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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... million years BP the deep Mozambique Channel had formed , and most authors suggest a separation of Madagascar at or before 100 million years BP , even though the rocks to date this event have not been found . Madagascar has remained ...
... million years BP the deep Mozambique Channel had formed , and most authors suggest a separation of Madagascar at or before 100 million years BP , even though the rocks to date this event have not been found . Madagascar has remained ...
Page 237
... million years BP ) ; Kerguelen Island ( Upper Cretaceous ) ; Madagascar ( ca. 100 mil- lion years BP ) ; New Caledonia ( ca. 50 million years BP ) ; New Zealand ( 80 to 90 million years BP ) ; Seychelles ( 65 million years BP ) ; South ...
... million years BP ) ; Kerguelen Island ( Upper Cretaceous ) ; Madagascar ( ca. 100 mil- lion years BP ) ; New Caledonia ( ca. 50 million years BP ) ; New Zealand ( 80 to 90 million years BP ) ; Seychelles ( 65 million years BP ) ; South ...
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... million years BP and they gave rise to the Otariidae , the sea lions and fur seals , by diversifying in that region . Another clade , the bottom - feeding wal- ruses ( Odobenidae ) , appeared first in the fossil record about 14 million ...
... million years BP and they gave rise to the Otariidae , the sea lions and fur seals , by diversifying in that region . Another clade , the bottom - feeding wal- ruses ( Odobenidae ) , appeared first in the fossil record about 14 million ...
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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