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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Crisci, Jorge Víctor
Otros Autores: Katinas, Liliana, Posadas, Paula
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.