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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... Pliocene . In the Upper Pliocene some Asian taxa appeared rather suddenly in Africa . These data suggest that substantial land bridges connected the continents at those times . Cooke ( 1972 ) attempted to show that epeiric seas that ...
... Pliocene . In the Upper Pliocene some Asian taxa appeared rather suddenly in Africa . These data suggest that substantial land bridges connected the continents at those times . Cooke ( 1972 ) attempted to show that epeiric seas that ...
Page 536
... Pliocene Note that although the number of families inhabiting each continent remained relatively constant , North American families were much more successful in invading South America than South American forms were in colonizing ...
... Pliocene Note that although the number of families inhabiting each continent remained relatively constant , North American families were much more successful in invading South America than South American forms were in colonizing ...
Page 543
... Pliocene vicariance event . For example , consider again the adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes in the great lakes of central Af- rica ( Chapter 6 ) . Recall that these radiations ap- parently began in the Pliocene when a few stocks ...
... Pliocene vicariance event . For example , consider again the adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes in the great lakes of central Af- rica ( Chapter 6 ) . Recall that these radiations ap- parently began in the Pliocene when a few stocks ...
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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