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Biogeography is a biological and geographical science which deals with the study of the biosphere. In particular, it focuses on the causes and investigates the implications of the distribution of living organisms. Its scope of study is wide because it overlaps the boundaries of a multitude of disciplines such as geomorphology, climatology, geology, pedology, anthropology, botany and zoology. Much about the discipline is covered in non geographical an often biological sources. Unlike other branches of physical
geography, biogeography is little amenable to isolation and systematization.
In its early stages of development, biogeography developed primarily on taxonomic lines later supplemented with ecological and analytical lines. The taxonomic line of investigation was based on identifying and classifying plants and animals. Phytogeography received greater emphasis because of early explorations on floras from different parts of the world. In analyzing and explaining the geographical range of taxa, it became possible to deduce the origin, evolution and dispersal of world flora. Factors that determine floristic distribution such as time and place of origin of the taxa, present day kind of plate tectonics and environmental changes were established.
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