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Zusatztext "A comprehensive history of biogeography." Informationen zum Autor Lynne R. Parenti is Research Scientist and Curator of Fishes at the National Museum of Natural History in the Smithsonian Institution! and co-editor! with R. Claro and K. C. Lindeman! of Ecology of the Marine Fishes of Cuba (2002)! co-editor! with M.L.J. Stiassny and G. D. Johnson! of Interrelationships of Fishes (1996! 1998)! and co-author! with C. J. Humphries! of Cladistic biogeography (1986! 1999). Malte C. Ebach is a Post Doctoral Fellow at Arizona State University's International Institute for Species Exploration! and co-author! with D. M. Williams! of Foundations of Systematics and Biogeography (2008)! and co-editor! with R. S. Tangey! of Biogeography in a Changing World (2006). Klappentext "Parenti and Ebach provide a fine introduction to the aims and methods of comparative biogeography! and the difference that it makes to our view of the world. Energetic and sometimes provocative! this book shows us how we can start to untangle the interconnected threads of biotic and planetary evolution to more clearly understand how earth and life evolve together."-Sir Peter Crane! FRS! Yale University Zusammenfassung To unravel the complex shared history of the Earth and its life forms, biogeographers analyze patterns of biodiversity, species distribution, and geological history. So far, the field of biogeography has been fragmented into divergent systematic and evolutionary approaches, with no overarching or unifying research theme or method. In this text, Lynne Parenti and Malte Ebach address this discord and outline comparative tools to unify biogeography. Rooted in phylogenetic systematics, this comparative biogeographic approach offers a comprehensive empirical framework for discovering and deciphering the patterns and processes of the distribution of life on Earth. The authors cover biogeography from its fundamental ideas to the most effective ways to implement them. Real-life examples illustrate concepts and problems, including the first comparative biogeographical analysis of the Indo-West Pacific, an introduction to biogeographical concepts rooted in the earth sciences, and the integration of phylogeny, evolution and earth history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface xi 1. Introduction 1 Classification in Science 1 Earth and Life Evolved Together 4 Biogeography 8 Comparative Biogeography 9 Classification of Areas: Systematics and Biogeography 10 Toward a Comparative Biogeography 11 Organization of This Book 13 PART ONE: HISTORY AND HOMOLOGY 15 2. History and Development of Comparative Biogeography 17 The Meaning of Place 17 Exposing the Idea 34 Contradictory Biogeography 36 Area Homology 42 Establishing a Comparative Biogeography 47 3. Building Blocks of Biogeography: Endemic Areas and Areas of Endemism 53 Endemism 53 Taxonomic Units and Taxa 61 Taxonomic Areas and Biota 63 Discovering Biotic Areas 66 4. Building Blocks of Biogeography: Biotic Areas and Area Homology 75 Biotic Areas and Area Homology 75 Discovering Biotic Area Relationships 77 The Real World: Complexity of Areagrams 79 PART TWO: METHODS 101 5. Biogeographic Processes 103 Biogeographic Processes 103 Vicariance and Dispersal 106 Other Explanatory Models 112 Why Not to Optimize Areas in Biogeography: Areagrams versus Taxon/Area Cladograms (TACs) 114 6. Biogeographic Methods and Applications 119 Comparing Biogeographic Methods and Applications 119 Systematic Biogeographic Methods 121 Evolutionary Biogeographic Methods 133 Biogeographic Applications 142 7. The Systematic Biogeographic Me...
