BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REALMS/WALLACE LINE Flashcards
Biogeography: Philippines is a melting pot of wildlife species neighboring faunal regions with mixtures of different elements brought by _____, _____, and _____
-Land Bridges
-Natural Migration
-Human Intervention
Philippines is melting pot of realms namely _____, ______ and _____
-Indomalayan
-Papua Australian
-Paleartic Mainland
Indochina to Peninsular Malaysia and Southeast Asia-
INDOMALAYAN
Sulawesi, New Guinea to Australia
PAPUA AUSTRALIAN
Europe, Russia to North Asia
PALEARTIC MAINLAND
-the broadest biogeographic division of Earth’s land surface, based on distributional patterns of terrestrial organisms.
- area of animal and plant distribution having similar or shared characteristics throughout.
biogeographic realm
-includes the main landmass of Antarctica and several small islands off its shores. It is by far one of the most unique.
-Smallest
Antarctic Realm
-located in the Pacific Ocean, in a region referred to as Asia Pacific. It is comprised of a number of islands, including: the US state of Hawaii, a part of Japan, the Juan Fernandez Islands, the Cocos Islands, and the Campbell islands (to name a few).
-Second Smallest
Oceania
-stretches across the southern reaches of East Asia, the greater part of South Asia, and the area known as Southeast Asia
Indo-Malayan
-includes New Guinea, New Zealand, Tasmania, Australia, and the eastern region of the Indonesian archipelago
-considered the most environmentally diverse country within this realm as it is made up of desert, rainforest, grasslands, and mountains.
Australasian
includes all of South America, Central America, the Caribbean, the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, the southern region of the US state of Florida, and a small part of the southern tip of the US state of Texas
Neotropical
covers a total area of 8.5 million square miles and is made up of southwestern Pakistan, southern Iran, the southern regions of the Arabian Peninsula, the area south of the Sahara Desert in Africa, the island of Madagascar, and the islands in the western part of the Indian Ocean
Afrotropical
-encompasses the US (including most of Texas and northern Florida), Canada, Greenland, and the highland regions of Mexico. This realm is further divided into 4 ecological regions including: eastern, western, southwestern (which includes the northern part of Mexico), and the Canadian Shield.
-Second Largest
Neartic
-It is made up of the area north of the Saharan Desert in Africa, the area north of the Himalayan Mountains in Asia, the northern region of the Arabian Peninsula, and the entire area of Europe. It is further divided into 7 ecoregions, which contain boreal forests, Mediterranean climates, coastal deserts, river basins, and mountainous terrain
-Largest
Paleartic
