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Comparative Biogeography: Discovering and Classifying Biogeographical Patterns
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Comparative Biogeography: Discovering and Classifying Biogeographical Patterns of a Dynamic Earth Volume 2 Hardcover - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Lynne Parenti; Malte Ebach


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To unravel the complex shared history of the Earth and its life forms, biogeographers analyze patterns of biodiversity, species distribution, and geological history. So far, the field of biogeography has been fragmented into divergent systematic and evolutionary approaches, with no overarching or unifying research theme or method. In this text, Lynne Parenti and Malte Ebach address this discord and outline comparative tools to unify biogeography. Rooted in phylogenetic systematics, this comparative biogeographic approach offers a comprehensive empirical framework for discovering and deciphering the patterns and processes of the distribution of life on Earth. The authors cover biogeography from its fundamental ideas to the most effective ways to implement them. Real-life examples illustrate concepts and problems, including the first comparative biogeographical analysis of the Indo-West Pacific, an introduction to biogeographical concepts rooted in the earth sciences, and the integration of phylogeny, evolution and earth history.

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Parenti and Ebach provide a fine introduction to the aims and methods of comparative biogeography, and the difference that it makes to our view of the world. Energetic and sometimes provocative, this book shows us how we can start to untangle the interconnected threads of biotic and planetary evolution to more clearly understand how earth and life evolve together.--Sir Peter Crane, FRS, Yale University

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  • Title Comparative Biogeography: Discovering and Classifying Biogeographical Patterns of a Dynamic Earth Volume 2
  • Author Lynne Parenti; Malte Ebach
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 312
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Los Angeles, California
  • Date 2009-11
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780520259454 / 0520259459
  • Weight 1.55 lbs (0.70 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.9 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Science/Technology Aspects
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Library of Congress subjects Biogeography
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009003352
  • Dewey Decimal Code 578.09

Media reviews

Citations

  • Choice, 05/01/2010, Page 0
  • Chronicle of Higher Education, 12/04/2009, Page 16

About the author

Lynne R. Parenti is Research Scientist and Curator of Fishes at the National Museum of Natural History in the Smithsonian Institution, and co-editor, with R. Claro and K. C. Lindeman, of Ecology of the Marine Fishes of Cuba (2002), co-editor, with M.L.J. Stiassny and G. D. Johnson, of Interrelationships of Fishes (1996, 1998), and co-author, with C. J. Humphries, of Cladistic biogeography (1986, 1999). Malte C. Ebach is a Post Doctoral Fellow at Arizona State University's International Institute for Species Exploration, and co-author, with D. M. Williams, of Foundations of Systematics and Biogeography (2008), and co-editor, with R. S. Tangey, of Biogeography in a Changing World (2006).
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