Biogeography

Author(s)

• Brown, James H.
• Lomolino, Mark V.

Bibliographic Information

Biogeography

James H. Brown, Mark V. Lomolino

Sinauer Associates, c1998

2nd ed

Note

Colored map of the Antarctica on endpapers

Includes bibliographical references (p. 637-673) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Completely revised and updated, Biogeography, Second Edition , summarises the diverse approaches to the study of the distributions of living things. Starting from simple facts and principles, and assuming only minimal knowledge of biology, geography and earth history, the books explains the relationships between patterns of plant and animal distributions and the processes that have produced them.

Table of Contents

• The science of biogeography
• the history of the discipline
• the physical setting
• the distribution of single species
• the distribution of communities
• the changing Earth
• glaciation and biogeography of the pleistocene
• speciation and extinction
• dispersal
• endemism, provincialism, and disjunction
• the history of lineages
• the history of distributions
• island biogeography - patterns in species richness
• island biogeography - patterns in assembly and evolution of insular communities
• species diversity in continental and marine habitats
• areography and macroecology
• applied biogeography - biodiversity
• applied biogeography - single species
• biogeography for the 21st century.

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Details

• NCID: BA39750920
• ISBN:
  • 0878930736
• LCCN: 98020356
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Sunderland, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 691 p.
• Size: 29 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QH84
  • DC21 : 578/.09
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Biogeography