publication of panbiogeography book

[John Grehan]

PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT

The following book has just been published. Some lepidopterists on this
list might be interested in biogeography or the interrelationship between
biogeography and other disciplines, so this book may interest you.

If you are an evolutionists committed to maintaining orthodoxy this book
will not
interest you. If you are a school or university teacher committed to
maintaining orthodoxy you might want to keep this book away from your
students (and before anyone objects to this characterization I can assure
you that there are evolutionary teachers so inclined-at least in
universities).

Lepidoptera get specific attention with respect to the distribution of the
nymphalid genera
Vanessa and Bassaris, the relationship between distribution and phylogeny
in some
ghost moths (Hepialidae), and the use of butterfly distributions in
biodiversity and
conservation planning in New Zealand.

John Grehan

Panbiogeography" Tracking the history of life.
R. C. Craw, J. R. Grehan, M. J. Heads. Oxford University Press, NY.

Contents

Chapter 1. What is panbiogeography

        Darwin's dilemma; panbiogeography, dispersal, and vicariance;
        means of dispersal vs. vicariance; panbiogeographic resolution;
vicariant form- making, dispersal, and ecology; panbiogeographic method
(case study of ratite   birds and southern beeches).

Chapter 2. Panbiogeography and the earth sciences

        Pleistocene or earlier?; Fossil evidence (case study of angiosperms);
        Geological and biogeographical correlation (including vicariance
regression
        hypothesis, vicariant disjunction along fault lines); insular
distribution (case
        study for Hawaii and Galapagos).

Chapter 3. Ecology, history, and the panbiogeography of Africa

        Regional biogeography of Africa; tracks and baselines of African
biota;  African
        biogeography and ecological lag (case study of Miombo woodland,
West African
        rain forest); African biodiversity.

Chapter 4. Mapping the trees of life (panbiogeography, phylogenetic
systematics, and
        evolutionary processes.

        Geographical distribution as a systematic character; predicting
phylogenetic relationships from biogeographic data; the vicariance
criterion (case studies of vicarious moths, figs and wasps); Biogeography
and character recombination      (concepts of ancestors and evolutionary
processes, character geography - case studies of Ecuadorian lizards,
Eurasian peonies); Vicariant form-making and evolutionary processes (laws
of growth, phylogeography and vicariant evolution, concerted evolution).

Chapter 5. Tracking the trees of life (line, map, matrix)

        Cartographic representation; graphical representations; vicariance
zones; generalized   tracks; quantitative track analysis (minimal spanning
trees, nodal analysis, compatibility track analysis) grid analysis,
parsimony analysis of endemicity.

Chapter 6. Toward a new regional biogeography (the revival of
biogeographical classification)

        Spatial logic; track homology; origin and implications of the
baseline concept;  tracks, baselines, and tectonics; case studies of the
Americas.

Chapter 7. Tracks, nodes, biodiversity and conservation.

        Biodiversity as biogeography, mapping and tracking biodiversity;
tracks, nodes and      biodiversity; the biodiversity atlas project; Tracks
and nodes in conservation  biology (case studies of a New Zealand National
Park, conservation practice,  conservation management); Hybrids, species,
and conservation.