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. köideHarper and brothers, 1876 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 54
Page xvii
... Limit to the Range of Mammals ( p . 11 ) --- Valleys and Rivers as Barriers to Mammals ( p . 12 ) -Arms of the Sea as Barriers to Mammals ( p . 13 ) -Ice - floes and drift - wood as aiding the Dispersal of Mammals ( p . 14 ) —Means of ...
... Limit to the Range of Mammals ( p . 11 ) --- Valleys and Rivers as Barriers to Mammals ( p . 12 ) -Arms of the Sea as Barriers to Mammals ( p . 13 ) -Ice - floes and drift - wood as aiding the Dispersal of Mammals ( p . 14 ) —Means of ...
Page 6
... limits of the great forests in most parts of the world strictly determine the ranges of many species . Naturalists have now arrived at the conclusion , that by some · slow process of development or transmutation , all animals 6 [ PART 1 ...
... limits of the great forests in most parts of the world strictly determine the ranges of many species . Naturalists have now arrived at the conclusion , that by some · slow process of development or transmutation , all animals 6 [ PART 1 ...
Page 8
... limit their range . We have then to consider the effects of changes in physical geography and in climate ; to examine the nature and extent of such changes as have been known to occur ; to determine what others are possible or probable ...
... limit their range . We have then to consider the effects of changes in physical geography and in climate ; to examine the nature and extent of such changes as have been known to occur ; to determine what others are possible or probable ...
Page 11
... limit to its powers of wandering , but the necessity of procuring food and its capacity of enduring changes of ... limits of the forest vegetation . The same may be said of the squirrels , the opossums , the arboreal cats , and the ...
... limit to its powers of wandering , but the necessity of procuring food and its capacity of enduring changes of ... limits of the forest vegetation . The same may be said of the squirrels , the opossums , the arboreal cats , and the ...
Page 12
... limits of the frozen ocean ; but as they live in confinement in temperate countries , their range is probably limited by other conditions than temperature . We must not therefore be too hasty in concluding , that animals which we now ...
... limits of the frozen ocean ; but as they live in confinement in temperate countries , their range is probably limited by other conditions than temperature . We must not therefore be too hasty in concluding , that animals which we now ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
absence abundant Abyssinia affinities Africa and Madagascar allied Amphibia animals antelopes Arctic Asia Austral Australia Australian region Austro-Malaya belong birds Borneo Burmah Carnivora Celebes Central Ceylon characteristic China climate Coleoptera confined Cosmopolite Cosmopolite Cosmopolite deposits distribution east Eastern Hemisphere Eocene epoch Ethiop Ethiopian Ethiopian region Europe European excl existing extend extinct fauna forests Formosa genera genus geographical globe groups Guinea Himalayas hyænas India Indo-Malay inhabit Insectivora insects Japan Java land land-birds large number less lizards Madagascar Malacca Malay Malaya Malayan mammalia migration Miocene Miocene period Moluccas mountains Nearctic Neotropical North northern occur ocean Oriental genus Oriental region Palearctic Palearctic genus Palearctic region peculiar forms peculiar genera peculiar genus peculiar species perhaps Pliocene possesses Post-Pliocene probably range recent regions but Australian remarkable represented reptiles rhinoceros South America southern sub-region Sumatra Tasmania temperate Tertiary Thibet Timor Tropical Africa tropical regions types whole region wholly Zealand zoological regions