Biology 3484A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Marchantiophyta, Synapomorphy, Anthurium
21 Apr 2018
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Neotropical rain forest: water everywhere, presence of streams and rivers, average annual rainfall 200 cm (79 in. Insects: many taxa are hyperdiverse: (cid:862)big four(cid:863, thousands of tropical insect species awaiting discovery, bioluminescent click beetle (family elateridae) of a costa rican rain forest, bioluminescence is the production and emission of light by a living organism. It is a naturally occurring form of chemo-luminescence where light energy is produced as a result of a chemical reaction in a living organism. Largest, most complex animal societies on earth (next to humans?: nests: up to 8 million ants, queens: 15-20 years, multiple castes, permanent feature of neotropical landscape, above-ground 30-80 meters! Infrastructure development: roads, dams: forest fragmentation; climate change. Iceland has a lot of volcanic activity because there is a plate in the middle of it: north american. Laurasia; (cid:862)holarcti(cid:272) distri(cid:271)ution(cid:863) o(cid:271)ser(cid:448)ed today: gondwanan distribution, na & sa separated until very recently, gondwanan distribution, the way species were distributed when the continents were connected.
