Topic 4: Biogeography

Northern Continent was called

The Faunal region made up of Madagascar, sub-Sahara Africa, and the southern half of the Arabian Peninsula

The lithosphere is divided up into

Distribution of species is due to

Grasslands are warm during the summer but cold during the winter?

Xentherians evolved in

biome is a large region of land characterized by habitat conditions and community structure including its unique species

Southern continent was called

East of the Wallace line, on the Australian side, are primarily

The driving force of continental drift is Plate Tectonics.

Mammalogy

Quaternary Glaciation/Ice Age or Pleistocene Glaciation/Ice Age (since it began at the Pleistocene epoch) and_______

____ is a faunal region made up by the continent Antarctica and several island groups in the S Atlantic and indian ocean

Distrobution of species across geographical areas can typically be explained through...

seeks to explain the distrobution in terms of interactions @ the community level between organisms & their environtment

Endemism

Biome Deciduous Broadleaf Forests(DBF)

Palearctic & Nearctic combines is called ______ to represent Northern Continents

Biome Grasslands are:

Historical Biogeography: looks @ the changes that have occurred in a species range over evolutionary time.

Cold Periods are (Glacial Periods)

Neotropical is the faunal region made up of South American, Central America, Antilles, S Florida

Biome Evergreen Broad leaf forest

when 2 or more groups of related animals are widely seperated from each other geographically

Tropical (DBlF)drop some or all of their leaves during a pronounced dry season. Ex: Monsoon forests of India

Types of coniferous forests include:Boreal Forests,Montane Forests,Temperate Rainforests,Southern Pine Forests 

Thylacosimilus is a sabertooth like cat

Antarctica does support any mammal families.

Biomes include:

Boreal Forests are found across northern Europe, Asia, and North America.

During Glacial periods

Biogeographic Distribution is also known as

The Bering land bridge is also known as

Today we are in an Interglacial period (relative Warm)

Biome Dry Shrublands and Dry Woodlands include:

Panama Isthmus appeared connecting North and South America. This allowed for significant faunal exchange.

Arctic Tundra Biomes

Species range is the geographical distribution for all individuals of a given species

Afrotherias evolved in

click any of the eight Faunal Regions

the wallace line seperates ...

Narctic is a faunal region made up of NAmerica (Canada,USA,Mexico) & Greenland

Australasia is made up of

Is the largest terrestrial faunal region and is made up of: Europe, N Africa, Asia(india pakistan, SE Asia) Middle east

a theory describing the large scale motion of Earth’s lithosphere due to geological forces

During the Permian period all of the continents were joined into one supercontinent called

West of the Wallace line, on the Asian side, are primarily ...

Who proposed the idea f continental Drift?

Biome Deserts include:

The portion of Australasia that borders the Wallace line called Wallacea. this is an active region of plate techtonics

Both the Laurasiatherians and Euarchontoglires evolved inLaurasia. Some combine them in the clade _____

Faunal region is the original term and was first proposed by Alfred Wallace

Factors Affecting Global Distribution of Mammals

Oceanic are the oceans of the world and truly isolated islands; used by mammals primarily for breeding purposes

Mammalogy

Biome Coniferous forest

Click any of the eight faunal Regions

Alpine Tundra Biome

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Earth entered an Ice Age during the last third of the _______, the____________ period.

What is the faunal region made up of pakistan, India, SE Asia, Philippines, & indonesia west of the Wallace line?