Palaeobiogeography of Marine Fossil Invertebrates : Concepts and Methods.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Processes of speciation and biogeography -- 1.2 Biogeography: neo- and palaeobiogeography -- 1.3 The aims of palaeobiogeography -- 1.4 The different biogeographies -- 2 General biogeographical concepts -- 2.1 The main distributional patterns -- 2.2 The three main categories of biogeographical processes -- 3 Classical theoretical models: dispersal and vicariance -- 3.1 Barriers and filters -- 3.2 The dispersal model and the 'centre of origin' -- 3.3 Panbiogeography -- 3.4 The vicariance model -- 3.5 Centres of origin in palaeobiogeography -- 4 Biogeographic analyses and biogeographical classification -- 4.1 Rationales -- 4.2 Limits and constraints of palaeobiogeography -- 4.3 Definition o f biogeographic units: qualitative criteria -- 4.4 Quantitative criteria ( 'phenetics') -- 4.5 Are biotic provinces objective? -- 5 Analytical methods of historical palaeobiogeography -- 5.1 The method of cladistic biogeography -- 5.2 Brook's parsimony analysis (BPA) -- 5.3 Parsimony analysis of endemicity (PAE) -- 5.4 Retrovicariance biogeography -- 6 Larval biogeography -- 6.1 Types of larval development -- 6.2 Larval development in some groups of marine invertebrates -- 6.3 Rates of dispersion -- 6.4 Palaeocurrents -- 6.5 Larval development and evolutionary implications -- 7 Palaeobiodiversity and palaeobiogeography -- 7.1 Biodiversity in palaeontology -- 7.2 Communities and guilds -- 7.3 Biogeographical patterns of biodiversity -- 7.4 Equilibrium theory and species-area relationships -- 7.5 Are extinctions related to sea-level falls? The biogeography o f mass extinctions -- 7.6 Disturbance events and deviations from species-area predictions -- 8 Palaeobiogeography and palaeogeographic reconstructions -- 8.1 Geoecological assemblages.

8.2 Marine corridors and routes -- 8.3 The problem of the terranes -- 8.4 Longitudinal patterns: Newton s model of pantropical faunas -- Concluding remarks -- Bibliography -- Index.

Combining coverage of theoretical concepts with descriptions of analytical methods, Fabrizio Cecca discusses general biogeographical concepts and the factors influencing distributional patterns using illustrative case histories. Cecca uses the palaeobiogeography of fossil organisms to generate hypotheses on continental drifting, past migration routes, palaeobiodiversity gradients, geographic barriers, palaeoclimatic and paleooceanographic conditions. He explores the biogeographical dimension of biodiversity through the analysis of existing latitudinal and longitudinal gradients of biodiversity and discusses the biodiversity/area relationship with particular reference to sea-level variations.

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