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The text has been praised for its solid background in historical biogeography. Evolutionary biogeography uses distributional, phylogenetic, molecular, and fossil data to assess the historical changes that have produced current biotic patterns. Additionally, we explored finescale biogeographic patterns for an. For scientists who study evolution, biogeography is often an important part of their analysis, because it provides compelling proof for their theory. Biogeography of global climate change 734 the biogeography of humanity 740 conservation biogeography 753 box 16. Individual animals and plants move, actively and passively, through space both in order to seek out unoccupied areas and in response to environmental. The text, noted for its clear and engaging style of writing, has been praised for its solid background in. The emphasis on the more historicalevolutionary side of biogeography is completed by chapters 8, 9, and 10 on the largerscale aspects of historical biogeography.
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