Biogeography in the Sub-Arctic : the past and future of North Atlantic biota / edited by Eva Panagiotakopulu, Jonathan P. Sadler
- Published
- Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource
- Additional Creators
- Panagiotakopulu, Eva and Sadler, J. P.
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- Contents
- Section I : Remote Origins -- The Opening of the North Atlantic / Brian G. J. Upton -- Cenozoic Vegetation and Phytogeography of the Sub-arctic North Atlantic / Friðgeir Grímsson, Thomas Denk, Reinhard Zetter -- Interglacial Biotas from the North Atlantic Islands / Ole Bennike, Jens Böcher -- Section II : Origins of the Present Biota -- Origin and Dispersal of the North Atlantic Vascular Plant Floras / Christian Brochmann, Inger G. Alsos -- The Aquatic Fauna of the North Atlantic Islands with Emphasis on Iceland / Gísli Már Gíslason -- The Vascular Floras of High-Latitude Islands with Special Reference to Iceland / Thóra Ellen Thórhallsdóttir -- Quaternary Vertebrates from the North Atlantic Islands / Ole Bennike, Bernd Wagner -- North Atlantic Insect Faunas, Fossils and Pitfalls / Eva Panagiotakopulu -- Section III : Human Impact -- Landnám and the North Atlantic Flora / Kevin J. Edwards, Egill Erlendsson, J. Edward Schofield -- Origin of the Northeast Atlantic Islands Bird Fauna: Scenarios of Ecosystem Development / Aevar Petersen, Bergur Olsen -- Human Impact on North Atlantic Biota: Farming and Farm Animals, Fishing, Sealing and Whaling / Ingrid Mainland, Jennifer Harland -- Section IV : Conservation in a Warming World -- A Fleet of Silver: Local Knowledge Perceptions of Sea Ice from Iceland and Labrador/Nunatsiavut / Astrid E.J. Ogilvie, Brian T. Hill, Gaston R. Demarée -- Biodiversity Conservation in the Faroe Islands Under Changing Climate and Land Use / Anna Maria Fosaa -- Biodiversity Conservation in Iceland Under Changing Climate / Erlingur Hauksson -- The Natural Environment and Its Biodiversity in Greenland During the Present Climate Change / Ib Johnsen, Henning Heide-Jørgensen.
- Summary
- "There is no escaping the fact that the island biogeography of the North Atlantic Region is singularly peculiar. Sitting in the north of the Atlantic Ocean, these islands have been subjected to largescale shifts in climate over the last few million years, unlike the other island groups further south which were likely more buffered from the vicissitudes of Quaternary climate changes. Uniquely for a group of islands there is only one documented extinction in the North Atlantic (the Great Auk), and those in the insects are local events relating to species that are distributed throughout the Palaearctic region. Over half the insect species in Iceland and Greenland are introduced. The faunas, excluding Greenland, are predominantly of Palaearctic origin and have close affinities with the faunas of Scandinavia and the British Isles and. These unique physical and biological characteristics have interested biologists and biogeographers for centuries. The key debates concerning the biogeography of the North Atlantic islands still rumble on: Do the biota reflect cryptic refugia or otherwise, or tabula rasa and recolonization? How important were human communities in shaping the existing biota and biogeographical patterns? Throw into this mix current concerns over global warming, and we can now ask, how resilient is the biota to change, either natural or anthropogenic? This volume draws together a range of researchers with longstanding research interests in the region, from diverse academic backgrounds, to evaluate some of these questions"--from publisher's website.
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- ISBN
- 9781118561461 (electronic bk. ; oBook)
1118561465 (electronic bk.)
9781118561331 (e-book)
1118561333
9781118561355 (electronic bk.)
111856135X (electronic bk.)
9781118561478
1118561473 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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