Biodiversity and biogeography of Henderson Island's insects

Biodiversity and Biogeography

As we have seen, life has been important in shaping its own environment throughout its 3.8 Ga* geologically recorded history. It has influenced earth-surface temperatures (Classes 2, 9, 10) through its involvement in the geochemical cycles that determine the world ocean’s salt content and the atmosphere’s composition (Classes 7-10). Overall, life’s effects have tended to compensate for the ther...

The Generation of a Biodiversity Hotspot: Biogeography and Phylogeography of the Western Indian Ocean Islands

Dispersal is fundamental to biogeography and the evolution of biodiversity on oceanic islands

Since the dispersal versus vicariance debate of the 1970s and early 1980s and the broad acceptance and melding of the theories of cladistics and plate tectonics, vicariance approaches to historical biogeography have dominated the last two or three decades. Only vicariant mechanisms were considered to offer testable patterns and refutable hypotheses, dispersal being a random process essentially ...

Biodiversity and biogeography of the atmosphere

The variation of life has predominantly been studied on land and in water, but this focus is changing. There is a resurging interest in the distribution of life in the atmosphere and the processes that underlie patterns in this distribution. Here, we review our current state of knowledge about the biodiversity and biogeography of the atmosphere, with an emphasis on micro-organisms, the numerica...

PYCNOIB: Biodiversity and Biogeography of Iberian Pycnogonids

Biodiversity and biogeographic studies comparing the distribution patterns of benthic marine organisms across the Iberian Atlantic and Mediterranean waters are scarce. The Pycnogonida (sea spiders) are a clear example of both endemicity and diversity, and are considered a key taxon to study and monitor biogeographic and biodiversity patterns. This is the first review that compiles data about ab...