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By Kristina A. Schierenbeck

Phylogeography of California examines the evolution of quite a few taxa—ancient and up to date, local and migratory—to elucidate evolutionary occasions either significant and minor that formed the distribution, radiation, and speciation of the biota of California. The booklet additionally translates evolutionary background in a geological context and reports new and rising phylogeographic styles. concentrating on a sector that's outlined via actual and political limitations, Kristina A. Schierenbeck presents a phylogeographic survey of California’s assorted wildlife based on their significant organismal teams. existence heritage and ecological features, which play sought after roles within the a number of results for respective clades, also are thought of in the course of the paintings. aiding students and researchers who learn evolutionary diversification, the booklet analyzes study that is helping check one of many significant demanding situations in phylogeographic reports: figuring out alterations in inhabitants constructions formed by way of geological and geographical tactics. California is one among basically twenty-five said organic hotspots around the globe, and the phylogeographic historical past of the nation might be extrapolated to review different areas in western North the United States. extra attention is given to implications for conservation, thoughts in regards to the biogeographic provinces that approximately outline the country of California, and predictions relating to weather change.

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