Origins of Biogeography

The role of biological classification in early plant and animal geography
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-94-017-7991-3
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 173 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 2934 g

Reihe: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences

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 such as Zimmermann, Stromeyer, de Candolle and Humboldt.

Tracing the academic history of biogeography over the decades and centuries, this book recounts the early schisms in phyto and zoogeography, the shedding of its bonds to taxonomy, its adoption of an ecological framework and its beginnings at the dawn of the 20th century. This book assesses the contributions of key figures such as Zimmermann, Humboldt and Wallace and reminds us of the forgotten influence of plant and animal geographers including Stromeyer, Prichard and de Candolle, whose early attempts at classifying animal and plant geography would inform later progress.<

The Origins of Biogeography is a science historiography aimed at biogeographers, who have little access to a detailed history of the practices of early plant and animal geographers. This book will also reveal how biological classification has shaped 18th and 19th century plant and animal geography and why it is relevant to the 21st bio geographer.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ebach, Malte Christian

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Biogeographie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Human- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geschichte der Geographie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue.- Chapter 1. A History of Biogeography for the 21st century Biogeographer.- Chapter 2 Origins, Race & Distribution.- Chapter 3. Humboldt, Stromeyer and Candolle.- Chapter 4. Classification Divided.- Chapter 5. Plant and Animal Geography in Practise: Maps, Regions and Regionalisation.- Chapter 6. The Legacy of 19th Century Plant and Animal Geography.- Epilogue.- Biosketches.- Appendix. Translation of the Introduction to “Commentatio Inauguralis Sistens Historiae Vegetablium Geographiae Specimen” by Friedrich Stromeyer (1800)(Translation by Mark Garland).