Essays on Biogeography

The purpose of this paper is to review the article, “Was Darwin Wrong?”, by David Quammen (2004) and to offer some discussion at the end of the paper. The main thrust of the Quammen’s article is to provide a description of the current and past evidence that supports Darwin’s theory of evolution through natural selection. With a few exceptions, the title of the article is answered with a firm “no, Darwin was right.” Quammen first began with a discussion of the concept of theory and explained that a theory is an explanation for a set of circumstances ...

Thesis: Making use of the limited world resources to satisfy the increasing human population requires the knowledge of ecology and geography of the different biological diversity.

Introduction

Making use of the limited world resources to satisfy the increasing human population requires the knowledge of ecology and geography of the different biological diversity.

Protection of species

Human activities are the main causes of species extinction. Biogeography provides information that is crucial in the establishment of habitats. This information takes into account the optimum environment suitable for the species.

Accessing environmental impacts

Biogeography is used in assessing environmental impacts of new land developments using a formal process. The ...

Critical analysis

The present study is based on the metagenomics that shows a promising potential to reveal the hidden interactive networks among various species, be it ecological or metabolic. The article present a study conducted by Raes and co-workers (2011), in which they performed research using Global Ocean Survey (GOS) of metagenomic data and ocean samples across the globe. Though only dominant species were sampled in the study, it produced a distinct set of data that facilitated the molecular trait-based ecological studies. The authors have claimed that certain climatic factors drive the functional community compositions. For further investigation, they performed functional ...