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 204
... dispersal by plants or animals are obviously more effective than others . Aerial movement by winds , by birds , and in the tropics , by bats is especially successful in moving disseminules over long distances . Of course , the distance ...
... dispersal by plants or animals are obviously more effective than others . Aerial movement by winds , by birds , and in the tropics , by bats is especially successful in moving disseminules over long distances . Of course , the distance ...
Page 236
... distant , isolated volcanoes from the ocean floor , have received colonists only via long - distance dispersal . Because long - distance or waif dispersal is a chancy process , it is not surprising that the composition of the biota is ...
... distant , isolated volcanoes from the ocean floor , have received colonists only via long - distance dispersal . Because long - distance or waif dispersal is a chancy process , it is not surprising that the composition of the biota is ...
Page 267
... long- distance dispersal or are conservative in the dis- persal modes , should be treated as having equal importance in analyses . Using disjunctions from all the continents , Croizat attempted to demonstrate that each dis- junct ...
... long- distance dispersal or are conservative in the dis- persal modes , should be treated as having equal importance in analyses . Using disjunctions from all the continents , Croizat attempted to demonstrate that each dis- junct ...
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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