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Título del libro: Palaeogeography And Palaeobiogeography: Biodiversity In Space And Time
Título del capítulo: Biogeographical convergence and time-slicing: Concepts and methods in comparative biogeography

Autores UNAM:
JUAN JOSE MORRONE;
Autores externos:

Idioma:
Inglés
Año de publicación:
2011
Resumen:

Comparative biogeography (Parenti and Ebach, 2009) deals with biotic areas and their historical relationships. Biogeographical distributions are a result of processes acting at different temporal and spatial levels. Some authors de?e biogeography as the study of distributions of living organisms, whereas others recognise palaeobiogeography-the study of distributions of fossil taxa-as a different discipline (Patterson, 1981). We, however, agree with Rosen (1992) that neobiogeography and palaeobiogeography should be classi?ed as parts of a common biogeographical aim rather than as separate ?elds with different goals. Palaeobiogeography explicitly includes time, whereas neobiogeography, a palaeontological term, does not integrate temporal data (sensu Upchurch and Hunn, 2002) or focuses on recent ecological factors or observable processes (i.e., ecological biogeography). The distinction between. © 2011 by Systematics Association.


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