Biogeography in a Changing World
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Author(s): M. C. Ebach and R. S. Tangney (Eds)
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0849380383
Format: hardback
212pp
Price: £49.99
Review Date: 05 January 2007
Review: This volume is largely based on papers from the symposium ‘What is Biogeography?’ held in Cardiff in 2005. The aim of the symposium was to provide a range of viewpoints in biogeography and the variety of ways in which it is practised to give both a historical perspective and current methodological advances. There are chapters on: Trees that bite and their biological dimensions; Common cause and historical biogeography; A brief look at Pacific biogeography; Biotic element analysis and vicariance biogeography; The evolution of specific and genetic diversity during ontogeny of island floras; Event-based biogeography – integrating patterns, processes and time; Phylogeography in historical biogeography; and Are plate tectonic explanations for Trans-pacific disjunctions plausible?