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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... climate Two of the sites are near one another in Arizona ; the third site is in Oregon . Note that the climate of the high - elevation site in Arizona , Mt. Lemmon , is much more similar to that of Salem , Oregon 1700 km to the north ...
... climate Two of the sites are near one another in Arizona ; the third site is in Oregon . Note that the climate of the high - elevation site in Arizona , Mt. Lemmon , is much more similar to that of Salem , Oregon 1700 km to the north ...
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... climate , one might expect to find a single comprehensive model representing how climate and vegetation are re- lated . Nothing could be further from the truth . The principal stumbling block for modeling cli- mate versus vegetation is ...
... climate , one might expect to find a single comprehensive model representing how climate and vegetation are re- lated . Nothing could be further from the truth . The principal stumbling block for modeling cli- mate versus vegetation is ...
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... climate . marine Living in salt water . maritime climate In general , a coastal or island en- vironment with little or no freezing , much cloud cover and fog , and less variance in temperature , resulting in a mild climate year - round ...
... climate . marine Living in salt water . maritime climate In general , a coastal or island en- vironment with little or no freezing , much cloud cover and fog , and less variance in temperature , resulting in a mild climate year - round ...
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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