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These two factors, latitude and age, are two of several hypotheses biogeographers have suggested to explain biodiversity patterns on Earth.

From Textbooks • Sep. 6, 2018

The work of biogeographers is critical to understanding our physical environment, how the environment affects species, and how changes in environment impact the distribution of a species.

From Textbooks • Sep. 6, 2018

The movement of organisms around such habitats generates genetic connections between regions that have long been appreciated by biogeographers and geneticists.

From Nature • Jul. 10, 2018

The work of biogeographers is critical to understanding our physical environment, how the environment affects species, and how environmental changes impact the distribution of a species; it has also been critical to developing evolutionary theory.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

In short, before they became linked as the independent discoverers of natural selection, Darwin and Wallace had already become the first modern historical biogeographers.

From Salon • Jan. 12, 2014