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Biogeography; an ecological and evolutionary approach, 7th ed.


QH84

2004-009770

1-4051-1898-9

Biogeography Biogeography

A synthetic discipline that describes the distributions of living and fossil species of plants and animals across the Earth's surface as consequences of ecological and evolutionary processes.
; an ecological and evolutionary approach In computer science, an evolutionary approach is an acquisition strategy that defines, develops, produces or acquires, and fields an initial hardware or software increment (or block) of operational capability. , 7th ed.

Cox, C. Barry and Peter D. Moore.

Blackwell Publishing, [c]2005

428 p.

$79.95

Developed at the King's College King's College, former name of Columbia Univ.  of London, this text book describes the geographical patterns of biodiversity and species distribution, illuminates the processes of evolution, traces the spread of mammals and flowering plants plants which have stamens and pistils, and produce true seeds; phenogamous plants; - distinguished from flowerless plants.

See also: Flowering
 over time, and introduces the different techniques used to understand historical biogeography. The seventh edition adds an opening chapter on the history of biogeography.
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