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 236
... islands . Since Wallace ( 1876 , 1880 ) , biologists have tried to classify islands as either continental or oceanic ( see box on p . 237 ) . It is generally assumed that continental is- lands were once part of the adjacent mainland and ...
... islands . Since Wallace ( 1876 , 1880 ) , biologists have tried to classify islands as either continental or oceanic ( see box on p . 237 ) . It is generally assumed that continental is- lands were once part of the adjacent mainland and ...
Page 464
... islands in coastal regions . These are called land bridge or continental is- lands because , unlike oceanic islands , they were once part of the mainland or at least connected to it by a complete bridge of terrestrial habitats . The 100 ...
... islands in coastal regions . These are called land bridge or continental is- lands because , unlike oceanic islands , they were once part of the mainland or at least connected to it by a complete bridge of terrestrial habitats . The 100 ...
Page 472
... islands once connected by habitat bridges . Oceanic islands and other insular habitats that have always been isolated typically contain biotas that are at least as much influenced by dispersal as by extinction . There tends to be a ...
... islands once connected by habitat bridges . Oceanic islands and other insular habitats that have always been isolated typically contain biotas that are at least as much influenced by dispersal as by extinction . There tends to be a ...
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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