Panbiogeography: Tracking the History of LifeBiogeography is a diverse subject, traditionally focusing on the distribution of plants and animals at different taxonomic levels, past and present. Modern biogeography also puts emphasis on the ecological character of the world vegetation types, and on the evolving relationship between humans and their environment. Panbiogeography describes a new synthesis of sciences of plant and animal distribution. The book emphasizes that the geographical patterns of animal and plant distribution contribute directly to the understanding and interpretation of evolutionary history. Geographic location is reintroduced as a critical element of both biogeography and evolutionary biology. The authors present chapters exploring the roles of geology, ecology, evolution in panbiogeographic theory, and introduce new methods, modes of classification, and ways of measuring biodiversity. |
Contents
| 3 | |
Life as a Geological Layer Panbiogeography and the Earth Sciences | 30 |
Ecology History and the Panbiogeography of Africa | 64 |
Mapping the Trees of Life Panbiogeography Phylogenetic Systematics and Evolutionary Processes | 88 |
Tracking the Trees of Life Line Map and Matrix | 115 |
Toward a New Regional Biogeography The Revival of Biogeographical Classification | 145 |
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Panbiogeography: Tracking the History of Life Robin C. Craw,John R. Grehan,Michael J. Heads Limited preview - 1999 |
Panbiogeography: Tracking the History of Life Robin C. Craw,John R. Grehan,Michael J. Heads No preview available - 1999 |
Common terms and phrases
Africa ancestral range angiosperms Atlantic Australia baseline biodiversity biogeo biogeographic biogeographic relationships biology biota boundaries butterflies Caribbean center of origin characters cladistic congruent conservation correlated Craw Cretaceous Croizat Crustacea differentiation disjunct distribution areas distribution patterns diversity eastern ecological endemic evolutionary example fauna FIGURE fossil record freshwater Galapagos genera genes genetic genus geographic distribution geological global Gondwana graphic Grehan habitats Hepialidae homology hypothesis Indian Ocean individual tracks insect islands Jurassic main massings marine means of dispersal Mesozoic method minimal spanning molecular molecular drive MYBP Nelson North Nothofagus ocean basins organisms Pacific Panbiogeography phylogenetic phylogenetic relationships phylogeny Pleistocene population rainforest ratite regions represented reprinted with permission sequence South America South Island southern beeches spanning tree spatial speciation species standard tracks studies suggests Systematic taxa taxon taxonomic tectonic terranes Tertiary tion tracks and nodes Triassic vertices vicariant form-making widespread Zealand Zoology
Popular passages
Page 193 - Butterflies of the genus Vanessa and of the resurrected genera Bassaris and Cynthia (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae).
Page 185 - MA Mayes. 1981. Freshwater stingrays (Potamotrygonidae) and their helminth parasites: Testing hypotheses of evolution and coevolution. In Advances in cladistics: Proceedings of the first meeting of the Willi Hennig society, ed.
Page 194 - Grande, L. (1989). The Eocene Green River Lake system, Fossil Lake, and the history of the North American fish fauna. In Mesozoic/Cenozoic Vertebrate Paleontology: Classic Localities, Contemporary Approaches, ed. J. Flynn, International Geological Congress fieldtrip guidebook T322, pp. 18-28. Washington DC: American Geophysical Union. Grande, L. (1994). Repeating patterns in nature, predictability, and 'impact
Page 201 - Kavanaugh, DH (1980). Insects of western Canada, with special reference to certain Carabidae (Coleoptera): Present distribution patterns and their origins.
Page 200 - Jones, DL (1990). Synopsis of late Paleozoic and Mesozoic terrane accretion within the Cordillera of western North America.
Page 189 - Craw, RC (1988). Panbiogeography: method and synthesis in biogeography. In Analytical biogeography (ed. AA Myers and PS Giller), pp.
Page 205 - Michaux, B. (1994). Land movements and animal distributions in east Wallacea (eastern Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Melanesia).