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 353
... birds as a whole . The box on p . 354 lists the endemic bird families and subfamilies of the Neotropics along with those having most of their species appearing in tropical America ( Meyer de Schauensee , 1970 ; Haffer , 1974 ; Gruson ...
... birds as a whole . The box on p . 354 lists the endemic bird families and subfamilies of the Neotropics along with those having most of their species appearing in tropical America ( Meyer de Schauensee , 1970 ; Haffer , 1974 ; Gruson ...
Page 359
James H. Brown, Arthur C. Gibson. geographic patterns of West Indian birds is a model study for those who seek to interpret historical biogeography from a dispersalist and ecological viewpoint . The resident land birds of the Greater ...
James H. Brown, Arthur C. Gibson. geographic patterns of West Indian birds is a model study for those who seek to interpret historical biogeography from a dispersalist and ecological viewpoint . The resident land birds of the Greater ...
Page 360
... birds , e.g. , pheasants ( Phasianidae ) , have radiated in south- east Asia . A great number of bird species mi- grate between the Orient and temperate Asia . That mediterranean Africa is part of the Pa- learctic region is amply ...
... birds , e.g. , pheasants ( Phasianidae ) , have radiated in south- east Asia . A great number of bird species mi- grate between the Orient and temperate Asia . That mediterranean Africa is part of the Pa- learctic region is amply ...
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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