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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... geographic distribution inevitably involve fluctuations in the sizes and ... ranges clearly show that abundance is usually greatest in central regions ... geographic ranges and the densities of peripheral populations may reflect ...
... geographic distribution inevitably involve fluctuations in the sizes and ... ranges clearly show that abundance is usually greatest in central regions ... geographic ranges and the densities of peripheral populations may reflect ...
Page 71
... geographic ranges . The fact that cultivated plants can often be grown only if they are protected from compet- ing plants , animal herbivores , and microbial pathogens suggests that biotic interactions with other species may play a ...
... geographic ranges . The fact that cultivated plants can often be grown only if they are protected from compet- ing plants , animal herbivores , and microbial pathogens suggests that biotic interactions with other species may play a ...
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... geographic ranges over evolutionary time . Adaptive radiation Ecological differentiation . Once new spe- cies are formed , what happens to them ? After a speciation event , the resulting species are usu- ally quite similar to each other ...
... geographic ranges over evolutionary time . Adaptive radiation Ecological differentiation . Once new spe- cies are formed , what happens to them ? After a speciation event , the resulting species are usu- ally quite similar to each other ...
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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