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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... fossil record The task of reconstructing the evolutionary histories of organisms has by long tradition been worked ... fossil record . Al- though this might seem to be a much more straightforward approach , it has its own set of ...
... fossil record The task of reconstructing the evolutionary histories of organisms has by long tradition been worked ... fossil record . Al- though this might seem to be a much more straightforward approach , it has its own set of ...
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... fossil , a modern - looking form , from the Jurassic shale of Utah . Most botanists had con- cluded that angiosperms first arose in the Lower Cretaceous ; thus finding a palm in the Jurassic , especially a modern form , was counter to ...
... fossil , a modern - looking form , from the Jurassic shale of Utah . Most botanists had con- cluded that angiosperms first arose in the Lower Cretaceous ; thus finding a palm in the Jurassic , especially a modern form , was counter to ...
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... fossil leaves in the Cretaceous . These were given names of , and inferred to represent , extant gen- era of angiosperms . If so many distinctive gen- era existed in the Cretaceous , certainly the ori- gin of flowering plants had to ...
... fossil leaves in the Cretaceous . These were given names of , and inferred to represent , extant gen- era of angiosperms . If so many distinctive gen- era existed in the Cretaceous , certainly the ori- gin of flowering plants had to ...
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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