biogeography: Quick Facts

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World map using color coding to show the distribution of major floral kingdoms, subkingdoms, and regions. Key floral kingdoms include Boreal (green), Neotropical (pink), Paleotropical (yellow), South African or Capensic (purple), Australian (orange), and Antarctic (blue). Boundaries for subkingdoms, regions, and divisions are marked with different colored lines, and major regions such as Indoafrican, North American, and Malesian are labeled across continents.

World map showing major faunal regions as defined by mammalian distributions, with each region color-coded: Holarctic in green (including Nearctic and Palearctic), Afro-Tethyan in pink (including Mediterranean, Ethiopian, Oriental, and Madagascan), Latin American in tan (including Neotropical, Argentine, and West Indian), Island in yellow (including Australian and Madagascar). Major region boundaries are marked with bold lines.

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Key People

British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace

British naturalist

Brown, Robert

Robert Brown

Scottish botanist

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker

British botanist

Portrait of Friedrich Ratzel, German geographer, with a long white beard, mustache, and short hair, wearing a suit and looking to the side.

Friedrich Ratzel

German geographer

Forbes, Edward

Edward Forbes

British naturalist

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René Jeannel

French biologist

greylag. Flock of Greylag geese during their winter migration at Bosque del Apache National Refugee, New Mexico. greylag goose (Anser anser)

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