panbiogeography publication

[John Grehan]

PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT

The following book has just been published. If you are interested in
biogeography
or the interrelationship between biogeography and other disciplines this
book may interest you. If you are an evolutionists committed to maintaining
orthodoxy this book will not
interest you. If you are a school or university teacher committed to maintaining
evolutionary orthodoxy you might want to keep this book away from your students
(and before anyone objects to this characterization I can assure you that there
are evolutionary teachers so inclined-at least in universities).

John Grehan

Panbiogeography" Tracking the history of life.
R. C. Craw, J. R. Grehan, M. J. Heads. Oxford University Press, NY.

Contents

Chapter 1. What is panbiogeography

        Darwin's dilemma; panbiogeography, dispersal, and vicariance;
        means of dispersal vs. vicariance; panbiogeographic resolution;
vicariant form- making,                 dispersal, and ecology;
panbiogeographic method (case study of ratite birds and southern beeches).

Chapter 2. Panbiogeography and the earth sciences

        Pleistocene or earlier?; Fossil evidence (case study of angiosperms);
        Geological and biogeographical correlation (including vicariance
regression
        hypothesis, vicariant disjunction along fault lines); insular
distribution (case
        study for Hawaii and Galapagos).

Chapter 3. Ecology, history, and the panbiogeography of Africa

        Regional biogeography of Africa; tracks and baselines of African
biota;  African
        biogeography and ecological lag (case study of Miombo woodland,
West African
        rain forest); African biodiversity.

Chapter 4. Mapping the trees of life (panbiogeography, phylogenetic
systematics, and
        evolutionary processes.

        Geographical distribution as a systematic character; predicting
phylogenetic relationships      from biogeographic data; the vicariance
criterion (case studies of  vicarious moths, figs and wasps); Biogeography
and character recombination  (concepts of ancestors and evolutionary
processes, character geography - case   studies of Ecuadorian lizards,
Eurasian peonies); Vicariant form-making and evolutionary processes (laws
of growth, phylogeography and vicariant evolution, concerted evolution).

Chapter 5. Tracking the trees of life (line, map, matrix)

        Cartographic representation; graphical representations; vicariance
zones; generalized   tracks; quantitative track analysis (minimal spanning
trees, nodal analysis,  compatibility track analysis) grid analysis,
parsimony analysis of endemicity.

Chapter 6. Toward a new regional biogeography (the revival of
biogeographical   classification)

        Spatial logic; track homology; origin and implications of the
baseline concept; tracks, baselines, and tectonics; case studies of the
Americas.

Chapter 7. Tracks, nodes, biodiversity and conservation.

        Biodiversity as biogeography, mapping and tracking biodiversity;
tracks, nodes and      biodiversity; the biodiversity atlas project; Tracks
and nodes in conservation  biology (case studies of a New Zealand National
Park, conservation practice, conservation management); Hybrids, species,
and conservation