Biogeography

Preface
Unit One: Introduction to the Discipline
1. The Science of Biogeography
2. The History and Reticulating Phylogeny of Biogeography
Unit Two: The Geographic and Ecological Foundations of Biogeography
3. The Geographic Template
4. Distributions of Species
5. The Distribution and Dynamics of Communities, Biomes, and Ecosystems
Unit Three: Biogeographic Processes and Earth History
6. Dispersal and Immigration
7. Speciation and Extinction
8. The Changing Earth
9. Glaciation and Biogeographic Dynamics of the Pleistocene
Unit Four: Evolutionary History of Lineages and Biotas
10. The Geography of Diversification and Regionalization
11. Reconstructing the Evolutionary History of Lineages
12. Reconstructing the Geographic History of Lineages and Biotas
Unit Five: Ecological Biogeography
13. Island Biogeography
14. Aerography, Ecogeography, and Macroecology of Continental and Oceanic Biotas
Unit Six: Conservation and the Frontiers of Biogeography
15. Biogeography of Humanity, Biological Diversity, and Conservation Biogeography
16. From the Foundations to the Frontiers of Biogeography
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

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Mark V. 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, community ecology, 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 for his dissertation studies on the ecology, evolution, and biogeography of insular mammals.

Brett R. Riddle is a Professor in the School of Life 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 cold desert and montane island biotas; and molecular systematics and biogeography of a diverse cadre of North American rodent groups. He is a cofounder and past President of the International Biogeography Society.

Robert J. Whittaker is Professor of Biogeography in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford and holds a part time Professorial position at the Centre for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate in the University of Copenhagen. He is a cofounder and past President of the International Biogeography Society. He is coauthor of Island Biogeography: Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation (OUP, 2007). His research interests span island biogeography, diversity theory, macroecology, and conservation biogeography.

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Special Features

• Emphasizes geographical context, demonstrating how patterns in biological diversity are valuable when viewed within an explicit geographic framework.
• Accessible - this text assumes only a rudimentary knowledge of biology, geography, and Earth history and provides students with the basics before moving on to more complex topics.

New to this Edition

• Enhanced presentation and integration of all subjects, conceptual models, and descriptions of empirical patterns and their applications for understanding and conserving the geography of biological diversity.
• Updated coverage on topics such as the philosophy of science (Ch. 1); conceptual issues in community ecology (Ch. 5); the climatic and biogeographic consequences of plate tectonics (Ch. 8); and climate change research, the biogeography of humanity, and conservation biogeography (Ch. 15).
• Optimized art program has been re-evaluated for colour blind readers and includes numerous new illustrations reflecting recent advances in visualizing the geography of nature.
• Improved box program depicts key concepts, persistent themes, and biogeographic principles.