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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... elevation usually experience no overlap in temperature , whereas in the temperate zones winter temperatures at low elevations broadly overlap summer temperatures at much higher sites . ( Reprinted from " Why mountain passes are higher ...
... elevation usually experience no overlap in temperature , whereas in the temperate zones winter temperatures at low elevations broadly overlap summer temperatures at much higher sites . ( Reprinted from " Why mountain passes are higher ...
Page 502
... elevation and latitude . Despite the poverty of quantitative studies , the general decline in species diversity with de- creasing temperatures at higher elevations is as obvious as the latitudinal pattern . The lowland tropics of the ...
... elevation and latitude . Despite the poverty of quantitative studies , the general decline in species diversity with de- creasing temperatures at higher elevations is as obvious as the latitudinal pattern . The lowland tropics of the ...
Page 503
... elevation in the Siskijou Mountains of Oregon and California . Note that the number of tree species declines with increasing elevation , but herb and shrub species richness is greatest at intermediate elevations . ( Replotted from data ...
... elevation in the Siskijou Mountains of Oregon and California . Note that the number of tree species declines with increasing elevation , but herb and shrub species richness is greatest at intermediate elevations . ( Replotted from data ...
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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