Biogeography, time and place distributions, barriers and islands /
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...
| Other Authors: | Renema, W., SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer,
[2007]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xii, 414 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Series: |
Topics in geobiology ;
v. 29. |
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| Summary: |
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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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Global disjunctions and flying insects / Rienk de Jong and Cees van Achterberg -- Zoogeography of freshwater invertebrates of Southeast Asia, with special reference to Odonata / Jan van Tol and Dirk Gassmann -- Distribution and speciation of megapodes (Megapodiidae) and subsequent development of their breeding behaviour / René W.R.J. Dekker -- The influence of land barriers on the evolution of pontoniine shrimps (Crustacea, Decapoda) living in association with molluscs and solitary ascidians / Charles H.J.M. Fransen -- Delineation of the Indo-Malayan centre of maximum marine biodiversity : the Coral Triangle / Bert W. Hoeksma -- Fauna development of larger benthic forminifera in the Cenozoic of Southeast Asia / Willem Renema -- The role of Spain in the development of the reef brachiopod faunas during the Carboniferous / Cor F. Winkler Prins -- Contrasting patterns and mechanisms of extinction during the Eocene-Oligocene transition in Jamaica / Stephen K. Donovan, Roger W. Portell and Daryl P. Domning -- Long-lived lake molluscs as island faunas : a bivalve perspective / Frank P. Wesselingh -- Patterns in insular evolution of mammals : a key to island palaeogeography / John de Vos, Lars W. van den Hoek Ostende and Gert D. van den Bergh -- Islands from a snail's perspective / E. Gittenberger -- Morphological and genetical differentiation of lizards (Podarcis bocagei and P. hispanica) in the Ria de Arosa Archipelago (Galicia, Spain) resulting from vicariance and occasional dispersal / J.W. Arntzen and P. Sá-Sousa. 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. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xii, 414 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781402063749 1402063741 1402063733 9781402063732 |