Biogeography in a Changing World 1st Edition by Malte C Ebach, Raymond S Tangney ISBN 0849380383 9780849380389

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ISBN 10: 0849380383 
ISBN 13: 9780849380389
Author: Malte C Ebach, Raymond S Tangney

Biogeography in a Changing World 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1

Ernst Haeckel and Louis Agassiz: Trees That Bite and Their Geographical Dimension

• Introduction

• People That Bite: Plagiarism and the Threefold Parallelism

• The Threefold Parallelism: Its Beginning (Tiedemann, 1808)?

• Ernst Haeckel and Darwinism

• Trees That Bite: Haeckel’s Genealogical Oaks and Stick ‘Trees’

• Heinrich Georg Bronn: Trunks and Twigs

• Schleicher: Linguistics and Trees

• Haeckel and Palaeontological Truth

• Haeckel’s ‘Hypotheische Skizze des Monophyletischen Ursprungs und der Verbreitung der 12 Menschen-Species von Lemurien aus über die Erde’ and the Concept of Chorology

• The Development of Chorology

  • Origins

  • Realms, Regions, and Provinces

• Agassiz’s (1854) Geographical Realms: The Natural Provinces of Mankind

• Regions, Homology, and Relationships

• Sclater, Huxley, and the Classification of Regions

• Croizat’s Radical Realms: Ocean Basin and Cladograms

• Summary: The Threefold Parallelism: … and Its End (Nelson, 1978A)

• Acknowledgements

• References

Chapter 2

Common Cause and Historical Biogeography

• Introduction

• Cladistic vs. Phylogenetic Biogeography

• Methods of Historical Biogeography

• Geology and Dispersal

• Molecules and Time

• Global Biogeographic Patterns vs. Biogeographic Realms or Regions

• Conclusions

• Acknowledgements

• References

Chapter 3

A Brief Look at Pacific Biogeography: The Trans-Oceanic Travels of Microseris (Angiosperms: Asteraceae)

• Introduction

• Molecular Mythology

• Geology First?

• A Primer in Biogeography

• Logic of Dispersal

• Dispersal through Migration

• Microseris (Panbio)geography

• Dispersal through Form-Making

• Past, Present, Future

• Acknowledgements

• References

Chapter 4

Biotic Element Analysis and Vicariance Biogeography

• Introduction

• The Vicariance Model

• Tests of the Vicariance Model

• Test for Clustering of Distribution Areas

• Distance Measure

• Test Statistic

• Null Model

• Determination of Biotic Elements

• Test for Distribution of Species Groups across Biotic Elements

• Case Studies

  • North-West European Land Snails

  • Mediterranean Land Snails

• Other Biogeographical Tests of the Vicariance Model

• Conclusions

• References

Chapter 5

Evolution of Specific and Genetic Diversity during Ontogeny of Island Floras: The Importance of Understanding Process for Interpreting Island Biogeographic Patterns

• Introduction

• General Aspects of Oceanic Island Ontogeny

  • Geological Ontogeny

  • Floristic Ontogeny

  • Genetic Ontogeny

• A Hypothesis for the Ontogeny of Oceanic Island Floras

  • Phase One: Arrival and Establishment (0–10,000 Years)

    • Constraining Factors

    • Impact on Diversity

  • Phase Two: Early Development (10,000 Years–3 mya)

    • Constraining Factors

    • Impact on Diversity

  • Phase Three: Maturation (3–5 mya)

    • Constraining Factors

    • Impact on Diversity

  • Phase Four: Senescence and Extinction (5–6 mya)

    • Constraining Factors

    • Impact on Diversity

• Human Impact during the Past 2,000 Years

• Implications of the Hypothesis

• Acknowledgements

• References

Chapter 6

Event-Based Biogeography: Integrating Patterns, Processes, and Time

• Introduction

• Parsimony-Based Tree Fitting

• Testing Significance

• Finding the Optimal Cost Assignments

• Searching for the Best Area Cladogram

• An Empirical Example: Nothofagus Biogeography

• Area Biogeography: Southern Hemisphere Biogeographic Patterns

• Dispersal-Vicariance Analysis

• Comparison with TreeFitter

• Treatment of Widespread Taxa

• When to Use DIVA?

• An Empirical Example: Holarctic Biogeography

• Area Biogeography: Holarctic Biogeographic Patterns

• Acknowledgements

• References

Chapter 7

Phylogeography in Historical Biogeography: Investigating the Biogeographic Histories of Populations, Species, and Young Biotas

• Introduction

• Phylogeography vs. Historical Biogeography

• From Single-Taxon to Comparative Phylogeography

• Toward an Integration of Phylogeography and Historical Biogeography

• Future Directions

• Acknowledgements

• References

Chapter 8

Are Plate Tectonic Explanations for Trans-Pacific Disjunctions Plausible? Empirical Tests of Radical Dispersalist Theories

• Introduction / The du Toit Denouement

• Should Ocean-Crossing Taxa Be Wide-Ranging?

• Furtive Fossils

• Dispersal Counts, Biotic Similarity, and the Distance Effect

• Brief Responses

• Geological Concerns

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