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 344
... insects in order to follow their movements and thereby demonstrate the effectiveness of flight for dispersal . Other evidence for the va- gility of winged animals is the high representa- tion of birds and flying insects on remote ...
... insects in order to follow their movements and thereby demonstrate the effectiveness of flight for dispersal . Other evidence for the va- gility of winged animals is the high representa- tion of birds and flying insects on remote ...
Page 367
... insects as a whole , we focus here on three interesting examples that illustrate some of the patterns ob- served in insects : the Australian insect fauna , which provides insights into the long history of a diverse continental biota ...
... insects as a whole , we focus here on three interesting examples that illustrate some of the patterns ob- served in insects : the Australian insect fauna , which provides insights into the long history of a diverse continental biota ...
Page 472
... insects , and plants with bird - transported or airborne dias- pores tend to be well represented on distant oceanic islands , whereas few if any native spe- cies of terrestrial mammals , reptiles , amphibi- ans , and freshwater fishes ...
... insects , and plants with bird - transported or airborne dias- pores tend to be well represented on distant oceanic islands , whereas few if any native spe- cies of terrestrial mammals , reptiles , amphibi- ans , and freshwater fishes ...
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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