Biogeography, Time and Place: Distributions, Barriers and Islands

Buch | Softcover

416 Seiten

2010 | Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2007
Springer (Verlag)
978-90-481-7618-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Willem Renema: 2002 Ph.D. Free University of Amsterdam 2002- present: Researcher at the National Natural History Museum of the Netherlands. Dr. Renema is an expert on the (paleo)ecology of large benthic foraminifera in Southeast Asia and the processes leading to the origination and maintenance of high diversity in the Indo-West Pacific.

Global Disjunctions and Flying Insects.- Zoogeography of Freshwater Invertebrates of Southeast Asia, with Special Reference to Odonata.- Distribution and Speciation of Megapodes (Megapodiidae) and Subsequent Development of their Breeding.- The Influence of Land Barriers on the Evolution of Pontoniine Shrimps (Crustacea, Decapoda) Living in Association with Molluscs and Solitary Ascidians.- Delineation of the Indo-Malayan Centre of Maximum Marine Biodiversity: The Coral Triangle.- Fauna Development of Larger Benthic Foraminifera in the Cenozoic of Southeast Asia.- The Role of Spain in the Development of the Reef Brachiopod Faunas During the Carboniferous.- Contrasting Patterns and Mechanisms of Extinction during the Eocene–Oligocene Transition in Jamaica.- Long-Lived Lake Molluscs as Island Faunas: A Bivalve Perspective.- Patterns in Insular Evolution of Mammals: A Key to Island Palaeogeography.- Islands from a Snail's Perspective.- 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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.11.2010
Reihe/Serie	Topics in Geobiology ; 29
Zusatzinfo	122 Illustrations, black and white; XII, 416 p. 122 illus.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Mineralogie / Paläontologie
ISBN-10	90-481-7618-2 / 9048176182
ISBN-13	978-90-481-7618-2 / 9789048176182
Zustand	Neuware