Transcript CHAPTER 13

Chapter 14
CHAPTER 14
ECOLOGICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY
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INTRODUCTION
• Definition of species
• Factors important in species distributions
– Climate
– Soils
– Fire
– Species interactions
• Range and vicariance
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CLIMATE AND SPECIES
DISTRIBUTIONS
• Equator–Pole gradients
• Temperature, precipitation and variability
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SOILS AND SPECIES
DISTRIBUTIONS
• Soil parent material
• Nutrient content and weathering
• Salinity
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FIRE IN AUSTRALIAN
VEGETATION
• Age of fire in Australia
• General patterns and evolution of the
vegetation
• Adaptations to fire
• Relationship between time since fire and
vegetation structure
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DISPERSAL
• Role in expanding territory
• Role in species survival in relation to
catastrophes
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FUNCTION, ADAPTATION AND
FORM
• Relationship of species form to
environment
• Biome
• Plant Functional Type
• Species distribution on environmental
gradients
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