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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... 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 Mesozoic ( 150 million years BP ) , but at ...
... 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 Mesozoic ( 150 million years BP ) , but at ...
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... Guinea plateless river turtle ( Carettochelys insculpta , Carettochelyidae ) , now a narrow endemic of southern New Guinea and northern Australia but whose rela- tives once lived in Eurasia in the Pliocene . The side - necked turtles ...
... Guinea plateless river turtle ( Carettochelys insculpta , Carettochelyidae ) , now a narrow endemic of southern New Guinea and northern Australia but whose rela- tives once lived in Eurasia in the Pliocene . The side - necked turtles ...
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... Guinea Trionychidae ; eastern Asia to New Guinea , Africa , including the Mediter- ranean , North America Superfamily Chelonioidea ( marine turtles ) Plesiochelyidae † Protostegidae Toxochelyidaet Dermochelyidae ; tropical seas ...
... Guinea Trionychidae ; eastern Asia to New Guinea , Africa , including the Mediter- ranean , North America Superfamily Chelonioidea ( marine turtles ) Plesiochelyidae † Protostegidae Toxochelyidaet Dermochelyidae ; tropical seas ...
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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