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 130
... continental movements , global vulcan- ism , wandering poles , and paleoclimates . Weg- ener developed his ideas on continental displacement in 1910 , independently of Taylor , while observing on a world map the congru- ence of opposing ...
... continental movements , global vulcan- ism , wandering poles , and paleoclimates . Weg- ener developed his ideas on continental displacement in 1910 , independently of Taylor , while observing on a world map the congru- ence of opposing ...
Page 136
... continental plates . One of Wegener's strongest arguments in favor of continental drift was the geometric matchup of landmasses when reassembled as Pangea . From the start , opponents criticized the appar- ent liberty used by early ...
... continental plates . One of Wegener's strongest arguments in favor of continental drift was the geometric matchup of landmasses when reassembled as Pangea . From the start , opponents criticized the appar- ent liberty used by early ...
Page 236
... continental or oceanic ( see box on p . 237 ) . It is generally assumed that continental is- lands were once part of the adjacent mainland and originally contained a virtually complete continental biota . Some species may have be- come ...
... continental or oceanic ( see box on p . 237 ) . It is generally assumed that continental is- lands were once part of the adjacent mainland and originally contained a virtually complete continental biota . Some species may have be- come ...
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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