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Wallace’s line

Biology

An imaginary line that runs between the Indonesian islands of Bali and Lombok and represents the separation of the Australian and Oriental faunas. It was proposed by A. R. Wallace, who had noted that the mammals in Southeast Asia are different from and more advanced than their Australian counterparts. He suggested this was because the Australian continent had split away from Asia before the better adapted placental mammals evolved in Asia. Hence the isolated Australian marsupials and monotremes were able to thrive while those in Asia were driven to extinction by competition from placental mammals. See also zoogeography.

Geology and Earth Sciences

An important zoogeographical division which separates the Oriental and Australian faunal realms. Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), a zoogeographer and contemporary of Charles Darwin, first demarcated the boundary, known to this day as ‘Wallace’s line’, between the Oriental faunal realm and the Australian, with its distinctive marsupials (Marsupialia). This boundary passes east of Java and Bali, northward through the Strait of Makassar (separating Borneo and Sulawesi), then extends eastward, south of Mindanao in the Philippines.

单词	Wallace’s line
释义	Wallace’s line Biology An imaginary line that runs between the Indonesian islands of Bali and Lombok and represents the separation of the Australian and Oriental faunas. It was proposed by A. R. Wallace, who had noted that the mammals in Southeast Asia are different from and more advanced than their Australian counterparts. He suggested this was because the Australian continent had split away from Asia before the better adapted placental mammals evolved in Asia. Hence the isolated Australian marsupials and monotremes were able to thrive while those in Asia were driven to extinction by competition from placental mammals. See also zoogeography. Geology and Earth Sciences An important zoogeographical division which separates the Oriental and Australian faunal realms. Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), a zoogeographer and contemporary of Charles Darwin, first demarcated the boundary, known to this day as ‘Wallace’s line’, between the Oriental faunal realm and the Australian, with its distinctive marsupials (Marsupialia). This boundary passes east of Java and Bali, northward through the Strait of Makassar (separating Borneo and Sulawesi), then extends eastward, south of Mindanao in the Philippines.
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