Spatial methodologies in historical biogeography of islands

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511844270.004

3 - Spatial methodologies in historical biogeography of islands

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2011

Paula Posadas ,

Jorge V. Crisci and

Liliana Katinas

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David Bramwell and

Juli Caujapé-Castells

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Paula Posadas: Affiliation:
Museo de La Plata, Argentina
Jorge V. Crisci: Affiliation:
Museo de La Plata, Argentina
Liliana Katinas: Affiliation:
Museo de La Plata, Argentina
David Bramwell: Affiliation:
Jardín Botánico Canario 'Viera y Clavijo' - Unidad Asociada CSIC
Juli Caujapé-Castells: Affiliation:
Jardín Botánico Canario 'Viera y Clavijo' - Unidad Asociada CSIC

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The study of insular biotas has influenced biology for a considerable period of time. The uniqueness of many biotic assemblages on islands or isolated ecosystems (e.g. mountaintops, caves or lakes), which act as habitat islands has prompted the development of biological fields such as evolutionary biology and ecology.

It is well known that the ideas of Darwin and Wallace on evolution were rooted in a historical approach to the geographical distribution of organisms (Crisci & Katinas, 2009). As Darwin himself put it: ‘In considering the distribution of organic beings over the face of the globe, the first great fact which strikes us is, that neither the similarity nor the dissimilarity of the inhabitants of various regions can be accounted for by their climatal and other physical conditions’ (Darwin, 1859: 346, quoted in Crisci & Katinas, 2009).

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Information: The Biology of Island Floras , pp. 37 - 56

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