Overview
- Gathers a range of perspectives on the drivers of diversification across multiple taxonomic groups (with perspectives from vertebrate, invertebrate, and plant studies)
- Presents distinct, often opposing hypotheses on the processes of diversification in the Neotropics
- Illustrates how various geological and climatic historical events have shaped the astonishing biodiversity of the Neotropics
- Summarizes biodiversity data from all major neotropical ecosystems, including neotropical rainforests, savannah habitats, drylands, etc.
Part of the book series: Fascinating Life Sciences (FLS)
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Table of contents (31 chapters)
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Neotropical Diversity and Diversification
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Regional Biodiversity Patterns and Diversification Processes
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ana Carnaval was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, whereshe obtained her undergraduate degree in Biology from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and her Master’s degree in Zoology from the Museu Nacional. She holds a Ph.D. in Evolutionary Biology from the University of Chicago, and completed her postdoctoral training at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California Berkeley. Currently an Associate Professor of Molecular Ecology at the City College of New York, her research group studies spatial patterns of biodiversity and underlying evolutionary and ecological processes, with the explicit aim of improving biodiversity prediction and conservation in tropical regions. Her projects focus on tropical biogeography, integrative uses of comparative phylogeography, GIS-based distribution models, current environmental data and paleoclimatic simulations, and animal physiology, particularly in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest, and, to a lesser extent, the Amazonian forest and the Cerrado.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Neotropical Diversification: Patterns and Processes
Editors: Valentí Rull, Ana Carolina Carnaval
Series Title: Fascinating Life Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31167-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-31166-7Published: 31 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-31169-8Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-31167-4Published: 30 March 2020
Series ISSN: 2509-6745
Series E-ISSN: 2509-6753
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 820
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations, 126 illustrations in colour
Topics: Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography, Biodiversity, Evolutionary Biology, Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography, Community & Population Ecology, Animal Ecology