Overview
- Presents the latest findings
- and hypotheses on spatial distribution and evolution of seaweeds
- Highlights past and current
- knowledge of seaweed phylogeography
- Points to gaps in our present knowledge and identifies future research priorities
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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About this book
The book provides an overview of research on the remarkable diversity, adaptive genetic differentiation, and evolutionary complexity of intertidal macroalgae species. Through incorporating molecular data, ecological niche and model-based phylogeographic inference, this book presents the latest findings and hypotheses on the spatial distribution and evolution of seaweeds in the context of historical climate change (e.g. the Quaternary ice ages), contemporary global warming, and increased anthropogenic influences. The chapters in this book highlight past and current research on seaweed phylogeography and predict the future trends and directions. This book frames a number of research cases to review how biogeographic processes and interactive eco-genetic dynamics shaped the demographic histories of seaweeds, which furthermore enhances our understanding of speciation and diversification in the sea.
Dr. Zi-Min Hu is an associate professor at Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China.
Dr. Ceridwen Fraser is a senior lecturer at Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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The Field of Phylogeographic Research on Seaweeds
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Seaweed at Sea: Floating as a Dispersal Mechanism
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Comparative Phylogeography of Seaweeds
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Zi-Min Hu is an associate professor at Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China.
Dr. Ceridwen Fraser is a senior lecturer at Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Seaweed Phylogeography
Book Subtitle: Adaptation and Evolution of Seaweeds under Environmental Change
Editors: Zi-Min Hu, Ceridwen Fraser
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7534-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7532-8Published: 01 February 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1372-4Published: 31 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-7534-2Published: 04 January 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 395
Number of Illustrations: 48 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ecology, Marine & Freshwater Sciences