The SAGE Handbook of Biogeography

Description

The SAGE Handbook of Biogeography is a manual for scoping the past, present and future of biogeography that enable readers to consider, where relevant, how similar biogeographical issues are tackled by researchers in different ′schools′. In line with the concept of all SAGE Handbooks, this is a retrospective and prospective overview of biogeography that will consider the main areas of biogeography researched by geographers, detail a global perspective by incorporating the work of different schools of biogeographers, explore the divergent evolution of biogeography as a discipline and consider how this diversity can be harnessed, examine the interdisciplinary debates that biogeographers are, and are not, contributing to within Geography and within the biological sciences. Cover Contents Acknowledgements List of Contributors Foreword 1 Situating Contemporary Biogeography 2 History of Biogeographical Thought 3 Diversity Theories 4 Theory in Landscape Ecology and Its Relevance to Biogeography 5 Classification of Biogeographical and Ecological Phenomena 6 The Expanding Role of Phylogeography 7 The Biogeographical Importance of Pleistocene Refugia 8 Biogeographical Distributions: The Role of Past Environments, Physical Factors, and Biotic Interactions 9 Biodiversity Gradients 10 Explaining Biogeographical Distributions and Gradients: Floral and Faunal Responses to Natural Disturbances 11 Fire and Ecosystem Function 12 Species Response to Contemporary Climate Change 13 Ecosystem Dynamics of Subpolar and Polar Regions 14 Forest Ecosystem Structure and Disturbance Dynamics across the Circumboreal Forest 15 The Ecosystem Dynamics of Tropical Savannas 16 Tropical Forests: Biogeography and Biodiversity 17 Dynamics of Mountain Ecosystems 18 Biogeography of Agricultural Environments 19 The Biogeography of Built Environments 20 Remote Sensing for Mapping Biogeographical Distributions: Actualities and Potentials 21 Remote Sensing for Modeling Biogeographic Features and Processes 22 Characterizing Spatial Pattern in Biogeographical Data 23 Predictive Modeling of Biogeographical Phenomena 24 Simulation 25 Biocomplexity 26 Ethnobotany 27 Invasive Species, in Geographical Perspective 28 Bioindicators for Ecological and Environmental Monitoring 29 Historical Biogeography as a Basis for the Conservation of Dynamic Ecosystems 30 Habitat Approaches to Nature Conservation 31 Species Approaches to Conservation in Biogeography Index