UNIT ONE. INTRODUCTION TO THE DISCIPLINE.- 1. The Science of Biogeography 2. The History and Reticulating Phylogeny of Biogeography UNIT TWO. THE GEOGRAPHIC AND ECOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF BIOGEOGRAPHY.- 3. The Geographic Template: Visualization and Analysis of Biogeographic Patterns 4. Distributions of Species: Ecological Foundations 5. The Distribution and Dynamics of Communities, Biomes, and Ecosystems UNIT THREE. FUNDAMENTAL BIOGEOGRAPHIC PROCESSES AND EARTH HISTORY.- 6. Dispersal and Immigration 7. Speciation and Extinction 8. The Changing Earth 9. Glaciation and Biogeographic Dynamics of the Pleistocene UNIT FOUR. EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF LINEAGES AND BIOTAS.- 10. The Geography of Diversification and Regionalization 11. Reconstructing the Evolutionary History of Lineages 12. Reconstructing the History of Biotas UNIT FIVE. ECOLOGICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY.- 13. Island Biogeography 14. Areography, Ecogeography and Macroecology of Continental and Oceanic Biotas UNIT SIX. CONSERVATION AND THE FRONTIERS OF BIOGEOGRAPHY.- 15. Biogeography of Humanity, Biological Diversity and Conservation Biogeograph 16. From the Foundations to the Frontiers of Biogeography. sakriti opis