Biogeography: An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach

by C O X (Author)

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  Paperback
  1985

  $3.25

  Written by biologists for an interdisciplinary readership, including biologists, geologists, geographers and environmental scientists, this book emphasizes both the ecological concepts and the historical evolutionary factors that contribute to our understanding of patterns of life today and in the past. For the latest edition the whole text has been extensively revised and the final chapter completely rewritten.

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  Paperback
  1993

  $3.74

  As in the previous (fourth) edition, the text integrates the three main threads of biogeography: i) ecological biogeography (how organisms live together where they are today); ii) the analytical biogeography of present day distribution patterns (where they live, in what diversity and how they disperse); and iii) historical biogeography (how they come to live where they are today). However, this new edition has been completely revised and almost represents a total re-write of the fourth edition. Two new themes underly this text. Firstly, the involvement of mankind in almost all aspects of biogeography and, secondly, the global viewpoint, introducing more unity than the isolated, fragmented picture that can emerge from a biome approach. This edition is an enlarged format and, as a result of the thorough revision, is 25 per cent larger than the fourth, and the text is heavily supported by line drawings and photographs.