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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... animals , 283 Physiological tolerances of aquatic animals , 283 Substrate and form , 289 Dispersal and reproductive properties of aquatic animals , 289 Distribution patterns of freshwater fishes , 294 Distribution patterns of other ...
... animals , 283 Physiological tolerances of aquatic animals , 283 Substrate and form , 289 Dispersal and reproductive properties of aquatic animals , 289 Distribution patterns of freshwater fishes , 294 Distribution patterns of other ...
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... animals have the capacity to travel long geographic distances under their own power . Of these the large , strong fliers , in- cluding many birds , bats , and large insects ( e.g. , dragonflies , some lepidopterans , beetles , and bugs ) ...
... animals have the capacity to travel long geographic distances under their own power . Of these the large , strong fliers , in- cluding many birds , bats , and large insects ( e.g. , dragonflies , some lepidopterans , beetles , and bugs ) ...
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... Animals Movement of water ( arrows. UNIT THREE T. reconstruct past biogeographic events workers must have some basic information on the present and past distributions of animals and plants . Sources for this information include lists of ...
... Animals Movement of water ( arrows. UNIT THREE T. reconstruct past biogeographic events workers must have some basic information on the present and past distributions of animals and plants . Sources for this information include lists of ...
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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