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This is the first volume to fully investigate this rapidly emerging subdiscipline. In addition to providing a critique and an historical perspective, "Biogeography in a Changing World" examines the diverse ideas and methodologies - especially from biology and geology - that are starting to shape its core of knowledge and provide principles to guide research. The text includes contributions from many high-profile scientists who offer insight on the role of biological process such as dispersal and extinction, as well as geological reconstructions in biogeographical explanation. They also explore…mehr

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This is the first volume to fully investigate this rapidly emerging subdiscipline. In addition to providing a critique and an historical perspective, "Biogeography in a Changing World" examines the diverse ideas and methodologies - especially from biology and geology - that are starting to shape its core of knowledge and provide principles to guide research. The text includes contributions from many high-profile scientists who offer insight on the role of biological process such as dispersal and extinction, as well as geological reconstructions in biogeographical explanation. They also explore biogeography's current relationship with other disciplines and discuss potential developments.
Containing contributions from leading proponents of differing methods within biogeography, this book defines the differing, sometimes conflicting, perspectives in the field and their methodological approaches. This gives readers the opportunity to re-focus on a range of issues including the role of biological processes such as vicariance, dispersal and extinction in biogeographical explanation, the possibility of biogeographical pattern, the role of geological reconstructions in biogeographic explanation, as well as the relationship between biogeography and other disciplines. The book also explores the discipline's current relationship with other disciplines and discusses potential developments.
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Malte C. Ebach, Raymond S. Tangney