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This book significantly expands the coverage of this subject given by its predecessor Biogeography and Plate Tectonics (1987). <IT>Global Biogeography</IT> traces global changes in geography and biology from the Precambrian to the Recent (with worldwide coverage in chronological order);...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Briggs, John C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Elsevier, 1995.
Colección:Developments in palaeontology and stratigraphy ; 14.
Temas:
Biogeography.
Paleobiogeography.
Biodiversity.
Biogéographie.
Paléobiogéographie.
Biodiversité.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biology.
Biodiversity
Biogeography
Paleobiogeography
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. History of the science
  • In the beginning
  • 19th century
  • 20th century
  • The advent of continental drift
  • The rise of vicarianism
  • The present work
  • PART A
  • HISTORICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY
  • Chapter 2. Precambrian and Early Paleozoic
  • Precambrian
  • Cambrian period
  • Ordovician period
  • End-Ordovician extinction
  • Summary
  • Chapter 3. Later Paleozoic
  • Silurian
  • Devonian
  • Frasnian extinction
  • Carboniferous-Permian
  • End-Permian extinction
  • Summary
  • Chapter 4. Early Mesozoic
  • Triassic
  • Jurassic
  • Summary
  • Chapter 5. Late Mesozoic
  • Cretaceous
  • Marine patterns
  • Terrestrial patterns
  • Cretaceous extinctions
  • Summary
  • Chapter 6. Paleogene
  • Paleocene
  • Eocene
  • Oligocene
  • Summary
  • Chapter 7. Neogene
  • Miocene
  • Pliocene
  • Pleistocene
  • Summary
  • Chapter 8. Historic extinctions
  • Historical development
  • Tempo of the extinctions
  • Scope of the extinctions
  • Effects on global species diversity
  • A common cause?
  • Biogeography and evolution
  • Conclusions
  • PART B
  • CONTEMPORARY BIOGEOGRAPHY
  • Chapter 9. Marine patterns, Part I
  • Latitudinal zones
  • Indo-West Pacific region
  • The East Indies: a center of origin?
  • Modes of speciation
  • Indo-West Pacific subdivisions
  • Eastern Pacific region
  • Western Atlantic region
  • Eastern Atlantic region
  • Relationships of the tropical shelf regions
  • Latitudinal barriers
  • Summary
  • Chapter 10. Marine patterns, Part 2
  • Warm-temperate regions
  • Cold-temperate regions
  • The cold (polar) regions
  • The Pelagic realm
  • Deep Benthic realm
  • Summary
  • Chapter 11. Terrestrial patterns
  • Introduction
  • Animals
  • Plants
  • Summary
  • Chapter 12. Significant patterns
  • Antitropical distributions
  • Marine environment
  • Terrestrial environment
  • Discussion
  • Island life
  • Summary
  • Chapter 13. Species diversity: land and sea
  • Global diversity
  • Latitudinal gradients
  • Vertical gradients
  • Longitudinal gradients
  • Diversity and conservation
  • Summary
  • Chapter 14. Epilogue
  • References
  • Appendix: Biogeographer's maps
  • Subject Index
  • Geologic Time Scale
  • Last Page.

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