Foundations of biogeography : classic papers with commentaries / editors, Mark V. Lomolino, Dov F. Sax, and James H. Brown.

"Published in association with the International Biogeography Society and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (USA).".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / James H. Brown -- Pt. 1. Early classics / John C. Briggs and Christopher J. Humphries -- 1. Carlous Linnaeus (1781) : excerpts from Dissertation II, on the increase of the habitable earth -- 2. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Compte de Buffon (1761) : excerpts from Natural history, general and particular -- 3. Johann Reinhold Forster (1778) : excerpts from Observations made during a voyage round the world, on physical geography, natural history, and ethic philosophy -- 4. Augustin de Candolle (1820) : excerpt from Essai elementaire de geographie Botanique -- 5. Alexander von Humboldt (1805) : excerpt from Essay on the geography of plants -- 6. Edward Forbes (1844) : excerpts from Report on the mollusca and radiata of the Aegean Sea, and on their distribution, considered as bearing on geology -- 7. James Dwight Dana (1853) : On an isothermal oceanic chart, illustrating the geographical distribution of marine animals -- 8. Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1853) : excerpt from The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H. M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839-1843 -- 9. Philip Lutley Sclater (1858) : On the general geographical distribution of the members of the class aves -- 10. Asa Gray (1876) : excerpt from Darwiniana : essays and reviews pertaining to darwinism -- 11. Charles Darwin (1859) : excerpts from On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life -- 12. Alfred Russel Wallace (1876) : excerpt from The geographical distribution of animals -- 13. Ernst Haeckel (1876) : excerpt from The history of creation, or the development of the earth and its inhabitants by the action of natural causes -- 14. Hermann von Ihering (1900) : The history of the neotropical region -- 15. Clinton Hart Merriam (1890) : excerpt from Results of a biological survey of the San Francisco mountain region and desert of the Little Colorado, Arizona -- 16. William Diller Matthew (1915) : excerpt from Climate and evolution -- 17. Sven Ekman (1953) : excerpt from Zoogeography of the sea -- 18. Evgenii Vladimirovitch Wulff (1943) : excerpt from An introduction to historical plant geography -- Pt. 2. Earth history, vicariance, and dispersal / Paul S. Giller, Alan A. Myers and Brett R. Riddle -- 19. Alfred Wegener (1924) : excerpt from The origin of continents and oceans -- 20. Lars Brundin (1966) : excerpt from Transantarctic relationships and their significance, as evidenced by chironomid midges -- 21. Sherwin Carlquist (1966) : The biota of long-distance dispersal, I : principles of dispersal and evolution -- 22. George Gaylord Simpson (1940) : Mammals and land bridges -- 23. Anthony Hallam (1967) : The bearing of certain palaeozoogeographic data on continental drift -- 24. Philip J. Darlington, Jr. (1965) : excerpt from Biogeography of the southern end of the world -- 25. Larry G. Marshall, S. David Webb, J. John Sepkoski, Jr., and David M. Raup (1982) : Mammalian evolution and the Great American interchange -- 26. Francis Dov Por (1971) : One hundred years of Suez Canal - a century of lessepsian migration : retrospect and viewpoints -- Pt. 3. Species ranges / Robert Hengeveld, Paul S. Giller and Brett R. Riddle -- 27. Joseph Grinnell (1922) : The role of the "accidental" -- 28. Eric Hulten (1937) : excerpts from Outline of the history of Arctic and boreal biota during the Quaternary period -- 29. Evgenii Vladimirovitch Wulff (1943) : excerpt from An introduction to historical plant geography -- 30. Jeremy D. Holloway and Nicholas Jardine (1968) : Two approaches to zoogeography : a study based on the distributions of butterflies, birds and bats in the Indo-Australian area -- 31. Charles S. Elton (1958) : excerpt from The ecology of invasions by animals and plants -- 32. Daniel H. Janzen (1967) : Why mountain passes are higher in the tropics -- 33. Philip V. Wells and Rainer Berger (1967) : Late Pleistocene history of coniferous woodland in the Mohave Desert -- 34. John R. Flenley (1979) : The late quaternary vegetational history of the equatorial mountains -- 35. Paul S. Martin (1973) : The discovery of America -- Pt. 4. Revolutions in historical biogeography / Vicki A. Funk -- 36. Lars Brundin (1966) : excerpt from Transantarctic relationships and their significance, as evidenced by chironomid midges -- 37. Willi Hennig (1966) : excerpt from Phylogenetic