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Biogeography
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ISBN: 0878930620 9780878930623 Year: 2006 Publisher: Sunderland: Sinauer associates,

Lessepsian migration : the influx of Red Sea biota into the Mediterranean by way of the Suez Canal
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ISBN: 3540083812 0387083812 3642667309 3642667287 Year: 1978 Volume: v. 23 Publisher: Berlin : Springer,

Dynamic biogeography
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ISBN: 0521380588 9780521380584 0521437563 Year: 1992 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

The unified neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography
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ISBN: 0691021287 9780691021287 9780691021294 0691021295 128313473X 1400837529 9786613134738 9781400837526 9781283134736 Year: 2001 Volume: 32 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,

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Despite its supreme importance and the threat of its global crash, biodiversity remains poorly understood both empirically and theoretically. This ambitious book presents a new, general neutral theory to explain the origin, maintenance, and loss of biodiversity in a biogeographic context. Until now biogeography (the study of the geographic distribution of species) and biodiversity (the study of species richness and relative species abundance) have had largely disjunct intellectual histories. In this book, Stephen Hubbell develops a formal mathematical theory that unifies these two fields. When a speciation process is incorporated into Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson's now classical theory of island biogeography, the generalized theory predicts the existence of a universal, dimensionless biodiversity number. In the theory, this fundamental biodiversity number, together with the migration or dispersal rate, completely determines the steady-state distribution of species richness and relative species abundance on local to large geographic spatial scales and short-term to evolutionary time scales. Although neutral, Hubbell's theory is nevertheless able to generate many nonobvious, testable, and remarkably accurate quantitative predictions about biodiversity and biogeography. In many ways Hubbell's theory is the ecological analog to the neutral theory of genetic drift in genetics. The unified neutral theory of biogeography and biodiversity should stimulate research in new theoretical and empirical directions by ecologists, evolutionary biologists, and biogeographers.

Historical biogeography : an introduction
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ISBN: 0674010590 0674030044 Year: 2003 Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press,

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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 research traditions: ecological biogeography and historical biogeography. This book makes sense of the profound revolution that historical biogeography has undergone in the last two decades, and of the resulting confusion over its foundations, basic concepts, methods, and relationships to other disciplines of comparative biology. Using case studies, the authors explain and illustrate the fundamentals and the most frequently used methods of this discipline. They show the reader how to tell when a historical biogeographic approach is called for, how to decide what kind of data to collect, how to choose the best method for the problem at hand, how to perform the necessary calculations, how to choose and apply a computer program, and how to interpret results.

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