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Author(s)
Shen Qi1, Lu Jiqi2, You Zhixing3, Ren Yingdang4 and Shen Xiaocheng2, 4
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DOI:10.17265/2162-5298/2022.04.002
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1. First Clinical College, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450000, China
2. School of Life Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
3. Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
4. Institute of Plant Protection, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou 450002, China
ABSTRACT
The world animal geographical regionalization scheme and the plant geographical regionalization scheme have been formulated by zoologists and botanists respectively since the biogeography has been established. This research team initially confirmed the homogeneity of Chinese animal and plant geography. To explore the relationship between the distribution pattern of global animals, plants, and microorganisms, global 141,814 genera of terrestrial animals, 17,526 genera of plants, 21,321 genera of microorganisms, and their major taxa were analyzed using their proposed SGF (Similarity General Formula) and a new multivariate similarity clustering analysis method. Almost identical analytical results were obtained, meeting the requirements of statistics, geography, ecology and biology respectively. The expected consistency of their distribution pattern was achieved for the first time. We prove that the earth’s ecological conditions affect the homogeneity and accumulation of the distribution of animals, plants and microorganisms. Homogeneity determines the distribution pattern of global kinds of biological consistency, accumulation determines the impact of the evolutionary period on the breadth of distribution, microorganisms appear earliest, plants second, animals later, and their average distribution domain decreases in turn, reflecting these differences. Therefore, this study not only provides a theoretical basis and quantitative basis for the establishment of geographical regionalization scheme but also advances the development of biogeography to a new stage and raises the theory of biogeographic analysis to a new height.
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Distribution pattern, clustering analysis, terrestrial biology, homogeneity, geographical regionalization.
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