Bio geography

Classical approaches

observational vs quantatative for modern approaches

Carolus Linnaeus

created the first major catalogue of life, established binomial nimenclature

Comte de Buffon

Believed that god created “moulds” that transformed/evolved into all species today. believed in a northern origin. Buffon’s rule: similar species in different places

Alexander von Humbodt

“father of biogeography” studied an ecudorian volcano and species composition changing with elevation. phytogeography (biogeography but for plants)

Charles Lyell

recognized that earth and its climates have varied greatly over time

Charles Darwin

long distance dispersalist, studied the formation of coral reefs and atolls, used seeds and salt water to test disperssal theories

Joseph Dalton Hooker

believed in extensionist land bridges

Philip Scalter

established 6 major biogeographic realms

Alfred Russel Wallace

second “father of biogeography”, worked on biogeographical realms,

Alfred Wegner

Continental Drift

C. Hart merriam

Life zones, elevation matches with changes in latitude when it comes to species ditributions

Joseph Grinnell

first director of the museum of vertebrate zoology (MVZ)

Annie Alexander

Founder of the museum of vertebrate zoology (MVZ)

Robert MacArthur and E. O Wilson

fathers of island biogeography

tectonic plates are powered by:

molten rock moves up where it cools before going back down

geodesy

study of the size and shape and orientation of the earth