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Wallacea Biodiversity Hotspot

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World Atlas

Publication Date
2021-06-01

The world can be divided many different ways, including dispersion of species, which is the distribution of organisms over time within certain areas of the Earth. A contributor to the study of dispersion, Alfred Russel Wallace, suggested that the line running specifically between Bali and Lumbok, Borneo and Celebes, and between the Philippines, Sangi and Talaud, separates the fauna on the both sides of that line.

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https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/wallacea-biodiversity-hotspot.html