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SCIENCES
Ecosystems and Environment Field Directors – Françoise Gaill and Dominique Joly
Biodiversity, Subject Head – Fabienne Aujard
Biogeography
An Integrative Approach of the Evolution of Living
Coordinated by
Eric Guilbert
First published 2021 in Great Britain and the United States by ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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ISBN 978-1-78945-060-6
ERC code:
PE10 Earth System Science
PE10_13 Physical geography
LS8 Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology
LS8_1 Ecosystem and community ecology, macroecology
Preface
Eric GUILBERT
UMR7179 MECADEV, National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France
I am pretty sure that most of the scientists working on evolution or the ecology of living organisms did not start as biogeographers … However, when interested in understanding how living organisms have evolved, and how they are organized in relation to their environment, linked to biotic and abiotic variables, biologists naturally arrive at biogeography. Biogeography is the main approach when embracing the history of living species as a whole. It is a huge world, and it is only growing. After a quick search online (Lavoisier.fr), I found 1,291 books on Biogeography written since 1985. Another search, on the Web of Science (wcs.webofknowledge.com), shows 36,567 papers (written between 1957 and 2021) with “biogeography” in the title (Figure P.1). Among these, 25% are associated with “ecology”
