Neotropical Biogeography: Regionalization and Evolution

ISBN-13: 9780367658052 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 282 str.

Juan J. Morrone

Opis

Written by an international authority, Neotropical Biogeography: Bioregionalization and Evolution presents the most comprehensive single-source treatment of the Neotropical region based on an evolutionary biogeographic approach. The book will authoritatively describe and discuss patterns of relationships and patterns of biotic distributions. 

Spis treści

List of Figures

Preface

Author

Chapter 1 Theoretical Background

Chapter 2 Historical Background

Chapter 3 The Neotropical Region

Chapter 4 The Mexican Transition Zone

Chapter 5 The Antillean Subregion

Chapter 6 The Brazilian Subregion

Chapter 7 The Chacoan Subregion

Chapter 8 The South American Transition Zone

Epilogue

References

Index

O autorze

Juan J. Morrone is full professor of Biogeography, Systematics and Comparative Biology at the Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico. He works on phylogenetic systematics of weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) and evolutionary biogeography and regionalization of the Neotropical and Andean regions.

He joined the Museo de Zoología "Alfonso L. Herrera" of the Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico in 1998, after working for some years at the Museo de La Plata, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), Argentina, where he obtained his PhD degree.　 He is Member of the Academia Mexicana de Ciencias, Fellow of the Willi Hennig Society, and Research Associate of the American Museum of Natural History and the Buffalo Museum of Science. He has authored 270 scientific papers and authored or edited 29 books on evolutionary biogeography, phylogenetic systematics, biogeographic regionalization, biodiversity conservation and evolution.