Historical biogeography : an introduction /
Annotation Though biogeography may be simply defined--the study of the geographic distributions of organisms--the subject itself is extraordinarily complex, involving a range of scientific disciplines and a bewildering diversity of approaches. For convenience, biogeographers have recognized two rese...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2003.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. Methods in historical biogeography
- Distribution areas and areas of endemism
- Center of origin and dispersal
- Phylogenetic biogeography
- Ancestral areas
- Panbiogeography
- Cladistic biogeography
- Parsimony analysis of endemicity
- Event-based methods
- Phylogeography
- Experimental biogeography
- A comparison of methods: The case of the southern beeches
- II. Topics in historical biogeography
- Molecular phylogenies in biogeography
- Biodiversity and conservation evaluations
- Species introduction
- Conclusion: A conceptual framework for the future.