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 347
... migrate in August from southern Can- ada toward the southeastern United States ( Figure 12.2 ) . For years naturalists thought the entire annual migration was completed by sin- gle individuals , as with birds , but now they sus- pect ...
... migrate in August from southern Can- ada toward the southeastern United States ( Figure 12.2 ) . For years naturalists thought the entire annual migration was completed by sin- gle individuals , as with birds , but now they sus- pect ...
Page 350
... Migration patterns of birds . No discussion on migration could be considered complete without some consideration of migratory birds . Seasonal migrations are favorite topics for his- torical biogeographers , because they could hold some ...
... Migration patterns of birds . No discussion on migration could be considered complete without some consideration of migratory birds . Seasonal migrations are favorite topics for his- torical biogeographers , because they could hold some ...
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... migration between temperate and subarctic breeding areas in the Northern Hemisphere and wintering grounds in the New and Old World tropics , there is little annual long - distance migration in the Southern Hemisphere . ( After McClure ...
... migration between temperate and subarctic breeding areas in the Northern Hemisphere and wintering grounds in the New and Old World tropics , there is little annual long - distance migration in the Southern Hemisphere . ( After McClure ...
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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