The SAGE handbook of biogeography / edited by Andrew C. Millington, Mark A. Blumler, and Udo Schickhoff.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Situating contemporary biogeography / Andrew C. Millington, Mark A. Blumler, and Udo Schickhoff -- Section I. Revisiting theories and concepts: 2. History of biogeographical thought / Mark A. Blumler, Anthony Cole, John Flenley, and Udo Schickhoff -- 3. Diversity theories / Duane A. Griffin -- 4. Theory in landscape ecology and its relevance to biogeography / John A. Kupfer -- 5. Classification of biogeographical and ecological phenomena / Angelika Schwabe and Anselm Kratochwil -- 6. The expanding role of phylogeography / Brett R. Riddle -- 7. The biogeographical importance of Pleistocene refugia / Katherine J. Willis, Shonil A. Bhagwat, and Mary E. Edwards -- Section II. Explaining distributions, gradients, and disturbances: 8. Biogeographical distributions: the role of past environments, physical factors, and biotic interactions / Udo Schickhoff -- 9. Biodiversity gradients / Jens Mutke -- 10. Explaining biogeographical distributions and gradients: floral and faunal responses to natural disturbances / Anke V. Jentsch and Carl Beierkuhnlein -- 11. Fire and ecosystem function / Neal J. Enright -- 12. Species response to contemporary climate change / Tim H. Sparks, Annette Menzel, Joseph Peñuelas, and Piotr Tryjanowski -- Section III. Reconsidering biomes and ecosystems: 13. Ecosystem dynamics of subpolar and polar regions / Ingo Möller and Dietbert Thannheiser -- 14. Forest ecosystem structure and disturbance dynamics across the circumboreal forest / Daniel Kneeshaw, Yves Bergeron, and Timo Kuuluvainen -- 15. The ecosystem dynamics of tropical savannas / Jayalaxshmi Mistry -- 16. Tropical forests: biogeography and biodiversity / Kenneth R. Young -- 17. Dynamics of mountain ecosystems / Udo Schickhoff -- 18. Biogeography of agricultural environments / Chris Stoate -- 19. The biogeography of built environments / Claire Freeman -- Section IV. Utilizing mapping and modelling: 20. Remote sensing for mapping biogeographical distributions: actualities and potentials / Giles M. Foody and Andrew C. Millington -- 21. Remoting sensing for modeling biogeographic features and processes / Joanne M. Nightingale, Stuart R. Phinn, and Michael J. Hill -- 22. Characterizing spatial pattern in biogeographical data / Thomas P. Albright, Monica G. Turner, and Jeffrey Cardille -- 23. Predictive modeling of biogeographical phenomena / Niall G. Burnside and Stephen Waite -- 24. Simulation / George P. Malanson -- 25. Biocomplexity / Stephen J. Walsh, George P. Malanson, Joseph P. Messina, Daniel G. Brown, and Carlos F. Mena -- Section V. Linking biogeography and society. 26. Ethnobotany / Robert Voeks -- 27. Invasive species, in geographical perspective / Mark A. Blumler -- 28. Bioindicators for ecological and environmental monitoring / Yordan Uzunov -- 29. Historical biogeography as a basis for the conservation of dynamic ecosystems / Rob Marchant and David M. Taylor -- 30. Habitat approaches to nature conservation / Geoffrey Hugh Griffiths and Ioannis Vogiatzakis -- 31. Species approaches to conservation in biogeography / Patrick E. Osborne and Pedro J. Leitão.

The SAGE Handbook of Biogeography is a manual for scoping the past, present and future of biogeography that enable readers to consider, where relevant, how similar biogeographical issues are tackled by researchers in different 'schools.' In line with the concept of all SAGE Handbooks, this is a retrospective and prospective overview of biogeography that will: consider the main areas of biogeography researched by geographers detail a global perspective by incorporating the work of different schools of biogeographers explore the divergent evolution of biogeography as a discipline and consider how this diversity can be harnessed examine the interdisciplinary debates that biogeographers are, and are not, contributing to within Geography and within the biological sciences