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1 online resource (ix, 194 pages) : illustrations |
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Halsted Press book |
| Contents |
Title Page; Copyright; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 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; Further Reading; References |
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Section I: The Challenge of ExistingChapter 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; Competition; Reducing Competition; Predators and Prey, Parasites and Hosts; Migration; Invasion; Further Reading; References |
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Chapter 3: Communities and Ecosystems: Living TogetherThe 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; Further Reading; References; Chapter 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 |
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Dynamic Biodiversity and Neutral TheoryFurther Reading; References; Section II: The Engines of the Planet; Chapter 5: Plate Tectonics; The Evidence for Plate Tectonics; Changing Patterns of Continents; How Plate Tectonics affects the Living World, Part I: Events on Land; How Plate Tectonics affects the Living World, Part II: Events in the Oceans; Islands and Plate Tectonics; Terranes; Further Reading; References; Chapter 6: Evolution, the Source of Novelty; The Mechanism of Evolution: The Genetic System; From Populations to Species; Sympatry versus Allopatry; Defining the Species |
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A Case Study: Darwin's FinchesControversies and Evolution; Charting the Course of Evolution; Further Reading; References; Section III: Island Biogeography; Chapter 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 |
| Notes |
"A Halsted Press book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Biogeography.
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Ecology.
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Geography.
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Animals
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Ecology
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Geography
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Plants
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ecology.
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geography.
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vegetation.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biology.
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Geography
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Ecology
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Biogeography
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Healey, Ian N. (Ian Nevill), 1940-1972, author
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Moore, Peter D., author
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| ISBN |
0470181311 |
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9780470181317 |
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