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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... Temperature . It is easy to understand why water temperature is so important in the lives of aquatic animals because the majority are ec- totherms , i.e. , their body temperature is set by that of the medium . Temperature controls the ...
... Temperature . It is easy to understand why water temperature is so important in the lives of aquatic animals because the majority are ec- totherms , i.e. , their body temperature is set by that of the medium . Temperature controls the ...
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... temperature Mean daily temper- 31.4 30 ature of warmest month 5.7 Mean daily fluctuation 3225 25.5 Mean daily temperature of 21.1 coldest month 20 10 Absolute minimum . ) daily temperature 100 80 60 Curve of mean monthly temperature 40 ...
... temperature Mean daily temper- 31.4 30 ature of warmest month 5.7 Mean daily fluctuation 3225 25.5 Mean daily temperature of 21.1 coldest month 20 10 Absolute minimum . ) daily temperature 100 80 60 Curve of mean monthly temperature 40 ...
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... temperature is very precise . Wolfe ( 1978 ) has used this as a basis for estimating past climates and vegetation types in different regions of the Northern Hemisphere . Antarctica Figure 13.8 Hypothesized routes of dispersal of early ...
... temperature is very precise . Wolfe ( 1978 ) has used this as a basis for estimating past climates and vegetation types in different regions of the Northern Hemisphere . Antarctica Figure 13.8 Hypothesized routes of dispersal of early ...
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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