Fundamentals of Biogeography / Edition 2

by Richard John Huggett

Overview

Fundamentals of Biogeography offers a fresh, up-to-date introduction to biogeography, explaining the ecology, geography, and history of animals and plants. The book defines and examines populations, communities and ecosystems --exploring where different animals

live, and how populations grow, interact and survive. Stressing the role of ecological, geographical, historical and human factors in fashioning animal and plant distributions, Richard Huggett reveals how life adapts to its biological and physical surroundings. The book includes

several sections on differing human attitudes towards nature, and how biogeography can affect conservation practice. As well as explaining key concepts and interactions, Huggett tackles many topical and controversial environmental and ethical concerns, including animal rights, species

exploitation, habitat fragmentation, biodiversity, metapopulations, patchy landscapes and chaos.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900415323474
Publication date:	07/22/2004
Pages:	456
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Richard Huggett is a Reader in Geography at the University of Manchester, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Studying Biogeography

What Is Biogeography?

Life and the Environment

The Distribution of Organisms

Populations

Interacting Populations

Communities

Community Change

Life, Humans, and Morality

Editorial Reviews

Presents a comprehensive introduction to biogeography, explaining the ecology, geography, and history of animals and plants. Huggett (geography, U. of Manchester) looks at where different animals and plants live and how they came to be living there, how populations grow and interact, how communities form and change, and the future shape of communities in the 21st century. Includes numerous diagrams, tables, maps, and photographs to illustrate his points. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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