Biogeography - C. Barry Cox

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Auteur(s) : C. Barry Cox - Peter D. Moore - Richard J. Ladle

Editeur : John Wiley & Sons Inc

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/01/2020

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 528

Expédition : 925

Dimensions : 25.1 x 18.0 x 3.2

ISBN : 9781119486312

Résumé :

Through nine successful editions, and for over 45 years, Biogeography: An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach has provided a thorough and comprehensive exploration of the varied scientific disciplines and research that are essential to understanding the subject. The text, noted for its clear and engaging style of writing, has been praised for its solid background in historical biogeography and basic biology, that is enhanced and illuminated by discussions of current research.

This 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. New themes and topics in this tenth edition include:

• Next generation genetic technologies and their use in historical biogeography, phylogeography and population genomics
• Biogeographical databases and biodiversity information systems, which are becoming increasingly important for biogeographical research
• An introduction to functional biogeography and its applications to community assembly, diversity gradients and the analysis of ecosystem functioning
• Updated case studies focusing on island biogeography, using the latest phylogenetic studies

Biogeography: An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach reveals how the patterns of life that we see today have been created by the two great Engines of the Planet: the Geological Engine, plate tectonics, which alters the conditions of life on the planet, and the Biological Engine, evolution, which responds to these changes by creating new forms and patterns of life.

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Biographie:

C. Barry Cox was formerly Head of Biological Sciences, King's College, London, UK.

Richard J. Ladle is Titular Professor of Conservation Biogeography at the Federal University of Alagoas on the north-east coast of Brazil. He is also a Senior Research Associate at the School of Geography in Oxford University, as well as the director of Tamandua Environmental Consultants.

Peter D. Moore is Emeritus Reader in Ecology at King's College London. He has written extensively on ecology and global environmental change and was, for 35 years, Ecology Correspondent for the journal Nature....

Sommaire:

Preface xiii

Acknowledgements xv

1 Introduction 1

Lessons from the Past 1

Ecological versus Historical Biogeography, and Plants versus Animals 4

Biogeography and Creation 5

The Distribution of Life Today 7

Evolution - a Flawed and Dangerous Idea! 8

Enter Darwin - and Wallace 10

World Maps - the Biogeographical Regions of Plants and Animals 13

Getting Around the World 15

The Origins of Modern Historical Biogeography 20

The Development of Ecological Biogeography 23

Living Together 24

Marine Biogeography 27

Island Biogeography 28

Biogeography Today 30

Section I: The Challenge of Existing 37

2 Patterns of Distribution: Finding a Home 39

Limits of Distribution 42

The Niche 44

Overcoming the Barriers 45

Climatic Limits: The Palms 46

A Successful Family: The Daisies (Asteraceae) 48

Patterns Among Plovers 51

Magnolias: Evolutionary Relicts 55

The Strange Case of the Testate Amoeba 57

Climatic Relicts 58

Topographical Limits and Endemism 65

Physical Limits 67

Species Interactions: A Case of the Blues 73

Competition 75

Reducing Competition 76

Predators and Prey, Parasites and Hosts 79

Migration 83

Invasion 85

3 Communities and Ecosystems: Living Together 97

The Community 97

The Ecosystem 100

Ecosystems and Species Diversity 103

Biotic Assemblages on a Global Scale 108

Mountain Biomes 112

Global Patterns of Climate 116

Climate Diagrams 119

Modelling Biomes and Climate 122

4 Patterns of Biodiversity 127

Measuring Biodiversity: How Many Species are There? 128

Latitudinal Gradients of Diversity 132

Is Evolution Faster in the Tropics? 139

The Legacy of Glaciation 141

Latitude and Species Ranges 142

Diversity and Altitude 143

Biodiversity Hotspots 146

Diversity in Space and Time 148

The Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis 151

Dynamic Biodiversity and Neutral Theory 151

Section II: The Engines of The Planet 157

5 Plate Tectonics 159

The Evidence for Plate Tectonics 159

Changing Patterns of Continents 164

How Plate Tectonics Changes the World 164

Islands and Plate Tectonics 172

Terranes 174

6 Evolution, the Source of Novelty 179

The Origin of Novelty 179

From Populations to Species 180

Sympatry versus Allopatry 183

Defining the Species 188

Microevolution versus Macroevolution 189

Adaptive Radiations 189

Naming and Cataloguing the Living World 189

Charting the Course of Evolution 190

Morphology Gives Way to Molecules 193

Darwin's Finches Updated 194

Section III: Islands and Oceans 197

7 Life, Death and Evolution on Islands 199

Types of Island 200

Getting There: The Challenges of Arriving 200

Dying There: The Problems of Survival 202

Adapting and Evolving 203

The Hawaiian Islands 206

Integrating the Data: The Theory of Island Biogeography 214

Modifying the Theory 216

The General Dynamic Model for Oceanic Island Biogeography 219

Nestedness 221

Living Together: Incidence and Assembly Rules 221

Building an Ecosystem: The History of Rakata 223

8 Patterns in the Oceans 235

Zones in the Ocean and on the Sea Floor 237

Basic Biogeography of the Seas 240

The Open?Sea Environment 240

The Ocean Floor 246

The Shallow?Sea Environment 250

And Fina...