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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Page 148
... Australia and the large islands of New Guinea and Tasmania must be treated together as a single geologic structure . A land connec- tion between southeastern Australia ( southern Tasmania ) and Antarctica may have been lost in the ...
... Australia and the large islands of New Guinea and Tasmania must be treated together as a single geologic structure . A land connec- tion between southeastern Australia ( southern Tasmania ) and Antarctica may have been lost in the ...
Page 367
... Australia . In this way only , the insect fauna of Australia is fairly typical . In other ways insect distributions of this continent illuminate the historical events shaping the fauna . First , Australia is rich with endemics at all ...
... Australia . In this way only , the insect fauna of Australia is fairly typical . In other ways insect distributions of this continent illuminate the historical events shaping the fauna . First , Australia is rich with endemics at all ...
Page 408
... Australian endemics arose mostly by internal events on the Australasian plate itself , although the separation of Australia from India may have also played some role in the origin of Australian forms . There are , however , 18 ...
... Australian endemics arose mostly by internal events on the Australasian plate itself , although the separation of Australia from India may have also played some role in the origin of Australian forms . There are , however , 18 ...
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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