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  2. Zoogeography - Wikipedia

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    Palearctic Region: Eurasia above the tropics, with the northern corner of Africa; 4. Nearctic Region: North America, excepting the tropical part of Mexico; Realm Neogea 5. Neotropical Region: South and Central America with the tropical part of Mexico; Realm Notogea 6. Australian Region: Australia, with New Guinea, etc. Second scheme: Climate ...

  3. List of biogeographic provinces - Wikipedia

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    This page features a list of biogeographic provinces that were developed by Miklos Udvardy in 1975, [1] [2] later modified by other authors. [according to whom?] Biogeographic Province is a biotic subdivision of biogeographic realms subdivided into ecoregions, which are classified based on their biomes or habitat types and, on this page, correspond to the floristic kingdoms of botany.

  4. Nearctic realm - Wikipedia

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    The Western North America bioregion includes the temperate coniferous forests of the coastal and mountain regions of southern Alaska, western Canada, and the western United States from the Pacific Coast and Northern California to the Rocky Mountains (known as the Cascadian bioregion), as well as the cold-winter intermountain deserts and xeric ...

  5. Biogeographic realm - Wikipedia

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    Biogeographic realms correspond to the floristic kingdoms of botany or zoogeographic regions of zoology. From 1872, Alfred Russel Wallace developed a system of zoogeographic regions, extending the ornithologist Philip Sclater's system of six regions. [1] Biogeographic realms are characterized by the evolutionary history of the organisms they ...

  6. Holarctic realm - Wikipedia

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    Zygiella x-notata is a species of orb-weaving spider with a Holarctic distribution, mostly inhabiting urban and suburban regions of Europe and parts of North America. Hemerobius humulinus is a species of brown lacewing in the family Hemerobiidae. It is found in Europe and Northern Asia (excluding China), North America, and Southern Asia. [2]

  7. Lists of ecoregions - Wikipedia

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    List of ecoregions in North America (CEC) List of ecoregions in the United States (EPA) Ecoregions of the world defined by the conservation group World Wildlife Fund (WWF) : Global 200 ecoregions (WWF), 238 single or combined ecoregions identified by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) as priorities for conservation.

  8. Great American Interchange - Wikipedia

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    The Great American Biotic Interchange (commonly abbreviated as GABI), also known as the Great American Interchange and the Great American Faunal Interchange, was an important late Cenozoic paleozoogeographic biotic interchange event in which land and freshwater fauna migrated from North America to South America via Central America and vice ...

  9. List of ecoregions in North America (CEC) - Wikipedia

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    The classification system has four levels. Only the first three levels are shown on this list. "Level I" divides North America into 15 broad ecoregions. "Level II" subdivides the continent into 52 smaller ecoregions. "Level III" subdivides those regions again into 182 ecoregions. [1] [2] "Level IV" is a further subdivision of Level III ...