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biogeography

thumb|350px|Book frontispiece|Frontispiece to [[Alfred Russel Wallace's book The Geographical Distribution of Animals]]

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Biogeography is the study of where different animals and plants are found around the world and why they live in those particular places. It matters because understanding these patterns helps us learn how species evolved, adapted to their environments, and spread across the globe over time.

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Introduction
History
18th century
19th century
20th and 21st century
Modern applications
Paleobiogeography
Concepts and fields
Comparative biogeography
Biogeographic units
See also
Notes and references
Further reading
External links

thumb|350px|Book frontispiece|Frontispiece to [[Alfred Russel Wallace's book The Geographical Distribution of Animals]]

Biogeography is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time. Organisms and biological communities often vary in a regular fashion along geographic gradients of latitude, elevation, isolation and habitat area. Phytogeography is the branch of biogeography that studies the distribution of plants, Zoogeography is the branch that studies distribution of animals, while Mycogeography is the branch that studies distribution of fungi, such as mushrooms.