
Biogeography
Sinauer Associates Inc.,U.S. (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 1. January 1998
Book
Hardback
560 pages
978-0-87893-073-9 (ISBN)
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Description
Completely revised and updated, Biogeography, Second Edition , summarises the diverse approaches to the study of the distributions of living things. Starting from simple facts and principles, and assuming only minimal knowledge of biology, geography and earth history, the books explains the relationships between patterns of plant and animal distributions and the processes that have produced them.
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Sunderland
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
410ill.
Dimensions
Height: 288 mm
Width: 222 mm
Weight
1710 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87893-073-9 (9780878930739)
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Author
University of Oklahoma, USA
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Content
The science of biogeography; the history of the discipline; the physical setting; the distribution of single species; the distribution of communities; the changing Earth; glaciation and biogeography of the pleistocene; speciation and extinction; dispersal; endemism, provincialism, and disjunction; the history of lineages; the history of distributions; island biogeography - patterns in species richness; island biogeography - patterns in assembly and evolution of insular communities; species diversity in continental and marine habitats; areography and macroecology; applied biogeography - biodiversity; applied biogeography - single species; biogeography for the 21st century.