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 150
... Land connections between North America and Eu- rope and Africa consequently were severed al- most immediately in the low latitudes , but a land connection of some sort persisted at pole- ward latitudes until the Lower Eocene . This ...
... Land connections between North America and Eu- rope and Africa consequently were severed al- most immediately in the low latitudes , but a land connection of some sort persisted at pole- ward latitudes until the Lower Eocene . This ...
Page 215
... land barriers . Never- theless , many groups have spread over much of the world by moving from one body of water to ... connections of continents now drifted apart . Even when land connections are present , however , they can affect the ...
... land barriers . Never- theless , many groups have spread over much of the world by moving from one body of water to ... connections of continents now drifted apart . Even when land connections are present , however , they can affect the ...
Page 464
... land bridges and created numerous continental islands . Diamond ( 1972 , 1975b ) found that the influence of past connections to the mainland of New Guinea is apparent in the composition of the avifauna of the satellite islands off the ...
... land bridges and created numerous continental islands . Diamond ( 1972 , 1975b ) found that the influence of past connections to the mainland of New Guinea is apparent in the composition of the avifauna of the satellite islands off the ...
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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