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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... angiosperms. 30 Mean annual temperature ( ° C ) 20 20 100 100 80 60 40 20 0 Figure 13.7 Percent entire margined ... angiosperms Nearly everyone who writes about distribu- tion patterns of seed plants feels obligated at some time to ...
... angiosperms. 30 Mean annual temperature ( ° C ) 20 20 100 100 80 60 40 20 0 Figure 13.7 Percent entire margined ... angiosperms Nearly everyone who writes about distribu- tion patterns of seed plants feels obligated at some time to ...
Page 388
... angiosperms . Beginning in the 1960s , the idea of a Trias- sic or earlier age for angiosperms lost consider- able ground . Painstaking investigations by many workers provided powerful evidence of a more recent origin . Their findings ...
... angiosperms . Beginning in the 1960s , the idea of a Trias- sic or earlier age for angiosperms lost consider- able ground . Painstaking investigations by many workers provided powerful evidence of a more recent origin . Their findings ...
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... angiosperms shared by Africa and South America do fit a vi- cariance model . The following are some of the pertinent points they used in developing their case . 1. Angiosperms had come into existence at least by the Lower Cretaceous ...
... angiosperms shared by Africa and South America do fit a vi- cariance model . The following are some of the pertinent points they used in developing their case . 1. Angiosperms had come into existence at least by the Lower Cretaceous ...
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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