Origins of biogeography [electronic resource] : the role of biological classification in early plant and animal geography / Malte Christian Ebach.
2015
QH84
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Title
Origins of biogeography [electronic resource] : the role of biological classification in early plant and animal geography / Malte Christian Ebach.
Author
Ebach, Malte C., author.
ISBN
9789401799997 electronic book
9401799997 electronic book
9789401799980
9401799989
9401799997 electronic book
9789401799980
9401799989
Published
Dordrecht : Springer, 2015.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 173 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-94-017-9999-7 doi
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QH84
Dewey Decimal Classification
578.09
Summary
Biogeography is a multidisciplinary field with multiple origins in 19th century taxonomic practice. The Origins of Biogeography presents a revised history of early biogeography and investigates the split in taxonomic practice, between the classification of taxa and the classification of vegetation. This book moves beyond the traditional belief that biogeography is born from a synthesis of Darwin and Wallace and focuses on the important pioneering work of earlier practitioners such as Zimmermann, Stromeyer, de Candolle and Humboldt. Tracing the academic history of biogeography over the decades and centuries, this book recounts the early schisms in phyto and zoogeography, the shedding of its bonds to taxonomy, its adoption of an ecological framework, and its beginnings at the dawn of the 20th century. This book assesses the contributions of key figures such as Zimmermann, Humboldt and Wallace, and reminds us of the forgotten influence of plant and animal geographers including Stromeyer, Prichard and de Candolle, whose early attempts at classifying animal and plant geography would inform later progress. The Origins of Biogeography is a science historiography aimed at biogeographers, who have little access to a detailed history of the practices of early plant and animal geographers. This book will also reveal how biological classification has shaped 18th and 19th century plant and animal geography and why it is relevant to the 21st biogeographer.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed July 9, 2015).
Series
History. philosophy and theory of the life sciences ; volume 13.
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