Titlebook: Ecology and Biogeography of High Altitude Insects; M. S. Mani Book 1968 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1968 Arthropoda.biogeogr

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The Mountains of the South-Temperate, Austral and Antarctic Regions,at Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia are geographically closely related. Besides the Andes, we must also consider the area of the Mesetas to the east of the Andes. As the predominant winds are westerly, the rainfall and dense forests are concentrated on the Andes; the Mesetas and the plains are typical

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Introduction,thence upward, without a break, to almost within the shadow of some of the highest mountain summits in the world, it is not always easy to determine whether a given insect is a true high altitude species. The difficulty is in part also due to the vagueness of the expression “high altitude”.

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Mountains of the North Temperate Regions of the New World,the Western Highlands or the Cordilleran mountain system. The Appalachian Highlands and the Cordillera continue southward into the United States of America. In marked contrast to the great Alpine-Himalayan Mountain Systems, the North American mountains are mostly meridional in their general trend.

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malaya. I have since then had the opportunity of studying the collections of high altitude insects from the Alps, Carpathians, Caucasus, Urals, Alai-Pamirs, Tien Shan, Altai and other im- portant mountains of the world in different museums and institutions in Europe. Through the courtesy and generos

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Annalen der deutschen Literaturast Africa. Emphasis is laid on the fundamental differences between these mountains and other well known mountains like the Alps and the Himalaya Attention is also directed to the evident relation between the high altitude insect life and the Rift Valley System of Africa.