Biogeography, Time and Place: Distributions, Barriers and Islands (Topics in Geobiology, 29, Band 29) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1402063733 ISBN 13: 9781402063732

Verlag: Springer, 2007

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Biogeography considers the distribution of biological units over a wide range of scales. The units range from genotypes, populations and species to families and higher taxa. Processes can be local, such as the isolation on islands due to sea-level fluctuations, or large-scale tectonic processes that separates continents and creates oceans. In all processes time is an important factor and by combining data on recent patterns with paleontological data the understanding of the distribution of extant taxa can be improved. This volume focuses on speciation due to isolation in island-like settings, and the evolution of large-scale diversity as the result of origination, maintenance and extinction.

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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.

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• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1402063733
• ISBN 13: 9781402063732
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 428
• Herausgeber: Renema Willem
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