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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... soil , the devel- opment of vegetation , and the assembly of a relatively stable complement of microbial , plant , and animal species . The type of vegetation covering a ... Soil map for the Great Plains 32 The ecological setting Soils,
... soil , the devel- opment of vegetation , and the assembly of a relatively stable complement of microbial , plant , and animal species . The type of vegetation covering a ... Soil map for the Great Plains 32 The ecological setting Soils,
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... soil types and climate , showing that particular soil types are formed under the influence of certain conditions of temperature and precipitation . ( Reprinted with permission of Macmillan Publishing Co. , Inc. , from Communities and ...
... soil types and climate , showing that particular soil types are formed under the influence of certain conditions of temperature and precipitation . ( Reprinted with permission of Macmillan Publishing Co. , Inc. , from Communities and ...
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... soil types requiring special plant adaptations . Of course , the chemistry of any soil depends not only on the leaching regime resulting from climate but also on what com- pounds were present in the original parent ma- terial . Soils ...
... soil types requiring special plant adaptations . Of course , the chemistry of any soil depends not only on the leaching regime resulting from climate but also on what com- pounds were present in the original parent ma- terial . Soils ...
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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