Biogeography, Time and Place: Distributions, Barriers and Islands

2007
ISBN: 978-1-4020-6373-2
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 805 g

Reihe: Topics in Geobiology

This book offers exchanges between the fields of paleontology and zoology as patterns of biodiversity have long attracted the attention of both biologists and paleontologists. It covers the development of isolated island faunas, paleogeography and zoomorphology. The book shows that patterns are not always what they seem if looked at without a spatial or temporal reference.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Renema, Willem

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläontologie, Taphonomie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Global Disjunctions and Flying Insects.- Zoogeography of Freshwater Invertebrates of Southeast Asia, with Special Reference to Odonata.- Distribution and Speciation of Megapodes (Megapodiidae) and Subsequent Development of their Breeding.- The Influence of Land Barriers on the Evolution of Pontoniine Shrimps (Crustacea, Decapoda) Living in Association with Molluscs and Solitary Ascidians.- Delineation of the Indo-Malayan Centre of Maximum Marine Biodiversity: The Coral Triangle.- Fauna Development of Larger Benthic Foraminifera in the Cenozoic of Southeast Asia.- The Role of Spain in the Development of the Reef Brachiopod Faunas During the Carboniferous.- Contrasting Patterns and Mechanisms of Extinction during the Eocene–Oligocene Transition in Jamaica.- Long-Lived Lake Molluscs as Island Faunas: A Bivalve Perspective.- Patterns in Insular Evolution of Mammals: A Key to Island Palaeogeography.- Islands from a Snail's Perspective.- Morphological and Genetical Differentiation of Lizards (Podarcis bocagei and P. hispanica) in the Ria de Arosa Archipelago (Galicia, Spain) resulting from Vicariance and Occasional Dispersal.

Über Autor(innen)

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.