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 155
... reconstruct . There are six major oceanic plates used in most Pacific reconstructions . The Phoenix Plate was located in the south Pacific and disappeared by the enlargement of the Pacific Plate , and the Kula Plate has disappeared ...
... reconstruct . There are six major oceanic plates used in most Pacific reconstructions . The Phoenix Plate was located in the south Pacific and disappeared by the enlargement of the Pacific Plate , and the Kula Plate has disappeared ...
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... Reconstructions for land and sea habitats must assume actualism ( Chapter 1 ) , that the niches ( requirements and tolerances ) of fossil organisms are close to those of their living relatives . For aquatic organisms , reconstruction ...
... Reconstructions for land and sea habitats must assume actualism ( Chapter 1 ) , that the niches ( requirements and tolerances ) of fossil organisms are close to those of their living relatives . For aquatic organisms , reconstruction ...
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... reconstruction shown in Fig- ure 11.11 has included five aspects that are com- mon in many reconstructions of mammalian or- ders and families : ( 1 ) exchange between Africa and Europe or Asia has been affected many times ; ( 2 ) ...
... reconstruction shown in Fig- ure 11.11 has included five aspects that are com- mon in many reconstructions of mammalian or- ders and families : ( 1 ) exchange between Africa and Europe or Asia has been affected many times ; ( 2 ) ...
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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