biogeography
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Biogeography is the study of where different animals and plants are found around the world and why they live in those particular places. It matters because understanding these patterns helps us learn how species evolved, adapted to their environments, and spread across the globe over time.
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14 sectionsContents
- Introduction
- History
- 18th century
- 19th century
- 20th and 21st century
- Modern applications
- Paleobiogeography
- Concepts and fields
- Comparative biogeography
- Biogeographic units
- See also
- Notes and references
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|350px|Book frontispiece|Frontispiece to [[Alfred Russel Wallace's book The Geographical Distribution of Animals]]
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. Phytogeography is the branch of biogeography that studies the distribution of plants, Zoogeography is the branch that studies distribution of animals, while Mycogeography is the branch that studies distribution of fungi, such as mushrooms.