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Ecological Biogeography of Australia: 3 volumes (Monographiae Biologicae)
Biogeography, (Aspect geographies) by H Robinson, 1972
Biogeography by J. A. Taylor, 1984-06
Biogeography (Environmental Research Advances)
The Secular Ark: Studies in the History of Biogeography by Janet Browne, 1983-09-10
Corals in Space and Time: The Biogeography and Evolution of the Scleractinia (Comstock Book) by J. E. N. Veron, 1995-05
The Biogeography of Host-Parasite Interactions by Serge Morand, Boris R. Krasnov, 2010-09-01
Histories of Maize: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Prehistory, Linguistics, Biogeography, Domestication, and Evolution of Maize
Palaeozoic Vertebrate Biostratigraphy and Biogeography by John A. Long, 1994-02-01
Australian Rainforests (Oxford Biogeography Series) by Paul Adam, 1994-11-24
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions by David Quammen, 1996-08-15
Island Biogeography in the Sea of Cortez
Biogeography and Ecology of the Rain Forests of Eastern Africa
The Biogeography of the Island Region of Western Lake Erie
61. Biology : File Not Found
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62. Biogeography - Wikipedia
biogeography. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. biogeography is the sciencewhich aims at documenting and understanding spatial patterns of biodiversity.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Biogeography is the science which aims at documenting and understanding spatial patterns of biodiversity It can be defined as the study of distribution and pattern of variation in numbers and kinds of living organisms.
Biogeography is a synthetic science, related to geography biology geology climatology , and ecology . It is usually not an experimental science, as the spatial and temporal scales makes experiments difficult, but rather a science of observation. Some fundamentals in biogeography are
evolution (change in genetic composition of a population) extinction (disappearance of a species) dispersal (movement of populations away from their point of origin)
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63. Biodiversity And WORLDMAP.
Measuring biodiversity value Environment Biodiversity Evaluation and Monitoring......biogeography Conservation Lab biogeography Conservation Lab. The NaturalHistory Museum Cromwell Road London SW7 5BD UK. next page. Terms of use.
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GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY VALUE: a map showing the distribution of some of the most highly valued terrestrial biodiversity world-wide (mammals, reptiles, amphibians and seed plants), using family-level data for equal-area grid cells ref 10 , with red for high biodiversity and blue for low biodiversity. Contents:
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64. In The Wild SPOTLIGHT
No Photo Available, ISLAND biogeography (and Fragmentation). Island biogeographyis the study of the distribution and dynamics of species in island environments.
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ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY (and Fragmentation)
Island biogeography is the study of the distribution and dynamics of species in island environments. Due to their isolation from more widespread continental species, islands are ideal places for unique species to evolve. Island species are especially vulnerable to extinction because they have a small geographic range. They are limited to the island or a particular part of the island, and they usually have low population numbers. These factors make them more likely to become extinct as a result of natural factors such as disease, fire, and normal population fluctuations. If the population is small to begin with, a natural occurrence may occasionally kill enough individuals so there is no longer a viable population of that species. This dynamic is exacerbated when introduced species such as humans, their domesticated animals, pests, and diseases arrive on the island. Native species that have evolved without contact with these new organisms are often unable to compete or defend themselves. Habitat destruction, direct hunting, competition for food, and other factors put intense pressure on island species.
65. Aims & Scope
Information on the aims and scope of the Journal.
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66. Biogeography
biogeography. Some Researchers consider that Australia is divided into twomajor regions, a Tropical northern and a Temperate southern region.
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Some Researchers consider that Australia is divided into two major regions, a Tropical northern and a Temperate southern region. Other Researchers consider that Australia should be further divided into five major Biogeographic Zones which can be used to describe the distribution of most intertidal animals and algae. The difficulty is that most animals and algae don't read research papers, so they occur around the Australian coast dependent upon the environmental and biological conditions which limit their distribution. So, although many species do confirm to the artificial biogeographic pattern imposed upon them by humans, many do not. Look at the distribution pattern of the various animals and algae in the website and see if they match a biogeographic zone, or not.
In the Tropical Region , the Western Tropical Zone extends from Shark Bay across northern Australia to Cape York in Queensland, and the Eastern Tropical Zone extends from from Cape York down the Queensland coast to Fraser Island.
67. Evolution - Biogeography
2.2 THE EVIDENCE FOR EVOLUTION biogeography. 2.1a biogeography the distributionof living things. 2.1b PLATE TECTONICS helps explain biogeography.
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BIOL 1060 (Amoebas to Zebras: the diversity of life on earth) 2.2 THE EVIDENCE FOR EVOLUTION: BIOGEOGRAPHY 2.1a BIOGEOGRAPHY - the distribution of living things If species were created as perfectly adapted to their environment, we would expect similar environments to have similar faunas and floras. This is NOT the case. Instead, the animals and plants of a region are most closely related to those of nearby regions and reflect the history of the region. Consider the following examples:
The Galapagos Islands west of South America and the Cape Verde Islands off west Africa have similar tropical environments. But, their native plants and animals are not closely related; instead, they closely resemble the flora and fauna of their respective nearby large land masses. The Arctic and Antarctic have very similar environmental conditions. However, the Arctic supports polar bears (closely related to northern hemisphere grizzly and brown bear) and walrus while the Antarctic supports penguins (which are found only in the southern hemisphere). Of course, seals live in both places, but they live in warmer waters too.
