Evolutionary Biogeography (eBook)

Juan J. Morrone is professor of biogeography, systematics, and comparative biology at the Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City. He is the author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of twenty-one books and two hundred scientific papers on biogeography, systematics, biodiversity, and evolution.

Preface1. Introducing Evolutionary Biogeography2. Basic Concepts3. A Brief History of Evolutionary Biogeography4. Identification of Biotic Components5. Testing Relationships Among Biotic Components6. Regionalization7. Identification of Cenocrons8. Construction of a Geobiotic Scenario9. Toward an Integrative BiogeographyReferencesCase Studies4.1. Biogeography and evolution of North American cave Collembola 4.2. Distributional patterns of Mexican marine mammals 4.3. Biogeography of the Subantarctic islands 4.4. Biogeography of the Sierra de Chiribiquete (Colombia) 4.5. Biogeography of the Mexican cloud forests 4.6. Distribution of butterflies in the Western Palearctic 4.7. Areas of endemism in southern South America 5.1. Cladistic biogeography of Central Chile 5.2. Cladistic biogeography of afromontane spiders 5.3. Biogeographic history of the North American warm desert biota 5.4. Cladistic biogeography of the "blue ash" eucalypts 5.5. Biogeography of South American assassin bugs (Hemiptera) 5.6. Biogeography of plant and animal taxa in the Southern Hemisphere 5.7. Biogeography of the Northern Andes 5.8. Biogeography of Rhododendron section Vireya in the Malesian Archipelago5.9. Historical biogeography of the Subantarctic subregion 5.10. Cladistic biogeography of the Hawaiian islands 5.11. Dispersal of hominines in the Old World 6.1. Regionalization of Latin America 7.1. Dinosaurian biogeography 7.2. Phylogeography of red deers in Eurasia 7.3. Phylogeographic predictions of a weevil species of the Canary Islands 7.4. The Mediterranean Lago Mare theory and the speciation of European freshwater fishes 7.5. The arrival of caviomorph rodents and platyrrhine primates in South America