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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... evolutionary mod- ification . By evolutionary time we normally mean periods of tens to millions of years , dur- ing which populations can evolve and become adapted to their environments by means of ge- netic changes . This dichotomy is ...
... evolutionary mod- ification . By evolutionary time we normally mean periods of tens to millions of years , dur- ing which populations can evolve and become adapted to their environments by means of ge- netic changes . This dichotomy is ...
Page 163
... evolutionary branching pro- cess . Through speciation , evolutionary lineages split and are freed to adapt to different environ- ments and to colonize new regions . Where and when these evolutionary events took place nat- urally did ...
... evolutionary branching pro- cess . Through speciation , evolutionary lineages split and are freed to adapt to different environ- ments and to colonize new regions . Where and when these evolutionary events took place nat- urally did ...
Page 259
... evolutionary systematics . Putative fossil ancestors are placed on the diagram to help visualize their characteristics . These ancestral groups often were quite diverse , so from this diagram alone one cannot determine which particular ...
... evolutionary systematics . Putative fossil ancestors are placed on the diagram to help visualize their characteristics . These ancestral groups often were quite diverse , so from this diagram alone one cannot determine which particular ...
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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