Gila Monster (Heloderma) Monitor Lizard (Varanidae) Lanthanotus thought to be ... related to Gila monsters (weird. distribution). It is really. related to ...
Title: PowerPoint Presentation - Islands Author: Ian Hutchinson Last modified by: ian hutchinson Created Date: 3/14/2001 5:56:54 PM Document presentation format
Biogeography & Biodiversity Chapter 24 Ecosystems & Climate Biogeography- study of distributions of organisms The shift from travel notes to surveys to measurements ...
Biogeography Zoogeographic Regions The Distribution of Birds Vicariance on order or family level No Pangea connection for modern birds The Distribution of Birds ...
Capricorn. Equator. Tropic of. Cancer. Fig. 6.16, p. 131. Polar. Subpolar ... Plants have traits that are adapted to this. Latitude - distance from equator ...
Biogeographic realms are based on evolutionary relationships and morphological ... Ex) Ostrich. Geographic Patterns of Life within a Continent. Island Biogeography ...
The large scale geographic pattern in the distribution of species, and the ... The Earth has 17 major biomes (different depending on source) , each with its ...
Section 3. Biogeography. of the Jurassic Marine Animals. M. Iturralde-Vinent. and Zulma Gasparini ... Biogeographic Hypothesis. Early Jurassic biogeographic ...
Biogeography and Evolution Leith Nye and Rachel Schmidt February 28, 2006 Biogeography the study of what organisms live where on earth and why (from Humphries ...
Island Biogeography Why study Islands? First biologists and geographers studied them like Wallace (East Indies), Darwin (Galapagos Islands) and Hooker (Southern Ocean).
Environment may change faster than evolution. Competition and cooperation ... Wallace Line. Based on plate tectonics, ice ages. Alfred Russel Wallace (1860s) ...
Ecology: The study of the interactions of organisms with their environment and with ... Ology = study of. 1. Con't eco biogeography. Abiotic, biotic factors ...
Island Biogeography MacArthur and Wilson used past island studies to develop the theory Species-area relationships Species turnover Species Isolation Criticisms of ...
Determinants of extinction rate ( S ) Should increase with S (more species greater the rate than ... also account for lower S* on more distant islands of ...
Island. Habitats in. Baltic Sea. Reptile and Amphibian Species Area Curve. for Caribbean Islands ... c = constant for habitat type - forest, desert, grassland, etc. ...
Abyssal fauna diminishes in density with depth and distance from coastline ... The abyssal molluscan fauna of the Norwegian Sea and its relation to other faunas. ...
One of the most significant anthropogenic influences on natural habitats has been the fragmentation of habitats into ... of anthropogenic habitat fragmentation.
Biogeography of Marine Bacteria. Francisco Rodr guez-Valera. Universidad Miguel Hernandez ... Biogeography is the study of the geographical distribution of species ...
... continents are islands of low-density rock floating on the denser material of ... water-independent rodents of North America (kangaroo rats) and Asia (gerbils) ...
Explore the relationships of I and E rates and S to island area and distance ... Understand species-area curves and the underlying mathematical relationships ...
Biogeography: Climate, Biomes, and Terrestrial Biodiversity Chapter 6 To do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts, and to do ...
Natural populations exploited in forestry, livestock production, fishing, ... are rapidly dwindling because of overfishing e.g. Coho salmon off Oregon coast ...
BIOGEOGRAPHY AND SPECIATION Because of geographic barriers and thermal gradients the ocean can be divided into provinces - biogeographical regions with characteristic ...
Defined as non-representative types of organisms, including ... E.g., Barbuda (160 km2) has 20 resident landbird species vs. Anguilla (90 km2) has 11 spp. ...
... are the North American deserts: Chihuahuan. Sonoran. Mojave ... Mammal families in red. Flowering plant families in blue. Biogeographical provincialism ...
Practical sessions and field-trips expand upon concepts covered ... data) in resolving evolutionary patterns in the Australian flora. ... of the Australian flora. ...
Weather: short term properties of the troposphere at a particular ... Dik-dik. East African. eland. Blue duiker. Greater kudu. Bushbuck. Black rhino. Giraffe ...
Subfamily Caimaninae- Caimans. Superfamily Crocodyloidea. Family Crocodylidae ... Caiman Range: Central America. and South America. Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, ...
The making of today: cultural biogeography Use of Tools and Fire Domestication Transplantation Biocides Conservation Human impacts on the world s fauna and flora ...
'There's a snail in my hermit crab shell!' Photo stolen from Jacksonville Shell Club website, ... A lot of the species look. a whole lot alike. Epitonium ...