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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... regions . These groups are particularly well represented in the biotas of oceanic islands and other highly iso- lated habitats . Organisms may have had oppor- tunities to disperse between regions at times when the barriers were ...
... regions . These groups are particularly well represented in the biotas of oceanic islands and other highly iso- lated habitats . Organisms may have had oppor- tunities to disperse between regions at times when the barriers were ...
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... regions such as a sin- gle continent or ocean . For example , the entire avian family Furnariidae ( ovenbirds ) ... regions . Some regions , such as Australia , south- ern Africa , Madagascar , and New Caledonia , contain a large ...
... regions such as a sin- gle continent or ocean . For example , the entire avian family Furnariidae ( ovenbirds ) ... regions . Some regions , such as Australia , south- ern Africa , Madagascar , and New Caledonia , contain a large ...
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... regions themselves and the boundaries between them . All of the regions offer an extremely di- verse range of terrestrial environments . For ex- ample , all have mountains more than 3000 m in elevation , all except the Nearctic and ...
... regions themselves and the boundaries between them . All of the regions offer an extremely di- verse range of terrestrial environments . For ex- ample , all have mountains more than 3000 m in elevation , all except the Nearctic and ...
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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