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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... endemics . The origins and ages of endemics are indicated by a variety of terms . An autochthonous endemic is one that has differ- entiated in situ , where it is found today , whereas an allochthonous endemic has evolved its characters ...
... endemics . The origins and ages of endemics are indicated by a variety of terms . An autochthonous endemic is one that has differ- entiated in situ , where it is found today , whereas an allochthonous endemic has evolved its characters ...
Page 358
... endemic genera and 125 endemic species . This number may seem surprising because some of the islands are very close to points on the mainland : Florida , Yu- catan , Honduras , and Venezuela . Endemic gen- era are most numerous in ...
... endemic genera and 125 endemic species . This number may seem surprising because some of the islands are very close to points on the mainland : Florida , Yu- catan , Honduras , and Venezuela . Endemic gen- era are most numerous in ...
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... endemics are products of vicariance from the departure of Australasia from Africa , Madagascar , India , and South America . Table 13.2 notes the names and distributions of the hypothesized sister taxa of Australasian endemic families ...
... endemics are products of vicariance from the departure of Australasia from Africa , Madagascar , India , and South America . Table 13.2 notes the names and distributions of the hypothesized sister taxa of Australasian endemic families ...
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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