Biogeography, Time, and Place: Distributions, Barriers, and Islands

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Renema, Willem (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: Topics In Geobiology, 29
• Subjects: Geography.; Paleontology.; Geobiology.; Biodiversity.; Geography, general.; Biogeosciences.; Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.

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...