The SAGE handbook of biogeography/
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Los Angeles ; London:
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2011
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Situating contemporary biogeography / Andrew C. Millington, Mark A. Blumler, and Udo Schickhoff
- Section I. Revisiting theories and concepts: 2. History of biogeographical thought / Mark A. Blumler, Anthony Cole, John Flenley, and Udo Schickhoff
- 3. Diversity theories / Duane A. Griffin
- 4. Theory in landscape ecology and its relevance to biogeography / John A. Kupfer
- 5. Classification of biogeographical and ecological phenomena / Angelika Schwabe and Anselm Kratochwil
- 6. The expanding role of phylogeography / Brett R. Riddle
- 7. The biogeographical importance of Pleistocene refugia / Katherine J. Willis, Shonil A. Bhagwat, and Mary E. Edwards
- Section II. Explaining distributions, gradients, and disturbances: 8. Biogeographical distributions: the role of past environments, physical factors, and biotic interactions / Udo Schickhoff
- 9. Biodiversity gradients / Jens Mutke
- 10. Explaining biogeographical distributions and gradients: floral and faunal responses to natural disturbances / Anke V. Jentsch and Carl Beierkuhnlein
- 11. Fire and ecosystem function / Neal J. Enright
- 12. Species response to contemporary climate change / Tim H. Sparks, Annette Menzel, Joseph Pen?uelas, and Piotr Tryjanowski
- Section III. Reconsidering biomes and ecosystems: 13. Ecosystem dynamics of subpolar and polar regions / Ingo Mo?ller and Dietbert Thannheiser
- 14. Forest ecosystem structure and disturbance dynamics across the circumboreal forest / Daniel Kneeshaw, Yves Bergeron, and Timo Kuuluvainen
- 15. The ecosystem dynamics of tropical savannas / Jayalaxshmi Mistry
- 16. Tropical forests: biogeography and biodiversity / Kenneth R. Young
- 17. Dynamics of mountain ecosystems / Udo Schickhoff
- 18. Biogeography of agricultural environments / Chris Stoate
- 19. The biogeography of built environments / Claire Freeman
- Section IV. Utilizing mapping and modelling: 20. Remote sensing for mapping biogeographical distributions: actualities and potentials / Giles M. Foody and Andrew C. Millington
- 21. Remoting sensing for modeling biogeographic features and processes / Joanne M. Nightingale, Stuart R. Phinn, and Michael J. Hill
- 22. Characterizing spatial pattern in biogeographical data / Thomas P. Albright, Monica G. Turner, and Jeffrey Cardille
- 23. Predictive modeling of biogeographical phenomena / Niall G. Burnside and Stephen Waite
- 24. Simulation / George P. Malanson
- 25. Biocomplexity / Stephen J. Walsh, George P. Malanson, Joseph P. Messina, Daniel G. Brown, and Carlos F. Mena
- Section V. Linking biogeography and society. 26. Ethnobotany / Robert Voeks
- 27. Invasive species, in geographical perspective / Mark A. Blumler
- 28. Bioindicators for ecological and environmental monitoring / Yordan Uzunov
- 29. Historical biogeography as a basis for the conservation of dynamic ecosystems / Rob Marchant and David M. Taylor
- 30. Habitat approaches to nature conservation / Geoffrey Hugh Griffiths and Ioannis Vogiatzakis
- 31. Species approaches to conservation in biogeography / Patrick E. Osborne and Pedro J. Leitao.