phylogeography posting

[Barry Roth]

Another possibility regarding the term "phylogeography" may be that the authors believe that the word is a quasi-trade name for one group of researchers' practice of geographic/phylogenetic studies, the elements of which were practiced in various combinations long before the group of Avise gave them "a local habitation and a name."  The work of Avise and colleagues includes a particularly thoughtful integration of those elements, but I'm not sure that any of the parts -- or combinations -- is unique to their programme.

As for the absence of reference to Avise et al.'s publications, that one is harder to explain.

Barry Roth


  "John R. Grehan" <jrg13 at PSU.EDU> wrote:
I don't know how the authors might justify this omission, but it might
be worth noting that the competing research program - panbiogeography -
includes acknowledgement of phylogeography in the 1999 Panbiogeography
book (although the term was omitted from the index - my fault). Refer to
the section
titled Phylogeography and vicariant evolution on page 108. Avise is
listed in the index.

John Grehan


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