Overview
- First and most up-to-date review of the impact of tectonics on bioregionalisation
- Easily digestible introduction to neotectonics and bioregionalsation
- Detailed case studies including Australia and the proto-Pacific coast
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Evolutionary Biology (BRIEFSEVOLUTION)
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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About this book
Tectonic plates are constantly moving, either crashing into one another creating a mosaic of mountains and shallow seas, or tearing apart and isolating large swathes of land. In both cases plate tectonics separates populations leading to the evolution of biota. Tectonics is also responsible for the destruction life, for instance when large coral reefs or shallow seas are compressed to form mountain peaks. Could recent research into these processes provide enough evidence to show that tectonics may be the ultimate driver of life on Earth?
Our book delves into the current research in tectonics, particularly neotectonics, and its impact on rapid changes on biogeographical classification, also known as bioregionalisation. We also introduce a new term biotectonics that studies the impact of tectonics on biogeoregionalisation. The question we ask is how tectonics directly influences the distribution of biota in four case studies: the Mesozic and early Palaeogene Australides, which spans the Proto-Pacific coast of the South America, Antaractica and Australiasia; and the Neogene of Australia. To conclude we examine the role of neotectonics on tranistion zones and the Amazon Basin and make a case for biotectonic extinction.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dr. Bernard Michaux is a biogeographer who has published TEWKESBURY WALKS with Springer in 2014 and BIOGEOLOGY with CRC press in 2019.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biotectonics
Book Subtitle: Tectonics as the Driver of Bioregionalisation
Authors: Malte C. Ebach, Bernard Michaux
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Evolutionary Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51773-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51772-4Published: 02 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-51773-1Published: 01 October 2020
Series ISSN: 2192-8134
Series E-ISSN: 2192-8142
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 67
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences