Biogeography

Biogeography, 5th Edition, explores how geographic variation across terrestrial and marine environments shapes biological diversity. First published in 1983, the textbook explains how geography influences fundamental processes of immigration, extinction, and evolution to determine species distributions.

The volume illustrates these principles with empirical examples spanning diverse life forms, historical time periods, and aquatic and terrestrial systems. Grounded in basic biological concepts, it links spatial variations in biodiversity directly to underlying geological, ecological, and evolutionary dynamics.

Designed for undergraduate and graduate courses, the work serves as a primary textbook for one- or two-semester programs as well as a reference for ecologists, evolutionary biologists, and conservation researchers.