Book

MacDonald, Glen M., author.

Biogeography : introduction to space, time, and life / Glen M. MacDonald

Second edition

Hoboken, NJ ; Wiley-Blackwell ; 2025

ix, 518 pages ; illustrations ; 28 cm.

Biogeography: Space, Time and Life provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of large-scale geographic distributions of life, focusing on ecology, evolution, physical geography and conservation. Now in its second edition, this award-winning textbook illustrates key concepts in biogeography using engaging empirical examples of modern plant and animal distributions, long-term evolutionary history and current conservation challenges. Biogeography: Space, Time and Life provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of large-scale geographic distributions of life, focusing on ecology, evolution, physical geography and conservation. Now in its second edition, this award-winning textbook illustrates key concepts in biogeography using engaging empirical examples of modern plant and animal distributions, long-term evolutionary history and current conservation challenges. -- Provided by publisher.

Biogeography.

An introduction -- Part I: Space and life -- Some basics -- The physical environment and the distribution of life -- Biological interactions and the distribution of life -- Disturbance -- Communities, formations, and biomes -- Part II: Time and life -- Changing continents and climates -- Dispersal, colonization, and invasion -- Evolution, speciation, and extinction -- Realms, regions, kingdoms, and provinces: the biogeographic subdivisions of the earth -- Biogeography and human evolution -- Humans as a force in evolution and extinction -- Part III: Theory and practice -- Description and interpretation of biogeographic distribution -- The geography of biological diversity -- Biogeography and the conservation challenges of the anthropocene.

QH84 .M24 2025

9781119904588

895370

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