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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... niche by one or a small number of identifiable species of competitors or predators . Often two closely related species have very similar funda- mental niches , but they occupy different real- ized niches because competition has resulted ...
... niche by one or a small number of identifiable species of competitors or predators . Often two closely related species have very similar funda- mental niches , but they occupy different real- ized niches because competition has resulted ...
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... niches . This may seem like an absurd elaboration of an already excessively abstract concept , but this idea has considerable importance to biogeography . Al- though we can recognize niches unequivocally only when they are occupied by ...
... niches . This may seem like an absurd elaboration of an already excessively abstract concept , but this idea has considerable importance to biogeography . Al- though we can recognize niches unequivocally only when they are occupied by ...
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James H. Brown, Arthur C. Gibson. Mammalian genera occupying particular niches in different biogeographic regions The niche categories are the same as those in Table 18.3 but are abbreviated here . Note that most niches with many genera ...
James H. Brown, Arthur C. Gibson. Mammalian genera occupying particular niches in different biogeographic regions The niche categories are the same as those in Table 18.3 but are abbreviated here . Note that most niches with many genera ...
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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