Author: Léon CroizatPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biogeography
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
Book Description
Panbiogeography: The New World
Author: Léon CroizatPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biogeography
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
Book Description
Panbiogeography: The New World
Author: Léon CroizatPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biogeography
Languages : en
Pages : 1076
Book Description
Panbiogeography
Author: Leon CroizatPanbiogeography
Author: Robin C. CrawPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019028188X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Biogeography is a diverse subject, traditionally focusing on the distribution of plants and animals at different taxonomic levels, past and present. Modern biogeography also puts emphasis on the ecological character of the world vegetation types, and on the evolving relationship between humans and their environment. Panbiogeography describes a new synthesis of sciences of plant and animal distribution. The book emphasizes that the geographical patterns of animal and plant distribution contribute directly to the understanding and interpretation of evolutionary history. Geographic location is reintroduced as a critical element of both biogeography and evolutionary biology. The authors present chapters exploring the roles of geology, ecology, evolution in panbiogeographic theory, and introduce new methods, modes of classification, and ways of measuring biodiversity.
Molecular Panbiogeography of the Tropics
Author: Michael HeadsPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520951808
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
Molecular studies reveal highly ordered geographic patterns in plant and animal distributions. The tropics illustrate these patterns of community immobilism leading to allopatric differentiation, as well as other patterns of mobilism, range expansion, and overlap of taxa. Integrating Earth history and biogeography, Molecular Panbiogeography of the Tropics is an alternative view of distributional history in which groups are older than suggested by fossils and fossil-calibrated molecular clocks. The author discusses possible causes for the endemism of high-level taxa in tropical America and Madagascar, and overlapping clades in South America, Africa, and Asia. The book concludes with a critique of adaptation by selection, founded on biogeography and recent work in genetics.
Panbiogeography, Or, An Introductory Synthesis of Zoogeography, Phytogeography, and Geology: The New World
Author: León CroizatPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biogeography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Panbiogeography
Author: Robin C. CrawPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195360691
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Biogeography is a diverse subject, traditionally focusing on the distribution of plants and animals at different taxonomic levels, past and present. Modern biogeography also puts emphasis on the ecological character of the world vegetation types, and on the evolving relationship between humans and their environment. Panbiogeography describes a new synthesis of sciences of plant and animal distribution. The book emphasizes that the geographical patterns of animal and plant distribution contribute directly to the understanding and interpretation of evolutionary history. Geographic location is reintroduced as a critical element of both biogeography and evolutionary biology. The authors present chapters exploring the roles of geology, ecology, evolution in panbiogeographic theory, and introduce new methods, modes of classification, and ways of measuring biodiversity.
Panbiogeography Or an Íntroductory Synthesis of Zoogeography, Phytogeography and Geology
Author: Léon CroizatPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biogeography
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
Comparative Biogeography
Author: Lynne ParentiPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520944399
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
To unravel the complex shared history of the Earth and its life forms, biogeographers analyze patterns of biodiversity, species distribution, and geological history. So far, the field of biogeography has been fragmented into divergent systematic and evolutionary approaches, with no overarching or unifying research theme or method. In this text, Lynne Parenti and Malte Ebach address this discord and outline comparative tools to unify biogeography. Rooted in phylogenetic systematics, this comparative biogeographic approach offers a comprehensive empirical framework for discovering and deciphering the patterns and processes of the distribution of life on Earth. The authors cover biogeography from its fundamental ideas to the most effective ways to implement them. Real-life examples illustrate concepts and problems, including the first comparative biogeographical analysis of the Indo-West Pacific, an introduction to biogeographical concepts rooted in the earth sciences, and the integration of phylogeny, evolution and earth history.
New World Tarantulas
Author: Fernando Pérez-MilesPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030486443
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
The Theraphosidae are the most famous and diverse mygalomorph spiders, and include some of the largest arachnids on earth. Their unique defense mechanisms, predatory tactics, reproductive strategies and ecological adaptations are displayed by a wide range of terrestrial, burrowing and arboreal species. These arachnids are familiar to the general public thanks to horror movies and a growing interest in tarantulas as pets; however, scientific information on the group is scattered throughout the literature and not easily available. This book reviews all major aspects of New World Theraphosid tarantulas and provides in-depth information on their evolution, taxonomy, behavior, physiology, ecology, reproduction, conservation and biogeography. As a comprehensive guide to the biology of tarantulas, it will appeal to researchers, students and terrarium hobbyists alike.