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41. Biogeographical Evolution of the Malay Archipelago (Oxford Monographs on Biogeography) | |
Hardcover: 160
Pages
(1987-12-03)
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42. Biogeography by E. C. Pielou | |
Hardcover: 351
Pages
(1992-07)
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43. Ecological Biogeography of Australia: 3 volumes (Monographiae Biologicae) | |
Hardcover: 2182
Pages
(1981-03-31)
list price: US$1,602.50 Isbn: 9061930928 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
44. Biogeography, (Aspect geographies) by H Robinson | |
Hardcover: 541
Pages
(1972)
Isbn: 0712102191 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
45. Biogeography by J. A. Taylor | |
Hardcover: 432
Pages
(1984-06)
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46. Biogeography (Environmental Research Advances) | |
Hardcover: 253
Pages
(2010-04-30)
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47. The Secular Ark: Studies in the History of Biogeography by Janet Browne | |
Hardcover: 276
Pages
(1983-09-10)
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48. Corals in Space and Time: The Biogeography and Evolution of the Scleractinia (Comstock Book) by J. E. N. Veron | |
Paperback: 321
Pages
(1995-05)
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Coral Evolution
An Evoltionary History of the Corals With this caution in mind, Veron thentakes the problem of coral evolution head-on.The book is filled withthorough but easy to understand figures which indicate past changes in sealevel, different current patters, phylogenetic trees, etc; all the factorswhich contribute to evolution and speciation.These factors are allresponsible for the biogeography of the different corals, which furthercontributes to allopatric speciation. Lastly, Veron argues that coralsare an excellent model to study evolution within a species context.Heargues that in an evolutionary context, there are really no such thing as"species" (in the traditional sense).He supports this argumentwith convincing evidence from the Scleractinia. This is a fabulous bookfor anyone (of all levels of experience) with an interest in corals, marinebiology, biogeography or evolution. ... Read more |
49. The Biogeography of Host-Parasite Interactions by Serge Morand, Boris R. Krasnov | |
Paperback: 288
Pages
(2010-09-01)
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50. Histories of Maize: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Prehistory, Linguistics, Biogeography, Domestication, and Evolution of Maize | |
Hardcover: 704
Pages
(2006-05-16)
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thorough coverage
The Origin, Diffusion, and Cultural History of Corn |
51. Palaeozoic Vertebrate Biostratigraphy and Biogeography by John A. Long | |
Paperback: 384
Pages
(1994-02-01)
list price: US$42.50 Isbn: 0801847796 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description "In the last twenty years or so there has been an upsurge in the study of Palaeozoic fishes for solving geological problems, both in areas of biostratigraphy and biogeography. This has resulted in an explosion of data, much of it so new that it will take years for all the recent discoveries to be published. This book has resulted to fill the need to provide up-to-date summaries of global work in progress showing the application of both macroscopic and microscopic remains of Palaeozoic vertebrates to geological correlations, and to refinement of global palaeogeographic reconstructions."--from the Preface. This book offers the first detailed treatment of palaeozoic vertebrates for use in correlations and in biogeographic studies. With thirteen chapters of systematic analysis of biostratigraphic and biogeographic data, it includes invaluable summaries of current research as well as new and significant contributions to the fields of geology and evolutionary biology. With charts and figures that show many of the important fossils discussed in the text, as well as stratigraphic, location, and taxonomic indexes, the book will interest palaeontologists, stratigraphers, and other earth scientists concerned with the early history of life on earth. |
52. Australian Rainforests (Oxford Biogeography Series) by Paul Adam | |
Paperback: 328
Pages
(1994-11-24)
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An excellent book |
53. The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions by David Quammen | |
Hardcover: 702
Pages
(1996-08-15)
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54. Island Biogeography in the Sea of Cortez | |
Hardcover: 690
Pages
(2002-11-21)
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55. Biogeography and Ecology of the Rain Forests of Eastern Africa | |
Paperback: 352
Pages
(2008-07-31)
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56. The Biogeography of the Island Region of Western Lake Erie | |
Hardcover: 368
Pages
(1988-08)
