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Photograph: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS Just before Christmas, Science magazine published "an update of Wallace's zoogeographic regions of the world".

From The Guardian • Jan. 11, 2013

Whatever its ultimate specific affinities may be, S. p. interrupta clearly is a plains mammal, and thus is here considered in that zoogeographic unit.

From Mammals of Northwestern South Dakota by Andersen, Kenneth W.

The analysis below is concerned with breeding of many kinds of birds of an arbitrarily defined area and with the influence of certain ecologic and zoogeographic factors on the breeding seasons for those several species.

From The Breeding Birds of Kansas by Johnston, Richard F.

Once a fourth genus is recognized, certain phylogenetic problems disappear and a reasonable zoogeographic interpretation is possible for Middle American leptodactylid distribution.

From Genera of Leptodactylid Frogs in México by Lynch, John D.

The present work treats mainly certain temporal relationships of breeding birds in Kansas, but also geographic distribution, habitat preferences, and zoogeographic relationships to the extent necessary for a useful discussion of temporal breeding phenomena.

From The Breeding Birds of Kansas by Johnston, Richard F.