Evolutionary Biogeography: An Integrative Approach with Case Studies

by Juan Morrone

Overview

Rather than favoring only one approach, Juan J. Morrone proposes a comprehensive treatment of the developments and theories of evolutionary biogeography. Evolutionary biogeography uses distributional, phylogenetic, molecular, and fossil data to assess the historical changes that have produced current biotic patterns. Panbiogeography, parsimony analysis of endemicity, cladistic biogeography, and phylogeography are the four recent and most common approaches. Many conceive of these methods as representing different "schools," but Morrone shows how each addresses different questions in the various steps of an evolutionary biogeographical analysis.

Panbiogeography and parsimony analysis of endemicity are useful for identifying biotic components or areas of endemism. Cladistic biogeography uses phylogenetic data to determine the relationships between these biotic components. Further information on fossils, phylogeographic patterns, and molecular clocks can be incorporated to identify different cenocrons. Finally, available geological knowledge can help construct a geobiotic scenario that may explain how analyzed areas were put into contact and how the biotic components and cenocrons inhabiting them evolved. Morrone compares these methods and employs case studies to make it clear which is best for the question at hand. Set problems, discussion sections, and glossaries further enhance classroom use.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231143783
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	12/26/2008
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

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.

Table of Contents

Preface
1. Introducing Evolutionary Biogeography
2. Basic Concepts
3. A Brief History of Evolutionary Biogeography
4. Identification of Biotic Components
5. Testing Relationships Among Biotic Components
6. Regionalization
7. Identification of Cenocrons
8. Construction of a Geobiotic Scenario
9. Toward an Integrative Biogeography
References
Case Studies
4.1. Biogeography and evolution of North American cave Collembola
4.2. Distributional patterns of Mexican marine mammals
4.3. Biogeography of the Subantarctic islands
4.4. Biogeography of the Sierra de Chiribiquete (Colombia)
4.5. Biogeography of the Mexican cloud forests
4.6. Distribution of butterflies in the Western Palearctic
4.7. Areas of endemism in southern South America
5.1. Cladistic biogeography of Central Chile
5.2. Cladistic biogeography of afromontane spiders
5.3. Biogeographic history of the North American warm desert biota
5.4. Cladistic biogeography of the "blue ash" eucalypts
5.5. Biogeography of South American assassin bugs (Hemiptera)
5.6. Biogeography of plant and animal taxa in the Southern Hemisphere
5.7. Biogeography of the Northern Andes
5.8. Biogeography of Rhododendron section Vireya in the Malesian Archipelago
5.9. Historical biogeography of the Subantarctic subregion
5.10. Cladistic biogeography of the Hawaiian islands
5.11. Dispersal of hominines in the Old World
6.1. Regionalization of Latin America
7.1. Dinosaurian biogeography
7.2. Phylogeography of red deers in Eurasia
7.3. Phylogeographic predictions of a weevil species of the Canary Islands
7.4. The Mediterranean Lago Mare theory and the speciation of European freshwater fishes
7.5. The arrival of caviomorph rodents and platyrrhine primates in South America

What People are Saying About This

John Robert Grehan

Evolutionary Biogeography covers the scope of biogeography in a much more thorough and comprehensive way than any other textbook to date, providing a unique and most excellent contribution on the subject.

— John Robert Grehan, Buffalo Museum of Science

Glen M. MacDonald

Evolutionary Biogeography is a valuable contribution. Juan J. Morrone incorporates case studies that are both useful and interesting, providing a great compendium for an important area of scholarship.

— Glen M. MacDonald, Departments of Geography and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles

Editorial Reviews

is well suited for any novice in the field of historic biogeography by providing a broad synopsis and very good introductions to each method.

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