Panbiogeography: Tracking the History of LifeBiogeography 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. |
Contents
Panbiogeography and the Earth | |
Ecology History and the Panbiogeography of Africa | |
Panbiogeography Phylogenetic | |
Line Map and Matrix | |
Other editions - View all
Panbiogeography: Tracking the History of Life Robin C. Craw,John R. Grehan,Michael J. Heads Limited preview - 1999 |
Panbiogeography: Tracking the History of Life Robin C. Craw,John R. Grehan,Michael J. Heads No preview available - 1999 |
Common terms and phrases
Africa ancestral range angiosperm Atlantic Australian basins biodiversity biogeographic biology biota Botany boundaries butterflies Caribbean center of origin characters cladistic classification Coleoptera conservation correlated Craw Cretaceous Croizat Crustacea differentiation disjunct distribution areas distribution patterns diversity ecological endemic Eocene evolutionary fauna FIGURE freshwater Galapagos genera genetic genus geographic distribution geological global Gondwana graph Grehan habitats homology hybridization hypothesis Indian Ocean individual tracks insect islands Journal of Biogeography Journal of Zoology localities or distribution main massings marine means of dispersal Mesozoic method minimal spanning molecular molecular drive Morrone MYBP Nelson North Nothofagus Ocean baseline organisms Pacific panbiogeography phylogenetic phylogenetic relationships phylogeny Pleistocene population rainforest ratite regions represented reprinted with permission South America southern beeches spanning tree spatial speciation species standard tracks studies Systematic Zoology taxa taxon taxonomic tectonic terranes Tertiary tracks and nodes vertices vicariance biogeography vicariant formĀmaking western widespread Zealand