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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... climate and all physical features may yet have very distinct animal populations . The equatorial parts of Africa and South America , for example , are very similar in climate and are both covered with luxuriant forests , yet their ...
... climate and all physical features may yet have very distinct animal populations . The equatorial parts of Africa and South America , for example , are very similar in climate and are both covered with luxuriant forests , yet their ...
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... climate . The tiger is another animal with great powers of dispersal . It crosses rivers and sometimes even swims ... Climate as a Limit to the Range of Mammals . - Climate appears to limit the range of many animals , though there is ...
... climate . The tiger is another animal with great powers of dispersal . It crosses rivers and sometimes even swims ... Climate as a Limit to the Range of Mammals . - Climate appears to limit the range of many animals , though there is ...
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... climate is very dry and hot . The northern portion is entirely tropical , yet it nowhere presents the luxuriance of vegetation characteristic of the great island of New Guinea immediately to the north of it . Taken as a whole ...
... climate is very dry and hot . The northern portion is entirely tropical , yet it nowhere presents the luxuriance of vegetation characteristic of the great island of New Guinea immediately to the north of it . Taken as a whole ...
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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