New Biogeography book

[John R. Grehan]

Espinosa Organista,D.; Morrone,J.J.; Llorente Bousquets,J.; Villela,F. 
(2002). Introdución al análysis de patrones en biogeografìa histórica. 
UNAM, Mexico

Following the collapse of government and institutional funding support for 
panbiogeography in New Zealand, Mexico (through the Universdidad Nacional 
Autonoma de México) may rank as the most advanced and productive country 
when it comes to generating research and reviews on the leading edge of 
historical biogeography. The latest textbook (below) provides students with 
a historical overview of biogeography, an outline of contemporary 
biogeography involving cladistics, tectonics, and Croizat, issues of 
patterns in space and time, distribution areas and disjunctions, 
panbiogeography, endemism, and cladistic analysis of areas of endemism. The 
book is in Spanish and regrettably I am mostly illiterate in that language, 
but for those who are not so disadvantaged the book provides students with 
an excellent opportunity to avoid the Darwinian curtain drawn over the 
biogeographic horizon of English language textbooks.

Espinosa Organista,D.; Morrone,J.J.; Llorente Bousquets,J.; Villela,F. 
(2002). Introdución al análysis de patrones en biogeografìa histórica. 
UNAM, Mexico

John Grehan

John Grehan
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Pennsylvania State University
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