You might think of ants as being everywhere all the time, but it turns out they live in nine distinct areas of the planet. For the first time, researchers have mapped the "biogeographic realms" where ...

This new global map shows the division of nature into 11 large biogeographic realms and shows how these areas relate to each other. University of Copenhagen Alfred Russel Wallace was one of the 19th ...

Wallace’s original map published in 1876, denoting six biogeographical realms. A recent study in Science extends Wallace’s findings, creating eleven realms (see below). Click to enlarge. In 1876, ...

The distribution of species around the globe is not a random process but an outcome resulting from several evolutionary mechanisms as well as past and current environmental limitations. As a result, ...

Marine scientists have formed a data repository for information about marine life around the world called OBIS (Ocean Biogeographic Information System). In order to help people better visualize the ...

The distribution of species around the globe is not a random process but an outcome resulting from several evolutionary mechanisms as well as past and current environmental limitations. As a result, ...