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ANIMALS

Learning Objectives

 

You will ...      You will learn ... Experience how animals are distributed around the world Experience where the hotspots of biodiversity and endemism are (with special respect to mountain ranges)   About mechanisms that lead to high biodiversity and endemism Which processes in geological time influenced the present distribution of animals

You will understand ...      You will be able to ... The importance of mountains for biodiversity How species communities have developed in different mountains   Link palaentological processes with present distribution of fauna

 

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