Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Paleobiogeography --- Geographical distribution of fossil animals and plants --- Biogeography --- Paleontology

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

As explorers and scientists have known for decades, the Neotropics harbor a fantastic array of our planet's mammalian diversity, from capybaras and capuchins to maned wolves and mouse opossums to sloths and sakis. This biological bounty can be attributed partly to the striking diversity of Neotropical landscapes and climates and partly to a series of continental connections that permitted intermittent faunal exchanges with Africa, Antarctica, Australia, and North America. Thus, to comprehend the development of modern Neotropical mammal faunas requires not only mastery of the Neotropics' substantial diversity, but also knowledge of mammalian lineages and landscapes dating back to the Mesozoic. Bones, Clones, and Biomes offers just that-an exploration of the development and relationships of the modern mammal fauna through a series of studies that encompass the last 100 million years and both Central and South America. This work serves as a complement to more taxonomically driven works, providing for readers the long geologic and biogeographic contexts that undergird the abundance and diversity of Neotropical mammals. Rather than documenting diversity or distribution, this collection traverses the patterns that the distributions and relationships across mammal species convey, bringing together for the first time geology, paleobiology, systematics, mammalogy, and biogeography. Of critical importance is the book's utility for current conservation and management programs, part of a rapidly rising conservation paleobiology initiative.

Mammals --- Biogeography --- Paleobiogeography --- Geographical distribution of fossil animals and plants --- Paleontology --- Areography (Biology) --- Geographical distribution of animals and plants --- Species --- Species distribution --- Biology --- Geography --- Eutheria --- Mammalia --- Mammalians --- Prototheria --- Theria --- Vertebrates --- History. --- Geographical distribution. --- Geographical distribution

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Paleobiogeography --- 56:574 --- 574.9 --- 551.8 --- Geographical distribution of fossil animals and plants --- Biogeography --- Paleontology --- Palaeontology-:-General ecology. Biocoenology. Hydrobiology. Biogeography --- Biogeography in general. Geographical distribution of organisms --- Palaeogeography --- Paleobiogeography. --- 551.8 Palaeogeography --- 574.9 Biogeography in general. Geographical distribution of organisms --- PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHIE --- ATLAS

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This book significantly expands the coverage of this subject given by its predecessor Biogeography and Plate Tectonics (1987). Global Biogeography traces global changes in geography and biology from the Precambrian to the Recent (with worldwide coverage in chronological order); examines the evolutionary effects of the major extinctions, and discusses contemporary biogeographic regions within the context of their historic origins. It is now apparent that the biotas of the various biogeographical regions have had, and still maintain, a dynamic relationship with one another; much more than

Nature protection --- Biogeography --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Earth Sciences --- General and Others --- Biogeography. --- Paleobiogeography. --- Biodiversity. --- Biological diversification --- Biological diversity --- Biotic diversity --- Diversification, Biological --- Diversity, Biological --- Biology --- Biocomplexity --- Ecological heterogeneity --- Numbers of species --- Geographical distribution of fossil animals and plants --- Paleontology --- Areography (Biology) --- Geographical distribution of animals and plants --- Species --- Species distribution --- Geography --- Geographical distribution

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Biogeography considers the distribution of biological units over a wide range of scales. The units range from genotypes, populations and species to families and higher taxa. Processes can be local, such as the isolation on islands due to sea-level fluctuations, or large-scale tectonic processes that separates continents and creates oceans. In all processes time is an important factor and by combining data on recent patterns with paleontological data the understanding of the distribution of extant taxa can be improved. This volume focuses on speciation due to isolation in island-like settings, and the evolution of large-scale diversity as the result of origination, maintenance and extinction.

Zoogeography. --- Paleobiogeography. --- Isolating mechanisms. --- Animal species. --- Island animals --- Animals --- Biodiversity. --- Evolution. --- Geographical distribution. --- Dispersal. --- Biological diversification --- Biological diversity --- Biotic diversity --- Diversification, Biological --- Diversity, Biological --- Biology --- Biocomplexity --- Ecological heterogeneity --- Numbers of species --- Animal dispersal --- Dispersal of animals --- Insular animals --- Island fauna --- Species --- Isolation, Biotic --- Isolation mechanisms --- Reproductive isolation mechanisms --- Evolution (Biology) --- Reproduction --- Geographical distribution of fossil animals and plants --- Biogeography --- Paleontology --- Animal distribution --- Animal geography --- Distribution of animals, Geographical --- Geographical distribution of animals --- Zoology --- Classification --- Geographical distribution