2nd Ed. — Sinauer Associates, Inc., 1998. — 704 p. Completely revised and updated, Biogeography, Second Edition , summarises the diverse approaches to the study of the distributions of living things. Starting from simple facts and principles, and assuming only minimal knowledge of biology, geography and earth history, the books explains the relationships between patterns of...
New York, London: Columbia University Press, 1974. — 660 p. At a time when insular biotas are, in many respects, little known beyond the floristic and faunistic level, yet when a number of these same biotas are endangered, apology is not necessary for presentation of materials that could be called "natural history." The material in this book will reveal not how much is known...
7th Edition. - Wiley, John & Sons, 2005. - 428 p. The latest edition of this highly successful and popular textbook has been completely revised and updated to include the latest developments in biogeography. It offers excellent insight into the multi-disciplinary nature of biogeography, providing the student with a sound historical base, up-to-date factual content and a clear...
Oxford University Press, 1999. — 238 p. What Is Panbiogeography? Life as a Geological Layer: Panbiogeography and the Earth Sciences. Ecology, History, and the Panbiogeography of Africa. Mapping the Trees of Life: Panbiogeography, Phylogenetic Systematics, and Evolutionary Processes. Tracking the Trees of Life: Line, Map, and Matrix. Toward a New Regional Biogeography: The...
NY: Cambrige University Press, 1998. — 309 p. — ISBN: 0521383587. Eilif Dahl, who died in 1993, had one of the most original and creative minds in plant geography. His approach went far beyond the description of distribution patterns and the establishment of correlations between distributions and particular climatic variables. His understanding of physiological mechanisms that...
New York: the Ronald Press Company, 1957. - 394 p. The scope of this book extends across the fields of plant and animal ecology and geography, with many overlaps of the genetics, human geography, anthropology and social sciences. All of thi together form the domain of biogeography. The levels of integrations; Environmental processes History of biota: Origin and evolution of the...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 259 p. With the exception of climate change, biological invasions have probably received more attention during the past ten years than any other ecological topic. Yet this is the first synthetic, single-authored overview of the field since Williamson's 1996 book. Written fifty years after the publication of Elton's pioneering monograph on the...
Berlin: Springer, 2011. — 476 p. — ISBN10: 9401073376; ISBN13: 978-9401073370 — (Monographiae Biologicae. Book 65) In view of the massive change in the area of distribution of many world biota across classical biogeographical realms, and of the drastic restructuring of the biotic components of numerous ecosystems, the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE)...
Springer, 2015. — 185 p. This book presents a revised history of early biogeography and investigates the split in taxonomic practice, between the classification of taxa and the classification of vegetation. It moves beyond the traditional belief that biogeography is born from a synthesis of Darwin and Wallace and focuses on the important pioneering work of earlier practitioners...
CSIRO Publishing, 2017. — 192 p. 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...
Lyons Press, 2024. — 258 p. This reference work is the first English-language A-Z compendium on all topics related to deserts, including geography, geology, meteorology, climatology, hydrology, botany, zoology, anthropology, art, music, film, culture, sports, as well as the specific and diversely different deserts that one finds in all parts of the world. Definitions,...
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. — 256 p. — ISBN: 0-8032-2604-7. This book is a result of these experiences and related concerns.As an ornithologist I have become increasingly worried about the decline and often regional disappearance of the burrowing owl, a commensal associate of the prairie dog. I also fear for the ferruginous hawk,whose nest sites and winter...
Blackwell Publishing, 2011. — 321 p. — ISBN: 1444335030. The Earth’s ecosystems are in the midst of an unprecedented period of change as a result of human action. Many habitats have been completely destroyed or divided into tiny fragments, others have been transformed through the introduction of new species, or the extinction of native plants and animals, while anthropogenic...
Princeton University Press, 1967. — 218 p. Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson's The Theory of Island Biogeography is one of the most influential books on ecology and evolution to appear in the past half century. By developing a general mathematical theory to explain a crucial ecological problem — the regulation of species diversity in island populations — the book...
Berlin: Springer, 2006. — 446 p. — ISBN10: 3540369198; ISBN13: 978-3540369196 — (Ecological Studies. Book 193) Most books on biological invasions treat only a small part of the subject. They cover either invasive plants or invasive pest arthropods, address invasive species of a country, an island or a habitat, discuss the impact of alien species on economy or evolution, or...
CRC Press LLC, 2000. — 382 p. — ISBN: 0-8493-0836-4. Introduction: Non-Native Species in the World Australia The Impacts of Alien Plants in Australia Non-Indigenous Vertebrates in Australia Environmental and Economic Costs of Invertebrate Invasions in Australia Brazil Alien Plant Pathogens in Brazil British Isles Alien Plants in the British Isles Economic and Environmental...
2nd Edition. — Taylor and Francis Group, LLC, 2011. — 462 p. — ISBN10: 143982990X. The impact of invasive species is second only to that of human population growth and associated activities as a cause of the loss of biodiversity throughout the world. In the United States, invasions of nonnative plants, animals, or microbes cause major environmental damage. The second edition of...
Scandinavian Book A/S 2009. — 337 p. — ISBN: 978-87-993012-0-1 “Life is to be understood backwards, but it is lived forwards” (Søren Aabye Kierkegaard, 1813-1855) These words are pretty much the essence of this book, taking you on a trip to some of the many and beautiful freshwater biotopes in Mexico. Being part of nature we cannot avoid making changes and even damage, but by...
Scandinavian Book, 2011. — 241 p. — ISBN: 978-87-993012-1-8 “In wilderness i sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia” (Charles A. Lindbergh. 1902-1974) The Yucatan Peninsula- land of the Mayan indians. Tropical forests, wetlands and cenotes is just some of the wonders in this part of Mexico. Together with the Maya pyramids and the...
Cambridge University Press, 1995. — 436 p. Species diversity is marked by some interesting facts - such as larger areas have more species, and diversity is particularly high near the equator. Other factors to consider are what reduces diversity in ecologically productive places and across what scales of space and time diversity patterns hold. This book examines these questions...
February 2008. Amur reader. A complete description of the fauna and flora of the Amur River basin One: Natural Setting of the Amur-Heilong River Basin General Description Climate and Weather Hydrology Soils Biodiversity and biogeographic zones Boreal Zone Ecoregions Temperate Zone Forest Ecoregions Global Daurian Steppe Global 200 Russian Far East Rivers and Wetlands Ecoregion...
London: London : Printed by B.M. for the author, 1707. — 1080 p. To which is prefix'd an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c. of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America. Illustrated with figures of the things described, which have not been heretofore engraved; in large...
Second Edition. — Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. — 412 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–856611–3. Island biogeography is the study of the distribution and dynamics of species in island environments. Due to their isolation from more widespread continental species, islands are ideal places for unique species to evolve, but they are also places of concentrated extinction. Not...
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