After reading Chapter 11, you should be able to:
- Describe the key relationship between climate and vegetation distribution around the globe.
- Recognize the fundamental factors that determine the distributions of organisms—the location where an organism first evolves, the migration patterns of that organism, the opportunity for successful reproduction, and the reduction in the range of a species through the death of some (or all) of a population.
- Understand the importance of local variation on plant distribution.
- Name and describe the ten major biomes of the world discussed in the text.
- Describe the influence humans have on animal and plant distributions.
