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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... continental shelf . A land bridge apparently con- nected the Falklands with Argentina during the Pleistocene . New Zealand was attached to Antarctica but broke away and drifted northward around 80 million years BP ( Figure 5.13 ) . New ...
... continental shelf . A land bridge apparently con- nected the Falklands with Argentina during the Pleistocene . New Zealand was attached to Antarctica but broke away and drifted northward around 80 million years BP ( Figure 5.13 ) . New ...
Page 464
... bridge or continental is- lands because , unlike oceanic islands , they were ... land bridges and created numerous continental islands . Diamond ( 1972 ... land by water less than 200 m deep support a greater number of species than ...
... bridge or continental is- lands because , unlike oceanic islands , they were ... land bridges and created numerous continental islands . Diamond ( 1972 ... land by water less than 200 m deep support a greater number of species than ...
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James H. Brown, Arthur C. Gibson. Summary of interchange of land mammal families following completion of inter - American Land bridge in the Pliocene Note that although the number of families inhabiting each continent remained relatively ...
James H. Brown, Arthur C. Gibson. Summary of interchange of land mammal families following completion of inter - American Land bridge in the Pliocene Note that although the number of families inhabiting each continent remained relatively ...
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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