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ISBN: 9781107041028 9781139644464 9781107687141 9781107465282 1107465281 9781461950684 1461950686 1139644467 9781107468818 1107468817 1107041023 1107472407 9781107472402 1107461731 113989322X 1107459567 9781107461734 9781107459564 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
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Over the last decade, molecular studies carried out on the Australasian biota have revealed a new world of organic structure that exists from submicroscopic to continental scale. Furthermore, in studies of global biogeography and evolution, DNA sequencing has shown that many large groups, such as flowering plants, passerine birds and squamates, have their basal components in this area. Using examples ranging from kangaroos and platypuses to kiwis and birds of paradise, the book examines the patterns of distribution and evolution of Australasian biodiversity and explains them with reference to tectonic and climatic change in the region. The surprising results from molecular biogeography demonstrate that an understanding of evolution in Australasia is essential for understanding the development of modern life on Earth. A milestone in the literature on this subject, this book will be a valuable source of reference for students and researchers in biogeography, biodiversity, ecology and conservation.
Biogeography --- Biology --- Species --- Classification --- Molecular aspects --- Speciation (Biology) --- Genetics --- Hybridization --- Organisms --- Life sciences --- Biomass --- Life (Biology) --- Natural history --- Areography (Biology) --- Geographical distribution of animals and plants --- Species distribution --- Geography --- Molecular aspects. --- Geographical distribution
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ISBN: 1283369737 9786613369734 0520951808 9780520951808 0520271963 9780520271968 9780520271968 Year: 2012 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press
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Molecular studies reveal highly ordered geographic patterns in plant and animal distributions. The tropics illustrate these patterns of community immobilism leading to allopatric differentiation, as well as other patterns of mobilism, range expansion, and overlap of taxa. Integrating Earth history and biogeography, Molecular Panbiogeography of the Tropics is an alternative view of distributional history in which groups are older than suggested by fossils and fossil-calibrated molecular clocks. The author discusses possible causes for the endemism of high-level taxa in tropical America and Madagascar, and overlapping clades in South America, Africa, and Asia. The book concludes with a critique of adaptation by selection, founded on biogeography and recent work in genetics.
Biogeography --- Biology --- Variation (Biology) --- Classification --- Molecular aspects. --- african ecology. --- african species. --- allopatric speciation. --- animal distribution. --- animal taxa. --- animals and geography. --- asian ecology. --- asian species. --- biogeography. --- biological evolution. --- books for biology majors. --- darwin. --- earth history. --- ecology books. --- ecology reference. --- endemism. --- fossils. --- geographic patterns. --- madagascar ecology. --- mammal zoology. --- natural selection. --- science and evolution. --- south america ecology. --- south american species. --- theory of evolution. --- tropical america. --- tropical species. --- zoology books.
ISBN: 1280759828 9786610759828 0195360699 9780195360691 9780195074413 0195074416 019028188X Year: 1999 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press
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1. What Is Panbiogeography?. 2. Life as a Geological Layer: Panbiogeography and the Earth Sciences. 3. Ecology, History, and the Panbiogeography of Africa. 4. Mapping the Trees of Life: Panbiogeography, Phylogenetic Systematics, and Evolutionary Processes. 5. Tracking the Trees of Life: Line, Map, and Matrix. 6. Toward a New Regional Biogeography: The Revival of Biogeographical Classification. 7. Tracks, Nodes, Biodiversity, and Conservation. Glossary. References. Index
Biogeography. --- Life --- Abiogenesis --- Biogenesis --- Germ theory --- Heterogenesis --- Life, Origin of --- Life (Biology) --- Origin of life --- Plasmogeny --- Plasmogony --- Evolution (Biology) --- Exobiology --- Spontaneous generation --- Areography (Biology) --- Geographical distribution of animals and plants --- Species --- Species distribution --- Biology --- Geography --- Origin. --- Origin --- Geographical distribution --- Biogeography --- 574.9 --- 574.9 Biogeography in general. Geographical distribution of organisms --- Biogeography in general. Geographical distribution of organisms --- Geology. Earth sciences --- General palaeontology
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