Molecular Panbiogeography of the Tropics: Volume 4 by Heads, Michael

Molecular Panbiogeography of the Tropics: Volume 4 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520271968)

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Molecular Panbiogeography of the Tropics: Volume 4 by Heads, Michael

Molecular Panbiogeography of the Tropics: Volume 4

$85.00
Molecular Panbiogeography of the Tropics: Volume 4 by Heads, Michael

Molecular Panbiogeography of the Tropics: Volume 4

$85.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Michael Heads
ISBN-10: 0520271963
ISBN-13: 9780520271968
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 01/04/2012
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.55lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.30d
By Michael Heads
By Michael Heads
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Michael Heads is a former Senior Lecturer in Ecology at the University of the South Pacific. He is now an independent scholar living in New Zealand.

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