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57. Cladistic Biogeography: Interpreting Patterns of Plant and Animal Distributions (Oxford Biogeography Series) by Christopher J. Humphries, Lynne R. Parenti | |
Hardcover: 200
Pages
(1999-07-08)
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Cladistic Biogeography / Why the Controversy? The mainthesis of cladistic biogeography is perhaps best described with an example. Imagine that several different species (involving plants, fish, insects,and animals) are restricted to two particular areas in South America thatare separated by the Andes mountains.According to cladistic biogeography(or at least according to Parenti's and Humphries' view of it), the mostreasonable conclusion is that these trans-Andes species are older than theAndes--and that the formation of the Andes separated them.This seems amore rational explanation for the pattern than the idea that each speciesevolved on one side of the Andes chain--and then each species managed tocross the Andes via various hypothetical, species-dependent methods ofdispersal. In general, the fundamental theory of cladisticbiogeography can be stated as follows:If many different species arerestricted to the same geologically separated areas (divided, for example,by oceans or mountains) then a single, general cause (e.g., a geologicalevent) is a more preferable explanation for this pattern than a series ofunfalsifiable theories of dispersal across the geological divide, with eachdispersal theory designed for each organism.Despite the seemingobviousness of this argument, many geologists, ecologists, and otherscientists are extremely critical of such biogeographical analyses becauseit often conflicts with current geological theories. Perhaps, thisexplains the somewhat reaching criticism of Amazon-customer critic, MatthewL. Forister, who not only panned the book, "CladisticBiogeography" but the entire science itself.(Forister also wrote anegative review of "Panbiogeography : Tracking the History ofLife--Oxford Biogeography Series No 11"by Grehan, Heads, and Craw.) In his review of the Parenti and Humphries book, Forister dismissescladistic biogeography because of its insufficiency when applied to thegeographic distribution of his cousins throughout the United States. According to Forister, this would lead cladistic biogeographers to concludethat the extended Forister family "were split by the uplift of theRockies and further rifted by the opening of the Grand Canyon." Obviously, Parenti and Humphries do not extend their arguments to familiesof humans who have access to modern transportation.And so Forister'scriticism overlooks the elemental fact that the plants, worms, frogs,snakes, trees, fresh-water fish and other organisms that are the realsubject of "Cladistic Biogeography" have a difficult time bookingflights across mountains and are notoriously bad drivers. As Parentiand Humphries point out, this is not the first time that biogeographicalevidence conflicted with contemporary geological theory.In the early partof the 20th century, much of the evidence that Alfred Wegener used tosupport the theory of continental drift was biogeographical. Trans-Atlantic biogeographical patterns (as well as certain geologicalfactors) suggested to Wegener that South America was at one time attachedto Africa, while North America was connected to Europe.Geologists andothers maintained that continents were always fixed and explained thesepatterns via various dispersal hypotheses for all of the species found onboth sides of the Atlantic.These dispersal hypotheses involvedcross-ocean land bridges, long-distance island hopping schemes, hitchingrides on flotsam, etc.Wegener's hypothesis has now become theconventional view.So, in this instance at least, the seminal principle ofcladistic biogeography was validated while all the seemingly fantasticmethods of dispersal across the Atlantic have been rejected. Interestingly, a more significant biogeographical pattern can be foundacross the Pacific.Cladistic biogeography suggests that some sort ofgeneral geological explanation for the distributions, like a pastAsian/American and Australian/South-American juxtaposition, is required. Today this view is largely ignored by people who are notbiogeographers--and, once again, popular explanations of the trans-Pacificpatterns encompass a group of independent dispersal hypotheses that includecross-ocean land bridges, long-distance island hopping schemes, thehitching of rides on flotsam, etc. "Cladistic Biogeography"is a great step forward in trying to make sense of all the biogeographicdata available to us today.It is an effort toward the development ofrational, general principles for analyzing the geographic distribution ofspecies, which hopefully will help geologists, ecologists, and biologistsavoid the same mistakes that their counterparts made in the not-too-distantpast regarding the very same subject. --Dennis McCarthy
