Bridging historical and ecological approaches in biogeography
Jorge V. Crisci A , Osvaldo E. Sala B , Liliana Katinas C and Paula Posadas D EA Laboratorio de Sistemática y Biología Evolutiva, Museo de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque, B1900FWA La Plata, Argentina.
B Center for Environmental Studies, Brown University, Box 1943, Providence, RI 02912, USA.
C División Plantas Vasculares, Museo de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque, B1900FWA La Plata, Argentina.
D Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio, Fontana 140, U9100GYO Trelew, Argentina.
E Corresponding author. Email: pposadas@mef.org.ar
F All the authors contributed equally to this manuscript
Australian Systematic Botany 19(1) 1-10 https://doi.org/10.1071/SB05006
Submitted: 19 March 2005 Accepted: 18 August 2005 Published: 27 February 2006
Abstract
The practice of biogeography is rooted in disciplines that traditionally have had little intellectual exchange and yielded two complementary biogeographic approaches: ecological and historical biogeography. The aim of this paper is to review alternative biogeographic approaches in the context of spatial analysis. Biogeography can be used to set priorities for conservation of biological diversity, but also to design strategies to control biological invasions and vectors of human diseases, to provide information about the former distribution of species, and to guide development of ecological restoration initiatives, among other applications. But no one of these applications could be fully carried out until an integrative framework on biogeography, which bridges biogeographical historical and ecological paths of thinking, has been developed. Although we do not propose a new biogeographic method, we highlight the causes and consequences of the lack of a conceptual framework integrating ecology and history in biogeography, and how this required framework would allow biogeography to be fully utilised in fields such as conservation.
Acknowledgments
We thank Dr Amy Austin for her encouragement and valuable suggestions and Lucy Mainer de Gómez in revising the English version. We also thank two anonymous reviewers for their useful comments on this paper and Simone Farrer for her editorial assistance. Piero Marchionni and Hugo Calvetti prepared the illustrations. This project was supported by the InterAmerican Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), Brown University, Fondo para la Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (FONCyT), SEPCYT, National Geographic Society, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Universidad de Buenos Aires, and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina. It is an honour for us to publish a paper on a series dedicated to a great botanist such as L.A.S. Johnson.
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