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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... South America to Texas , Africa Erythrinidae ; South America Ctenoluciidae ; South and Central America Hepsetidae ; Africa Cynodontidae ; South America Lebiasinidae ; South America Parodontidae ; South America Gasteropelecidae ; South ...
... South America to Texas , Africa Erythrinidae ; South America Ctenoluciidae ; South and Central America Hepsetidae ; Africa Cynodontidae ; South America Lebiasinidae ; South America Parodontidae ; South America Gasteropelecidae ; South ...
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... South America , recently en- tering Central America ; but about 200 species are endemic to Africa ( Géry , 1977 ) . The African disjuncts include ... America Orient South America Africa IKK Figure 296 Distributions of taxa in space and time.
... South America , recently en- tering Central America ; but about 200 species are endemic to Africa ( Géry , 1977 ) . The African disjuncts include ... America Orient South America Africa IKK Figure 296 Distributions of taxa in space and time.
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... South America and tropical Asia and between Africa and trop- ical Asia than between South America and Af- rica . Families common to both continents probably colonized them after the breakup of Gondwanaland , mostly invading each ...
... South America and tropical Asia and between Africa and trop- ical Asia than between South America and Af- rica . Families common to both continents probably colonized them after the breakup of Gondwanaland , mostly invading each ...
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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