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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... habitats in southeastern Asia ( 1 ) tend to be good dispersers and to colonize similar habitats on the islands of Melanesia ( 2 ) . Then populations become extinct fairly rapidly ( 3 ) or else they invade interior rain forest habitats ...
... habitats in southeastern Asia ( 1 ) tend to be good dispersers and to colonize similar habitats on the islands of Melanesia ( 2 ) . Then populations become extinct fairly rapidly ( 3 ) or else they invade interior rain forest habitats ...
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... habitats on the mainland , where they withstand competition from a much more diverse community . This is an example of the situation described in Chapter 3 , in which a highly specialized species ( the colonist ) coexists with more ...
... habitats on the mainland , where they withstand competition from a much more diverse community . This is an example of the situation described in Chapter 3 , in which a highly specialized species ( the colonist ) coexists with more ...
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... Habitats that have experienced historical changes are undersaturated because of inadequate time for species to colonize and adapt . The greater the availability of ... habitats 17 501 Species diversity in continental and marine habitats.
... Habitats that have experienced historical changes are undersaturated because of inadequate time for species to colonize and adapt . The greater the availability of ... habitats 17 501 Species diversity in continental and marine habitats.
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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