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Global Ecology and Biogeography is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that was established in 1991. It covers research in the field of macroecology.The current editors-in-chief are Amanda Bates (University of Victoria) and Maria Dornelas (University of St Andrews).
Biogeography is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time.Organisms and biological communities often vary in a regular fashion along geographic gradients of latitude, elevation, isolation and habitat area. [1]
Using computer simulations, Colwell and Hurtt (1994) and Willing and Lyons (1998) first pointed out that if species’ latitudinal ranges were randomly shuffled within the geometric constraints of a bounded biogeographical domain (e.g. the continents of the New World, for terrestrial species), species' ranges would tend to overlap more toward the center of the domain than towards its limits ...
Ecology overlaps with the closely related sciences of biogeography, evolutionary biology, genetics, ethology, and natural history. Ecology is a branch of biology, and is the study of abundance, biomass, and distribution of organisms in the context of the environment.
Biogeography (an amalgamation of biology and geography) is the comparative study of the geographic distribution of organisms and the corresponding evolution of their traits in space and time. [146] The Journal of Biogeography was established in 1974. [147] Biogeography and ecology share many of their disciplinary roots.
The species–area relationship for a contiguous habitat. The species–area relationship or species–area curve describes the relationship between the area of a habitat, or of part of a habitat, and the number of species found within that area.
Macroecology is a subfield in ecology that uses a methodological approach that investigates the empirical patterns and mechanistic processes by which the particulate components of complex ecological systems generate emergent structures and dynamics [1] Unlike traditional ecology, which focuses on local and small-scale interactions, macroecology seeks to identify general emergent patterns ...
Global mammal richness (2015) Global amphibian richness (2015) Species richness is the number of different species represented in an ecological community , landscape or region. [ 1 ] Species richness is simply a count of species, and it does not take into account the abundances of the species or their relative abundance distributions .