Islands or larger land masses (including continents) that have been isolated for long periods of time have groups of animals that have adapted to different local environments, yet are clearly closely related to each other. In cases with long histories, the distributions of fossils will correspond with the distributions of living organisms.
68. ThinkQuest Library Of Entries
biogeography biogeography, or geographic distribution, is the biologicalstudy of the geographic distribution of plants and animals.
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69. The Basic Model Of Island Biogeography
The Basic Model of Island biogeography. The model is one Wilson model.Figure from Brown and Gibson biogeography. The extinction
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The Basic Model of Island Biogeography The model is one of a dynamic equilibrium between immigration of new species onto islands and the extinction of species previously established. There are 2 things to note immediately: 1) this is a dynamic equilibrium, not a static one. Species continue to immigrate over an indefinite period, not all are successful in becoming established on the island. Some that have been resident on the island go extinct. The model predicts only the equilibrium number of species, will remain 'fixed'. The species list for the island changes; those changes are called turnover. 2) The model only explicitly applies to the non-interactive phase of island history. Initially, at least, we will consider only events and dynamics over an ecological time scale, and one which assumes ecological interactions on the island occur as a result of random filling of niches, without adaptations to the presence of interacting species developing there. Evolution is clearly excluded. The variables used in the basic model are I s , the immigration rate, which is clearly indicated by the subscript to be species specific, i.e. to be dependent on the number of species already present on the island. Here we're not counting noses, but rather the rate at which new species (those not already present on the island) immigrate. Phrased explicitly, it is the number of species immigrating per unit time onto an island already occupied by S species. Also E
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74. Island Biogeography
Island biogeography Why do many the fauna. That is the essence of theMacArthurWilson equilibrium theory of island biogeography. How
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Island Biogeography W hy do many more species of birds occur on the island of New Guinea than on the island of Bali? One answer is that New Guinea has more than fifty times the area of Bali, and numbers of species ordinarily increase with available space. This does not, however, explain why the Society Islands (Tahiti, Moorea, Bora Bora, etc.), which collectively have about the same area as the islands of the Louisiade Archipelago off New Guinea, play host to many fewer species, or why the Hawaiian Islands, ten times the area of the Louisiades, also have fewer native birds. The theory predicts other things, too. For instance, everything else being equal, distant islands will have lower immigration rates than those close to a mainland, and equilibrium will occur with fewer species on distant islands. Close islands will have high immigration rates and support more species. By similar reasoning, large islands, with their lower extinction rates, will have more species than small ones again everything else being equal (which it frequently is not, for larger islands often have a greater variety of habitats and more species for that reason). Island biogeographic theory has been applied to many kinds of problems, including forecasting faunal changes caused by fragmenting previously continuous habitat. For instance, in most of the eastern United States only patches of the once-great deciduous forest remain, and many species of songbirds are disappearing from those patches. One reason for the decline in birds, according to the theory, is that fragmentation leads to both lower immigration rates (gaps between fragments are not crossed easily) and higher extinction rates (less area supports fewer species).
biogeography book / books, science technical publications, CDROMs,slide sets. biogeography. Also indexed as biochemistry, geographical
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Also indexed as : biochemistry, geographical : biogeochemistry : biology, geochemical : biology, geographical : chemistry, biogeographical : geochemistry, biological : geography, biological Applying Landscape Ecology in Biological Conservation
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Springer 2002 more details Hardcover 518pp, 64 figs ISBN 038798653
Bacterial Biogeochemistry - The Ecophysiology of Mineral Cycling (second edition)
Tom Fenchel, Gary King and George
Academic Press 1998 more details Hardback 320 pages ISBN 0-12-103455-0
Biogeochemistry - An analysis of global change (Second edition)
William H Schlesinger
Academic Press March 1977 more details Hardback 543 pages ISBN 0-12-625155-X
Biotic Response to Global Change
Stephen J Culver Cambridge University Press July 2000 more details Hardback ISBN 521 66304 Challenges of a Changing Earth Edited by Steffen, W., Jäger, J.,Carson, D. J., Bradshaw, C. Springer 2003 more details Hardcover 216 pp, 187 illus., 79 in color ISBN 3540433082 Earth System Science - From Biogeochemical Cycles to Global Change Michael Jacobson, Robert J
biogeography. The science concerned with distribution of life on the Earth. Therefore,the distribution of plant life is the basic component of biogeography.
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The science concerned with distribution of life on the Earth. Plants and animals are irregularly distributed, both on the continents and in the oceans. Some areas have a great abundance and variety of life forms, whereas others are relatively sterile. Biogeographic studies are concerned with learning the manner in which living organisms are arranged on the Earth and the causative factors of this arrangement. All animals are dependent in the final analysis on plants to supply food. Therefore, the distribution of plant life is the basic component of biogeography. Animal life is the secondary or dependent component.
