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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... pluvial lakes in western North America during the last ( Wisconsin ) glacial maximum . During the glacial periods most of the arid region of the continent experienced a wetter and cooler climate , and lakes and marshes filled what are ...
... pluvial lakes in western North America during the last ( Wisconsin ) glacial maximum . During the glacial periods most of the arid region of the continent experienced a wetter and cooler climate , and lakes and marshes filled what are ...
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James H. Brown, Arthur C. Gibson. The disappearance of the pluvial lakes since the Pleistocene has had several profound bio- geographic effects . It caused the wholesale ex- tinction of many plants and animals living in or around these ...
James H. Brown, Arthur C. Gibson. The disappearance of the pluvial lakes since the Pleistocene has had several profound bio- geographic effects . It caused the wholesale ex- tinction of many plants and animals living in or around these ...
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... Lakes , 3 New Guinea islands , 464 overkill hypothesis , 280 , 427-431 , 537 pluvial lakes , 424-426 , 464-465 sea level changes , 419 shifts in northern vegetation zones , 415-416 in Southern Hemisphere , 414 temperatures , 412-416 in ...
... Lakes , 3 New Guinea islands , 464 overkill hypothesis , 280 , 427-431 , 537 pluvial lakes , 424-426 , 464-465 sea level changes , 419 shifts in northern vegetation zones , 415-416 in Southern Hemisphere , 414 temperatures , 412-416 in ...
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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