Zoogeography
By: A symposium presented on August 26-27, 1957 [under the prime auspices of the Pacific Section of the Society of Systematic Zoology] at the Stanford University joint meeting of the American Institute of Biological Sciences and the Pacific Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and a symposium presented on Dec. 28, 1957 at Indianapolis meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Edited by Carl L. Hubbs
Contributors: Society of Systematic Zoology (U.S.). Pacific Section; American Institute of Biological Sciences; American Association for the Advancement of Science
Series: Publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, no. 51; Publication (American Association for the Advancement of Science) -- no. 51.
Publisher: American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science
Published: 1958
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 509
Subjects: Zoogeography; Ecology; Paleontology; Zoology
Notes: Authorized facsimile produced by microfilm-xerography by University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1971.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: pt. I. The origins and affinities of the land and freshwater fauna of western North America. Evolution of modern surface features of western North America / Philip B. King ; Climate since the late Cretaceous / H.D. MacGinitie ; The role of physiology in the distribution of terrestrial vertebrates / George A. Bartholomew ; Evidence from fossil land mammals on the origin and affinities of western Nearctic fauna / Donald E. Savage ; The history and affinities of the recent land mammals of western North America / William H. Burt ; Origin and affinities of the birds of western North America (editor's note) / Alden H. Miller ; Origin and affinities of the present western North American reptile and amphibian fauna (abstract) / Robert C. Stebbins ; Evolution of a coast range corridor in California and its effect on the origin and dispersal of living amphibians and reptiles / Frank E. Peabody and Jay M. Savage ; Origin and affinities of the freshwater fish fauna of western North America / Robert Rush Miller ; Some problems of freshwater invertebrate distribution in the western states / Robert W. Pennak ; Affinities and origins of the northern and montane insects of western North America / Herbert H. Ross ; The origin and affinities of the Dermaptera and Orthoptera of western North America / James A.G. Rehn ; Geographical origins and phylogenetic affinities of the cerambycid beetle fauna of western North America / E. Gorton Linsley ; Distribution of butterflies in the New World / William Hovanitz.; title: pt. II. Geographic distribution of contemporary organisms. Introduction / E. Raymond Hall ; Pleistocene ecology and biogeography of North America / Paul S. Martin ; The Palaearctic element in the New World avifauna / Kenneth C. Parkes ; Distributional patterns of vertebrates in the southern United States in relation to past and present environments / W. Frank Blair.