1st Edition

Biogeology Evolution in a Changing Landscape

By Bernard Michaux Copyright 2020
286 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

286 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

286 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

This detailed exposition gives background and context to how modern biogeography has got to where it is now. For biogeographers and other researchers interested in biodiversity and the evolution of life on islands, Biogeology: Evolution in a Changing Landscape provides an overview of a large swathe of the globe encompassing Wallacea and the western Pacific. The book contains the full text of... Read more

Chapter 1: Setting the scene

Chapter 2: Flesh and rocks evolve together

Chapter 3: Cleopatra’s nose

Chapter 4: New Guinea revisited

Chapter 5: The Malay Archipelago

Chapter 6: The furious fifties

Chapter 7: The Great South Land

Chapter 8: Natural areas

Chapter 9: The final piece of the jigsaw puzzle

Chapter 10: Synthesis

Biography

Bernard Michaux, born in UK and now living in New Zealand, is a school teacher, and has published extensively on biogeography and evolution.