BiogeographyBiogeography, Second Edition combines ecological and historical perspectives to show how contemporary environments, earth history, and evolutionary processes have shaped the distributions of species and the patterns of biodiversity. It illustrates general patterns and processes using examples from different groups of plants and animals from diverse habitats and geographic regions. Written primarily for use in undergraduate and graduate courses in plant and/or animal geography, the book serves as a general synthesis and reference as well. |
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... cladistic approach . The first is the logical consistency of basing the hierarchical system of classification on the similarly hierar- chical branching pattern of evolutionary lin- eages . Here the only problem is the trivial one of ...
... cladistic approach . The first is the logical consistency of basing the hierarchical system of classification on the similarly hierar- chical branching pattern of evolutionary lin- eages . Here the only problem is the trivial one of ...
Page 262
... cladistic analysis is to reduce the number of reasonable choices , getting rid of those that are totally inconsistent and focusing on those that are likely . Then , as new characters become available for analysis , the remaining choices ...
... cladistic analysis is to reduce the number of reasonable choices , getting rid of those that are totally inconsistent and focusing on those that are likely . Then , as new characters become available for analysis , the remaining choices ...
Page 264
... cladistic analysis of a diverse taxonomic group . Much of the work in cladistics continues to be of a rather theoretical nature . Critics of the cladistic approach have challenged many of its assumptions and meth- ods . Many of these ...
... cladistic analysis of a diverse taxonomic group . Much of the work in cladistics continues to be of a rather theoretical nature . Critics of the cladistic approach have challenged many of its assumptions and meth- ods . Many of these ...
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adapted adaptive radiation Africa angiosperms animals aquatic areas Australasia Australia barriers biogeographic biotas biotic Cenozoic changes Chapter cies cladistic cladogram climate colonization communities competition continental continental drift continents Cretaceous desert disjunctions distributions drift eastern ecological elevation endemic environment Eocene Eurasia evolution evolutionary example extinction families fauna Figure fishes forms fossil record freshwater genera geographic ranges geologic Gondwanaland groups Guinea habitats inhabiting insects insular interactions isolated lakes land bridge landmasses latitudes limited living long-distance dispersal MacArthur Madagascar mainland major mammals marine Mesozoic migration million years BP mountain Neotropics niches North Northern Hemisphere number of species occur oceanic islands organisms origin Pacific Paleocene patterns phylogenetic plants plate Pleistocene polyploidy populations predators present radiation rain forest reconstructions regions relationships relatively Simberloff similar soil South America southern speciation species richness taxa taxon taxonomic temperate temperature terrestrial tion tropical vegetation vicariance World zone