Biogeography of the West Indies [Elektronisk resurs] patterns and perspectives / edited by Charles A. Woods and Florence E. Sergile.

• Introduction and historical overview of patterns of West Indian biogeography / Charles A. Woods -- Biogeography of the West Indies: an overview / S. Blair Hedges -- Climate change in the circum-Caribbean (late Pleistocene to present) and implications for regional biogeography / Jason H. Curtis, Mark Brenner and David A. Hodell -- Functional adaptations to island life in the West Indies / Brian K. McNab -- Phylogeny and biogeography of Lyonia sect. Lyonia (Ericaceae) / Walter S. Judd -- Patterns of endemism and biogeography of Cuban insects / Julio A. Genaro and Ana E. Tejuca -- Patterns in the biogeography of West Indian ticks / Jorge O. de la Cruz -- The contribution of the Caribbean to the spider fauna of Florida / Jonathan Reiskind -- Rhysodine beetles in the West Indies / Ross T. Bell -- The biogeography of the West Indian butterflies (Lepidoptera): an application of a vicariance/dispersalist model / Jacqueline Y. Miller and Lee D. Miller -- Relationships and divergence times of West Indian amphibians and reptiles: insights from albumin immunology / Carla Ann Hass, Linda R. Maxson and S. Blair Hedges -- The historic and prehistoric distribution of parrots (Psittacidae) in the West Indies / Matthew I. Williams and David W. Steadman -- Early Tertiary vertebrate fossils from Seven Rivers, Parish of St. James, Jamaica and their biogeographical implications / Roger W. Portell, Stephen K. Donovan and Daryl P. Domning. 
• The sloths of the West Indies: a systematic and phylogenetic review / Jennifer L. White and Ross D.E. MacPhee -- The origin of the Greater Antillean insectivorans / Howard P. Whidden and Robert J. Asher -- Systematics and biogeography of the West Indian genus Solenodon / Jose A. Ottenwalder -- Characterization of the mitochondrial control region in Solenodon paradoxus from Hispaniola and the implications for biogeography, systematics and conservation management / Marc W. Allard, Scott D. Baker, Ginny L. Emerson, Jose A. Ottenwalder, and C. William Kilpatrick -- Insular patterns and radiations of West Indian rodents / Charles A. Woods, Rafael Borroto Paéz and C. William Kilpatrick -- Biogeography of West Indian bats: an ecological perspective / Armando Rodríguez-Durán and Thomas H. Kunz -- Patterns of extinction in West Indian bats / Gary S. Morgan -- The mongoose in the West Indies: the biogeography and population biology of an introduced species / G. Roy Horst, Donald B. Hoagland and C. William Kilpatrick -- Status and biogeography of the West Indian manatee / Lynn W. Lefebvre, Miriam Marmontel, James P. Reid, Galen B. Rathbun, and Daryl P. Domning -- Historical biogeography in Cuba: 19th-century interpretations and misinterpretations / Pedro M. Pruna Goodgall -- Native American use of animals in the Caribbean / Elizabeth S. Wing -- The prehistory and early history of the Caribbean / Samuel M. Wilson -- Impact of hunting on Jamaican hutia (Geocapromys brownii) populations: evidence from zooarchaeology and hunter surveys / Laurie Wilkins -- Status of conservation in Haiti: a 10-year retrospective / Florence E. Sergile and Charles A. Woods.

• Drawing together contributions from the leading experts in biogeography and biodiversity, this book introduces patterns and new developments that add to our understanding of how plants and animals are dispersed in the region. It uses the new techniques of molecular systematics to test older studies based strictly on morphological data. Unique in its inclusion of a wide variety of organisms and in its coordination of scientific data and conservation strategies, Biogeography of the West Indies: Patterns and Perspectives, Second Edition provides the only encyclopedic discussion available on the biogeography of the Antilles. 

Ämnesord

Biogeografi  -- Västindien (sao)

Biogeography  -- West Indies. (LCSH)

Natural history  -- West Indies. (LCSH)

Nature  -- Effect of human beings on -- West Indies. (LCSH)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Ue.07-qch Biologi: biogeografi: Västindien

Klassifikation

QH109.A1 (LCC)

578/.09729 (DDC)

Ue.07-qch/DR (kssb/8)