Terrestrial Flora and Fauna

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Terrestrial Flora and Fauna

• Natural Distributions
• Terrestrial Flora
• Terrestrial Fauna
• Major Biomes
• Human Modification of Natural Distribution
  Patterns

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Natural Distributions

• Evolutionary Development
• Migration/Dispersal
• Reproductive Success
• Extinction

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Evolutionary Development
Figure 11-2
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Migration/DispersalExample Cattle Egrets
Figure 11-3(b)
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Cattle Egret Expansion
Figure 11-3(a)
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Migration/Dispersal
Example Coconut Palm
Figure 11-4
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Reproductive Success
Figure 11-5
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Terrestrial Flora

• Environmental Adaptations
• Competition
• Floristic Terminology
• Spatial Groupings of Plants

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Environmental Adaptations
Xerophytes
Figure 11-7
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Environmental AdaptationsHygrophytes
Figure 11-8
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Floristic Terminology
Figure 11-9
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Spatial Groupings of Plants

• Vegetation Associations
• Vertical Zonation
• Local Variations

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Vegetation Associations
Figure 11-10
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Vertical Zonation
Figure 11-13
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Local Conditions Sunlight
Figure 11-16
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Terrestrial Fauna

• Environmental Adaptations
• Competition
• Cooperation
• Kinds of Animals
• Zoogeographic Regions

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Environmental Adaptations
Figures 11-18(a) and (b)
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Cooperation Mutualism
Figure 11-20
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Relative Abundance of Animal Types
Figure 11-21
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Zoogeographic Regions
Figure 11-25
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Major Biomes

• Tropical Rain Forest
• Tropical Deciduous Forest
• Tropical Scrub
• Tropical Savanna
• Desert
• Mediterranean Woodland and Shrub
• Midlatitude Grassland
• Midlatitude Deciduous Forest
• Boreal Forest
• Tundra

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Major World Biomes
Figure 11-27
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Tropical Rain Forest Removal
Figure 11-C
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Central American Deforestation
Figure 11-B
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Mediterranean Wildfires
Figure 11-41
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Midlatitude Grassland
Figure 11-43
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Midlatitude Deciduous Forest
Figure 11-46
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Boreal Forest
Figure 11-48
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Human Modification of Natural Distribution
Patterns

• Removing Organisms
• Modifying Habitat
• Introducing Species to New Habitats

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