Research Catalog

Title

Biogeography / James H. Brown, Mark V. Lomolino.

Author

Brown, James H., 1942 September 25-

Publication

Sunderland, Mass. : Sinauer Associates, c1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

Lomolino, Mark V., 1953-

Description

xii, 691 p. : ill., maps; 29 cm.

Summary

The new edition of this textbook first published in 1983 has been completely rewritten and reorganized. Intended for courses in biogeogrpahy, zoogeography, and phytogeography, it integrates historical and ecological approaches to offer broad coverage of the discipline of biogeography. Arrangement is in units covering an introduction to the discipline, the environmental and historical setting, historical patterns and processes, contemporary patterns and processes, and conservation. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Subjects

• Ecosystem
• Ecology
• Conservation of Natural Resources
• Biogeography

Note

• Colored map of the world on endpapers.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 637-674) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The science of biogeography -- The history of biogeography -- The physical setting -- Distributions of single species -- The distribution of communities -- The changing earth -- Claciation and biogeographic dynamics of the pleistocene -- Speciation and extinction -- Dispersal -- Endemis, provincialism, and disjunction -- The history of lineages -- Reconstructing biogeographic histories -- Island biogeography: patterns in species richness -- Island biogeography; patterns in the assembly and evolution of insular communities -- Species diversity in continental and marine habitats -- Continental patterns and processes --The status of biodiversity -- applied biogeography: single species -- Biogeography for the Twenty-first Century.

ISBN

0878930736 (hardcover)

LCCN

^^^98020356^

OCLC

• 39060625
• SCSB-10467947

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library