Slide Set 1

Question 1

what is biogeography?

Answer 1

the study of distribution of biodiversity over space and time

Question 2

what is the difference between historical and ecological biogeography?

Answer 2

ecological is present day and a smaller timescale

Question 3

what are some methods that biogeographers partake in?

Answer 3

field based research, ecophysiology, molecular methods, dendreocology

Question 4

plate tectonics are?

Answer 4

the rearranging of the planets major land masses on tectonic plates

Question 5

what are 3 ways the earth has not been static?

Answer 5

• climate has changed
• snowball earth hypotheses
• Cambrian explosion

Question 6

the Cambrian explosion forms a link to O2 levels and availability of _________

Answer 6

phosphorus

Question 7

what is needed for complex animal life?

Answer 7

cells must be differentiated and specialized

Question 8

what did carolus linnaeus do?

Answer 8

developed a scheme for the classification of all life

Question 9

what were linnaeus ideas about biogeography?

Answer 9

life originated on slopes of a paradisical mountain were adapted to a particular habitat, then they dispersed to occupy the various habitats of the globe

Question 10

what did Georges louis Leclerc do?

Answer 10

studied living and fossil mammals, hypothesized that life originates in region of northwestern europe during earlier times then migrated into the new world and southern hemisphere

Question 11

what is the main comparison between linnaeus and buffon?

Answer 11

linnaeus believed organisms spread from mount arat or another low altitude mountain following the great flood and buffon thought life originated in northern europe and spread southward and to the new world

Question 12

what is Buffons law?

Answer 12

states that environmentally similar but isolated regions have distinct assemblages of mammals and birds

Question 13

what did sir joseph banks do?

Answer 13

collected plant species on voyage around the world with captain james cook, affirmed and generalized buffons law

Question 14

what did Johann reinhold foster do?

Answer 14

circumnavigated the globe with cook, developed systematic description of worlds biotic regions, noticed plant diversity decreased by equator and poles

Question 15

what did karl ludwig willdenow do?

Answer 15

german botanist who described floristic provinces of europe, suggested many sites origin, had a student alexander von humbolt

Question 16

who is viewed as the father of phytogeography?

Answer 16

alexander van humboldt, concluded that within regions, plants were distributed in floristic belts ranging up sides of tropical mountains

Question 17

Who is adolphe Brongniart?

Answer 17

paleobotanist of the 19th century, used fossil record to inference about ancient climates, found tropical fossils in temperate areas, concluded earths surface has been altered by uplift and erosion of mountains

Question 18

who is the father of geology?

what did he do?

Answer 18

charles lyell,developed the theory of uniformitarianism

Question 19

long distance dispersal was explained by _________

Answer 19

darwin

Question 20

the view of dispersalists where challenged by ________

Answer 20

extensionists

Question 21

who is the most significant figure in the history of biogeography ?

Answer 21

alfred russel Wallace, father of biogeography

Question 22

what was one of wallaces main and early contributions?

Answer 22

recognition of a distinct break in the faunal compositions between the island of bali and lombok in the east indies known as wallaces line

Question 23

who is lucy evelyn cheesman?

Answer 23

english entomologist , 8 solo expeditions in south pacific