land-bridge

This park is in a unique geographical position, as it forms a land-bridge between the Central and South American continents.

Darién National Park, Panama 2008

That much-vaunted "Eurasian land-bridge" between China and Europe took months of patient planning between different national companies.

All Tickets, Please 2008

During subsequent Pleistocene-period land-bridge connections, the intervening drier habitat prevented the exchange of wet forest-adapted species with the wet forests in India.

Sri Lanka montane rain forests 2008

And there was the land-bridge Lizbeth had created over the water.

GUARDIAN OF THE VEIL GREGORY SPENCER 2007

And it had to incorporate before-and-after surveys of the species that were resident on each fragment, not just guesswork about what species might have inhabited some land-bridge island before its isolation, back in the mists of the Pleistocene.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

Several predictions follow from the hypothesis that nature reserves are analogous to land-bridge islands.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

His working premise was that national parks are analogous to land-bridge islands.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

The pika and the bushytail woodrat and the northern water shrew found themselves stranded—just as the brown bandicoot and the wombat had been stranded, at about the same time, on those land-bridge islands between mainland Australia and Tasmania.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

Barro Colorado is a land-bridge island, like Tasmania and Bali, with one crucial difference: its age.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

The likely result of establishing those refuges, he warned, was the same as occurs on peninsular bits of landscape when they become isolated as land-bridge islands: Rare species suffer extinction and overall species diversity falls.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004