systematics -- 38. Gareth J. Nelson (1969) : The problem of historical biogeography -- 39. Leon Croizat (1962) : excerpt from Space, time, form : the biological synthesis -- 40. Leon Croizat, Gareth J. Nelson and Donn Eric Rosen (1974) : Centers of origin and related concepts -- 41. Gareth J. Nelson (1974) : Historical biogeography : an alternative formalization -- 42. Norman I. Platnick and Gareth J. Nelson (1978) : A method of analysis for historical biogeography -- 43. Donn E. Rosen (1978) : Vicariant patterns and historical explanation in biogeography -- Pt. 5. Diversification / Lawrence R. Heaney and Geerat Vermeij -- 44. Bernard Rensch (1960) : excerpt from Evolution above the species level -- 45. Ernst Mayr (1942) : excerpt from Systematics and the origin of species -- 46. David Lack (1947) : excerpts from Darwin's finches -- 47. Philip J. Darlington, Jr. (1959) : Area, climate, and evolution -- 48. James W. Valentine (1969) : Patterns of taxonomic and ecological structure of the shelf benthos during Phanerozoic time -- 49. David M. Raup (1972) : Taxonomic diversity during the Phanerozoic -- 50. Jurgen Haffer (1969) : Speciation in Amazonian forest birds -- 51. Guy L. Bush (1969) : Sympatric host race formation and speciation in frugivorous flies of the genus Rhagoletis (diptera, tephritidae) -- Pt. 6. The importance of islands / Robert J. Whittaker -- 52. Olof Arrhenius (1921) : Species and area -- 53. Edward O. Wilson (1959) : Adaptive shift and dispersal in a tropical ant fauna -- 54. Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson (1963) : An equilibrium theory of insular zoogeography -- 55. Daniel S. Simberloff and Edward O. Wilson (1970) : Experimental zoogeography of islands : a two-year record of colonization -- 56. James H. Brown (1971) : Mammals on mountaintops : nonequilibrium insular biography -- 57. Jared M. Diamond (1974) : Colonization of exploded volcanic islands by birds : the supertramp strategy -- 58. Jared M. Diamond (1975) : The island dilemma : lessons of modern biogeographic studies for the design of natural reserves -- 59. Storrs L. Olson and Helen F. James (1982) : Fossil birds from the Hawaiian islands : evidence for wholesale extinction by man before Western contact -- Pt. 7. Assembly rules / Nicholas J. Gotelli -- 60. Philip J. Darlington, Jr. (1957) : excerpt from Zoogeography : the geographic distribution of animals -- 61. Charles S. Elton (1946) : Competition and the structure of ecological communities -- 62. Carrington Bonsor Williams (1947) : The generic relations of species in small ecological communities -- 63. Robert H. Whittaker (1967) : Gradient analysis of vegetation -- 64. Robert H. MacArthur (1972) : excerpts from Geographical ecology : patterns in the distributions of species -- 65. Jared M. Diamond (1975) : excerpt from Assembly of species communities -- 66. Edward F. Connor and Daniel S. Simberloff (1979) : The assembly of species communities : chance or competition? -- Pt. 8. Gradients in species diversity : why are there so many species in the tropics? / James H. Brown and Dov F. Sax -- 67. Theodosius Dobzhansky (1950) : Evolution in the tropics -- 68. Alfred G. Fischer (1960) : Latitudinal variations in organic diversity -- 69. George Gaylord Simpson (1964) : Species density of North American recent mammals -- 70. Eric R. Pianka (1966) : Latitudinal gradients in species diversity : a review of concepts -- 71. Robert H.

MacArthur (1972) : excerpts from Geographical ecology : patterns in the distribution of species.

"Foundations of Biogeography provides facsimile reprints of seventy-two works that have proven fundamental to the development of the field. From classics by Georges-Louis LeClerc Compte de Buffon, Alexander von Humboldt, and Charles Darwin to equally seminal contributions by Ernst Mayr, Robert MacArthur, and E. O. Wilson, these papers and book excerpts not only reveal biogeography's historical roots but also trace its theoretical and empirical development. Selected and introduced by leading biogeographers, the articles cover a wide variety of taxonomic groups, habitat types, and geographic regions. Foundations of Biogeography will be an ideal introduction to the field for beginning students and an essential reference for established scholars of biogeography, ecology, and evolution.List of ContributorsJohn C. Briggs, James H. Brown, Vicki A. Funk, Paul S. Giller, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Lawrence R. Heaney, Robert Hengeveld, Christopher J. Humphries, Mark V. Lomolino, Alan A. Myers, Brett R. Riddle, Dov F. Sax, Geerat J. Vermeij, Robert J. Whittaker"--Publisher description.

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