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 225
... genera , and species in a cumulative se- ries . For this reason , the lowest taxonomic cat- egories , species and genera , tend to be more narrowly endemic than the higher taxa , such as families and order , of which they are members ...
... genera , and species in a cumulative se- ries . For this reason , the lowest taxonomic cat- egories , species and genera , tend to be more narrowly endemic than the higher taxa , such as families and order , of which they are members ...
Page 312
... genera of seals and sea lions living in polar waters achieved their present ranges and how they differentiated into a variety of new genera and species . For example , for the harbor seals it is simple to envision how the Baikal seal of ...
... genera of seals and sea lions living in polar waters achieved their present ranges and how they differentiated into a variety of new genera and species . For example , for the harbor seals it is simple to envision how the Baikal seal of ...
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... genera are filled by mammals in all areas ; others , especially those exploited by only a few genera , are filled only in tropical regions or are apparently haphazardly filled . ( Data supplied by J.F. Eisenberg , 1981. ) Tropical South ...
... genera are filled by mammals in all areas ; others , especially those exploited by only a few genera , are filled only in tropical regions or are apparently haphazardly filled . ( Data supplied by J.F. Eisenberg , 1981. ) Tropical South ...
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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