Abstract:Biogeographers have long studied physical and biological factors that determine the distribution of species at local, regional, and global scales. This interest initially focused on contemporary species distributions, but as high quality fossil evidence became available biogeographers expanded their research into temporal patterns, often extending to the start of the Holocene or even into the Pleistocene in some locations. Specifically, in the latter decades of the twentieth century research extended to descri… Show more
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