SUBJECT
Title
Paleobiogeography
Type of instruction
lecture
Level
master
Faculty
Part of degree program
Credits
2
Recommended in
Semester 2
Typically offered in
Spring semester
Course description
- Fundamentals of paleobiogeography.
- Methods in descriptive paleobiogeography: terms, definitions, processes.
- Making palaeogeographic maps.
- Faunal provinces of the past.
- Comparative paleobiogeography.
- Statistical methods.
- Case studies.
- Interpretive paleobiogeography.
Readings
- Cecca, F. (2002): Palaeobiogeography of Marine Fossil Invertebrates. CRC Press, 286 p.
- Morain, S. A. (1984): Systematic and Regional Biogeography. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc., New York.