Plant geography is concerned with the climatic conditions and the supply of nutrient substances on which plants feed. Stratification of vegetation is controlled largely by conditions of temperature and moisture, which vary from the flat lowlands to the mountaintop. The nature of the underlying rock, from which plant nutrients are derived by weathering, may strongly influence the growth of plants, but the effect is less striking than that of climate. See Terrestrial ecosystem.
Animal life in turn is stratified in conformance with the zonation of plants. There are typical animals of the desert, the foothills, the forest zone, and the alpine crest. Each of these major communities of plants and animals may be called a life zone, a vegetation zone, a biome, or a climax formation according to various systems of classification. All of these communities are part of the temperate region of the world. To the north is the boreal region, which extends generally from the North Pole to the latitude of southern Canada, and south of the temperate region is the tropical region, extending from the Equator roughly to central Mexico. The Southern Hemisphere may be similarly divided into biotic regions, and these in turn into vegetation zones or communities.
77. Landscape Ecology And Ecological Biogeography
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Fire Succession in Inland Western Australia
The importance of spatial scale has been neglected in traditional ecology, although not in the emerging field of landscape ecology. While the implications of the landscape on ecology have long been appreciated, only recently have quantitative methods of study been exploited. In the past, ecologists, including myself, have focused on local-level processes. Larger scale regional factors also control local phenomena. Local species richness may often be a consequence of regional processes. Relatively little empirical attention has been given to the interaction between these two levels. Unfortunately, few complete closed regions remain unfragmented by human activities in which regional and local phenomena can still be studied simultaneously. I am undertaking such a study in the uninhabited Great Victoria desert of Western Australia, an area with an extremely high diversity of lizards.
Landsat MSS false color image of part of the Great Victoria desert. Blue and white areas are dry lake beds (Lake Throssel and Lake Rason). Note the numerous fire scars (lighter biege patches), their tongues and spatial complexity. Fires frequently reticulate, leaving behind isolated patches of unburned habitats (darker brown patches embedded within fire scars) which act as refuges. Scene is approximately 100 km by 150 km.
biogeography The Geographic Distribution Of Species. Darwin thoughtup isolate birds. Fossil biogeography reinforces this point. For
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Biogeography: The Geographic Distribution Of Species
Darwin thought up his Theory Of Common Descent because he had found biogeographic evidence. He thought that that evidence was much stronger than the fossil evidence. Scientists still think so. Basically, some species have suspicious resemblances to supposedly different species that just happen to live nearby. Often, it would be better design for them to instead resemble some further-away species. And, this is the norm. There are a huge number of good examples. The trees on the remote island of St. Helena are unlike the trees anywhere else on earth. Sunflowers are the closest relative to the strange gumwood tree and to the various cabbage-trees. And, the most closely related sunflower is the local sunflower. The scientific explanation is that this volcanic island was originally formed far away from any continent, and therefore started out with no land plants. Eventually, some sunflower seeds managed to get there. Since no one else was filling the role of "tree", the largest plants on the island - some of the sunflowers - took the job. Transformed by time and competition and by the demands of their role, they now look like trees. Every other remote island has its own examples. In the Galapagos, the role of woodpecker is taken by a finch. Or rather, it's mostly a finch, but it has a beak specialized for the woodpecker role. Apparently, the only land bird which got to the Galapagos was a finch, so all the land birds there are modified finches. (DNA studies prove the relationship.)
79. Biodiversity Research Group - School Of Geography And The Environment
of the research group work on scale issues within island theory, diversity theoryacross both spatial and temporal scales, and within applied biogeography.
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80. Island Biogeography: Ecology, Evolution, And Conservation - Biodiversity Researc
Jump to Island biogeography Index Biodiversity Research Group. A book by RobWhittaker. Island biogeography explores these differing traditions. Tenerife.
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Chapter 1. The natural laboratory paradigm. Islands, being discrete, internally quantifiable, numerous and varied entities, provide us with a suite of natural laboratories enabling theories of general importance to be developed and tested. Under this umbrella, a number of distinctive traditions have developed, each of which is a form of island biogeography, but only some of which are actually about the biogeography of islands. Island Biogeography explores these differing traditions. Tenerife Back to top Chapter 2. Island environments. Tenerife above clouds Four categories of island are identified: from the high seas the oceanic and continental shelf islands; within land masses the habitat and non-marine islands. This chapter considers only islands in the sea. These islands are rarely ancient in geological terms, and in many cases are significantly less ancient biologically than geologically. Oceanic islands have volcanic foundations, are concentrated in a number of distinctive inter- and intra- plate settings and have commonly experienced a dynamic history involving lateral and vertical displacement, and the impacts of eustatic sea-level changes. In the tropics and sub-tropics, upward growth of reef-forming corals at times of relative subsidence have led to the formation of numerous islands of only a few metres elevation, contrasting with the generally steep topography of the volcanic high islands.