The second edition of this book on biogeography includes sections on the science and the history of the subject, and then goes on to discuss topics such as the physical setting; speciation and extinction; applied biogeography; and biogeography in the 21st century.

Completely revised and updated, Biogeography, Second Edition , summarises the diverse approaches to the study of the distributions of living things. Starting from simple facts and principles, and assuming only minimal knowledge of biology, geography and earth history, the books explains the relationships between patterns of plant and animal distributions and the processes that have produced them.