplift of the Andean mountain range / Pierre Sepulchre, Lisa C. Sloan and Frederic Fluteau ; Modern Andean rainfall variation during ENSO cycles and its impact on the Amazon drainage basin / Bodo Bookhagen and Manfred R. Strecker --

Cenozoic development of terrestrial and aquatic biota : insights from the fossil record. A review of Tertiary mammal faunas and birds from western Amazonia / francisco Ricardo Negri ... [et al.] ; Neogene crocodile and turtle fauna in northern South America / Douglas Riff ... [et al.] ; The Amazonian Neogene fish fauna / John G. Lundberg ... [et al.] ; Amazonian aquatic invertebrate faunas (Mollusca, Ostracoda) and their development over the past 30 million years / Frank P. Wesselingh and Maria-Ines F. Ramos ; The origin of the modern Amazon rainforest : implications of the palynological and paleobotanical record / Carlos Jaramillo ... [et al.] ; Biotic development of Quaternary Amazonia : a palynological perspective / Hermann Behling, Mark Bush and Henry Hooghiemstra -- Modern perspectives on the origin of Amazonian biota. Contribution of current and historical processes to patterns of tree diversity and composition of the Amazon / Hans ter Steege ; Composition and diversity of northwestern Amazonian rainforests in a geoecological context / Joost F. Duivenvoorden and Alvaro J. Duque ; Diversification of the Amazonian flora and its relation to key geological and environmental events : a molecular perspective / R. Toby Pennington and Christopher W. Dick ; Molecular studies and phylogeography of Amazonian tetrapods and their relation to geological and climatic models / Alexandre Antonelli ... [et al.] ; Molecular signatures of Neogene biogeographical events in the Amazon fish fauna / Nathan R. Lovejoy, Stuart C. Willis and James S. Albert -- Synthesis. On the origin of Amazonian landscapes and biodiversity : a synthesis / Frank P. Wesselingh ... [et al.].