ADVANCES IN HISTORICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY

Biogeography is the study of plant and animal distribution. Historical biogeography attempts to reconstruct the biota history of the earth. Reviving rapidly and shaking thoroughly the one century long dominance of dispersal theory in biogeography during the 1960s, vicariance biogeography theory is now playing a leading role in the field of historcal biogeography. The vicariance theory includes four approaches-phylogenetic biogeography, cladistic...