Foundations of Biogeography: Classic Papers with Commentaries

by James H. Brown

Book Overview

Foundations of Biogeography provides facsimile reprints of seventy-two works that have proven fundamental to the development of the field. From classics by Georges-Louis LeClerc Compte de Buffon, Alexander von Humboldt, and Charles Darwin to equally seminal contributions by Ernst Mayr, Robert MacArthur, and E. O. Wilson, these papers and book excerpts not only reveal biogeography's historical roots but also trace its theoretical and empirical development...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226492370
• ISBN13: 9780226492377
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 1328 Pages
• Weight: 4.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.6" x 5.8" x 10.0"