biogeography
Life's spatial patterns
Biogeography is the study of how plant and animal species are distributed across the Earth and why they occur where they do.
The field examines how geography, climate, and geological history shape biodiversity patterns—why certain animals exist only on islands, why rainforests cluster near the equator, why Australia has marsupials but Africa doesn't.
The biogeography of the Galápagos influenced Darwin's thinking on evolution.
All life on Earth
- geospherePlanet's solid rocky component
- lithosphereCrust plus upper mantle
- hydrospherePlanet's total water mass
- atmosphereGaseous layer around planets
cryosphere · topography · geomorphology · climatology · oceanography · hydrology · glaciology · pedology
biosphere
All life on Earth
- geospherePlanet's solid rocky component
- lithosphereCrust plus upper mantle
- hydrospherePlanet's total water mass
atmosphere · cryosphere · topography · geomorphology · climatology · oceanography · hydrology · glaciology · pedology · physiography
- biologycells, DNA, cell, biology, gene
- sciencesbiology, chemistry, physics, astronomy, geology
- earth scienceatmosphere, earthquake, geology, volcano, crust
- geography topicsGIS, GPS, mapping, cartography, digital maps
- natural historynatural history, natural history museum, naturalist, naturalists, natural philosophers
- bio-biology, biography, biodegradable, biofuel, biochemistry
biogeographymolecular biology
Study of cellular machinery
biochemistry · taxonomy · cell biology · systematics · microbiology
biogeographycontrolled experiments
Tests isolating single variables