Biology Reference
In-Depth Information
Additional Readings and Updates
Allaby, A., and M. Allaby. 1999.
A Dictionary of earth sciences
. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press,
Oxford.
Amazon garden city. 2008.
Economist
, 28 August 2008. [“The world's favourite rainforest
once had (pre-Columbian) towns in it.” Available to subscribers on the online edition,
http://www.economist.com/.]
Avise, J. C. 2009. Phylogeography: Retrospect and prospect. J.
Biogeogr.
36:3-15.
Barbour, M. G., and W. D. Billings, eds. 2000.
North American terrestrial vegetation
. 2nd ed.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Barrionuevo, A. 2008. With guns and fi nes, Brazil takes on loggers.
New York Times
, 19 April
2008.
Bermingham, E., and A. P. Martin. 1998. Comparative mtDNA phylogeography of neotropi-
cal fresh water fi shes: Testing shared history to infer the evolutionary landscape of lower
Central America.
Mol. Ecol
. 7:499-518.
Blakey, Ron. Paleogeography and Geologic Evolution of North America. http://jan.ucc.nau
.edu/~rcb7/nam.html. [Website for paleogeographic maps.]
Bortolus, A. 2008. Error cascades in the biological sciences: The unwanted consequences of
using bad taxonomy in ecology.
Ambio
(Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences) 37:114-18.
Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Climate Change Information Center. http://
www.bgci.org/climate/.
Broecker, W. S., and R. Kunzig. 2008.
Fixing climate: What past climate changes reveal about
the current threat—and how to counter it
. Hill and Wang, New York. [See review by Chris
Turney,
Nature
453 (2008): 158.]
Campbell, D. 2008. Don't forget people and specimens that make the database.
Nature
455:590.
Cantú, C., R. G. Wright, J. M. Scott, and E. Strand. 2004. Assessment of current and proposed
nature reserves of Mexico based on their capacity of protect geophysical features and
biodiversity.
Biol. Conserv.
115:411-17.
Carmona, A. 2007. A conversation on conservation: Contemplating the impact of climate
change in the Latin America-Caribbean region. Council on Hemispheric Affairs. http://
www.coha.org. [Web site can be browsed by country and by year.]
Chapman, A. D. 2005.
Numbers of living species in Australia and the world
. Report for the Austra-
lian Government, Department of the Environment and Heritage, Canberra.
Chazdon, R. L., et al. (ten coauthors). 2008. Beyond reserves: A research agenda for conserv-
ing biodiversity in human-modifi ed tropical landscapes.
Biotropica
41:142-53.
Cole, S. 2007. Long-term increase in rainfall seen in tropics. NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center. http://www. nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2007/rainfall increase
.html.
Coll-Hurtado, A., coord. 2007.
Nuevo Atlas Nacional de México
. Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México, Instituto de Geografía, Mexico City.
Cooley, S. R., V. J. Coles, A. Subramaniam, and P. L. Yager. 2007. Seasonal variations in the
Amazon plume-related atmospheric carbon sink.
Global Biogeochem. Cycles
21, GB3014,
doi: 10.1029/2006gb002831.
Craeynest, L. 2007. 7 July 2007—Half way to the Millennium Development Goals. World
Wildlife Fund. http://www.wwf.org.uk/fi lelibrary/pdf/mdg7.pdf.