Foundations of biogeography
Subtitle: classic papers with commentaries
By: editors, Mark V. Lomolino, Dov F. Sax, and James H. Brown.
Contributors: Lomolino, Mark V., 1953-; Sax, Dov F.; Brown, James H., 1942 Sept. 25-; International Biogeography Society.; National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1291
Subjects: Biogeography.
Notes: "Published in association with the International Biogeography Society and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (USA)."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 1275-1286) and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Early classics / John C. Briggs and Christopher J. Humphries. Excerpts from Dissertation II, on the increase of the habitable earth / Carolus Linnaeus (1781). Excerpts from Natural history, general and particular / Georges-Louis Leclerc, Compte de Buffon (1761). Excerpts from Observations made during a voyage round the world, on physical geography, natural history and ethic philosophy / Johann Reinhold Forster (1778). Excerpt from Essai élémentaire de géographie botanique / Augustin de Candolle (1820). Excerpt from Essay on the geography of plants / Alexander von Humboldt (1805). Excerpts from Report on the Mollusca and Radiata of the Aegean Sea, and on their distribution, considered as bearing on geology / Edward Forbes (1844). On an isothermal oceanic chart, illustrating the geographical distribution of marine animals / James Dwight Dana (1853). Excerpt from The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. discovery ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839-1843 / Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1853). On the general geographical distribution of the members of the class Aves / Philip Lutley Sclater (1858). Excerpt from Darwiniana : essays and reviews pertaining to Darwinism / Asa Gray (1876). Excerpts from On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life / Charles Darwin (1859). Excerpt from The geographical distribution of animals / Alfred Russel Wallace (1876). Excerpt from The history of creation, or the development of the earth and its inhabitants by the action of natural causes / Ernst Haeckel (1876). The history of the Neotropical region / Hermann von Ihering (1900).