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Abranger as principais teorias e padrões biogeográficos e os métodos utilizados na reconstrução histórica de padrões de distribuição; Percepção da biogeografia como uma ciência interdisciplinar, possibilitando compreender o estudo da distribuição dos organismos no espaço (fatores ecológicos) e no tempo (fatores históricos), através da análise; Discutir e interpretar as principais teorias e métodos de inferências biogeográficas;

Introdução a Biogeografia; Padrões de Distribuição; Diversidade de espécies; Padrões no passado; Geografia física e o funcionamento da Terra; A importância de ilhas e ambientes insulares; Biogeografia analítica; Biogeografia Aplicada à Conservação.

COX, C.B & P.D. MOORE. Biogeography: An ecological and evolutionary approach. 6th ed. Blackwell Science, London. 2000; CRISCI, J.V., KATINAS, L. & P. Posadas. Historical Biogeography: an introduction. Harvard University Press, Cambridge. 250p. 2003; MACDONALD, G.M. Biogeography: Space, Time and Life. John Wiley & Sons, INC., New York. 2003; LOMOLINO, M.V. & L. HEANEY (eds). Frontiers of Biogeography: New directions in the geography of nature. Sinauer Associates, Inc. Publishers, Massachusetts. 436p. 2004; LOMOLINO, M.V., SAX, D.F. & J.H.BROWN. (eds). Foundations of Biogeography: Classic Papers with commentaries. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 1291 p. 2004; LOMOLINO, M. V., RIDDLE, B.R. & J.H. Brown. Biogeography. 3rd ed. Sinauer Associates, Mass. 2006; MYERS, A.A. & P.S. GILLER (eds). Analytical Biogeography: An integrated approach to the study of animal and plant distributions. Chapman & Hall, London. 1988;

Períodicos para consulta: American Zoologist; Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics; Biological Journal of the Linnean Society; Diversity and Distributions; Ecography; Ecology; Evolution; Global Ecology and Biogeography; Journal of Biogeography; Journal of Mammalogy; Journal of Mammalian Evolution; Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. Molecular Ecology; Nature; Paleobiology; Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Palaeoecology; Science; Systematic Biology; http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/biogeog/#W - Early Classics in Biogeography, Distribution, and Diversity Studies: To 1950 is a bibliography and full-text archive designed as a service to advanced students and researchers engaged in work in biogeography, biodiversity, history of science, and related studies; http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/biogeog/index2.htm - Early Classics in Biogeography, Distribution, and Diversity Studies: 1951 to 1975 is a bibliography and full-text archive designed as a service to advanced students and researchers engaged in work in biogeography, biodiversity, and related studies; http://www.wku.edu/%7Esmithch/index1.htm - The Alfred Russel Wallace Page. Materials on and by the celebrated English naturalist and social critic (1823-1913), including bibliographies, features, lists (e.g., of all personal names appearing in his writings), commentaries, a capsule biography, information on archival resources, and the full-text of over 200 of his published writings and interviews; http://www.aboutdarwin.com/darwin/WhoWas.html - Site muito interessante sobre Charles Darwin; http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/mamm/MAMMFAUN.htm - A taxon and faunal unit bibliography (through 1992) of publications concerning the geographical distribution of mammals including faunal monographs, checklists, determination keys, taxonomic revisions, bibliographies, conservation status reports, etc.—any kind of publication bearing information relevant to the study of area-specific faunas; http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/~uetz/db-info/HERPFAUN.html - A taxon and faunal unit bibliography (through 1992) of publications concerning the geographical distribution of reptiles and amphibians including faunal monographs, checklists, determination keys, taxonomic revisions, bibliographies, conservation status reports, etc.--any kind of publication bearing information relevant to the study of area-specific faunas; http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/ - This database offers full text articles from 7 ornithological journals for a period of 100 years; http://www.calacademy.org/research/library/sla_02.html - TOOLBOX FOR CONSERVATION PROFESSIONALS AND RESEARCHERS: BIODIVERSITY AND ENDANGERED SPECIES INFORMATION RESOURCES. A web-based resource to promote biodiversity research. Concentrating on the management of threatened and endangered species;