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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... Northern Hemisphere , like the pelyco- saur ( Edaphosaurus ) and labyrinthodont am- phibians , shared between the Lower Permian of Texas and France . Although the Permo - Car- boniferous fossil beds are plentiful in the Northern Hemisphere ...
... Northern Hemisphere , like the pelyco- saur ( Edaphosaurus ) and labyrinthodont am- phibians , shared between the Lower Permian of Texas and France . Although the Permo - Car- boniferous fossil beds are plentiful in the Northern Hemisphere ...
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... Northern Hemisphere . Antarctica Figure 13.8 Hypothesized routes of dispersal of early angiosperms. 30 Mean annual temperature ( ° C ) 20 20 100 100 80 60 40 20 0 Figure 13.7 Percent entire margined species Wolfe also found that forest ...
... Northern Hemisphere . Antarctica Figure 13.8 Hypothesized routes of dispersal of early angiosperms. 30 Mean annual temperature ( ° C ) 20 20 100 100 80 60 40 20 0 Figure 13.7 Percent entire margined species Wolfe also found that forest ...
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... Northern Hemisphere The sequence described has occurred during the last 600,000 years ( youngest to oldest ) . ( After West , 1977. ) Boreal forest Temperate broadleaf forest Mediterranean vegetation , chiefly coniferous. intervening ...
... Northern Hemisphere The sequence described has occurred during the last 600,000 years ( youngest to oldest ) . ( After West , 1977. ) Boreal forest Temperate broadleaf forest Mediterranean vegetation , chiefly coniferous. intervening ...
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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