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 127
... continents and portions of continents are or have been separate crustal entities that have been rafted across the surface of the globe on the weak upper mantle . Thus the lithosphere is not composed of fixed ocean basins and continents ...
... continents and portions of continents are or have been separate crustal entities that have been rafted across the surface of the globe on the weak upper mantle . Thus the lithosphere is not composed of fixed ocean basins and continents ...
Page 536
... continents . Obviously there has been extensive interchange across the Panamanian Land Bridge as well as extinction of a number of families on the two continents . Although the total number of fam- ilies on each continent has remained ...
... continents . Obviously there has been extensive interchange across the Panamanian Land Bridge as well as extinction of a number of families on the two continents . Although the total number of fam- ilies on each continent has remained ...
Page 595
... continents , p . 23-87 . In A. Keast , F.C. Erk , and B. Glass ( eds . ) , Evolution , mammals , and southern continents . Albany , N.Y. , State University of New York Press . Keast , A. 1972b . Australian mammals : zoogeography and ...
... continents , p . 23-87 . In A. Keast , F.C. Erk , and B. Glass ( eds . ) , Evolution , mammals , and southern continents . Albany , N.Y. , State University of New York Press . Keast , A. 1972b . Australian mammals : zoogeography and ...
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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