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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... glacial www wwww ww Last glaciation 14 700,000 500,000 400,000 300,000 Approximate time ( years BP ) 200,000 Figure 14.1 100,000 This pattern Sea - surface temperature variations at a typical tropical locality over the last 800,000 ...
... glacial www wwww ww Last glaciation 14 700,000 500,000 400,000 300,000 Approximate time ( years BP ) 200,000 Figure 14.1 100,000 This pattern Sea - surface temperature variations at a typical tropical locality over the last 800,000 ...
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... glacial and interglacial episodes , warn- ing one not to overgeneralize about the move- ments of plants and animals during these fluc- tuating climates . Most authors discuss northern glaciation episodes because over 80 % of the glacial ...
... glacial and interglacial episodes , warn- ing one not to overgeneralize about the move- ments of plants and animals during these fluc- tuating climates . Most authors discuss northern glaciation episodes because over 80 % of the glacial ...
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... glacial periods . Isolated relict populations have survived in cool climates at higher elevations since the glaciers retreated and the climate warmed . ( After Hultén , 1964. ) 7 004,024,230 High frequency of endemic species in central ...
... glacial periods . Isolated relict populations have survived in cool climates at higher elevations since the glaciers retreated and the climate warmed . ( After Hultén , 1964. ) 7 004,024,230 High frequency of endemic species in central ...
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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