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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... occur together on the largest islands . ( From Biological science : molecules to man , Biological Sciences Curriculum Study , Boston , 1963 , Houghton Mifflin Co. ) 8 2 10 Figure 6.5 For legend see opposite page. Templeton , 1980a , 1981 ...
... occur together on the largest islands . ( From Biological science : molecules to man , Biological Sciences Curriculum Study , Boston , 1963 , Houghton Mifflin Co. ) 8 2 10 Figure 6.5 For legend see opposite page. Templeton , 1980a , 1981 ...
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... occur sympatrically on other islands . ( After Lack , 1947. ) Species diversity and extent of endemism in fishes ... occur if the an- cestral species merely becomes subdivided by physical barriers , i.e. , vicariance , but differenti ...
... occur sympatrically on other islands . ( After Lack , 1947. ) Species diversity and extent of endemism in fishes ... occur if the an- cestral species merely becomes subdivided by physical barriers , i.e. , vicariance , but differenti ...
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... occur exclusively in the Northern Hemisphere . They do not occur on oceanic is- lands , confirming other evidence that they are intolerant of seawater . For this holarctic order , the most interest- ing disjunctions occur in the modern ...
... occur exclusively in the Northern Hemisphere . They do not occur on oceanic is- lands , confirming other evidence that they are intolerant of seawater . For this holarctic order , the most interest- ing disjunctions occur in the modern ...
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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