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 191
... group . Because divergence and adaptation depend on genetic change , it is hardly surprising that genetic processes influence the rates of specia- tion and adaptive radiation . The diversification of certain groups of higher plants ...
... group . Because divergence and adaptation depend on genetic change , it is hardly surprising that genetic processes influence the rates of specia- tion and adaptive radiation . The diversification of certain groups of higher plants ...
Page 219
... groups of northern ancestry that both were stopped by and passed through the filter , the same groups for taxa of southern ancestry , and a final group , originally of northern ancestry , that invaded and survived in South America but ...
... groups of northern ancestry that both were stopped by and passed through the filter , the same groups for taxa of southern ancestry , and a final group , originally of northern ancestry , that invaded and survived in South America but ...
Page 334
... groups , like Elephantidae , which have their old- est fossils and plesiomorphic features in the Old World , appear only in the Neogene of North America . In contrast , groups like horses ( Equi- dae ) and camels ( Camelidae ) appear to ...
... groups , like Elephantidae , which have their old- est fossils and plesiomorphic features in the Old World , appear only in the Neogene of North America . In contrast , groups like horses ( Equi- dae ) and camels ( Camelidae ) appear to ...
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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