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Author Cox, C. Barry (Christopher Barry), 1931- author

Title Biogeography : an ecological and evolutionary approach / C. Barry Cox, Peter D. Moore, Richard J. Ladle
Edition Ninth edition
Published Chichester, UK Hoboken, NJ John Wiley & Sons, 2016

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Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 MELB  578.09 Cox/Bae 2016  AVAILABLE
 MELB  578.09 Cox/Bae 2016  DUE 13-11-23
 MELB  578.09 Cox/Bae 2016  DUE 03-04-24
Description xiii, 482 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Contents note continued: Competition -- Reducing Competition -- Predators and Prey, Parasites and Hosts -- Migration -- Invasion -- 3.Communities and Ecosystems: Living Together -- The Community -- The Ecosystem -- Ecosystems and Species Diversity -- Biotic Assemblages on a Global Scale -- Mountain Biomes -- Global Patterns of Climate -- Climate Diagrams -- Modelling Biomes and Climate -- 4.Patterns of Biodiversity -- How Many Species are There? -- Latitudinal Gradients of Diversity -- Is Evolution Faster in the Tropics? -- The Legacy of Glaciation -- Latitude and Species Ranges -- Diversity and Altitude -- Biodiversity Hotspots -- Diversity in Space and Time -- Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis -- Dynamic Biodiversity and Neutral Theory -- 5.Plate Tectonics -- The Evidence for Plate Tectonics -- Changing Patterns of Continents -- How Plate Tectonics affects the Living World, Part I: Events on Land --
Contents note continued: Event-Based Biogeography -- Reticulate Patterns -- The Molecular Approach to Historical Biogeography -- Molecules and the More Distant Past -- 9.Patterns in the Oceans -- Zones in the Ocean and on the Seafloor -- Basic Biogeography of the Seas -- The Open-Sea Environment -- The Ocean Floor -- The Shallow-Sea Environment -- 10.Patterns in the Past -- Early Land Life on the Moving Continents -- One World - for a While -- Biogeography of the Earliest Mammals -- Early History of the Flowering Plants -- Reconstructing Early Biomes -- 11.Setting the Scene for Today -- The Biogeographical Regions Today -- The Basis of Mammal Biogeography -- Patterns of Distribution Today, I: The Mammals -- Patterns of Distribution Today, II: The Flowering Plants -- History of Today's Biogeographical Regions -- The Old World Tropics: Africa, India and South-East Asia -- Australia -- New Caledonia -- New Zealand -- The West Indies -- South America --
Contents note continued: The Birth of Conservation Biogeography -- The Scope of Conservation Biogeography -- Conservation Biogeography in Action -- The Future is Digital -- Conclusions
Contents note continued: How Plate Tectonics affects the Living World, Part II: Events in the Oceans -- Islands and Plate Tectonics -- Terranes -- 6.Evolution, the Source of Novelty -- The Mechanism of Evolution: The Genetic System -- From Populations to Species -- Sympatry versus Allopatry -- Defining the Species -- A Case Study: Darwin's Finches -- Controversies and Evolution -- Charting the Course of Evolution -- 7.Life, Death and Evolution on Islands -- Types of Island -- Getting There: The Challenges of Arriving -- Dying There: Problems of Survival -- Adapting and Evolving -- The Hawaiian Islands -- Integrating the Data: The Theory of Island Biogeography -- Modifying the Theory -- The General Dynamic Model for Oceanic Island Biogeography -- Nestedness -- Living Together: Incidence and Assembly Rules -- Building an Ecosystem: The History of Rakata -- 8.From Evolution to Patterns of Life -- Dispersal, Vicariance and Endemism -- Methods of Analysis --
Contents note continued: The Northern Hemisphere: Holarctic Mammals and Boreal Plants -- 12.Ice and Change -- Climatic Wiggles -- Interglacials and Interstadials -- Biological Changes in the Pleistocene -- The Last Glacial -- Causes of Glaciation -- The Current Interglacial: A False Start -- Forests on the Move -- The Dry Lands -- Changing Sea Levels -- A Time of Warmth -- Climatic Cooling -- Recorded History -- Atmosphere and Oceans: Short-Term Climate Change -- The Future -- 13.The Human Intrusion -- The Emergence of Humans -- Modern Humans and the Megafaunal Extinctions -- Plant Domestication and Agriculture -- Animal Domestication -- Diversification of Homo sapiens -- The Biogeography of Human Parasitic Diseases -- Environmental Impact of Early Human Cultures -- 14.Conservation Biogeography -- Welcome to the Anthropocene -- Less, and Less Interesting -- What is behind the Biodiversity Crisis? -- Crisis Management: Responding to Biodiversity Loss --
Machine generated contents note: 1.The History of Biogeography -- Lessons from the Past -- Ecological versus Historical Biogeography, and Plants versus Animals -- Biogeography and Creation -- The Distribution of Life Today -- Evolution - a Flawed and Dangerous Idea! -- Enter Darwin - and Wallace -- World Maps: Biogeographical Regions of Plants and Animals -- Getting around the World -- The Origins of Modern Historical Biogeography -- The Development of Ecological Biogeography -- Living Together -- Marine Biogeography -- Island Biogeography -- Biogeography Today -- 2.Patterns of Distribution: Finding a Home -- Limits of Distribution -- The Niche -- Overcoming the Barriers -- Climatic Limits: The Palms -- A Successful Family: The Daisies (Asteraceae) -- Patterns among Plovers -- Magnolias: Evolutionary Relicts -- The Strange Case of the Testate Amoeba -- Climatic Relicts -- Topographical Limits and Endemism -- Physical Limits -- Species Interaction: A Case of the Blues --
Summary Building on these foundations, the ninth edition incorporates recent advances such as the rise of molecular methods of investigation and presents a thoughtful exploration of the research and controversies that have transformed our understanding of the biogeography of the world. There is a new chapter on conservation biogeography by Richard Ladle that discusses new techniques for gathering and integrating data on the distribution of species, as well as substantial updates to existing chapters. --Book Jacket
This book 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 - that alters the conditions of life on the planet, and the biological engine - evolution - that responds to these changes by creating new forms and patterns of life. It remains the only textbook to cover all three arenas of biogeographical research: continental biogeography, island biogeography and marine biogeography. --
Through eight successful editions, and more than 40 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 has been praised for its solid background in historical biogeography and basic biology, which is enhanced and illuminated by discussions of current research. --
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 450-453) and index
Subject Biogeography.
Author Ladle, Richard J., author
Moore, Peter D., author
LC no. 2016000665
ISBN 1118968573 (hbk.)
1118968581 (paperback)
9781118968574 (hbk.)
9781118968581 (paperback)