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Biogeography : introduction to space, time, and life / Glen MacDonald.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley-Blackwell, [2025]Copyright date: �2025Edition: Second editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781119904595
  • 9781119904601
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: BiogeographyDDC classification:
  • 578.09 23  MAB
LOC classification:
  • QH84
Contents:
An Introduction -- Part I. Space and Life: Some Basics. The Physical Environment and the Distribution of Life. Biological Interactions and the Distribution of Life. Disturbance. Communities, Formations, and Biomes -- Part II. Time and Life: Changing Continents and Climates. Dispersal, Colonization, and Invasion. Evolution, Speciation, and Extinction. Realms, Regions, Kingdoms and Provinces: The Biogeographic Subdivisions of the Earth. Biogeography and Human Evolution. Humans as a Force in Evolution and Extinction -- Part III Theory and Practice: Description and Interpretation of Biogeographic Distributions. The Geography of Biological Diversity.
Summary: "Biogeography aims to provide an introductory text for undergraduate students in biogeography, illustrating how environment, space and time interact to control the large-scale distribution of organisms. This title includes key concepts related to the study of vegetation and animal distributions as well as the human impact on these distributions. Praised by instructors for its accessible style and clear structure, the book moves from the definition of ecological biogeography and biological features of the physical environment to then cover key concepts in historical biogeography. The final chapters contain the description of biogeographic regions and provinces"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes index.

An Introduction -- Part I. Space and Life: Some Basics. The Physical Environment and the Distribution of Life. Biological Interactions and the Distribution of Life. Disturbance. Communities, Formations, and Biomes -- Part II. Time and Life: Changing Continents and Climates. Dispersal, Colonization, and Invasion. Evolution, Speciation, and Extinction. Realms, Regions, Kingdoms and Provinces: The Biogeographic Subdivisions of the Earth. Biogeography and Human Evolution. Humans as a Force in Evolution and Extinction -- Part III Theory and Practice: Description and Interpretation of Biogeographic Distributions. The Geography of Biological Diversity.

"Biogeography aims to provide an introductory text for undergraduate students in biogeography, illustrating how environment, space and time interact to control the large-scale distribution of organisms. This title includes key concepts related to the study of vegetation and animal distributions as well as the human impact on these distributions. Praised by instructors for its accessible style and clear structure, the book moves from the definition of ecological biogeography and biological features of the physical environment to then cover key concepts in historical biogeography. The final chapters contain the description of biogeographic regions and provinces"-- Provided by publisher.

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