CHEM 110 Lecture Notes - Scattered Trees, Insular Biogeography, Species Richness

• School: McGill University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 110
• Professor: Rick Schultz

Document Summary

Ch 52: ecology and the distribution of life. Air rises when it is heated by sun, so warm air rises in tropics, which receive greatest solar energy input. Rising air is replaced by air that flows in toward equator from n +s o o o latitudes after having travelled away from equator in atmosphere o moisture ex. Nh: has evergreen coniferous gymnosperms; sh: southern beeches. Wallace: correctly deduced that dramatic differences in flora+fauna were related to depth of a species found only within certain regions is endemic to region (ex vascular plants of acceptance of continental drift theory. Linnaeus believed all organisms created in one place (paradise) from which. Wallace"s line: line he drew through malay archipelago flora, fauna, and microorganisms (the biota) of world allow us to divide earth into biotas of major biogeographic regions are very different from eachother.