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 158
... Antilles , and the southernmost element became the Caribbean Mountains of Venezuela and the ABC islands off the ... Lesser An- tilles . By Eocene times ( Figure 5.19 , D ) , the core of the Greater Antilles had achieved their present ...
... Antilles , and the southernmost element became the Caribbean Mountains of Venezuela and the ABC islands off the ... Lesser An- tilles . By Eocene times ( Figure 5.19 , D ) , the core of the Greater Antilles had achieved their present ...
Page 237
... Lesser Antilles ; Lesser Sunda Islands ; Marianas ; New Hebrides ; Ryukyus ( may have been associated with neighboring islands ) ; Solomons ; Tonga and Kermadec . Islands formed at presently spreading midoceanic ridges Ascension Island ...
... Lesser Antilles ; Lesser Sunda Islands ; Marianas ; New Hebrides ; Ryukyus ( may have been associated with neighboring islands ) ; Solomons ; Tonga and Kermadec . Islands formed at presently spreading midoceanic ridges Ascension Island ...
Page 358
... Antilles and one in the Lesser Antilles , as in the pewees ( Contopus ) ; some have separate species on each of several large islands in the Greater Antilles , as in the emerald hummingbird genus Chloro- stilbon or the todies ( Todidae ) ...
... Antilles and one in the Lesser Antilles , as in the pewees ( Contopus ) ; some have separate species on each of several large islands in the Greater Antilles , as in the emerald hummingbird genus Chloro- stilbon or the todies ( Todidae ) ...
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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