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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... diversity Hypothesis or theory Historical perturbation Productivity Harshness Climatic stability Habitat heterogeneity Competition , predation , or mutualism Mechanism of action guins ( Spheniscidae ) , willows ( Salix ) , and many ...
... diversity Hypothesis or theory Historical perturbation Productivity Harshness Climatic stability Habitat heterogeneity Competition , predation , or mutualism Mechanism of action guins ( Spheniscidae ) , willows ( Salix ) , and many ...
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James H. Brown, Arthur C. Gibson. Diversity in gradients of elevation and aridity In terrestrial habitats , variation in species diversity along gradients of elevation and avail- able soil moisture are almost as general and striking as ...
James H. Brown, Arthur C. Gibson. Diversity in gradients of elevation and aridity In terrestrial habitats , variation in species diversity along gradients of elevation and avail- able soil moisture are almost as general and striking as ...
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... diversity than the tropics . In general , species richness varies with water depth in way com- parable to its variation with elevation on land . The cold ... diversity in continental and marine habitats 505 Diversity in aquatic environments,
... diversity than the tropics . In general , species richness varies with water depth in way com- parable to its variation with elevation on land . The cold ... diversity in continental and marine habitats 505 Diversity in aquatic environments,
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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