Biogeography: An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach |
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able adapted Africa allele angiosperms animals and plants Arctic areas Asia Australia become biogeography biomass biome birds blue chaffinch Britain carnivores Cenozoic cent Chalkhill blue Chthamalus climatic changes colonization common competition continental continental drift continents cycads deciduous desert dispersal diversity early ecological niches ecosystem efficiency endemic energy environment Europe evolution evolutionary evolved example extinction factors fauna feed Figure flora floral regions flowering plants fossil genera geographical glaciation Gondwanaland gradient grasses grassland grazing groups habitat Hawaiian Hemisphere herbivores insects island isolated lakes land larvae Late Cretaceous latitudes limited litter live mammals marsupials microhabitats mountain North America northern number of species nutrients occupied ocean organisms patterns of distribution plant species plants and animals Pleistocene pollen population predators production range result season seeds soil South southern spread survive temperate temperature terrestrial tion trees trophic levels tropical tundra types vegetation woodland