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 265
... major questions being asked today in historical biogeography are not fundamentally different than those asked a century ago ( see box , p . 11 ) , but the methods used now are more refined and the an- swers are often considerably ...
... major questions being asked today in historical biogeography are not fundamentally different than those asked a century ago ( see box , p . 11 ) , but the methods used now are more refined and the an- swers are often considerably ...
Page 392
... Major disjunct ranges of plants Phytogeographers have been repeatedly fas- cinated by those taxa that exhibit major disjunc- tions in range over vast distances . The widest of these , gaps of intercontinental or equivalent size , have ...
... Major disjunct ranges of plants Phytogeographers have been repeatedly fas- cinated by those taxa that exhibit major disjunc- tions in range over vast distances . The widest of these , gaps of intercontinental or equivalent size , have ...
Page 460
... major role in determining which of the colonists have been able to persist to comprise the contemporary insular biotas . Nonequilibrium diversity patterns Comparing the pattern of insular species di- versity with the predictions of the ...
... major role in determining which of the colonists have been able to persist to comprise the contemporary insular biotas . Nonequilibrium diversity patterns Comparing the pattern of insular species di- versity with the predictions of the ...
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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