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 218
... Cenozoic and dur- ing the Pleistocene , but this probably was a cor- ridor only during the first half of the Cenozoic , when a mild climate prevailed . Here , as in other land bridges on poleward margins , cold periods and breaks in the ...
... Cenozoic and dur- ing the Pleistocene , but this probably was a cor- ridor only during the first half of the Cenozoic , when a mild climate prevailed . Here , as in other land bridges on poleward margins , cold periods and breaks in the ...
Page 329
... Cenozoic ; ( 3 ) most terrestrial groups have not been able to cross Wallace's line and pass from Asia to Australia and New Guinea by island hopping ; ( 4 ) young African clades , e.g. , those that radiated in the Cenozoic , by and ...
... Cenozoic ; ( 3 ) most terrestrial groups have not been able to cross Wallace's line and pass from Asia to Australia and New Guinea by island hopping ; ( 4 ) young African clades , e.g. , those that radiated in the Cenozoic , by and ...
Page 373
... Cenozoic land bridge in the Northern Hemisphere , which permitted entry to the New World from Asia . Speciation and radiation would have accompanied both entry into new areas and exploitation of new types of food re- sources ...
... Cenozoic land bridge in the Northern Hemisphere , which permitted entry to the New World from Asia . Speciation and radiation would have accompanied both entry into new areas and exploitation of new types of food re- sources ...
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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