AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Biogeography. The study of the distribution of plant and animal life in the earth’s environment and of the biological and historical factors that produced this distribution.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ecology is the study of organisms and how they interact with the environment around them. An ecologist studies the relationship between living things and their habitats.

Detailed explanation-3: -biogeography, the study of the geographic distribution of plants, animals, and other forms of life. It is concerned not only with habitation patterns but also with the factors responsible for variations in distribution.

Detailed explanation-4: -Alfred Russel Wallace studied the distribution of flora and fauna in the Amazon Basin and the Malay Archipelago in the mid-19th century. His research was essential to the further development of biogeography, and he was later nicknamed the “father of Biogeography".

Detailed explanation-5: -Biogeography, the study of the geographical distribution of organisms, provides information about how and when species may have evolved. Fossils provide evidence of long-term evolutionary changes, documenting the past existence of species that are now extinct.