Overview
- Offers exchanges between the fields of paleontology and zoology as patterns of biodiversity have long attracted attention by both biologists and paleontologists
- Features chapters on the development of (isolated) island faunas, paleogeography and zoomorphology
- Shows that patterns are not always what they seem if you look at them without a spatial or temporal reference. This cannot be generated without documenting fossil or recent occurrences of taxa
Part of the book series: Topics in Geobiology (TGBI, volume 29)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"This volume of the series ‘Topics in Geobiology’ 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. … Biogeography is seen here mainly in the context of paleontology, zoology, plate tectonics, and evolutionary processes resulting in genetic isolation and morphological differentiation on islands. … A fascinating, outstanding and highly recommendable contribution to biogeography." R. Gerstmeier, Entomofauna, Vol. 29 (9), 2008.
"Willem Renema … presents a balanced collection of chapters on a diversity of taxa, aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, and biogeographic phenomena. … Each chapter is well laid out, following a structural format which is held consistent throughout the book. … this is a rich collection of contributions that provides an eclectic sampling of current research on the responses of ancient biotas to the dynamics of barriers, dispersal routes, and islands. … recommend highly to all scientists interested in the temporal and geographic dynamics of life." Mark V. Lomolino, Journal of Mammal Evolution, Vol. 16, 2009.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biogeography, Time and Place: Distributions, Barriers and Islands
Editors: Willem Renema
Series Title: Topics in Geobiology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6374-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6373-2Published: 27 September 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7618-2Published: 20 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-6374-9Published: 07 September 2007
Series ISSN: 0275-0120
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 416
Number of Illustrations: 122 b/w illustrations
Topics: Geography, general, Biogeosciences, Paleontology, Biodiversity, Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography