Gila Monster (Heloderma) Monitor Lizard (Varanidae) Lanthanotus thought to be ... related to Gila monsters (weird. distribution). It is really. related to ...
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 ...
Biogeographic realms are based on evolutionary relationships and morphological ... Ex) Ostrich. Geographic Patterns of Life within a Continent. Island Biogeography ...
Capricorn. Equator. Tropic of. Cancer. Fig. 6.16, p. 131. Polar. Subpolar ... Plants have traits that are adapted to this. Latitude - distance from equator ...
Section 3. Biogeography. of the Jurassic Marine Animals. M. Iturralde-Vinent. and Zulma Gasparini ... Biogeographic Hypothesis. Early Jurassic biogeographic ...
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 ...
Title: PowerPoint Presentation - Islands Author: Ian Hutchinson Last modified by: ian hutchinson Created Date: 3/14/2001 5:56:54 PM Document presentation format
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. ...
Island Biogeography Why study Islands? First biologists and geographers studied them like Wallace (East Indies), Darwin (Galapagos Islands) and Hooker (Southern Ocean).
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 ...
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. Habitats in. Baltic Sea. Reptile and Amphibian Species Area Curve. for Caribbean Islands ... c = constant for habitat type - forest, desert, grassland, etc. ...
Environment may change faster than evolution. Competition and cooperation ... Wallace Line. Based on plate tectonics, ice ages. Alfred Russel Wallace (1860s) ...
Explore the relationships of I and E rates and S to island area and distance ... Understand species-area curves and the underlying mathematical relationships ...
Natural populations exploited in forestry, livestock production, fishing, ... are rapidly dwindling because of overfishing e.g. Coho salmon off Oregon coast ...
Biogeography of Marine Bacteria. Francisco Rodr guez-Valera. Universidad Miguel Hernandez ... Biogeography is the study of the geographical distribution of species ...
BIOGEOGRAPHY AND SPECIATION Because of geographic barriers and thermal gradients the ocean can be divided into provinces - biogeographical regions with characteristic ...
... continents are islands of low-density rock floating on the denser material of ... water-independent rodents of North America (kangaroo rats) and Asia (gerbils) ...
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. ...
Practical sessions and field-trips expand upon concepts covered ... data) in resolving evolutionary patterns in the Australian flora. ... of the Australian flora. ...
... are the North American deserts: Chihuahuan. Sonoran. Mojave ... Mammal families in red. Flowering plant families in blue. Biogeographical provincialism ...
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 ...
Weather: short term properties of the troposphere at a particular ... Dik-dik. East African. eland. Blue duiker. Greater kudu. Bushbuck. Black rhino. Giraffe ...
The making of today: cultural biogeography Use of Tools and Fire Domestication Transplantation Biocides Conservation Human impacts on the world s fauna and flora ...
Subfamily Caimaninae- Caimans. Superfamily Crocodyloidea. Family Crocodylidae ... Caiman Range: Central America. and South America. Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, ...
'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 ...
Visualization of Spatial Data in Marine Biogeographic Information Systems ... Biogeographic information systems allow the exploration of spatial patterns of ...
We identified and counted the frequency of 27 species found within our 4m by ... divided into the following life forms: trees, shrubs, vines, grasses and herbs. ...
... 12s ribosomal genes were also used but I didn't not collect data on them. ... Even though my results were different I believe that they are still sister clades. ...
Marine biogeography is less well understood than terrestrial and freshwater ... restricted mainly to the Hawaiian, Society and Austral Islands, with only 32 spp. ...
... 400) and finished with 30 micron finishing paper (Orvis and Grissino-Mayer 2002) ... Orvis, K.H and Grissino-Mayer, H.D. (2002) Standardizing the reporting of ...