biogeographic region

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Introduction
General features
- The concept of biogeography
  - History
  - Biotic distributions
  - Dispersalist and vicariance biogeography
  - Endemism
  - Components of species diversity: species richness and relative abundance
- Species adaptations to ecological habitats
- The effects of geologic changes on biotic distributions
The distribution boundaries of flora and fauna
- Flora
  - Boreal kingdom
    - Arctic and subarctic region
    - East Asian region
    - Western and Central Asian region
    - Mediterranean region
    - Eurosiberian region
    - North American region
  - Paleotropical kingdom
    - Malesian subkingdom
    - Indoafrican subkingdom
    - Polynesian subkingdom
  - Neotropical kingdom
  - South African kingdom
  - Australian kingdom
  - Antarctic kingdom
    - Subantarctic region
    - Antarctic region
- Fauna
  - Holarctic realm
  - Paleotropical realm
    - Afrotropical region
    - Madagascan region
    - Oriental region
    - Wallacea
  - Notogaean realm
    - Australian region
    - Oceanic region
    - New Zealand region
    - Hawaiian region
  - Neogaean realm
  - Antarctic realm

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Earth's floral regions

boundaries of the Malesian floral subkingdom

Earth's faunal regions

Indonesian faunal boundaries

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Earth's floral regions

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