GGR305H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Toucan, Biogeography, Neotropical Realm
15 Mar 2016
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Historical biogeography: immigration and evolution with an oceanic island focus. Biomes are global scale biotic systems defined by physiognomy and functional type of vegetation. Read chapters 2 and 3 from cox and moore biogeography! In brazil: one of 3 different types of islands o. Is called a remnant and was at one point attached to mainland: organisms on island had opportunity to get there via land o. = source of many islands in south pacific (3) island chains over hotspots (2) and (3) are often referred to archipelagos: represent suite of islands occurring near each other o. Type 2 and 3 also important because organisms had to get there via long-distance dispersal. Organisms didn"t walk there (not like island type 1) Tells you about types of organisms that will be there: ones that at some point in their evolutionary history were able to cross massive saltwater barrier.
