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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... isolation . A once widespread species ( stage 1 ) becomes subdivided into two isolated populations by the formation of a geographic barrier ( stages 2 and 3 ) . After a period of isolation the barrier disappears and one of two outcomes ...
... isolation . A once widespread species ( stage 1 ) becomes subdivided into two isolated populations by the formation of a geographic barrier ( stages 2 and 3 ) . After a period of isolation the barrier disappears and one of two outcomes ...
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James H. Brown, Arthur C. Gibson. Isolated islands Slope of the species - area relationship is much steeper for isolated islands than for sample areas of different size within a single large landmass . These data are for pomerine ants on ...
James H. Brown, Arthur C. Gibson. Isolated islands Slope of the species - area relationship is much steeper for isolated islands than for sample areas of different size within a single large landmass . These data are for pomerine ants on ...
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... isolated habitats across the entire Great Basin , permitting all islands to be colonized by all species for which appropriate habitat bridges existed . At the end of the Pleistocene , however , the cool , mesic habitats shrank back to ...
... isolated habitats across the entire Great Basin , permitting all islands to be colonized by all species for which appropriate habitat bridges existed . At the end of the Pleistocene , however , the cool , mesic habitats shrank back to ...
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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