Table of Contents

The science of biogeography; the history of the discipline; the physical setting; the distribution of single species; the distribution of communities; the changing Earth; glaciation and biogeography of the pleistocene; speciation and extinction; dispersal; endemism, provincialism, and disjunction; the history of lineages; the history of distributions; island biogeography - patterns in species richness; island biogeography - patterns in assembly and evolution of insular communities; species diversity in continental and marine habitats; areography and macroecology; applied biogeography - biodiversity; applied biogeography - single species; biogeography for the 21st century.