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 19
... biotic en- vironment play in limiting distributions . Chapter 2 describes and explains large - scale variations in the physical environment . Simple physical principles account for global patterns in temperature , movements of winds and ...
... biotic en- vironment play in limiting distributions . Chapter 2 describes and explains large - scale variations in the physical environment . Simple physical principles account for global patterns in temperature , movements of winds and ...
Page 78
... biotic interactions to limit distributions . In other cases , especially in gradients of decreasing physical harshness , di- verse biotic interactions act in concert to pre- vent range expansion . It will often be difficult and ...
... biotic interactions to limit distributions . In other cases , especially in gradients of decreasing physical harshness , di- verse biotic interactions act in concert to pre- vent range expansion . It will often be difficult and ...
Page 535
... biotic interchange . The fate of artificially introduced species provides some limited insight into the kinds of interactions that can occur when representatives of one for- merly isolated biotic region contact those of an- other . This ...
... biotic interchange . The fate of artificially introduced species provides some limited insight into the kinds of interactions that can occur when representatives of one for- merly isolated biotic region contact those of an- other . This ...
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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