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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... Desert is the northern boundary of the Ethiopian region . It includes about 6 million square kilometers of barren landscape that receives less than 10 cm of annual rainfall . Seventy species are listed from the desert area , but many of ...
... Desert is the northern boundary of the Ethiopian region . It includes about 6 million square kilometers of barren landscape that receives less than 10 cm of annual rainfall . Seventy species are listed from the desert area , but many of ...
Page 384
... Desert scrub Moist woodland Wet woodland Desert Pluvial woodland or or or or tolar ( T ) * puna ( T ) paramo ( T ) pluvial paramo -2000 Subalpine 4000 m Grassland Desert Desert scrub or dry Moist forest Wet forest Rain forest scrub 4000 ...
... Desert scrub Moist woodland Wet woodland Desert Pluvial woodland or or or or tolar ( T ) * puna ( T ) paramo ( T ) pluvial paramo -2000 Subalpine 4000 m Grassland Desert Desert scrub or dry Moist forest Wet forest Rain forest scrub 4000 ...
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... deserts , similar shifts have occurred in other habitat types . For example , forest biomes were much more widespread in these desert re- gions 10,000 to 20,000 years ago but have since retreated to the more mesic mountains . Organ ...
... deserts , similar shifts have occurred in other habitat types . For example , forest biomes were much more widespread in these desert re- gions 10,000 to 20,000 years ago but have since retreated to the more mesic mountains . Organ ...
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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