1. Class 14a: Biogeography

2. Biogeography What is the range of a species? Why does it have that range? So what?

3. Evolutionary development Darwin’s theory of natural selection

4. Migration or dispersal

5. Extinction Environment may change faster than evolution

6. Competition and cooperation

8. Plant basics

9. Plant adaptations Xerophytic adaptations: for dry conditions

10. Plant adaptations Hygrophytic adaptations: for wet conditions

11. Plant biogeography Succession and climax vegetation

12. Plant biogeography Forests: Woodlands: Shrublands: Grasslands:

13. Plant biogeography Deserts: Tundra: Wetlands: Vertical zonation:

14. Plant biogeography Microclimates Riparian

15. Animal basics What’s an animal?

16. Animal adaptations: physiology

17. Animal adaptations: behavior

18. Animal biogeography

19. Wallace Line Based on plate tectonics, ice ages Alfred Russel Wallace (1860s)