The goal of this course is to learn about causes of evolution and extinction as revealed by patterns of distribution of animals and plants on the earth. Lectures and discussions will address problems in molecular, morphological, and ecosystem evolution in relation to the history of continents, tectonic plates, oceans, and climate of the past.
Time: Tues, Thurs 10:10 B 11:30. Place: 1139 N.S.
Text: Brown and Lomolino, 1998, Biogeography, Sinaur
Bartlein, P.J., and I.C. Prentice. 1989. Orbital variations, climate, and paleoecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 4: 195-199.
Bennett, K.D. 1997. Evolution and Ecology, the Pace of Life. Cambridge University Press.
Bookstein, F., P. Gingerich, and A. Kluge. 1978. Hierarchical linear modeling of the tempo and mode of evolution. Paleobiology 4:120-134.
Brown, J. 1996. Macroecology; Chicago
Brown, J., and Gibson, A. Biogeography. Mosby.
Carroll, R.L. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and evolution. Freeman.
Cracraft, J. 1982. A non-equilibrium theory for the rate control of speciation and extinction and the origin of macroevolutionary patterns. Syst. Zool. 348-365.
Croizat, L. 1952. Manual of phytogeography. Junk.
Croizat, L. 1958. Panbiogeography. Publ. by the Author.
Darlington, P.J. 1957. Zoogeography. Wiley.
Darwin, C. 1859. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Species in the Struggle for Life. J. Murray.
Davis, M. B. 1976. Pleistocene Biogeography of Temperate deciduous Forests. Geoscience and Man 13:13-26.
Ehrlich, P., and A. Erlich. 1981. Extinction. Random House.
Endler, J. 1982. Pleistocene forest refuges, fact or fancy? In Prance, G. (ed.) Biological Diversification in the Tropics. Columbia.
Fischer, A. 1960. Latitudinal Variation in Organic Diversity. Evolution, 14:64-81.
Hengeveld, R. 1989. Dynamic Biogeogaphy. Chapman and Hall.
Gingerich, P.D. 1986. Evolution and the fossil record: patterns, rates, and processes. Can. J. Zool. 65:1053-1060.
Goldberg, D., and T. Miller. 1990. Effects of different resource additions on species diversity in an annual plant community. Ecology 71:213-225.
Good, R. 1964. The geography of the flowering plants. Harper.
Gould, S.J., and N. Eldredge. Punctuated Equilibrium
Graham, R. et al. 1996. Spatial response of mammals to late-Quaternary environmental fluctuations. Science 272:1601-1606.
Huston, M. 1995. Biological Diversity. Cambridge.
Heaney, L., and Patterson, B.D. (eds) 1986. Island biogeography of mammals. Biol. J. Linn Soc. 28(1 & 2).
Jablonsky, D. 1991. Extinctions, a paleontological perspective. Science 253:754-757.
Lande, R. 1988. Genetics and demography in biological conservation. Science 241, (Sept. 16).
Lundberg, J. [South American/African fish patterns]. Ann Missouri Botanical Gardens.
Lyell, C. Principles of Geology.
MacArthur, R. 1972. Geographical Ecology. Princeton
MacArthur, R. and E.O. Wilson. 1967. The Theory of Island Biogeography. Princeton.
Lawton, and May, R. 1997. Extinction. Oxford.
Mayden, R. [North American freshwater fish patterns.]
Mayr, E. 1963. Animal Species and Evolution
McFadden, B. [Pliocene Great American Interchange]
Nelson, G. and N. Platnick. 1981. Systematics and biogeography: Cladistics and vicariance. Columbia Univ. Press. New York.
Pielou, E.C. 1979. Biogeography. Wiley.
Pielou, After the Ice Age
Quammen, David. 1996. Song of the Dodo. Scribner.
Raven, P., and D.I. Axelrod. 1972. Plate tectonics and Australasian palebigeography. Science June 30.
Ricklefs, R. and D. Schluter. 1993. Species diversity in ecological communities. Univ. Chicago Press.
Rosen, D.E. 1985. Geological hierarchies and biological congruence in the Caribbean. Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 72:636-659.
Rosenzweig, M. 1996. Species Diversity in Space and Time. Cambridge
Simberloff, D., and L.G. Abele. Island Biogeography and conservation theory and practice. Science Jan. 23, Sept. 10.
Simpson, G.G. 1944. Tempo and Mode of Evolution. Columbia.
Simpson, G.G. 1953. Major Features of Evolution. Columbia.
Soule, M., and D. Simberloff. 1986. What do genetics and ecology tell us about the design of natural reserves? Biol. Cons. 35.
Templeton, A. 1980. The theory of speciation via the founder principle. Genetics 94.
VanValkenburg, B., and C. Janis. 1993. (North American Mammals) In Ricklefs and Schluter.
Vrba, E. 1993. Turnover Pulses, The Red Queen, and Related Topics. American Journal of Science, 293A:418-452.
Wallace, A.R. 1976. The geographical distribution of animals. Vol. I, II. Harper.
Wilson, E.O. 1961. The nature of the taxon cycle in the Melanesian ant fauna. American Naturalist 95:169-193.
Wright, H.E. 1976. Ice retreat and revegetation of the western Great Lakes area. In W.C. Mahaney (ed.)Quaternary Stratigraphy of North America, 119-132. Dowden, Hutchison, and Ross
.