Darwin, Wallace and the other 19th century naturalists who traveled widely were fascinated by the distribution of animals and plants in their habitats around the world. Why do the Galapagos ...

Dispersal biogeography focuses on the movement of species from one location to another location. Jump dispersal events, when individuals of a species travel a relatively long distance to a new ...

Scientists have identified 866 new species as part of the Ocean Census, a global mission to protect and accelerate the discovery of marine life. The creatures include everything from a squat lobster ...

New research compiles the most complete record of vanished species across the Arabian Peninsula, based on rock art, ...

Biogeography is the study of the large-scale distribution of species. It investigates how these distributions change over time and the processes that govern distribution patterns. A global ...

First someone had to conceive the idea of maps, then someone had to conceive the identity of ecosystems, and then someone ...