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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... living species because the fossil record of these organ- isms is very poor . Using a recent phylogenetic hypothesis ... living forms . How ac- curate are such reconstructions ? The principal way of assessing this is to compare ...
... living species because the fossil record of these organ- isms is very poor . Using a recent phylogenetic hypothesis ... living forms . How ac- curate are such reconstructions ? The principal way of assessing this is to compare ...
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... Living exclusively or for most of the time in water . arboreal Living predominantly or entirely in the canopies of trees . arborescent Treelike . arctic Pertaining to all nonforested areas north of the coniferous forests in the Northern ...
... Living exclusively or for most of the time in water . arboreal Living predominantly or entirely in the canopies of trees . arborescent Treelike . arctic Pertaining to all nonforested areas north of the coniferous forests in the Northern ...
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... living or came from a once - living form . bipedal Using two hind limbs for locomotion , usu- ally by hopping or jumping , such as a kangaroo or a kangaroo rat . bipolar Occurring at both poles , in the cold or sub- temperate zones ...
... living or came from a once - living form . bipedal Using two hind limbs for locomotion , usu- ally by hopping or jumping , such as a kangaroo or a kangaroo rat . bipolar Occurring at both poles , in the cold or sub- temperate zones ...
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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