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 40
... relatively constant temperatures in the water above the thermocline . In small temperate ponds and lakes that do not experi- ence high winds and heavy waves , the thermo- cline is often shallow and swimmers can feel it by letting their ...
... relatively constant temperatures in the water above the thermocline . In small temperate ponds and lakes that do not experi- ence high winds and heavy waves , the thermo- cline is often shallow and swimmers can feel it by letting their ...
Page 175
... relatively small phenotypic changes as populations re- spond to environmental change and diverge in allopatric speciation . However , many propo- nents of phyletic gradualism ( e.g. , Simp- son , 1953 ; Mayr , 1963 ) have emphasized ...
... relatively small phenotypic changes as populations re- spond to environmental change and diverge in allopatric speciation . However , many propo- nents of phyletic gradualism ( e.g. , Simp- son , 1953 ; Mayr , 1963 ) have emphasized ...
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... relatively few small refugia in an extensive area of grassland habitat , this greatly weakens the argument that similar hab- itat restriction can account in large part for the low diversity of species at high latitudes . Second , it has ...
... relatively few small refugia in an extensive area of grassland habitat , this greatly weakens the argument that similar hab- itat restriction can account in large part for the low diversity of species at high latitudes . Second , it has ...
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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