Reinvention of Australasian Biogeography: Reform, Revolt and Rebellion

The Story Of The Evolution Of Biogeographical Practice In Australasia. Cover; Contents; Foreword; Prologue; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Studying The Distribution Of Life On Earth; The Search For Natural Biotic Areas; Cladistics: The Search For Natural Taxa And Their Relationships; Cladistic Biogeography: The Search For Natural Areas And Their Relationships; What Is An Area? Establishing The Cladistic Biogeographic Method; How To Do Cladistic Biogeography (or How To Start Reforming); Reform And The Three Phases Of Biogeography; Chapter 2 Biogeography Comes To Australasia; Biological Classification And Biogeography: A Condensed History The Two Area Classifications: The Triumph Of Humboldt's Plant Geographyaustralian Biogeography: Flora, Fauna, Elements And Biomes; The Need For Testable Hypotheses; Chapter 3 Carving Up Australasia: The Quest For Natural Biogeographic Regions; Is New Zealand A Zoological Region?; Are Australia's Regions Artificial?; Reinvention Thesis And Bioregionalisation; Chapter 4 The Spectre Of Cladism: Cladistics In The Land Of Oz; The Cladistics War; Early Australasian Practitioners And Critics Of Numerical Cladistics; Transformed Cladistics In The Land Of Oz; Cladistics In Australian Palaeontology Chapter 5 A New Biogeography: The Panbiogeography Revolt In New Zealandpanbiogeography: Earth And Life Evolving Together; The Development Of Panbiogeography In New Zealand (1978-1989); Panbiogeography And Its Reformation; Chapter 6 Goodbye Gondwana: The Drowning Of Zealandia And The Rise Of Neodispersalism; New Zealand: Archipelago, Island Continent Or Oceanic Island?; The New Zealand Drowning Hypothesis: Towards An Integrative Biogeography; Integrative Biogeography: An Undisciplined Discipline?; Chapter 7 All Possible Futures Entering The Analytical Phase: Testing The Link Between Evidence And Hypothesisextending Ball's Criteria: Invasions, Drowning And Neodispersalism; Towards The Analytical Phase And Biogeographic Discovery; A Future Of Australasian Biogeography Ending The Cycle Of Reinvention; Framing Biogeographic Problems Using The Taxonomy Analogy; Glossary; Endnotes; References; Index Malte Ebach. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.