The SAGE Handbook of Biogeography

Situating Contemporary Biogeography - Andrew C. Millington, Mark A. Blumler and Udo Schickhoff PART ONE: REVISITING THEORIES AND CONCEPTS History of Biogeographical Thought - Mark A. Blumler, Anthony Cole, John Flenley and Udo Schickhoff Diversity Theories - Duane A. Griffin Theory in Landscape Ecology and Its Relevance to Biogeography - John A. Kupfer Classification of Biogeographical and Ecological Phenomena - Angelika Schwabe and Anselm Kratchowil The Expanding Role of Phylogeography - Brett R. Riddle The Biogeographic Importance of Pleistocene Refugia - Kathy J. Willis, Shonil A. Bhagwat and Mary E. Edwards PART TWO: EXPLAINING DISTRIBUTIONS, GRADIENTS AND DISTURBANCES Biogeographical Distributions: The Role of Past Environments, Physical Factors, and Biotic Interactions - Udo Schickhoff Biodiversity Gradients - Jens Mutke Explaining Biogeographical Distributions and Gradients: Floral and Faunal Responses to Natural Disturbances - Anke V. Jentsch and Carl Beierkuhnlein Fire and Ecosystem Function - Neal J. Enright Species Response to Contemporary Climate Change - Tim H. Sparks, Annette Menzel, Josep Penuelas and Piotr Tryjanowski PART THREE: RECONSIDERING BIOMES AND ECOSYSTEMS Ecosystem Dynamics of Subpolar and Polar Regions - Ingo Moller and Dietbert Thannheiser Forest Ecosystem Structure and Disturbance Dynamics Across the Circumboreal Forest - Daneil Kneeshaw, Yves Bergeron and Timo Kuuluvainen The Ecosystem Dynamics of Tropical Savannas - Jayalaxshmi Mistry Tropical Forests: Biodiversity and Biogeography - Kenneth R. Young Dynamics of Mountain Ecosystems - Udo Schickhoff Biogeography of Agricultural Environments - Chris Stoate The Biogeography of Built Environments - Clarie Freeman PART FOUR: UTILIZING MAPPING AND MODELING Remote Sensing for Mapping Biogeographical Distributions: Actualities and Potentials - Giles M. Foody and Andrew C. Millington Remote Sensing for Modeling Biogeographic Features and Processes - Joanne M. Nightingale, Stuart R. Phinn and Michael J. Hill Charaterizing Spatial Pattern in Biogeograhical Data - Thomas P. Albright, Monica G. Turner and Jeffrey Cardille Predictive Modeling of Biogeographical Phenomena - Niall GT. Burnside and Stephen Waite Simulation - George P. Malanson Biocomplexity - Stephen J. Walsh, George P. Malanson, Joseph P. Messina, Daniel G. Brown, and Carlos F. Mena PART FIVE: LINKING BIOGEOGRAPHY AND SOCIETY Ethnobotany - Robert Voeks Invasive Species, in Geographical Perspective - Mark A. Blumler Bioindicators for Ecological and Environmental Monitoring - Yordan Uzonov Historical Biogeography as a Basis for the Conservation of Dynamic Ecosystems - Rob Marchant and David M. Taylor Habitat Approaches to Nature Conservation - Geoffrey Hugh Griffiths and Ioannis Vogiatzakis Species Approaches to Conservation in Biogeography - Patrick E. Osborne and Pedro J. Leitao