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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... environment . In ter- restrial habitats these patterns are determined by climate and by different types of soils . The distributions of aquatic organisms are limited largely by variation in temperature , salinity , light , and pressure ...
... environment . In ter- restrial habitats these patterns are determined by climate and by different types of soils . The distributions of aquatic organisms are limited largely by variation in temperature , salinity , light , and pressure ...
Page 165
... environment for dif- ferent genetic lines to adapt to different parts of the environment . This fine - tuning of pheno- types to environmental heterogeneity is an ex- tremely common observation among all types of organisms , even at the ...
... environment for dif- ferent genetic lines to adapt to different parts of the environment . This fine - tuning of pheno- types to environmental heterogeneity is an ex- tremely common observation among all types of organisms , even at the ...
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... environmental resources . It is unlikely that species richness has ever exactly attained equilibrial levels , however , for two reasons : first , because the environment is always changing and , second , because there has probably been ...
... environmental resources . It is unlikely that species richness has ever exactly attained equilibrial levels , however , for two reasons : first , because the environment is always changing and , second , because there has probably been ...
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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