An horizon scan of biogeography
<p>The opportunity to reflect broadly on the accomplishments, prospects, and reach of a field may present itself relatively infrequently. Each biennial meeting of the International Biogeography Society showcases ideas solicited and developed largely during the preceding year, by individuals or...
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doaj-bcd6565d2dc54b64b1b2c9539276f8982020-11-25T02:52:57ZengInternational Biogeography SocietyFrontiers of Biogeography1948-65962013-07-0152An horizon scan of biogeographyMichael N DawsonAdam C AlgarAlexandre AntonelliLiliana M DávalosEdward DavisRegan EarlyAntoine GuisanRoland JanssonJean-Philippe LessardMarske A. KatharineJenny McGuireAlycia L StigallNathan G SwensonNiklaus ZimmermannDaniel G Gavin<p>The opportunity to reflect broadly on the accomplishments, prospects, and reach of a field may present itself relatively infrequently. Each biennial meeting of the International Biogeography Society showcases ideas solicited and developed largely during the preceding year, by individuals or teams from across the breadth of the discipline. Here, we highlight challenges, developments, and opportunities in biogeography from that biennial synthesis. We note the realized and potential impact of rapid data accumulation in several fields, a renaissance for inter-disciplinary research, the importance of recognizing the evolution-ecology continuum across spatial and temporal scales and at different taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional levels, and re-exploration of classical assumptions and hypotheses using new tools. However, advances are taxonomically and geographically biased, key theoretical frameworks await tools to handle, or strategies to simplify, the biological complexity seen in empirical systems. Current threats to biodiversity require unprecedented integration of knowledge and development of predictive capacity that may enable biogeography to unite its descriptive and hypothetico-deductive branches and establish a greater role within and outside academia.</p>http://escholarship.org/uc/item/9rp9c1qkcommunity assembly, ecological genetics, functional diversity, multi-temporal explanations, phylogenetics, phylogeography, species distribution modeling, synthesisBiogeography, Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Geography |
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Michael N Dawson Adam C Algar Alexandre Antonelli Liliana M Dávalos Edward Davis Regan Early Antoine Guisan Roland Jansson Jean-Philippe Lessard Marske A. Katharine Jenny McGuire Alycia L Stigall Nathan G Swenson Niklaus Zimmermann Daniel G Gavin |
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Michael N Dawson Adam C Algar Alexandre Antonelli Liliana M Dávalos Edward Davis Regan Early Antoine Guisan Roland Jansson Jean-Philippe Lessard Marske A. Katharine Jenny McGuire Alycia L Stigall Nathan G Swenson Niklaus Zimmermann Daniel G Gavin An horizon scan of biogeography Frontiers of Biogeography community assembly, ecological genetics, functional diversity, multi-temporal explanations, phylogenetics, phylogeography, species distribution modeling, synthesis Biogeography, Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Geography |
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Michael N Dawson Adam C Algar Alexandre Antonelli Liliana M Dávalos Edward Davis Regan Early Antoine Guisan Roland Jansson Jean-Philippe Lessard Marske A. Katharine Jenny McGuire Alycia L Stigall Nathan G Swenson Niklaus Zimmermann Daniel G Gavin |
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An horizon scan of biogeography |
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An horizon scan of biogeography |
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An horizon scan of biogeography |
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Frontiers of Biogeography |
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<p>The opportunity to reflect broadly on the accomplishments, prospects, and reach of a field may present itself relatively infrequently. Each biennial meeting of the International Biogeography Society showcases ideas solicited and developed largely during the preceding year, by individuals or teams from across the breadth of the discipline. Here, we highlight challenges, developments, and opportunities in biogeography from that biennial synthesis. We note the realized and potential impact of rapid data accumulation in several fields, a renaissance for inter-disciplinary research, the importance of recognizing the evolution-ecology continuum across spatial and temporal scales and at different taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional levels, and re-exploration of classical assumptions and hypotheses using new tools. However, advances are taxonomically and geographically biased, key theoretical frameworks await tools to handle, or strategies to simplify, the biological complexity seen in empirical systems. Current threats to biodiversity require unprecedented integration of knowledge and development of predictive capacity that may enable biogeography to unite its descriptive and hypothetico-deductive branches and establish a greater role within and outside academia.</p> |
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community assembly, ecological genetics, functional diversity, multi-temporal explanations, phylogenetics, phylogeography, species distribution modeling, synthesis Biogeography, Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Geography |
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