Download e-book for kindle: Historical Biogeography of Neotropical Freshwater Fishes by James S. Albert,Roberto Reis

By James S. Albert,Roberto Reis

The fish faunas of continental South and primary the USA represent one of many maximum concentrations of aquatic range on the earth, including approximately 10 percentage of all residing vertebrate species. Historical Biogeography of Neotropical Freshwater Fishes explores the evolutionary origins of this designated atmosphere. The chapters handle significant issues within the learn of tropical biodiversity: why is the Amazon basin domestic to such a lot of special evolutionary lineages? What roles do ecological specialization, speciation, and extinction play within the formation of neighborhood assemblages? How do dispersal boundaries give a contribution to isolation and diversification? targeting complete faunas instead of person taxonomic teams, this quantity exhibits that the area’s excessive neighborhood variety isn't the results of fresh diversification in lowland tropical rainforests. really, it's the made from species amassing over millions of years and throughout a continental arena.

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