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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... landmasses may be allowed to survive and diversify without normal types of predation and competition . 13. When two large landmasses long separated are reunited , extinction may occur because many organ- isms will encounter new ...
... landmasses may be allowed to survive and diversify without normal types of predation and competition . 13. When two large landmasses long separated are reunited , extinction may occur because many organ- isms will encounter new ...
Page 143
... landmasses were at any given time , and su- ture zones show where past oceans disappeared and landmasses were welded together ( Burke et al . , 1977 ; Dewey , 1977 ) . Gondwanaland . Gondwanaland ( named for a region in eastern India ...
... landmasses were at any given time , and su- ture zones show where past oceans disappeared and landmasses were welded together ( Burke et al . , 1977 ; Dewey , 1977 ) . Gondwanaland . Gondwanaland ( named for a region in eastern India ...
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... landmasses not only because the range is lim- ited by abiotic and biotic factors ( Chapter 3 ) but also because the barriers isolated them on that landmass millions of years ago . To avoid complicating our general discussions here , we ...
... landmasses not only because the range is lim- ited by abiotic and biotic factors ( Chapter 3 ) but also because the barriers isolated them on that landmass millions of years ago . To avoid complicating our general discussions here , we ...
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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