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Biogeography: Biological Diversity Across Space and Time - Hardcover

Lomolino, Mark V.; Riddle, Brett R.; Whittaker, Robert J.

 
9781605354729: Biogeography: Biological Diversity Across Space and Time
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1605354724 ISBN 13: 9781605354729
Publisher: OUP USA, 2016

Synopsis

Roots the patterns of biological diversity within a geographic context

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About the Author

Mark V. Lomolino is a Professor in the Department of Environmental and Forest Biology at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. His research and teaching focus on biogeography, community ecology, and conservation of biological diversity. He is a cofounder and past President of the International Biogeography Society. Dr. Lomolino received the American Society of Mammalogists Award for his dissertation studies on the ecology, evolution, and biogeography of insular mammals.

Brett R. Riddle is a Professor in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His research focuses primarily on the history of biodiversity in western North America, with ongoing projects including: historical assembly of the warm desert biotas; phylogeography of Great Basin cold desert and montane island biotas; and molecular systematics and biogeography of a diverse cadre of North American rodent groups. He is a cofounder and past President of the International Biogeography Society.

Robert J. Whittaker is Professor of Biogeography in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford and holds a part time Professorial position at the Centre for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate in the University of Copenhagen. He is a cofounder and past President of the International Biogeography Society. He is coauthor of Island Biogeography: Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation (OUP, 2007). His research interests span island biogeography, diversity theory, macroecology, and conservation biogeography.

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Publisher
OUP USA
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1605354724
ISBN 13 
9781605354729
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
5
Number of pages
784