1. An Update of Wallace’s Zoogeographic Regions of the World
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Michael K. Borregaard, Jon Fjeldså, Ben G. Holt, Pierre-Henri Fabre, Miguel B. Araújo, Susanne A. Fritz, Knud A. Jønsson, Zhiheng Wang, Jean-Philippe Lessard, Catherine H. Graham, Robert J. Whittaker, Dimitar Dimitrov, David Nogués-Bravo, Carsten Rahbek, and Gary R. Graves
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0106 biological sciences ,0303 health sciences ,Multidisciplinary ,biology ,Phylogenetic tree ,Ecology (disciplines) ,Vertebrate ,Global Map ,15. Life on land ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,03 medical and health sciences ,Geography ,Evolutionary biology ,biology.animal ,Identification (biology) ,030304 developmental biology - Abstract
Next-Generation Biogeography In 1876, Alfred Russel Wallace mapped the zoogeographical regions of the world, based on the distributions and taxonomic relationships of broadly defined mammalian families. Wallace's classification of zoogeographical regions became a cornerstone of modern biogeography and a reference for a wide variety of biological disciplines, including global biodiversity and conservation sciences. Holt et al. (p. 74 , published online 20 December) present a next-generation map of wallacean zoogeographic regions, incorporating phylogenetic data on >20,000 vertebrate species to discern and characterize their natural biogeographic patterns.
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- 2013
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