Shopping Cart   |   Help

Evolutionary Biogeography: An Integrative Approach with Case Studies

Juan J. Morrone

Share |

December, 2008
Cloth, 304 pages, 4 halftones, 0 color illus., 97 line drawings, 3 tables
ISBN: 978-0-231-14378-3
$55.00 / £38.00

Preface

Chapter 1. INTRODUCING EVOLUTIONARY BIOGEOGRAPHY

What is evolutionary biogeography

Step 1: Identification of biotic components

Step 2: Testing relationships among biotic components

Step 3: Regionalization

Step 4: Identification of cenocrons

Step 5: Construction of a geobiotic scenario

How to read this book

Chapter 2. BASIC CONCEPTS

Biogeography

Ecological and historical biogeography

Hierarchies and scales in biogeography

Biogeographic patterns

Biogeographic processes

Biotic components and cenocrons

Prediction/ retrodiction

Biogeographic approaches and methods

Evolutionary biogeography

Major references

For discussion

Glossary

Chapter 3. A BRIEF HISTORY OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOGEOGRAPHY

The beginnings of biogeography

Classical biogeography

Darwinian biogeography

Extensionists and other unorthodox biogeographers

The New York school of zoogeography

Centers of origin

Phylogenetic biogeography

Panbiogeography

Refuge theory

Cladistic biogeography

Panbiogeographers versus cladistic biogeographers

Cenogenesis, cenocrons and horofaunas

Taxon pulses

Phylogeography

Conclusions

Major references

For discussion

Glossary

Chapter 4. IDENTIFICATION OF BIOTIC COMPONENTS

Biotic components

Panbiogeography

Individual tracks

Generalized tracks

Nodes

Areas of endemism

Methods

Minimum-spanning tree method

Case study 4.1: Biogeography and evolution of North American cave Collembola

Case study 4.2: Distributional patterns of Mexican marine mammals

Track compatibility

Case study 4.3: Biogeography of the Subantarctic islands

Case study 4.4: Biogeography of the Sierra de Chiribiquete (Colombia)

Parsimony analysis of endemicity (PAE)

Case study 4.5: Biogeography of the Mexican cloud forests

Case study 4.6: Distribution of butterflies in the Western Palearctic

Endemicity analysis

Case study 4.7: Areas of endemism in southern South America

Evaluation of the methods

Major references

Problems

For discussion

Glossary

Chapter 5. TESTING RELATIONSHIPS AMONG BIOTIC COMPONENTS

Cladistic biogeography

Taxon-area cladograms

Resolved area cladograms

General area cladograms

Methods

Component analysis

Case study 5.1: Cladistic biogeography of Central Chile

Brooks parsimony analysis (BPA)

Case study 5.2: Cladistic biogeography of afromontane spiders

Case study 5.3: Biogeographic history of the North American warm desert biota

Three area statement analysis

Case study 5.4: Cladistic biogeography of the "blue ash" eucalypts

Tree reconciliation analysis

Case study 5.5: Biogeography of South American assassin bugs (Hemiptera)

Case study 5.6: Biogeography of plant and animal taxa in the Southern Hemisphere

Paralogy-free subtree analysis

Case study 5.7: Biogeography of the Northern Andes

Case study 5.8: Biogeography of Rhododendron section Vireya in the Malesian Archipelago

Dispersal-vicariance analysis

Case study 5.9: Historical biogeography of the Subantarctic subregion

Area cladistics

Case study 5.10: Cladistic biogeography of the Hawaiian islands

Phylogenetic analysis for comparing trees (PACT)

Case study 5.11: Dispersal of hominines in the Old World

Evaluation and classification of the methods

Major references

Problems

For discussion

Glossary

Chapter 6. REGIONALIZATION

Biogeographical classification

Realms, regions and transition zones

Regionalization of the world

Case study 6.1: Regionalization of Latin America

Major references

Problems

For discussion

Glossary

Chapter 7. IDENTIFICATION OF CENOCRONS

Time-slicing

Methods

Temporally partitioned component analysis (TPCA)

Case study 7.1: Dinosaurian biogeography

Intraspecific phylogeography

Case study 7.2: Phylogeography of red deers in Eurasia

Case study 7.3: Phylogeographic predictions of a weevil species of the Canary Islands

Molecular clocks

Case study 7.4: The Mediterranean Lago Mare theory and the speciation of European freshwater fishes

Case study 7.5: The arrival of caviomorph rodents and platyrrhine primates in South America

Major references

Problems

For discussion

Glossary

Chapter 8. CONSTRUCTION OF A GEOBIOTIC SCENARIO

Geographic features

Plate tectonics

Major references

For discussion

Glossary

Chapter 9. TOWARD AN INTEGRATIVE BIOGEOGRAPHY

Major references

For discussion

REFERENCES

Related Subjects


About the Author

Juan J. Morrone is professor of biogeography, systematics, and comparative biology at the Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City. He is the author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of twenty-one books and two hundred scientific papers on biogeography, systematics, biodiversity, and evolution.

top of page