Biogeography

Question 1

What is biogeography?

Answer 1

It attempts to explain why species are distributed as they are, and why the diversity and taxonomic composition of biota vary from one region to another.

Question 2

What does biogeography allow to understand?

Answer 2

• Community or species nice space

- Community or species response to habitat loss or environmental change

Question 3

What is everything is everywhere?

Answer 3

Homogenized communities, because microbes :

• Are small and easily transported
• Have the ability to form resistant physiological stage that allows them to survive in hostile environments
• Rapid growth rates, high taxon abundances, rapid evolutionary adaptation