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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Page 114
... aquatic organisms spend much or all of their lives suspended in the third dimension , ei- ther drifting passively or swimming actively in the water column . The physical factors that vary in time and space to affect the abundance and ...
... aquatic organisms spend much or all of their lives suspended in the third dimension , ei- ther drifting passively or swimming actively in the water column . The physical factors that vary in time and space to affect the abundance and ...
Page 286
... aquatic animals live exclu- sively in either fresh water or in seawater be- cause they cannot osmoregulate in the other medium . The vast majority of marine plant and animal classes and orders are osmoconformers , which means that they ...
... aquatic animals live exclu- sively in either fresh water or in seawater be- cause they cannot osmoregulate in the other medium . The vast majority of marine plant and animal classes and orders are osmoconformers , which means that they ...
Page 289
... aquatic animals show some of the clearest interrelationships between the physical properties of the habitat and the organism's form , feeding method , and strategy for avoid- ing predation . For example , an aquatic organ- ism may be ...
... aquatic animals show some of the clearest interrelationships between the physical properties of the habitat and the organism's form , feeding method , and strategy for avoid- ing predation . For example , an aquatic organ- ism may be ...
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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