BIOL 2804 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Insular Biogeography, Binomial Nomenclature, Carl Linnaeus
29 Dec 2019
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Interpret graphical model: simberloff and wilson experiment, applications, define phylogeography and understand how it might be used to understand the origins and spread of species over time. Biogeography is the study of where species live. It examines distributions through geographic space and in geological time. Biome is a major ecological community spread over a wide geographic area, and characterized by certain types of flora and fauna, as determined by climate. Climate and soil determine the flora, which, in turn, largely determine what type of other organisms live in that biome. Other factors can also influence biome distribution: soils, topography, disturbance regime (fire, storms) Climatograms: simple visual of temperature and precipitation at a specific location. Latitude: in tropics: rainfall: <1500 mm, vegetation: can be grassland, scrub, scattered trees, or woodland, season: distinct wet/dry, soils: poor (lateralized) Latitude: mid-latitudes: rainfall: 200-850 mm, vegetation: grassland or shrub, rhizomes, season: cold winters, hot summers, fire adapted.
