The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of Living and Extinct Faunas as Elucidating the Past Changes of the Earth's Surface, 1. köideHafner Publishing Company, 1962 |
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... MEANS OF DISPERSAL AND THE MIGRATIONS OF ANIMALS . Means of Dispersal of Mammalia ( p . 10 ) —Climate as a Limit to the Range of Mammals ( p . 11 ) —Valleys and Rivers as Barriers to Mammals ( p . 12 ) —Arms of the Sea as Barriers to ...
... MEANS OF DISPERSAL AND THE MIGRATIONS OF ANIMALS . Means of Dispersal of Mammalia ( p . 10 ) —Climate as a Limit to the Range of Mammals ( p . 11 ) —Valleys and Rivers as Barriers to Mammals ( p . 12 ) —Arms of the Sea as Barriers to ...
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... means of determining in any particular case in what direction the last extension of range occurred . For the purposes of the study of geographical distribution therefore , we must , except in special cases , consider the true range of a ...
... means of determining in any particular case in what direction the last extension of range occurred . For the purposes of the study of geographical distribution therefore , we must , except in special cases , consider the true range of a ...
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... means of occasionally passing the ocean which frogs and salamanders do not seem to possess . Means of Dispersal of Fishes . - The fact that the same species of freshwater fish often inhabit distinct river systems , proves that they have ...
... means of occasionally passing the ocean which frogs and salamanders do not seem to possess . Means of Dispersal of Fishes . - The fact that the same species of freshwater fish often inhabit distinct river systems , proves that they have ...
Contents
CHAPTER II | 10 |
Means of Dispersal of Mammalia p 10Climate as a Limit to the Range | 17 |
CHAPTER III | 35 |
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