Historical Biogeography

This chapter contains sections titled: The Distinction between Ecological and Phylogenetic Biogeography and the Importance of Congruence Hierarchies of Climate and Geological Change and Their Relationship to Phylogenetic Biogeographic Patterns and Processes The Importance of Vicariance in the Context of Evolutionary Theory The Importance of “Dispersal” in Phylogenetic Biogeography Areas and Biotas Analytical Methods in Phylogenetic Biogeography Historical Biogeography Using Modified Brooks Alternative Biogeographic Methods How Extinction Affects Our Ability to Study Biogeographic Patterns in the Extant Biota Statistical Approaches to Biogeographic Analysis Tracking Biogeographic Change within a Single Clade Phylogeography: Within Species Biogeography The Biogeography of Biodiversity Crises A Brief History of the Events Influencing Our Present Concepts of Historical Biogeography Fundamental Divisions in Biogeography, a Pre-Evolutionary Context, or What Causes Biogeographic Patterns, Vicariance or Dispersal? The Growing Evolutionary Perspective and the Continued Debate About Vicariance and Dispersal Chapter Summary