Credit hours
In-class work per week |
Practice per week |
Credits |
Duration |
Total |
4 |
0 |
4 |
4 weeks |
60 hours |
Instructor
Alexandre Reis Percequillo
Joyce Rodrigues do Prado
Objective
Provide students with fundamentals about the biotic and abiotic factors on recent and historical time
scales that determine the spatial and temporal distribution patterns of vertebrate species (with an
emphasis on mammals). Provide students with a historical overview of biogeographical thinking, and of
recent techniques used in the recovery and interpretation of biogeographical patterns and processes and
how these techniques can be employed in conservation biology.
Content
1. Biogeography: concept, history and main schools.
2. Geological history of the South American continent (Tertiary and Quaternary); temporal changes in
phytophysiognomies and faunal elements, of a historical and anthropic nature.
3. Populations, geographic variation, species, speciation: concepts, structure, genetics and evolution.
4. Morphological and molecular markers, phylogenetic analysis (cladograms and phylogenetic trees),
phylogeography, molecular clock.
5. Biogeographic patterns and processes: Center of Origin and Dispersion, Vicariance (rivers as
barriers), Ecological gradients.
6. Species distribution patterns: historical and recent effects; anthropic alteration and its consequences
on the distribution pattern of species.
7. Biogeographic patterns and biological conservation: theoretical and practical implications.
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Clapperton, C. 1993. Quaternary geology and geomorphology of South America. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
Coyne, J.A. & Orr, H.A. 2004. Speciation. Sinauer Associates.
Cox, C.B. & Moore, P.D., 2005. Biogeography: An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach .Blackwell Publishing.
Endler, J. A. 1977 . Geographic variation, speciation, and clines. Princeton University Press, Princeton.
Humpries, C.J. & Parenti, L.R. 2002. Cladistic Biogeography: Interpreting Patterns of Plant and Animal Distributions. (Oxford Biogeography Series). Oxford University Press.
Katinas, L., Posadas, P. & Crisci, J.V. 2003. Historical Biogeography: An Introduction. Harvard University Press.
Lomolino, M.V., Riddle, B.R. & Brown, J.H., 2005. Biogeography, Third Edition. Sinauer Associates.
MacDonald, G., 2001. Space, Time and Life: The Science of Biogeography. John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Otte, D & Endler, J. A. (eds.) 1989. Speciation and its consequences. Sinauer, Sunderland.
Prance, G. T. (ed.) 1982. Biological diversification in the tropics. Columbia University Press, New York.
Siolo, H. (ed.). 1984. The Amazon: Limnology and landscape ecology of a mighty tropical river and its basin. Dr. W. Junk Publishers, Dordrecht.
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