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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... biotas in different parts of the world . It is the distinctiveness of these assemblages that investigators recognize when they delineate biogeographic provinces . The biotas come into contact and interact at the boundaries of the ...
... biotas in different parts of the world . It is the distinctiveness of these assemblages that investigators recognize when they delineate biogeographic provinces . The biotas come into contact and interact at the boundaries of the ...
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... biotas on large landmasses were able suc- cessfully to invade smaller areas and to replace the native organisms . Darlington ( 1957 , 1959 ) re- emphasized this point , although he argued that the successful forms usually originated in ...
... biotas on large landmasses were able suc- cessfully to invade smaller areas and to replace the native organisms . Darlington ( 1957 , 1959 ) re- emphasized this point , although he argued that the successful forms usually originated in ...
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... biotas . There are major differences , especially in species richness , between the marine biotas of the eastern Pacific and the Caribbean ( Briggs , 1968 , 1974 ; Rubinoff , 1968 ; Porter , 1972 , 1974 ; Vermeij , 1978 ) . Most groups ...
... biotas . There are major differences , especially in species richness , between the marine biotas of the eastern Pacific and the Caribbean ( Briggs , 1968 , 1974 ; Rubinoff , 1968 ; Porter , 1972 , 1974 ; Vermeij , 1978 ) . Most groups ...
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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