Frontiers Of Biogeography

by Lomolino, Mark V.; Heaney, Lawrence R.

• ISBN13: 9780878934799
• ISBN10: 0878934790
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-11-30
• Publisher: Sinauer Associates Inc

Table of Contents

Contributors	viii
Preface	x
Introduction Reticulations and Reintegration of Modern Biogeography	1	(4)
Mark V. Lomolino
Lawrence R. Heaney
PART I: Paleobiogeography	5	(82)
Introduction
Stephen T. Jackson
Cenozoic and Mesozoic Paleogeography: Changing Terrestrial Biogeographic Pathways	9	(18)
Christopher R. Scotese
Arid Lands Paleobiogeography: The Rodent Midden Record in the Americas	27	(20)
Julio L. Betancourt
Quaternary Biogeography: Linking Biotic Responses to Environmental Variability across Timescales	47	(20)
Stephen T. Jackson
Biogeography on a Dynamic Earth	67	(20)
Christopher J. Humphries
Malte C. Ebach
PART II: Phylogeography and Diversification	87	(58)
Introduction
Brett R. Riddle
Vicki Funk
The Past and Future Roles of Phylogeography in Historical Biogeography	93	(18)
Brett R. Riddle
David J. Hafner
Range Expansion, Extinction, and Biogeographic Congruence: A Deep Time Perspective	111	(14)
Bruce S. Lieberman
Reticulations in Historical Biogeography: The Triumph of Time over Space in Evolution	125	(20)
Daniel R. Brooks
PART III: Diversity Gradients	145	(216)
Introduction
Dov F. Sax
Robert J. Whittaker
Beyond Species Richness: Biogeographic Patterns and Biodiversity Dynamics Using Other Metrics of Diversity	151	(20)
Kaustuv Roy
David Jablonski
James W. Valentine
The Global Diversity Gradient	171	(20)
John R. G. Turner
Bradford A. Hawkins
Diversity Emerging: Toward a Deconstruction of Biodiversity Patterns	191	(20)
Pablo A. Marquet
Miriam Fernandez
Sergio A. Navarrete
Claudio Valdovinos
Dynamic Hypotheses of Richness on Islands and Continents	211	(28)
Robert J. Whittaker
PART IV: Marine Biogeography
Introduction	233	(6)
John C. Briggs
Brian W. Bowen
Michael A. Rex
Island Life: A View from the Sea	239	(16)
Geerat J. Vermeij
A Marine Center of Origin: Reality and Conservation	255	(16)
John C. Briggs
Pattern and Process in Marine Biogeography: A View from the Poles	271	(26)
J. Alistair Crame
PART V: Conservation Biogeography
Introduction	293	(4)
Mark V. Lomolino
How Do Biological Invasions Alter Diversity Patterns?	297	(14)
Julie L. Lockwood
GIS-Based Predictive Biogeography in the Context of Conservation	311	(14)
Victor Sanchez-Cordero
Mariana Munguia
A. Townsend Peterson
Applying Species-Area Relationships to the Conservation of Species Diversity	325	(20)
Michael L. Rosenzweig
Conservation Biogeography in Oceanic Archipelagoes	345	(16)
Lawrence R. Heaney
Concluding Remarks	361	(8)
James H. Brown
Literature Cited	369	(52)
Index	421