Biogeography: An Ecological and Evolutionary ApproachPatterns of life. The physical limitations of life. Making a living. The source of novely. Life on islands. The distant past. The shaping of today. The mark of man: His early days. The mark of man: modern problems. |
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The Physical Limitations of Life | 26 |
Chapter 3 | 62 |
Chapter 4 | 82 |
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1817 LIBRARIES able adapted adaptive radiation Africa angiosperms animals and plants Arctic areas Asia Australia become biogeography biome birds blue chaffinch Britain British Isles Cenozoic Chalkhill blue climatic changes climax community cold colonization competition continental continental drift continents Cretaceous cycads deciduous deserts distribution domesticated early ecological niches ecosystem effects energy environment Eurasia Europe evolution evolutionary evolved example extinction factors fauna Figure flora flowers forest fossil genera glacial glaciers Gondwanaland gradient grassland grazing groups habitat Hawaiian herbivores humidity insects island isolated lakes land larvae layer limited living mammals marsupials metres MICHIGAN microhabitats mountain North America northern number of species nutrients occur ocean organisms Paleocene patterns period Permian placentals plant species plants and animals Pleistocene population predators probably range regions result seeds soil South southern spread surface survive temperate temperature trees tropical tundra types vegetation wind woodland