The biogeographic regions reconsidered

By Barry Cox. 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Paleontology

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When molecules and morphology concur: the ‘Gondwanan’ midges (Diptera: Chironomidae) (2010, background): “Whichever scenario is correct, these Chironomidae provide a zoological example of the faunal similarities between the southernmost regions of the world, as called for by Cox (2001) to match the many botanical examples [as summarized by Moreira-Muňoz (2007)].”
Conservation Biogeography: assessment and prospect (2005, methodology): “This scheme provides a transparent methodology with a clearly defined purpose, and in principle the analysis can be repeated to assess the implications of, for instance, using updated distributional data, a different system of biogeographic regions (cf. Cox, 2001), or threshold similarity value.”
The spectre of biogeographical regionalization (2018, background): “Although some authors refer occasionally to ‘phytogeographic’ and ‘zoogeographic’ regionalizations (e.g. Cox, 2001), the ultimate goal should be to integrate all taxonomic distributions in a single biogeographical system (Morrone, 2002; Proches & Ramdhani, 2012).”
Understanding global patterns in amphibian geographic range size: does Rapoport rule? (2012, methodology): “To account for regional historical differences, the global dataset was split into six biogeographic realms as defined by Cox (2001).”
Ecotones: Marginal or Central Areas of Transition? (2006, background): “At large scales, ecotones have been used to define the spatial boundaries of biogeographical regions, which in turn have formed and continue to form a significant, though often contentious, basis for understanding the evolutionary history of life on Earth (see Cox, 2001; Morrone, 2002).”
Biogeography of helminth parasites of freshwater fishes in Mexico: the search for patterns and processes (2005, result): “Previous studies (Obregón-Barboza et al., 1994) have also recognized these areas as important transitional drainages, which corresponds rather well with the general floral and faunal transition zones recognized for this region (Cox, 2001).”
The evolution of African plant diversity (2014, background): “The linkages among the tropical floras have also long been known, despite their assignment to different floristic kingdoms (Takhtajan, 1986; Cox, 2001).”
Biogeographical regionalisation of the world: a reappraisal (2015, background): “It was treated as a region (Sclater 1858; Murray 1866; Kirby 1872; Wallace 1876; Sclater 1894; Bartholomew et al. 1911; de Mello-Leitão 1937; Darlington 1957; Pielou 1979, 1992; Müller 1986; Cox 2001; Procheş and Ramdhani 2012), a kingdom (Good 1947; Morain 1984; Müller 1986; Takhtajan 1986; Udvardy”
The world's biogeographical regions: cluster analyses based on bat distributions (2005, background): “Most published regionalizations fulfil this requirement [but see Cox (2001), where Wallace’s (1876) Celebesian transition is excluded from both the Oriental and Australian regions].”
An evaluation of new parsimony‐based versus parametric inference methods in biogeography: a case study using the globally distributed plant family Sapindaceae (2011, background): “In plants, the deﬁnition of areas for biogeographical analysis, especially at a world-wide scale, remains controversial (e.g. Cox, 2001).”
A tale of migrations from east to west: the Irano‐Turanian floristic region as a source of Mediterranean xerophytes (2014, methodology): “Therefore, Takhtajan’s floristic regions have been used in several continental-level biogeographical studies (e.g. Cox, 2001; Fridley, 2008) and are appropriate for an investigation of the floristic connections between Asia, Europe and North Africa, using Haplophyllum as the focus group.”
Global biogeographical regions of freshwater fish species (2019, background): “Firstly, the northern boundary between Sino‐Oriental and Palearctic is located beyond the Himalayas and the Gobi desert to the north‐west, and goes up to the Stanovoï mountains located north of China, whereas all other groups are limited to a boundary extending longitudinally from the Himalayas to t”
Bergmann's rule and the geography of mammal body size in the Western Hemisphere (2008, background): “We also excluded all coastal cells containing < 50% of the land mass of inland cells and used the mammal zoogeographical regions in Cox (2001) to differentiate the Nearctic and Neotropics.”
Break zones in the distributions of alleles and species in alpine plants (2011, background): “Congruence in the biogeographical break lines between floristic and zoogeographic regions was described by early biogeographers (de Candolle & Sprengel, 1821; Wallace, 1876) and has recently been reconsidered by Cox (2001).”
The diversification of Nearctic mammals in the Mexican transition zone (2004, background): “Nodes are the sites of intersection between two or more generalized tracks, and represent compound geobiotic areas (Craw et al. , 1999). According to Heads (1989), a node may be characterized as a locality where plant and animal taxa exhibit distributional boundaries, where taxa ‘begin and end’ both”
The partitioning of Africa: statistically defined biogeographical regions in sub‐Saharan Africa (2012, background): “Although the biota of North Africa and the Sahara is usually considered to be Palaearctic rather than Afrotropical (Dowsett & ForbesWatson, 1993), there are also treatments that place the boundary along the northern margin of the Sahara (Cox, 2001) or along the Mediterranean coast (Kreft & Jetz, 201”