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Book SynopsisTrade Reviewis well suited for any novice in the field of historic biogeography by providing a broad synopsis and very good introductions to each method. Basic and Applied Ecology
Table of ContentsPreface 1. Introducing Evolutionary Biogeography 2. Basic Concepts 3. A Brief History of Evolutionary Biogeography 4. Identification of Biotic Components 5. Testing Relationships Among Biotic Components 6. Regionalization 7. Identification of Cenocrons 8. Construction of a Geobiotic Scenario 9. Toward an Integrative Biogeography References Case Studies 4.1. Biogeography and evolution of North American cave Collembola 4.2. Distributional patterns of Mexican marine mammals 4.3. Biogeography of the Subantarctic islands 4.4. Biogeography of the Sierra de Chiribiquete (Colombia) 4.5. Biogeography of the Mexican cloud forests 4.6. Distribution of butterflies in the Western Palearctic 4.7. Areas of endemism in southern South America 5.1. Cladistic biogeography of Central Chile 5.2. Cladistic biogeography of afromontane spiders 5.3. Biogeographic history of the North American warm desert biota 5.4. Cladistic biogeography of the "blue ash" eucalypts 5.5. Biogeography of South American assassin bugs (Hemiptera) 5.6. Biogeography of plant and animal taxa in the Southern Hemisphere 5.7. Biogeography of the Northern Andes 5.8. Biogeography of Rhododendron section Vireya in the Malesian Archipelago 5.9. Historical biogeography of the Subantarctic subregion 5.10. Cladistic biogeography of the Hawaiian islands 5.11. Dispersal of hominines in the Old World 6.1. Regionalization of Latin America 7.1. Dinosaurian biogeography 7.2. Phylogeography of red deers in Eurasia 7.3. Phylogeographic predictions of a weevil species of the Canary Islands 7.4. The Mediterranean Lago Mare theory and the speciation of European freshwater fishes 7.5. The arrival of caviomorph rodents and platyrrhine primates in South America
