Biogeography, Time and Place: Distributions, Barriers and Islands

Renema, Willem (Editor)

ISBN 10: 1402063733 / ISBN 13: 9781402063732

Published by Springer Verlag, 2007

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1st edition. 414 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Biogeography, Time and Place: Distributions, Barriers and Islands
• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402063733
• ISBN 13: 9781402063732
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.85 kilograms

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.