Author: Allen Keast
Publisher:
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 805
ISBN-13: 9789061938811
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Michael Heads
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 507
ISBN-13: 1107041023
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A fascinating analysis of the main patterns of distribution and evolution of the Australasian biota.
Author: Allen Keast
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-12-20
Total Pages: 663
ISBN-13: 9401762953
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Malte Ebach
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Published: 2017-01-20
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1486304850
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Biogeography, the study of the distribution of life on Earth, has undergone more conceptual changes, revolutions and turf wars than any other scientific field. Australasian biogeographers are responsible for several of these great upheavals, including debates on cladistics, panbiogeography and the drowning of New Zealand, some of which have significantly shaped present-day studies. Australasian biogeography has been caught in a cycle of reinvention that has lasted for over 150 years. The biogeographic research making headlines today is merely a shadow of past practices, having barely advanced scientifically. Fundamental biogeographic questions raised by naturalists a century ago remain unanswered, yet are as relevant today as they were then. Scientists still do not know whether Australia and New Zealand are natural biotic areas or if they are in fact artificial amalgamations of areas. The same question goes for all biotic areas in Australasia: are they real? Australasian biogeographers need to break this 150-year cycle, learn from their errors and build upon new ideas. Reinvention of Australasian Biogeography tells the story of the history of Australasian biogeography, enabling understanding of the cycle of reinvention and the means by which to break it, and paves the way for future biogeographical research. The book will be a valuable resource for biological and geographical scientists, especially those working in biogeography, biodiversity, ecology and conservation. It will also be of interest to historians of science.
Author: Barry Wilson
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2013-07-23
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780124095168
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Biogeography of the Australian North West Shelf provides the first assembly of existing information of the North West Shelf in terms of geological, oceanographic and climatological history and current understanding of such issues as biodiversity, connectivity, larval dispersal and speciation in the sea that determine the distribution patterns of its invertebrate fauna. It is intended as a source of information and ideas on the biota of the shelf and its evolutionary origins and affinities and the environmental drivers of species' ecology and distribution and ecosystem function. Regulators and industry environmental managers worldwide, but especially on the resource-rich North West Shelf, are faced with having to make decisions without adequate information or understanding of conservation values or the factors that drive ecosystem processes and resilience in the face of increasing anthropogenic and natural change. This book will provide a resource of information and ideas and extensive references to issues of primary concern. It will provide a big-picture narrative, putting the marine biota into a geological, evolutionary, and regional biodiversity context.
Author: Mary T. Kalin Arroyo
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 146122490X
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