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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... Eocene , so that the forms living there today are colonists since that time . The emergence of the Atlantic Gulf Coast was probably synchronous with the collision of Alaska with Siberia of the Eurasian Plate , which occurred in the Eocene ...
... Eocene , so that the forms living there today are colonists since that time . The emergence of the Atlantic Gulf Coast was probably synchronous with the collision of Alaska with Siberia of the Eurasian Plate , which occurred in the Eocene ...
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... Eocene there occurred a marked cooling period when deciduous species became more common , followed by a warming trend and more tropical vegetation in the Lower Oligocene . The flora changed again in the Upper Oligocene , having a lower ...
... Eocene there occurred a marked cooling period when deciduous species became more common , followed by a warming trend and more tropical vegetation in the Lower Oligocene . The flora changed again in the Upper Oligocene , having a lower ...
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... Eocene ( Gingerich , 1976b ) . From this group arose the infraorder Tarsiiformes , which retains many primitive traits and is cur- rently confined to southern Asia . Most extant families of primates are alleged to be more re- cent in ...
... Eocene ( Gingerich , 1976b ) . From this group arose the infraorder Tarsiiformes , which retains many primitive traits and is cur- rently confined to southern Asia . Most extant families of primates are alleged to be more re- cent in ...
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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