Dynamic BiogeographyBiogeography is an increasingly important area for ecology, dynamic biogeography being the study of biological patterns and processes on a broad scale both geographically and temporally. In this book, the spatial patterns and processes studied in dynamic biogeography are presented from an ecological perspective. Dynamic Biogeography opens with a survey of the different approaches encountered within the subject. The remainder of the book is arranged into four parts. The first is concerned with patterns of concordance; both quantitative and qualitative classifications are discussed. Geographical trends in species' diversity and biological traits are viewed, with Part 3 leading into areography or the analysis of species ranges. The book is drawn together by an overview of all the scales of variation and a glimpse into the future of biogeography. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Topics | 7 |
Patterns of concordance | 23 |
Qualitative and quantitative approaches | 25 |
Methodology of quantitative biogeographical classification | 32 |
Criticism of biogeographical classification | 54 |
Classification and ordination | 64 |
Summary of Part 1 | 78 |
Intraspecific trends | 116 |
Summary of Part 2 | 125 |
Areography the analysis of species ranges | 127 |
The anatomy of species ranges | 129 |
The dynamic structure of species ranges | 169 |
Population dynamic theories | 185 |
Summary of Part 3 | 194 |
Species ranges and patterns of concordance | 197 |
Geographical trends in species richness and biological traits | 81 |
Geographical trends in species richness | 83 |
Geographical trends in biological traits | 103 |
Discontinuous variation in space and time | 199 |
The future | 216 |
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