Cladistic biogeography: identity and place

Contributions of Cladistic Biogeography to the Mexican Transition Zone

What biogeography is: a place for process

Most biogeographers will probably agree with Ebach et al. (2003) that an essential goal of biogeography is to ‘discover why organisms are distributed the way they are today’ (citing Platnick & Nelson, 1978). Moreover, many also agree that this is achieved by uncovering ‘the patterns of spatial distribution attained by life on earth and the means by which these distributions were achieved’ (citi...

Is biogeography emerging from its identity crisis?

Biogeography has had an unusually protracted identity crisis (e.g. Brown & Lomolino, 2000; Donoghue & Moore, 2003), although the discipline took on a relatively ‘modern’ look well over a century ago – the thoroughly ‘modern’ observations of Alfred Russel Wallace have been discussed elsewhere (Funk, 2004), and Joseph Dalton Hooker’s views about floristic histories across lands of the southern he...

Cladistic biogeography of Gleditsia (Leguminosae) based on ndhF and rpl16 chloroplast gene sequences.

We used cladistic analysis of chloroplast gene sequences (ndhF and rpl16) to test biogeographic hypotheses in the woody genus Gleditsia. Previous morphological comparisons suggested the presence of two eastern Asian-eastern North American species pairs among the 13 known species, as well as other intra- and inter-continental disjunctions. Results from phylogenetic analyses, interpreted in light...

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