BIOC63H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Vascular Plant, Pleistocene, Transpiration
18 Nov 2013
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Bioc63fall2013 lecture 2 notes: global biodiversity: pattern and processes ii. Diversity of fruit eating bats, n/s america: diversity of fruit-eating bats decreases as you go away from the equator, north and south, graph: as latitude increases north and south, diversity decreases. Mammalian diversity: going south there is almost a linear decrease in diversity, going north from equator there is still a decrease, but not as linear of a pattern. Vascular plant diversity red and purple = highest diversity coastal areas around the equator are the highes in vascular plant diversity the lowest are the areas very high north and very high south. Latitudinal gradient of biodiversity: explaining the latitudinal gradient of species diversity has long been and still remains the holy grail of ecology and evolutionary biology. 14000 years ago: not all the area that contains forest today, always contained forest.
