Historical Biogeography: Evolution in Time and Space

Historical Biogeography

Historical biogeography can be divided into two subdisciplines: taxon biogeography and area biogeography. In the former we are interested in reconstructing the geographic distribution history of a particular group of organisms. Questions we may be interested in answering include: Where did the organisms originate? How did they colonize the areas in which they live today? When did they first com...

Phylogenetic Systematics and Biogeography: Using Cladograms in Historical Biogeography Methods

Parascript, Parasites and Historical Biogeography

Microbial biogeography: patterns in microbial diversity across space and time

Ecological and Historical Factors in Fern Biogeography

Remarkable diversity in recognized endemic centres as well as noteworthy disjunct distributions have led students of the pteridophytes to seek historical explanations for these phenomena. A suite of distinctive attributes limit the array of possible explanations: most biogeographically significant are ( I ) the smaller number of species-range determinants, and (2) the substantial capacity for l...