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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... plants . Highly acidic or alkaline soils typically create distinctive condi- tions , e.g. , by causing nitrogen and phosphorus to be bound in inaccessible compounds . Insec- tivorous plants are a spectacular group that is restricted to ...
... plants . Highly acidic or alkaline soils typically create distinctive condi- tions , e.g. , by causing nitrogen and phosphorus to be bound in inaccessible compounds . Insec- tivorous plants are a spectacular group that is restricted to ...
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... plants have a simpler structural organization than that found in higher animals , their distributions are no less complex . Plants are of course stationary organ- isms ... plants, Factors limiting growth and reproductive success of plants,
... plants have a simpler structural organization than that found in higher animals , their distributions are no less complex . Plants are of course stationary organ- isms ... plants, Factors limiting growth and reproductive success of plants,
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... plants Data were gathered over a 5 - day period on two sites in southern Arizona . Plants were divided into objective size and isolation categories on the basis of thenumber of flowers and the number of other plants in the immediate ...
... plants Data were gathered over a 5 - day period on two sites in southern Arizona . Plants were divided into objective size and isolation categories on the basis of thenumber of flowers and the number of other plants in the immediate ...
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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