Sub-fields
Study of long term evolution and ecosystem change
What is Historical biogeography?
Biologist who proposed theory of evolution
Who is Charles Darwin?
All of Earth as one ecosystem
What is the biosphere?
Sub arctic, humid subtropical, and warm semi-arid are examples of this classification
What is Koppen climate type?
Study of the spatial distribution of organisms and identification of eco regions
What is regional biogeography?
Identified Isotherms and pioneered Phytogeography
Who is Alexander Von Humboldt?
The number of organisms that an ecosystem can support
What is carrying capacity?
Change in the characteristics of a biological population over successive generations.
What is evolution?
Study of interactions between organisms and their surroundings
What is ecology/ecological biodiversity?
First proposed theory of Continental Drift
Who was Alfred Wegener?
A system of interacting organisms
What is an ecosystem?
Theory where everything in the social and natural worlds exist in a network of constantly changing relationships that affect one another.
What is Actor Network Theory?
Competition, physical barriers, environmental conditions
What are limits to species distribution?
The study of the distribution and movement of organisms through time and space
What is biogeography?
Community of plants and animals that share common characteristics
What is a biome?
Elevational and climate gradients that drive ecological regions and the distribution of organisms.
What are isotherms?
Large macro regions comprising of several different ecosystems that are seperated by physical barriers to movement such as oceans and mountain ranges
What are biogeographic regions?
A loss of ~75% of species on Earth within a short geologic time
What is a mass extinction?
As distances between sites increase, environmental conditions and ecological communities become less similar.
What is distance decay?
The spatial extent of a biologic or geographic process and the extent (spatial or temporal) of inference in a study
What is scale?