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Littoral Biogeography

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Biogeography and Ecology in Tasmania

Part of the book series: Monographiae Biologicae ((MOBI,volume 25))

Abstract

Tasmania is a continental island lying at the south-eastern corner of the continent of Australia between 40 ° and 44 °S. The littoral, defined here as extending from the shore to about 200 metre depth, provides a band of marine habitats linked to the Australian continent by the shallow waters and islands of Bass Strait (Fig. 7.1).

‘Changes of level in the land must also have been highly influential; a narrow isthmus now separates two marine faunas; submerge it, or let it formerly have been submerged, and the two faunas will now blend together, or may formerly have blended.’ Charles Darwin (1859): The Origin of Species.

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Dartnall, A.J. (1974). Littoral Biogeography. In: Williams, W.D. (eds) Biogeography and Ecology in Tasmania. Monographiae Biologicae, vol 25. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2337-5_8

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