Question

Find a scientific study that involves biogegraphy. Summarize/describe the overall study, the implications and the findings. Make sure that you identify your source, with a link if applicable. Your source should be a journal article or an article from a reputable, science based news or media source. Although it can be found in an online article, it should not be a web-based description of the study on a third-party website.

Answer 1

Biogeography is a biological as well as a geographical discipline. Biologists prefer a more historical view and underline the importance of the evolution of species and communities. Geographers accentuate more the ecological background of the distribution of plants and animals, including the manyfold influences of man, and they underline the importance of scales in time and space. Both try to understand the distribution of patterns of organisms and biocenosis. Usually, biogeography is subdivided into historical, ecological, and regional biogeography. More recently, environmental problems led to a great variety of topics—e.g., forest dieback, air and water pollution, desertification, degradation of rainforests—which are treated in applied biogeography