Species geographic range limits
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 147 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5145-9337-8
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A geographic range limit or edge represents the line beyond which a species does not occupy. Core populations represent individuals who reside within the center of the range, and peripheral or edge populations represent individuals who reside at the boundary of the range. The inability of a species to expand their range is due to some factor that constrains them from continually adapting to overcome factors that impose limits on their distribution. In some cases, geographical ranges are entirely unsurprising, such as a physical barrier of an ocean for terrestrial species. In other cases, reasons why species do not pass these boundaries are unknown, however the main determinants of the distribution of a species across its range comes down to ecological and evolutionary processes. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в информационном сетевом ресурсе "Википедия" в...
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