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 144
... Cretaceous , when 99 % of all landmasses were somehow interconnected . Great evolution of most land families and many orders , espe- cially those of vertebrates , seed plants , and in- sects , has occurred since then ; we believe now ...
... Cretaceous , when 99 % of all landmasses were somehow interconnected . Great evolution of most land families and many orders , espe- cially those of vertebrates , seed plants , and in- sects , has occurred since then ; we believe now ...
Page 388
... Cretaceous and cited putative pre- Cretaceous fossil angiosperms . Beginning in the 1960s , the idea of a Trias- sic or earlier age for angiosperms lost consider- able ground . Painstaking investigations by many workers provided ...
... Cretaceous and cited putative pre- Cretaceous fossil angiosperms . Beginning in the 1960s , the idea of a Trias- sic or earlier age for angiosperms lost consider- able ground . Painstaking investigations by many workers provided ...
Page 397
... Cretaceous , but the two continents were still close enough to exchange diaspores until the Tertiary . Dur- ing the Cretaceous , tropical groups could have migrated fairly easily between Africa and South America . 3. Throughout the ...
... Cretaceous , but the two continents were still close enough to exchange diaspores until the Tertiary . Dur- ing the Cretaceous , tropical groups could have migrated fairly easily between Africa and South America . 3. Throughout the ...
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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