BIOL359 Chapter Notes - Chapter last chapter: Panthalassa, Plate Tectonics, Phylogeography

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!- the impacts of major geological events on a continental or marine biota (the total collection of. Biogeographic patterns (the geographic distribution of genetic lineages) result from two. Many sub-disciplines such as zoogeography (animal biogeography) and phytogeography organisms of a geographic region or a time period), phylogeography and latitudinal gradient! Biogeography; the science devoted to documenting spatial patterns of biodiversity, it is the study of the distributions of organisms (including species and higher level taxa such as genera and families) in both the past and present! (plant biogeography). As it raised, species such as shrimp diverged, those at deeper levels diverged earlier while those at shallow levels diverged more recently! Plate tectonics (alfred wegener), pangaea and panthalassa, pangaea broke up 180 million years ago, africa and south america separated around 125 million years ago. Consequence a, american interchange, animals were now free to migrate from sa to. The interchange however was one sided, mainly mammals from sa to na, mammals.

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