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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... Tropical deciduous forest . Tropical decid- uous forests ( Figure 4.14 ) usually occur in hot lowlands outside the equatorial zone , where rainfall is more seasonal than in regions of trop- ical rain forest . Compared with tropical rain ...
... Tropical deciduous forest . Tropical decid- uous forests ( Figure 4.14 ) usually occur in hot lowlands outside the equatorial zone , where rainfall is more seasonal than in regions of trop- ical rain forest . Compared with tropical rain ...
Page 397
... tropical . Of these , one finds a stronger phylo- genetic relationship between South America and tropical Asia and between Africa and trop- ical Asia than between South America and Af- rica . Families common to both continents probably ...
... tropical . Of these , one finds a stronger phylo- genetic relationship between South America and tropical Asia and between Africa and trop- ical Asia than between South America and Af- rica . Families common to both continents probably ...
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... tropical is- lands of the West Indies ( Pregill and Olson , 1981 ) , similar patterns and processes not ob- vious in tropical regions of other continents , making investigators wonder why the Neotrop- ics are so different . Nevertheless ...
... tropical is- lands of the West Indies ( Pregill and Olson , 1981 ) , similar patterns and processes not ob- vious in tropical regions of other continents , making investigators wonder why the Neotrop- ics are so different . Nevertheless ...
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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