This book should be of value to anyone interested in bird evolution and taxonomy, biogeography, distributional history, dispersal and migration patterns. It provides an up-to-date synthesis of current knowledge on species formation, and the factors influencing current distribution patterns. It draws heavily on new information on Earth history, including past glacial and other climatic changes, on new developments in molecular biology and palaeontology, and on recent studies of bird distribution and migration patterns, to produce a coherent account of the factors that have influenced bird species diversity and distribution patterns worldwide.
Received the Best Bird Book of the Year award for 2004 from British Birds magazine.
- ISBN10 128373477X
- ISBN13 9781283734776
- Publish Date 10 May 2014 (first published 25 February 2003)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 17 June 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Academic Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 681
- Language English