University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore

Biogeography is the study of the distribution of biodiversity over space and time. It aims to reveal where organisms live, and at what abundanceand why? Meanwhile, geomorphology is the scientific study of landforms and the processes that shape them. Geomorphologists seek to understand why landscapes look the way they do.This book introduces readers to some of the latest research in these fields, as well as the practical applications, such as measuring the effects of climate change, hazard assessments including landslide prediction and mitigation, river control and restoration, coastal protection, and assessing the presence of water on mars,

Endemicity, biogeography, composition, and community structure; phylogeny and biogeography of hawkmoths; mitochondrial phylogeography of baboons; pleistocene glacial refugia across the appalachian mountains and conastal plain in the millipede genus narceus; phylogeography and historical demography of the lusitanian snail elona quimperiana reveal survival in unexpected separate glacial refugia; molecular biogeography; biogeography of photosynthetic light-harvesting genes; fluorescent-BOX-PCR for resolving bacterial genetic diversity, endemism and biogeography; regional hydrology controls stream microbial biofilms; biogeographic patterns of habitat segregation conform to speciation; challenge of risk management and diaster prevention; geometry of the turkey-arbia and africa-arabia plate boundaries in the latest miocene to mid-pliocent: The role of the malatya-Ovacyk fault zone in eastern turkey; study of the distribution and abundance of the adult malaria vector in western kenya highlands.