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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... freshwater habitats , similar modes of reproduction usually are observed , but those living in stressful freshwater environ- ments may have dormant or resistant stages ad- ded to the life cycle . Of the 7500 species of freshwater fishes ...
... freshwater habitats , similar modes of reproduction usually are observed , but those living in stressful freshwater environ- ments may have dormant or resistant stages ad- ded to the life cycle . Of the 7500 species of freshwater fishes ...
Page 301
... freshwater fishes on is- lands . In order to assess the conclusions that freshwater fish distributions are largely deter- mined by their ability to tolerate salinity , one can turn to oceanic islands to see whether the predictions hold ...
... freshwater fishes on is- lands . In order to assess the conclusions that freshwater fish distributions are largely deter- mined by their ability to tolerate salinity , one can turn to oceanic islands to see whether the predictions hold ...
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... freshwater fishes are present . Lawlor ( in progress ) points out that mammals can be divided into two groups , bats and terrestrial forms , on the basis of over - water dispersal abil- ity . Bats show patterns of distribution on ...
... freshwater fishes are present . Lawlor ( in progress ) points out that mammals can be divided into two groups , bats and terrestrial forms , on the basis of over - water dispersal abil- ity . Bats show patterns of distribution on ...
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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