{"product_id":"biogeography-9781118968574","title":"Biogeography","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough eight successful editions, and over nearly 40 years, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBiogeography: An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e has provided a thorough and comprehensive exploration of the varied scientific disciplines and research that are essential to understanding the subject. The text has been praised for its solid background in historical biogeography and basic biology, that is enhanced and illuminated by discussions of current research.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis new edition incorporates the exciting changes of the recent years, and presents a thoughtful exploration of the research and controversies that have transformed our understanding of the biogeography of the world. It also clearly identifies the three quite different arenas of biogeographical research: continental biogeography, island biogeography and marine biogeography. It is the only current textbook with full coverage of marine biogeography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt reveals how the patterns of life that we see today have been created by the two\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface xi \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 The History of Biogeography 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLessons from the Past 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEcological versus Historical Biogeography, and Plants versus Animals 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBiogeography and Creation 4\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Distribution of Life Today 5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEvolution – a Flawed and Dangerous Idea! 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEnter Darwin – and Wallace 8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorld Maps: Biogeographical Regions of Plants and Animals 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGetting around the World 12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Origins of Modern Historical Biogeography 16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Development of Ecological Biogeography 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLiving Together 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarine Biogeography 23\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIsland Biogeography 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBiogeography Today 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSECTION I: The Challenge of Existing 31\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Patterns of Distribution: Finding a Home 33\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLimits of Distribution 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Niche 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOvercoming the Barriers 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClimatic Limits: The Palms 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Successful Family: The Daisies (Asteraceae) 42\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePatterns among Plovers 46\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMagnolias: Evolutionary Relicts 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Strange Case of the Testate Amoeba 50\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClimatic Relicts 52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTopographical Limits and Endemism 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhysical Limits 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpecies Interaction: A Case of the Blues 66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCompetition 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReducing Competition 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePredators and Prey, Parasites and Hosts 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMigration 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInvasion 79\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Communities and Ecosystems: Living Together 89\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Community 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Ecosystem 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEcosystems and Species Diversity 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBiotic Assemblages on a Global Scale 98\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMountain Biomes 103\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobal Patterns of Climate 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClimate Diagrams 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModelling Biomes and Climate 112\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Patterns of Biodiversity 117\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow Many Species are There? 118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLatitudinal Gradients of Diversity 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIs Evolution Faster in the Tropics? 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Legacy of Glaciation 132\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLatitude and Species Ranges 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiversity and Altitude 134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBiodiversity Hotspots 136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiversity in Space and Time 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntermediate Disturbance Hypothesis 141\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDynamic Biodiversity and Neutral Theory 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSECTION II: THE ENGINES OF THE PLANET 147\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Plate Tectonics 149\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Evidence for Plate Tectonics 149\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChanging Patterns of Continents 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow Plate Tectonics affects the Living World, Part I: Events on Land 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow Plate Tectonics affects the Living World, Part II: Events in the Oceans 156\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIslands and Plate Tectonics 162\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTerranes 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Evolution, the Source of Novelty 169\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Mechanism of Evolution: The Genetic System 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Populations to Species 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSympatry versus Allopatry 176\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDefining the Species 179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Case Study: Darwin’s Finches 180\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eControversies and Evolution 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharting the Course of Evolution 188\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSECTION III: ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY 193\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Life, Death and Evolution on Islands 195\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTypes of Island 196\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGetting There: The Challenges of Arriving 196\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDying There: Problems of Survival 197\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdapting and Evolving 199\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Hawaiian Islands 201\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntegrating the Data: The Theory of Island Biogeography 208\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModifying the Theory 212\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe General Dynamic Model for Oceanic Island Biogeography 214\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNestedness 216\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLiving Together: Incidence and Assembly Rules 216\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuilding an Ecosystem: The History of Rakata 218\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSECTION IV: PATTERNS OF LIFE 229\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 From Evolution to Patterns of Life 231\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDispersal, Vicariance and Endemism 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMethods of Analysis 232\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEvent]Based Biogeography 236\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReticulate Patterns 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Molecular Approach to Historical Biogeography 245\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMolecules and the More Distant Past 250\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Patterns in the Oceans 255\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eZones in the Ocean and on the Seafloor 257\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBasic Biogeography of the Seas 260\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Open]Sea Environment 261\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Ocean Floor 268\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Shallow]Sea Environment 273\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 Patterns in the Past 291\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarly Land Life on the Moving Continents 292\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOne World – for a While 295\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBiogeography of the Earliest Mammals 298\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarly History of the Flowering Plants 303\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReconstructing Early Biomes 305\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11 Setting the Scene for Today 315\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Biogeographical Regions Today 315\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Basis of Mammal Biogeography 317\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePatterns of Distribution Today, I: The Mammals 319\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePatterns of Distribution Today, II: The Flowering Plants 322\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistory of Today’s Biogeographical Regions 323\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Old World Tropics: Africa, India and South]East Asia 324\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAustralia 331\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew Caledonia 334\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew Zealand 335\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe West Indies 336\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSouth America 341\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Northern Hemisphere: Holarctic Mammals and Boreal Plants 346\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12 Ice and Change 353\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClimatic Wiggles 354\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInterglacials and Interstadials 356\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBiological Changes in the Pleistocene 358\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Last Glacial 361\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCauses of Glaciation 370\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Current Interglacial: A False Start 375\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForests on the Move 377\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Dry Lands 381\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChanging Sea Levels 383\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Time of Warmth 384\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClimatic Cooling 386\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRecorded History 388\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAtmosphere and Oceans: Short]Term Climate Change 388\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Future 390\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSECTION V: PEOPLE AND PROBLEMS 397\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e13 The Human Intrusion 399\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Emergence of Humans 399\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModern Humans and the Megafaunal Extinctions 406\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlant Domestication and Agriculture 409\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnimal Domestication 414\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiversification of Homo sapiens 415\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Biogeography of Human Parasitic Diseases 417\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEnvironmental Impact of Early Human Cultures 420\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e14 Conservation Biogeography 425\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWelcome to the Anthropocene 425\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLess, and Less Interesting 429\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat is behind the Biodiversity Crisis? 430\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCrisis Management: Responding to Biodiversity Loss 435\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Birth of Conservation Biogeography 437\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Scope of Conservation Biogeography 438\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConservation Biogeography in Action 443\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Future is Digital 446\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions 449\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary 455\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 469\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eColour plates between pages 146 and 147\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406958207319,"sku":"9781118968574","price":125.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781118968574.jpg?v=1730497692","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/biogeography-9781118968574","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}