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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... zone 100 Continental shelf 200 1000 2000 3000 4000 Continental slope Neritic or sublittoral zone Photic zone Bathyl zone Abyssal plain Aphotic zone Abyssal zone Ocean trench 5000 Figure 4.25 Galápagos rift in the eastern tropical ...
... zone 100 Continental shelf 200 1000 2000 3000 4000 Continental slope Neritic or sublittoral zone Photic zone Bathyl zone Abyssal plain Aphotic zone Abyssal zone Ocean trench 5000 Figure 4.25 Galápagos rift in the eastern tropical ...
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... zone , where light penetrates suffi- ciently for photosynthesis to occur , and a deep profundal zone beyond the depth of effective light penetration . Lakes can be highly produc- tive , supporting extensive food webs based on both ...
... zone , where light penetrates suffi- ciently for photosynthesis to occur , and a deep profundal zone beyond the depth of effective light penetration . Lakes can be highly produc- tive , supporting extensive food webs based on both ...
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... zone The lower zone in a water column , usually below so to 100 m , in which the intensity of solar radiation is too low to permit photosyn- thesis by plants . apomixis Reproduction without the union of sexual cells ( gametes ) ...
... zone The lower zone in a water column , usually below so to 100 m , in which the intensity of solar radiation is too low to permit photosyn- thesis by plants . apomixis Reproduction without the union of sexual cells ( gametes ) ...
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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