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 188
... Pleistocene . Note the large peak 7500 to 12,500 years ago , indicating that many species , especially of large mammals , survived most of the Pleistocene , only to become extinct during the last interglacial and glacial period . ( From ...
... Pleistocene . Note the large peak 7500 to 12,500 years ago , indicating that many species , especially of large mammals , survived most of the Pleistocene , only to become extinct during the last interglacial and glacial period . ( From ...
Page 464
... Pleistocene . Patterson ( 1980 ) showed that the nonflying boreal mammals inhabiting isolated mountain ranges in New Mexico also represent vicariant relicts of a once widespread Pleistocene fauna . The present distribution of freshwater ...
... Pleistocene . Patterson ( 1980 ) showed that the nonflying boreal mammals inhabiting isolated mountain ranges in New Mexico also represent vicariant relicts of a once widespread Pleistocene fauna . The present distribution of freshwater ...
Page 509
... Pleistocene . There can be no doubt that these events changed the geographic distribution of diver- sity by causing the extinction of many species and the contraction of the ranges of others while enabling still others to invade and spe ...
... Pleistocene . There can be no doubt that these events changed the geographic distribution of diver- sity by causing the extinction of many species and the contraction of the ranges of others while enabling still others to invade and spe ...
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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