Welcome to Geography 4100/8106 - Biogeography

Biogeography seeks to understand and explain the complexities of the distributions of life across the Earth's service, or more simply put it tries to answer the question "what lives where and why?" Combining the fields of biology, climatology, anthropology, ecology, and geology (among others) with geography biogeographers seek to answer some of the most profound questions regarding life on Earth. Owning to the founding work of figures like Alfred Wallace, Charles Darwin, and Alexander Humboldt, the academic field of biogeography combines traditional field methods with spatial analysis to determine trends, patterns, and causality. Through further study of the connections between flora and fauna with their physical landscape biogeographers seek to better understand past, present, and future distributions. 

Unit I Foundational Concepts of Physical Geography 

Module 1.1: Course Introduction
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     Notes: Core Concepts to the Study of Geography
​          - Distribution, patterns, trend, scale, etc...
          - Five Themes + Thematic, Regional, & Reference
     Assignment: Map Comprehension 

Module 1.3: Continental Drift and Geological Records
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Module 1.5: Principles of Climatology
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Module 1.7: Biomes, Ecoregions, and Biogeographic Realms
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Module 1.2: Philosophical Underpinnings of Biogeography
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     Notes: History of Biogeography
     Formative: Profile of a Biogeographer

Module 1.4: Geomorphology 
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Module 1.6: Climate Variability 
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Module 1.8: Unit I Test
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Unit II Speciation 

Module 2.1: Species Energy Theory & Rules for Ecobiogeography
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Bergmann and Allen

Module 2.3: Principles of Cosmopolitanism & Endemism 
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Module 2.5: Adaptation & Niches
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Module 2.7: Extinction 
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Module 2.9: Biodiversity
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Module 2.11: Island Biogeography
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Module 2.2: Geography of Range
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Mapping Range

Module 2.4: Vicariance and Dispersal
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Module 2.6: Evolution
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Module 2.8: Invasive Species
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Module 2.10: Glacial & Fire Ecology
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Module 2.12: Island Biogeography
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Module 2.12: Phylogeography
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Module 2.14: Test
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Unit III

Module 3.1: Human Biogeography
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Module 3.2: Human Ecology
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Module 3.3: Panbiogeography
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Module 3.4: Modern Biogeographic Methods & Issues
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Module 3.5: Work
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Module 3.6: Final
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