Biogeology: Evolution in a Changing Landscape (CRC Biogeography Series) - Hardcover

Michaux, Bernard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367147939 ISBN 13: 9780367147938

Publisher: CRC Press, 2019

Synopsis

This detailed exposition gives background and context to how modern biogeography has got to where it is now. For biogeographers and other researchers interested in biodiversity and the evolution of life on islands, Biogeology: Evolution in a Changing Landscape provides an overview of a large swathe of the globe encompassing Wallacea and the western Pacific. The book contains the full text of the original article explored in each chapter, presented as it appeared on publication.

Key features:

• Holistic treatment, collecting together a series of important biogeographical papers into a single volume
• Authored by an expert who has spent nearly three decades actively involved in biogeography
• Describes and interprets a region of exceptional biodiversity and extreme endemism
• The only book to provide an integrated treatment of Wallacea, Melanesia, New Zealand, the New Zealand Subantarctic Islands and Antarctica
• Offers a critique of fashionable neo-dispersalist arguments, showing how these still suffer from the same weaknesses of the original Darwinian formulation.

The chapters also include analysis of many major theoretical and philosophical issues of modern biogeographic theory, so that those interested in a more philosophical approach will find the book stimulating and thought-provoking.

About this title

About the Author

Bernard Michaux, born in UK and now living in New Zealand, is a school teacher, and has published extensively on biogeography and evolution.

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367147939
• ISBN 13: 9780367147938
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 278