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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... terrestrial ani- mals are also able to swim short distances , and another small but interesting fraction of small to tiny land creatures have ways of crossing wa- ter and other habitat barriers at some time in their life cycle , e.g. ...
... terrestrial ani- mals are also able to swim short distances , and another small but interesting fraction of small to tiny land creatures have ways of crossing wa- ter and other habitat barriers at some time in their life cycle , e.g. ...
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... terrestrial tetrapod families , pp . 369-371 . In D.H. Tarling and S.K. Runcorn [ eds . ] , Implications of continental drift to the earth sciences , vol . 1 . Copyright ... terrestrial animals 317 Terrestrial amphibians and reptiles,
... terrestrial tetrapod families , pp . 369-371 . In D.H. Tarling and S.K. Runcorn [ eds . ] , Implications of continental drift to the earth sciences , vol . 1 . Copyright ... terrestrial animals 317 Terrestrial amphibians and reptiles,
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... terrestrial and Tribe Ocnerodrilini ; South America to Baja California , the West Indies , Africa , and in- troduced elsewhere Tribe Malabarini ; southern India Subfamily Acanthodrilinae ( terrestrial ) Tribe Acanthodrilini ...
... terrestrial and Tribe Ocnerodrilini ; South America to Baja California , the West Indies , Africa , and in- troduced elsewhere Tribe Malabarini ; southern India Subfamily Acanthodrilinae ( terrestrial ) Tribe Acanthodrilini ...
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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