Biogeography in a changing world.0849380383 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. in a changing world. Ed. by Malte C. Ebach and Raymond S.Tangney. CRC (Cyclical Redundancy Checking) An error checking technique used to ensure the accuracy of transmitting digital data. The transmitted messages are divided into predetermined lengths which, used as dividends, are divided by a fixed divisor. / Taylor & Francis 2007 212 pages $89.95 Hardcover Systematics Association special volume; no.70 QH84 Practitioners and proponents of different methods in biogeography--the study of plant and animal distributions--discuss those methods in terms of the status and future of the discipline. Their topics include trees that bite and their geographical dimensions, biotic element analysis and vicariance vi·car·i·ance n. Biology The separation or division of a group of organisms by a geographic barrier, such as a mountain or a body of water, resulting in differentiation of the original group into new varieties or species. biogeography, the evolution of specific and genetic diversity during the ontogeny ontogeny: see biogenetic law. Ontogeny The developmental history of an organism from its origin to maturity. It starts with fertilization and ends with the attainment of an adult state, usually expressed in terms of both maximal body of island floras, and whether plate tectonic explanations for trans-Pacific disjunctions are plausible. Most of the eight studies are from an August 2005 conference in Cardiff, Wales. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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