BIOGEOGRAPHY : an ecological and evolutionary approach

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• Publisher: JOHN WILEY
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 531
• Edition: 10
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction
Lessons from the Past
Ecological versus Historical Biogeography, and Plants versus Animals
Biogeography and Creation
The Distribution of Life Today
Evolution – a Flawed and Dangerous Idea!
Enter Darwin – and Wallace
World Maps – the Biogeographical Regions of Plants and Animals
Getting Around the World
The Origins of Modern Historical Biogeography
The Development of Ecological Biogeography
Living Together
Marine Biogeography
Island Biogeography
Biogeography Today
Further Reading
References
Section I The Challenge of Existing
Chapter 2 Patterns of Distribution: Finding a Home
Limits of Distribution
The Niche
Overcoming the Barriers
Climatic Limits: The Palms
A Successful Family: The Daisies (Asteraceae)
Patterns Among Plovers
Magnolias: Evolutionary Relicts
The Strange Case of the Testate Amoeba
Climatic Relicts
Topographical Limits and Endemism
Physical Limits
Species Interactions: A Case of the Blues
Competition
Reducing Competition
Predators and Prey, Parasites and Hosts
Migration
Invasion
Further Reading
References
Chapter 3 Communities and Ecosystems: Living Together
The Community
The Ecosystem
Ecosystems and Species Diversity
Biotic Assemblages on a Global Scale
Mountain Biomes
Global Patterns of Climate
Climate Diagrams
Modelling Biomes and Climate
Chapter 4 Patterns of Biodiversity
Measuring Biodiversity: How Many Species are There?
Latitudinal Gradients of Diversity
Is Evolution Faster in the Tropics?
The Legacy of Glaciation
Latitude and Species Ranges
Diversity and Altitude
Biodiversity Hotspots
Diversity in Space and Time
The Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis
Dynamic Biodiversity and Neutral Theory
Further Reading
References
Section II The Engines of the Planet
Chapter 5 Plate Tectonics
The Evidence for Plate Tectonics
Changing Patterns of Continents
How Plate Tectonics Changes the World
Islands and Plate Tectonics
Terranes
Chapter 6 Evolution, the Source of Novelty
The Origin of Novelty
From Populations to Species
Sympatry versus Allopatry
Defining the Species
Microevolution versus Macroevolution
Adaptive Radiations
Naming and Cataloguing the Living World
Charting the Course of Evolution
Morphology Gives Way to Molecules
Darwin’s Finches Updated
Further Reading
References
Section II Islands and Oceans
Chapter 7 Life, Death and Evolution on Islands
Types of Island
Getting There: The Challenges of Arriving
Dying There: The Problems of Survival
Adapting and Evolving
The Hawaiian Islands
Integrating the Data: The Theory of Island Biogeography
Modifying the Theory
The General Dynamic Model for Oceanic Island Biogeography
Nestedness
Living Together: Incidence and Assembly Rules
Building an Ecosystem: The History of Rakata
Further Reading
References
Chapter 8 Patterns in the Oceans
Zones in the Ocean and on the Sea Floor
Basic Biogeography of the Seas
The Open-Sea Environment
The Ocean Floor
The Shallow-Sea Environment
And Finally … Marine Biogeographical Realms of the World
Further Reading
References
Section IV Historical Biogeography
Chapter 9 From Evolution to Patterns of Life
Studying the Patterns
Methods of Analyzing the Patterns
Studying Organisms and their Molecules
An Integrative Approach to Historical Biogeography
Investigating the More Distant Past
Further Reading
References
Chapter 10 Geography, Life and Climates Through Time
Introduction
Early Land Life on the Moving Continents
Animal Life Through the Mesozoic
The End of the Mesozoic World
Climates and Plants Through Time
Reconstructing Plant Life and Biomes
Evolution of the Mammals
The Mesozoic Roots of the Radiation of Modern Mammals
Further Reading
References
Chapter 11 Patterns of Life Today
The Biogeographical Regions Today
The History of Today’s Biogeographical Regions
The Old World Tropics: Africa, India and Southeast Asia
Australia
New Caledonia
New Zealand
The West Indies
South America
The Northern Hemisphere: Holarctic Mammals and Boreal Plants
Further Reading
References
Chapter 12 The Arrival of the Ice Ages
Climatic Wiggles
Interglacials and Interstadials
Biological Changes in the Pleistocene
The Last Glacial
Causes of Glaciation
The Current Interglacial: A False Start
Forests on the Move
The Dry Lands
Changing Sea Levels
A Time of Warmth
Climatic Cooling
Recorded History
Atmosphere and Oceans: Short-Term Climate Change
The Future
Further Reading
References
Section V People and Problems
Chapter 13 The Human Intrusion
The Emergence of Humans
Modern Humans and the Megafaunal Extinctions
Plant Domestication and Agriculture
Animal Domestication
The Diversification of Homo sapiens
The Biogeography of Human Parasitic Diseases
The Environmental Impact of Early Human Cultures
Further Reading
References
Chapter 14 Conservation Biogeography
Welcome to the Anthropocene
The Sixth Mass Extinction?
Less, and Less Interesting
What’s Behind the Biodiversity Crisis?
Crisis Management: Responding to Biodiversity Loss
The Birth of Conservation Biogeography
The Scope of Conservation Biogeography
Conservation Biogeography in Action
The Future is Digital
Conclusions
Further Reading
References
Glossary
Index
Supplemental Images
EULA