Biogeography, Time and Place: Distributions, Barriers and Islands - Couverture rigide

 
9781402063732: Biogeography, Time and Place: Distributions, Barriers and Islands

Synopsis

Biogeography considers the distribution of biological units over a wide range of scales. The units range from genotypes, populations and species to families and higher taxa. Processes can be local, such as the isolation on islands due to sea-level fluctuations, or large-scale tectonic processes that separates continents and creates oceans. In all processes time is an important factor and by combining data on recent patterns with paleontological data the understanding of the distribution of extant taxa can be improved. This volume focuses on speciation due to isolation in island-like settings, and the evolution of large-scale diversity as the result of origination, maintenance and extinction.

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À propos de l?auteur

Willem Renema:
2002 Ph.D. Free University of Amsterdam
2002- present: Researcher at the National Natural History Museum of the Netherlands.

Dr. Renema is an expert on the (paleo)ecology of large benthic foraminifera in Southeast Asia and the processes leading to the origination and maintenance of high diversity in the Indo-West Pacific.

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9789048176182: Biogeography, Time and Place: Distributions, Barriers and Islands

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  9048176182 ISBN 13 :  9789048176182
Editeur : Springer, 2010
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