Incluye referencia bibliográfica (p. [773]-823) e índice CONTENIDO: Introduction to the discipline. -- The science of biogeography. -- The history of biogeography. -- The environmental setting and basic biogeographic patterns. -- Physical setting: the geographic template. -- Distributions of species: ecological foundations. -- The geography of communities. -- Earth history and fundamental biogeographic processes. -- Dispersal and immigration. -- Speciation and extinction. -- The changing earth. -- Glaciation and biogeographic dynamics of the pleistocene. -- Evolutionary history of lineages and biotas. -- The geography of diversification. -- Reconstructing the history of lineages. -- Reconstructing the history of biotas. -- Ecological biogeography. -- Island biogeography: patterns in species richness. -- Island biogeography: assembly and evolution of insular communities. -- Areography, ecogeographic rules, and diversity gradients. -- Conservation biogeography and new frontiers. -- Biodiversity and the geography of extinctions. -- Conservation biogeography and the biogeography of humanity. -- The frontiers of biogeography.
