『Reinvention of Australasian Biogeography: Reform, Revolt and Rebellion』

Malte C. Ebach
(2017年1月刊行,CSIRO Publishing, Clayton, ISBN:9781486304837 [pbk] → 版元ページ

【目次】
Foreword v
Prologue x
Acknowledgements xii


Chapter 1: Studying the distribution of life on Earth 1

The search for natural biotic areas 2
Cladistics: the search for natural taxa and their relationships 3
Cladistic biogeography: the search for natural areas and their relationships 10
What is an area? Establishing the cladistic biogeographic method 11
How to do cladistic biogeography (or how to start reforming) 14
Reform and the three phases of biogeography 18

Chapter 2: Biogeography comes to Australasia 21

Biological classification and biogeography: a condensed history 21
The two area classifications: the triumph of Humboldt's plant geography 22
Australian biogeography: flora, fauna, elements and biomes 25
The need for testable hypotheses 41

Chapter 3: Carving up Australasia: the quest for natural biogeographic regions 45

Is New Zealand a zoological region? 46
Are Australia’s regions artificial? 49
Reinvention thesis and bioregionalisation 54

Chapter 4: The spectre of cladism: cladistics in the Land of Oz 67

The cladistics war 67
Early Australasian practitioners and critics of numerical cladistics 70
Transformed cladistics in the Land of Oz 74
Cladistics in Australian palaeontology 85

Chapter 5: A new biogeography: the panbiogeography revolt in New Zealand 89

Panbiogeography: Earth and life evolving together 89
The development of panbiogeography in New Zealand (1978–1989) 91
Panbiogeography and its reformation 98

Chapter 6: Goodbye Gondwana: the drowning of Zealandia and the rise of neodispersalism 107

New Zealand: archipelago, island continent or oceanic island? 107
The New Zealand drowning hypothesis: towards an integrative biogeography 121
Integrative biogeography: an undisciplined discipline? 128

Chapter 7: All possible futures 133

Entering the analytical phase: testing the link between evidence and hypothesis 133
Extending Ball's criteria: invasions, drowning and neodispersalism 136
Towards the analytical phase and biogeographic discovery 137
A future of Australasian biogeography ending the cycle of reinvention 140
Framing biogeographic problems using the taxonomy analogy 145


Glossary 146
Endnotes 148
References 154
Index 173