Molecular panbiogeography of the tropics [[electronic resource] /] / Michael Heads
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| Autore: |
Heads Michael J
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| Titolo: |
Molecular panbiogeography of the tropics [[electronic resource] /] / Michael Heads
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (577 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 578.0913 |
| Soggetto topico: | Biogeography - Tropics |
| Biology - Classification - Molecular aspects | |
| Variation (Biology) - Tropics | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | african ecology |
| african species | |
| allopatric speciation | |
| animal distribution | |
| animal taxa | |
| animals and geography | |
| asian ecology | |
| asian species | |
| biogeography | |
| biological evolution | |
| books for biology majors | |
| darwin | |
| earth history | |
| ecology books | |
| ecology reference | |
| endemism | |
| fossils | |
| geographic patterns | |
| madagascar ecology | |
| mammal zoology | |
| natural selection | |
| science and evolution | |
| south america ecology | |
| south american species | |
| theory of evolution | |
| tropical america | |
| tropical species | |
| zoology books | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Evolution In Space -- 2. Evolution In Time -- 3. Evolution And Biogeography Of Primates: A New Model Based On Molecular Phylogenetics, Vicariance, And Plate Tectonics -- 4. Biogeography Of New World Monkeys -- 5. Primates In Africa And Asia -- 6. Biogeography Of The Central Pacific: Endemism, Vicariance, And Plate Tectonics -- 7. Biogeography Of The Hawaiian Islands: The Global Context -- 8. Distribution Within The Hawaiian Islands -- 9. Biogeography Of Pantropical And Global Groups -- 10. Evolution In Space, Time, And Form: Beyond Centers Of Origin, Dispersal, And Adaptation -- Glossary Of Geological Terms -- Bibliography -- Index -- About The Author -- Species And Systematics |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Molecular studies reveal highly ordered geographic patterns in plant and animal distributions. The tropics illustrate these patterns of community immobilism leading to allopatric differentiation, as well as other patterns of mobilism, range expansion, and overlap of taxa. Integrating Earth history and biogeography, Molecular Panbiogeography of the Tropics is an alternative view of distributional history in which groups are older than suggested by fossils and fossil-calibrated molecular clocks. The author discusses possible causes for the endemism of high-level taxa in tropical America and Madagascar, and overlapping clades in South America, Africa, and Asia. The book concludes with a critique of adaptation by selection, founded on biogeography and recent work in genetics. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Molecular panbiogeography of the tropics |
| ISBN: | 1-283-36973-7 |
| 9786613369734 | |
| 0-520-95180-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910811355003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Species and systematics.