Biogeography : an ecological and evolutionary approach / C. Barry Cox, Peter D. Moore, Richard Ladle.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Cox, C. Barry (Christopher Barry), 1931- author.
• Moore, Peter D., author.
• Ladle, Richard J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Biogeography.

Physical Description:

482 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

Ninth edition.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2016.

Contents:

• 1 The History of Biogeography 1
• Lessons from the Past 1
• Ecological versus Historical Biogeography, and Plants versus Animals 3
• Biogeography and Creation 4
• The Distribution of Life Today 5
• Evolution - a Flawed and Dangerous Idea! 7
• Enter Darwin - and Wallace 8
• World Maps: Biogeographical Regions of Plants and Animals 10
• Getting around the World 12
• The Origins of Modern Historical Biogeography 16
• The Development of Ecological Biogeography 19
• Living Together 20
• Marine Biogeography 23
• Island Biogeography 24
• Biogeography Today 26
• Section I The Challenge of Existing 31
• 2 Patterns of Distributions: Finding a Home 33
• Limits of Distribution 37
• The Niche 38
• Overcoming the Barriers 39
• Climatic Limits: The Palms 41
• A Successful Family: The Daisies (Asteraceae) 42
• Patterns among Plovers 46
• Magnolias: Evolutionary Relicts 49
• The Strange Case of the Testate Amoeba 50
• Climatic Relicts 52
• Topographical Limits and Endemism 59
• Physical Limits 60
• Species Interaction: A Case of the Blues 66
• Competition 69
• Reducing Competition 71
• Predators and Prey, Parasites and Hosts 73
• Migration 76
• Invasion 79
• 3 Communities and Ecosystems: Living Together 89
• The Community 89
• The Ecosystem 92
• Ecosystems and Species Diversity 95
• Biotic Assemblages on a Global Scale 98
• Mountain Biomes 103
• Global Patterns of Climate 106
• Climate Diagrams 109
• Modelling Biomes and Climate 112
• 4 Pattern of Biodiversity 117
• How Many Species are There? 118
• Latitudinal Gradients of Diversity 123
• Is Evolution Faster in the Tropics? 131
• The Legacy of Glaciation 132
• Latitude and Species Ranges 133
• Diversity and Altitude 134
• Biodiversity Hotspots 136
• Diversity in Space and Time 139
• Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis 141
• Dynamic Biodiversity and Neutral Theory 142
• Section II The Engines of the Planet 147
• 5 Plate Tectonics 149
• The Evidence for Plate Tectonics 149
• Changing Patterns of Continents 154
• How Plate Tectonics affects the Living World, Part I: Events on Land 154
• How Plate Tectonics affects the Living World, Part II: Events in the Oceans 156
• Islands and Plate Tectonics 162
• Terranes 164
• 6 Evolution, the Source of Novelty 169
• The Mechanism of Evolution: The Genetic System 172
• From Populations to Species 173
• Sympatry versus Allopatry 176
• Defining the Species 179
• A Case Study: Darwin's Finches 180
• Controversies and Evolution 183
• Charting the Course of Evolution 188
• Section III Island Biogeography 193
• 7 Life, Death and Evolution on Islands 195
• Types of Island 196
• Getting There: The Challenges of Arriving 196
• Dying There: Problems of Survival 197
• Adapting and Evolving 199
• The Hawaiian Islands 201
• Integrating the Data: The Theory of Island Biogeography 208
• Modifying the Theory 212
• The General Dynamic Model for Oceanic Island Biogeography 214
• Nestedness 216
• Living Together: Incidence and Assembly Rules 216
• Building an Ecosystem: The History of Rakata 218
• Section IV Patterns of Life 229
• 8 From Evolution to Patterns of Life 231
• Dispersal, Vicariance and Endemism 231
• Methods of Analysis 232
• Event-Based Biogeography 236
• Reticulate Patterns 239
• The Molecular Approach to Historical Biogeography 245
• Molecules and the More Distant Past 250
• 9 Patterns In the Oceans 255
• Zones in the Ocean and on the Seafloor 257
• Basic Biogeography of the Seas 260
• The Open-Sea Environment 261
• The Ocean Floor 268
• The Shallow-Sea Environment 273
• 10 Patterns in the Past 291
• Early Land Life on the Moving Continents 292
• One World - for a While 295
• Biogeography of the Earliest Mammals 298
• Early History of the Flowering Plants 303
• Reconstructing Early Biomes 305
• 11 Setting the scene for Today 315
• The Biogeographical Regions Today 315
• The Basis of Mammal Biogeography 317
• Patterns of Distribution Today, I: The Mammals 319
• Patterns of Distribution Today, II: The Flowering Plants 322
• History of Today's Biogeographical Regions 323
• The Old World Tropics: Africa, India and South-East Asia 324
• Australia 331
• New Caledonia 334
• New Zealand 335
• The West Indies 336
• South America 341
• The Northern Hemisphere: Holarctic Mammals and Boreal Plants 346
• 12 Ice and Change 353
• Climatic Wiggles 354
• Interglacials and Interstadials 356
• Biological Changes in the Pleistocene 358
• The Last Glacial 361
• Causes of Glaciation 370
• The Current Interglacial: A False Start 375
• Forests on the Move 377
• The Dry Lands 381
• Changing Sea Levels 383
• A Time of Warmth 384
• Climatic Cooling 386
• Recorded History 388
• Atmosphere and Oceans: Short-Term Climate Change 388
• The Future 390
• Section V People and Problems 397
• 13 The Human Intrusion 399
• The Emergence of Humans 399
• Modern Humans and the Megafaunal Extinctions 406
• Plant Domestication and Agriculture 409
• Animal Domestication 414
• Diversification of Homo sapiens 415
• The Biogeography of Human Parasitic Diseases 417
• Environmental Impact of Early Human Cultures 420
• 14 Conservation Biogeography 425
• Welcome to the Anthropocene 425
• Less, and Less Interesting 429
• What is behind the Biodiversity Crisis? 430
• Crisis Management: Responding to Biodiversity Loss 435
• The Birth of Conservation Biogeography 437
• The Scope of Conservation Biogeography 438
• Conservation Biogeography in Action 443
• The Future is Digital 446.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9781118968581
• 9781118968574
• 1118968573
• 1118968581

OCLC:

939277640

Publisher Number:

99968539531