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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... mammals originally colonized South America by suggesting that some of the original mammalian lineages of South ... Mammals of Australasia . The Australian mammals clearly reflect a long history of isola- tion from the other continents ...
... mammals originally colonized South America by suggesting that some of the original mammalian lineages of South ... Mammals of Australasia . The Australian mammals clearly reflect a long history of isola- tion from the other continents ...
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... mammals appears to have begun in the north and proceeded rap- idly and systematically southward ( Figure 14.12 ) . Finally , when the dates of the last known occurrence of a species are compared with a computer simulation of southward ...
... mammals appears to have begun in the north and proceeded rap- idly and systematically southward ( Figure 14.12 ) . Finally , when the dates of the last known occurrence of a species are compared with a computer simulation of southward ...
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... mammals in all areas ; others , especially those exploited by only a few genera , are filled only in tropical ... mammals . There are , for example , no flying crustacean and mollusc eaters among the mammals , although several kinds of ...
... mammals in all areas ; others , especially those exploited by only a few genera , are filled only in tropical ... mammals . There are , for example , no flying crustacean and mollusc eaters among the mammals , although several kinds of ...
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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