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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... taxa share the same derived trait and are hypothesized to be more closely related to each other than to the third taxon . 10 56 ????? 20 ? Aphroteniinae Figure 9.7 Brundin's (. Case 1 Case 2 Case 3 Taxon 1 2 3 2 3 2 Trait or character ...
... taxa share the same derived trait and are hypothesized to be more closely related to each other than to the third taxon . 10 56 ????? 20 ? Aphroteniinae Figure 9.7 Brundin's (. Case 1 Case 2 Case 3 Taxon 1 2 3 2 3 2 Trait or character ...
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... taxa as revealed by cladistic analysis . Taxa 2 and 3 are more similar to each other than either is to taxon 1. From this one can infer that taxa 2 and 3 share a more recent common ancestor and a more recent common geographic range than ...
... taxa as revealed by cladistic analysis . Taxa 2 and 3 are more similar to each other than either is to taxon 1. From this one can infer that taxa 2 and 3 share a more recent common ancestor and a more recent common geographic range than ...
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... taxon cycle , typically are restricted to a narrow range of environments , usually rain forest or montane forest deep in the interior of the islands . Meanwhile , these species have been replaced by a new wave of colonists occupying the ...
... taxon cycle , typically are restricted to a narrow range of environments , usually rain forest or montane forest deep in the interior of the islands . Meanwhile , these species have been replaced by a new wave of colonists occupying the ...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