IFEVA   02662
INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES FISIOLOGICAS Y ECOLOGICAS VINCULADAS A LA AGRICULTURA
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Bridging historical and ecological approaches in biogeography
Autor/es:
J. CRISCI; O. E. SALA; P. POSADAS
Revista:
Australian Systematic Botany
Referencias:
Año: 2006 vol. 19 p. 1 - 10
ISSN:
1030-1887
Resumen:
The practice of biogeography is rooted in disciplines that traditionally have had little intellectual exchange and yield two complementary biogeographic approaches: ecological and historical biogeography. The aim of this paper is to review alternative biogeographic approaches in the context of spatial analysis. Biogeography can be used to set priorities for conservation of biological diversity, but also to design strategies to control biological invasions and vectors of human diseases, to provide information about the former distribution of species, and to guide development of ecological restoration initiatives, among other applications. But no on of these applications could be fully carried out until an integrative framework o biogeography, which bridges biogeographical historical and ecological paths of thinking, has been developed. Although we do not propose a new biogergraphic method, we highlight the causes and consequences of the lack of a conceptual framework integrating ecology and history in biogeography, and how this require framework would allow biogrography to be fully utilized in fields such as conservation.