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 152
... mainland : ( 1 ) by the occurrence of many different mainland forms that cannot jump wa- ter gaps and ( 2 ) by showing that islands would have been connected with each other and with the mainland if the sea level was lowered 100 m or so ...
... mainland : ( 1 ) by the occurrence of many different mainland forms that cannot jump wa- ter gaps and ( 2 ) by showing that islands would have been connected with each other and with the mainland if the sea level was lowered 100 m or so ...
Page 236
... mainland , al- though they may lack some continental taxa . These islands typically are included in the same faunal or floral province as the nearby mainland from which the biotas were derived . Most is- lands with harmonic biotas are ...
... mainland , al- though they may lack some continental taxa . These islands typically are included in the same faunal or floral province as the nearby mainland from which the biotas were derived . Most is- lands with harmonic biotas are ...
Page 464
... mainland or at least connected to it by a complete bridge of terrestrial habitats . The 100 to 200 m rise in sea level , which oc- curred about 10,000 years ago , inundated many land bridges and created numerous continental islands ...
... mainland or at least connected to it by a complete bridge of terrestrial habitats . The 100 to 200 m rise in sea level , which oc- curred about 10,000 years ago , inundated many land bridges and created numerous continental islands ...
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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