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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... present 50 40 E2 -E3 30 .... tual turnover rates could well have been even higher ; some species might have ... Present per year X Range 5.9 4-9 Exhibiting turnover 12 Present every year 4 Percent species turnover per year X 13 Range 3 ...
... present 50 40 E2 -E3 30 .... tual turnover rates could well have been even higher ; some species might have ... Present per year X Range 5.9 4-9 Exhibiting turnover 12 Present every year 4 Percent species turnover per year X 13 Range 3 ...
Page 463
... present boreal mammal populations of these montane islands are relicts , vicariant remnants of once wide- spread distributions during the Pleistocene . This model is consistent with plant fossils showing that as recently as 10,000 to ...
... present boreal mammal populations of these montane islands are relicts , vicariant remnants of once wide- spread distributions during the Pleistocene . This model is consistent with plant fossils showing that as recently as 10,000 to ...
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... present mammals because of subsequent exchange across the Bering Land Bridge . Of the 30 South American and 32 North American families , only one , the cricetid rodents , occupied both continents at the begin- ning of the Pliocene ...
... present mammals because of subsequent exchange across the Bering Land Bridge . Of the 30 South American and 32 North American families , only one , the cricetid rodents , occupied both continents at the begin- ning of the Pliocene ...
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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