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The Wallace line or Wallace's line is a faunal boundary line drawn in 1859 by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace and named by the English biologist T.H. Huxley. It separates the biogeographical realms of Asia and ' Wallacea ', a transitional zone between Asia and Australia formerly also called the Malay Archipelago and the Indo ...
Alfred Russel Wallace (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) was an English [1] [2] [3] naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator. [4] He independently conceived the theory of evolution through natural selection; his 1858 paper on the subject was published that year alongside extracts from Charles Darwin's earlier writings on the topic.
Wegener Woods is a 45.0-acre natural area located in Warren County in the U.S. state of Missouri. Minimally logged, [ 1 ] the natural area is an oak-hickory forest that possesses white oaks of more than 200 years in age, confirmed by dendrochronology . [ 2 ]
Zoogeography is the branch of the science of biogeography that is concerned with geographic distribution (present and past) of animal species. [ 1 ] As a multifaceted field of study, zoogeography incorporates methods of molecular biology, genetics, morphology, phylogenetics , and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to delineate evolutionary ...
The occurrence of the interchange was first discussed in 1876 by the "father of biogeography", Alfred Russel Wallace. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Wallace had spent five years exploring and collecting specimens in the Amazon basin .
President-elect Donald Trump plans to launch a mass deportation operation targeting millions of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally and with temporary protections once he takes office on Jan ...
In this June 28, 2017 file photo, a police officer stands outside the Riodoce office after the killing of the newspaper's co-founder Javier Valdez in Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico.
Biogeography is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time.Organisms and biological communities often vary in a regular fashion along geographic gradients of latitude, elevation, isolation and habitat area. [1]