Origins of Biogeography

The role of biological classification in early plant and animal geography
Buch | Hardcover
173 Seiten
2015 | 1st ed. 2015
Springer (Verlag)
978-94-017-9998-0 (ISBN)

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Origins of Biogeography - Malte Christian Ebach
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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.

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).

Reihe/Serie History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences ; 13
Zusatzinfo 21 Illustrations, black and white; XIV, 173 p. 21 illus.
Verlagsort Dordrecht
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Schulbuch / Wörterbuch Lexikon / Chroniken
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Botanik
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Zoologie
Schlagworte 18th century biogeography • 19th century biogeography • Alexander von Humboldt • Alfred Russel Wallace • Animal Geography • biogeography • Comparative Biogeography • Early biogeography • Ecological Biogeography • History of Animal Geography • History of Biogeography • History of Endemism • History of Phytogeography • History of Plant Geography • History of Zoogeography • Natural Classification • Palaeogeography • Phytogeography • Plant geography • Zoogeography
ISBN-10 94-017-9998-9 / 9401799989
ISBN-13 978-94-017-9998-0 / 9789401799980
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