" Rather than favoring only one approach, Juan J. Morrone proposes a comprehensive
treatment of the developments and theories of evolutionary biogeography. Evolutionary
biogeography uses distributional, phylogenetic, molecular, and fossil data to assess the
historical changes that have produced current biotic patterns. Panbiogeography, parsimony
analysis of endemicity, cladistic biogeography, and phylogeography are the four recent and
most common approaches. Many conceive of these methods as representing different" …

“Integration” has become a favorite word in biogeography, a discipline where a diverse array
of schools and methodologies compete for attention. Because of its interdisciplinary
character, at the crossroads between geology, paleontology, systematics, and ecology,
biogeography has become an increasingly eclectic discipline that needs to provide methods
for a wide range of objectives, spatial scales, and temporal levels, ranging from biota
regionalization to the reconstruction of the spatiotemporal evolution of organisms. Despite …