Biogeography

Mark V. Lomolino, Brett R. Riddle, James H. Brown

624 pages, parution le 05/10/2005 (3^eme édition)

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Résumé

Biogeography, first published in 1983, is one of the most comprehensive text and general reference books in the field. The third edition builds on the strengths of its two previous editions, combining evolutionary and ecological perspectives to show how Earth history, contemporary environments, and evolutionary and ecological processes have shaped species distributions and nearly all patterns of biodiversity. It is an empirically and conceptually rich text that illustrates general patterns and processes using examples from a diversity of plants and animals across the Earth's aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.

Biogeography, Third Edition is written as a primary text for undergraduate and graduate courses, and is also an invaluable reference for biogeographers, ecologists, evolutionary biologists, and conservation biologists. Starting from simple facts and principles and assuming only a rudimentary knowledge of biology, geography, and Earth history, the text explains the relationships between geographic variation in biodiversity and the geological, ecological, and evolutionary processes that have produced them. Written in an engaging style, Biogeography emphasizes the interplay between unifying concepts and presents evidence that supports or challenges these concepts. This edition has been completely revised and updated, covering many emerging topics and including case studies and insights from over 1,000 recent studies of the geography of nature.

L'auteur - Mark V. Lomolino

Lomolino is a Professor in the Department of Environmental and Forest Biology at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. His research and teaching focus on biogeography and conservation of biological diversity. He is a cofounder and past President of the International Biogeography Society. Dr. Lomolino received the American Society of Mammalogists Award, serves on the editorial advisory board for Biological Conservation, and is a coeditor of two books-Foundations of Biogeography (University of Chicago Press) and Frontiers of Biogeography: New Directions in the Geography of Nature, recently published by Sinauer Associates.

L'auteur - Brett R. Riddle

Brett R. Riddle is a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His research focuses primarily on the history of biodiversity in western North America, with ongoing projects including: historical assembly of the warm desert biotas; phylogeography of Great Basin montane island biotas; and molecular systematics and biogeography of diverse North American rodent groups. He is a cofounder and current President of the International Biogeography Society, and an editor of the Journal of Biogeography. Dr. Riddle is also a cofounder and current Director of the Center for Aridlands Biodiversity Research and Education at UNLV.

L'auteur - James H. Brown

James H. Brown is Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of New Mexico. He is a past President of the International Biogeography Society, the American Society of Mammalogists, the American Society of Naturalists, and the Ecological Society of America. His research interests include: community ecology and biogeography, with special projects on granivory in desert ecosystems; biogeography of insular habitats; and structure of dynamics of geographic-scale assemblages of many species.

Sommaire

Unit 1 : Introduction to the Discipline
- The Science of Biogeography
- The History of Biogeography
Unit 2 : The Environmental Setting and Basic Biogeographic Patterns
- Physical Setting:The Geographic Template
- Distributions of Species: Ecological Foundations
- The Geography of Communities
Unit 3 : Earth History and Fundamental Biogeographic Processes
- Dispersal and Immigration
- Speciation and Extinction
- The Changing Earth
- Glaciation and Biogeographic Dynamics of the Pleistocene
Unit 4 : Evolutionary History of Lineages and Biotas
- The Geography of Diversification
- Reconstructing the History of Lineages
- Reconstructing the History of Biotas
Unit 5 : Ecological Biogeography
- Island Biogeography: Patterns in Species Richness
- Island Biogeography: Assembly and Evolution of Insular Comm#Unities
- Areography, Ecogeographic Rules, and Diversity Gradients
Unit 6 : Conservation Biogeography and New Frontiers
- Biodiversity and the Geography of Extinctions
- Conservation Biogeography and the Biogeography of Humanity
- The Frontiers of Biogeography

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Sinauer
Auteur(s)	Mark V. Lomolino, Brett R. Riddle, James H. Brown
Parution	05/10/2005
Édition	3^eme édition
Nb. de pages	624
Format	22,5 x 28,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	2020g
Intérieur	Quadri
EAN13	9780878930623
ISBN13	978-0-87893-062-3