The Peculiar Science of Cladistic Biogeography Then (and this is theraison d'être of the book in question), a collection of these areacladograms could be compared, and a kind of compromise cladogram would bederived which represented the common features of all the family histories. To do this right, some math and computer programs could be used, asdescribed by the authors of Cladistic Biogeography; for now, however, letus focus on the consequences of our cladograming, and not be distracted bythe glamor of the process.So what can we say about our compromise tree? For a moment suppose the best of all worlds: a clear pattern arises, withvarious people, dogs, and starlings showing ancestral groups in Wyoming andArizona, and sister groups in various other western states.With a littlecommon sense, we might say that our Homo sapiensreflect a history ofwestward movement and that the dogs and house sparrows moved from Wyomingto the other states with the humans (we probably had to throw out a coupleof native American cladograms that would have confused the obvious"signal").But wait!Parenti and Humphries tell us thatdispersal is not an explanation for biogeographical patterns.Since anyspecies can disperse according to its own unknowable caprice, we had betterassume that the distributions of all organisms are crafted by the sameprocesses.In our case, humans and dogs and starlings might have beenwidespread across the west in large populations that were split by theuplift of the Rockies and further rifted by the opening of the GrandCanyon. The case is not closed, however.According to CladisticBiogeography, geology can only "illuminate" the patterns derivedfrom area cladograms, but can never test them. Without confirmation fromother sciences, we can only gain confidence in out pattern by throwing inmore and more cladograms from diverse groups-the more agreement we find,the more assuredly we may speak of the history of the "biotas" ofWyoming, Arizona, and the other western states.Within this seeminglyscientific iteration lies the fatal flaw of cladistic biogeography aspresented by Parenti and Humphries.I described an oversimplification ofthe process of arriving at a compromise cladogram.In the analyses done inCladistic Biogeography, all possible combinations of areas are consideredfor each organism, a process which can produce hundreds of trees.However,if one of the organisms in question, through a peculiarity of its history,presents only one possible cladogram, that organism will dictate the entireanalysis.The possible trees for each organism are then searched forpatterns that do not disagree with that one peculiar cladogram.How do weknow that one organism it not a fluke, some kind of historical freakunrelated to all other members of the"biota"?We do not knowany such thing.In fact, Parenti and Humphries forbid us from knowing anyspecific natural history, for, they say, such biological questions as ageof arrival or dispersal ability are precisely what area cladograms aredesigned to test! In the author's defense, it is possible that theirmethod could generate one area cladogram that could then be confirmed bypatterns from many other organisms.For example, they work their magic ona collection of distributions from the Atlantic and Mediterranean, andconclude that the Mediterranean biota is more closely related to farnorthern biotas than to mid-latitude Atlantic or Caribbean groups oforganisms.However, I remain unconvinced that another method of patterngeneration (perhaps even a random method) might not have produced an areacladogram that could have been similarly confirmed by dozens of differentexamples from the same waters.Simply put, the biodiversity is immense,and even the devil can quote scripture for his own ends. ... Read more |
58. African Biogeography, Climate Change, and Human Evolution (The Human Evolution Series) | |
Hardcover: 496
Pages
(1999-12-30)
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59. Birds of the Salton Sea: Status, Biogeography, and Ecology by Michael A. Patten, Guy McCaskie, Philip Unitt | |
Hardcover: 374
Pages
(2003-08-19)
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Editorial Review Product Description Synthesizing data from many sources, including observations from their long-term work in the area, the authors' species accounts discuss each bird's abundance, seasonal status, movement patterns, biogeographic affinities, habitat associations, and more. This valuable reference also includes general information on the region's fascinating history and biogeography, making it an unparalleled resource for the birding community, for wildlife managers, and for conservation biologists concerned with one of the most threatened ecosystems in western North America. Customer Reviews (2)
Superb reference
Informative, but not a stand-alone volume |
60. Galápagos Marine Invertebrates: Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands (Topics in Geobiology) | |
Hardcover: 492
Pages
(1991-11-30)
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