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| Acknowledgements |
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Ecological versus Historical Biogeography, and Plants versus Animals |
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Biogeography and Creation |
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The Distribution of Life Today |
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Evolution -- a Flawed and Dangerous Idea! |
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8 | (2) |
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Enter Darwin -- and Wallace |
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10 | (3) |
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World Maps -- the Biogeographical Regions of Plants and Animals |
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13 | (2) |
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15 | (5) |
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The Origins of Modern Historical Biogeography |
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20 | (3) |
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The Development of Ecological Biogeography |
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23 | (1) |
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24 | (3) |
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27 | (1) |
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28 | (2) |
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30 | (7) |
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SECTION I THE CHALLENGE OF EXISTING |
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2 Patterns of Distribution: Finding a Home |
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39 | (58) |
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42 | (2) |
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44 | (1) |
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45 | (1) |
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Climatic Limits: The Palms |
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46 | (2) |
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A Successful Family: The Daisies (Asteraceae) |
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48 | (3) |
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51 | (4) |
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Magnolias: Evolutionary Relicts |
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55 | (2) |
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The Strange Case of the Testate Amoeba |
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57 | (1) |
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58 | (7) |
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Topographical Limits and Endemism |
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65 | (2) |
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67 | (6) |
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Species Interactions: A Case of the Blues |
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73 | (2) |
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75 | (1) |
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76 | (3) |
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Predators and Prey Parasites and Hosts |
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79 | (4) |
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83 | (2) |
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85 | (12) |
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3 Communities and Ecosystems: Living Together |
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97 | (30) |
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97 | (3) |
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100 | (3) |
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Ecosystems and Species Diversity |
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103 | (5) |
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Biotic Assemblages on a Global Scale |
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108 | (4) |
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112 | (4) |
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Global Patterns of Climate |
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116 | (3) |
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119 | (3) |
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Modelling Biomes and Climate |
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122 | (5) |
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4 Patterns of Biodiversity |
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127 | (30) |
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Measuring Biodiversity: How Many Species are There? |
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128 | (4) |
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Latitudinal Gradients of Diversity |
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132 | (7) |
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Is Evolution Faster in the Tropics? |
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139 | (2) |
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141 | (1) |
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Latitude and Species Ranges |
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142 | (1) |
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143 | (3) |
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146 | (2) |
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Diversity in Space and Time |
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148 | (3) |
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The Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis |
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151 | (1) |
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Dynamic Biodiversity and Neutral Theory |
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151 | (6) |
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SECTION II THE ENGINES OF THE PLANET |
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157 | (40) |
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159 | (20) |
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The Evidence for Plate Tectonics |
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159 | (5) |
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Changing Patterns of Continents |
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164 | (1) |
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How Plate Tectonics Changes the World |
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164 | (8) |
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Islands and Plate Tectonics |
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172 | (2) |
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174 | (5) |
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6 Evolution, the Source of Novelty |
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179 | (18) |
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179 | (1) |
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From Populations to Species |
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180 | (3) |
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Sympatry versus Allopatry |
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183 | (5) |
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188 | (1) |
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Microevolution versus Macroevolution |
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189 | (1) |
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189 | (1) |
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Naming and Cataloguing the Living World |
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189 | (1) |
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Charting the Course of Evolution |
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190 | (3) |
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Morphology Gives Way to Molecules |
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193 | (1) |
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194 | (3) |
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SECTION III ISLANDS AND OCEANS |
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197 | (72) |
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7 Life, Death and Evolution on Islands |
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199 | (36) |
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200 | (1) |
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Getting There: The Challenges of Arriving |
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200 | (2) |
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Dying There: The Problems of Survival |
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202 | (1) |
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203 | (3) |
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206 | (8) |
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Integrating the Data: The Theory of Island Biogeography |
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214 | (2) |
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216 | (3) |
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The General Dynamic Model for Oceanic Island Biogeography |
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219 | (2) |
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221 | (1) |
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Living Together: Incidence and Assembly Rules |
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221 | (2) |
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Building an Ecosystem: The History of Rakata |
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223 | (12) |
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235 | (34) |
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Zones in the Ocean and on the Sea Floor |
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237 | (3) |
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Basic Biogeography of the Seas |
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240 | (1) |
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240 | (6) |
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246 | (4) |
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The Shallow-Sea Environment |
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250 | (13) |
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And Finally Marine Biogeographical Realms of the World |
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263 | (6) |
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SECTION IV HISTORICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY |
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269 | (140) |
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9 From Evolution to Patterns of Life |
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271 | (28) |
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272 | (1) |
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Methods of Analyzing the Patterns |
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273 | (14) |
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Studying Organisms and their Molecules |
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287 | (3) |
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An Integrative Approach to Historical Biogeography |
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290 | (2) |
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Investigating the More Distant Past |
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292 | (7) |
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10 Geography, Life and Climates Through Time |
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299 | (28) |
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299 | (1) |
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Early Land Life on the Moving Continents |
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300 | (4) |
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Animal Life Through the Mesozoic |
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304 | (4) |
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The End of the Mesozoic World |
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308 | (1) |
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Climates and Plants Through Time |
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309 | (1) |
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Reconstructing Plant Life and Biomes |
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310 | (8) |
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318 | (2) |
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The Mesozoic Roots of the Radiation of Modern Mammals |
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320 | (7) |
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11 Patterns of Life Today |
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327 | (40) |
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The Biogeographical Regions Today |
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327 | (7) |
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The History of Today's Biogeographical Regions |
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334 | (1) |
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The Old World Tropics: Africa, India and Southeast Asia |
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334 | (8) |
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342 | (3) |
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345 | (1) |
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346 | (2) |
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348 | (3) |
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351 | (8) |
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The Northern Hemisphere: Holarctic Mammals and Boreal Plants |
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359 | (8) |
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12 The Arrival of the Ice Ages |
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367 | (42) |
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368 | (1) |
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Interglacials and Interstadials |
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369 | (2) |
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Biological Changes in the Pleistocene |
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371 | (4) |
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375 | (7) |
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382 | (6) |
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The Current Interglacial: A False Start |
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388 | (2) |
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390 | (3) |
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393 | (3) |
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396 | (2) |
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398 | (1) |
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399 | (1) |
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400 | (2) |
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Atmosphere and Oceans: Short-Term Climate Change |
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402 | (1) |
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403 | (6) |
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SECTION V PEOPLE AND PROBLEMS |
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409 | (62) |
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411 | (28) |
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411 | (9) |
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Modern Humans and the Megafaunal Extinctions |
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420 | (3) |
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Plant Domestication and Agriculture |
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423 | (5) |
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428 | (2) |
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The Diversification of Homo sapiens |
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430 | (1) |
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The Biogeography of Human Parasitic Diseases |
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431 | (3) |
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The Environmental Impact of Early Human Cultures |
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434 | (5) |
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14 Conservation Biogeography |
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439 | (32) |
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Welcome to the Anthropocene |
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439 | (1) |
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The Sixth Mass Extinction? |
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440 | (4) |
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Less, and Less Interesting |
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444 | (1) |
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What's Behind the Biodiversity Crisis? |
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445 | (6) |
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Crisis Management: Responding to Biodiversity Loss |
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451 | (1) |
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The Birth of Conservation Biogeography |
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452 | (1) |
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The Scope of Conservation Biogeography |
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453 | (6) |
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Conservation Biogeography in Action |
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459 | (3) |
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462 | (1) |
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463 | (8) |
| Glossary |
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471 | (10) |
| Index |
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