This view comes from a population biologist/biogeographer who works on disease ecology, but I also have a BA in Comparative Literature and a strong historical training. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Diamond is a very eminent bird biogeographer with a great deal of personal anthropological experience in New Guinea. ❋ Unknown (2010)
At this Christmas time comes a wonderful little book by the biogeographer Dennis McCarthy. ❋ Unknown (2009)
A biogeographer examines the distribution of plant and animal life forms and the processes that produce those distributions. ❋ Unknown (2008)
"The concern is that as global temperatures rise, bleaching will be more frequent and the coral won't be able to recover," says marine biogeographer John Guinotte. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The German biogeographer Troll coined the phrase "landscape ecology" in 1939 and defined landscape as “‘the total spatial and visual entity’ of human living space, integrating the geosphere with the biosphere and its noospheric [of knowledge] man-made artifacts.” ❋ Unknown (2007)
I once had dinner there with both Jared Diamond, the Boston-born evolutionary biogeographer and best-selling author, and Yvette Mimieux, the right-wing French-Angeleno blond bombshell actress from the 1960s. ❋ Amy Wilentz (2006)
Jared Diamond is a biogeographer and evolutionary psychologist at UCLA, and the author of a sweeping, relentlessly environmentalist account of the reasons for the emergence of the modern West to political and economic predominance, which sold a million copies and won a Pulitzer Prize. ❋ Geertz, Clifford (2005)
It was as boldly schematic an assertion as any biogeographer at that time would make. ❋ David Quammen (2004)
Long before he became an august historian, a philosopher of biology, and a founder of the modern synthesis, he was an island biogeographer. ❋ David Quammen (2004)
A biogeographer named Elwood Zimmerman has collected testimony about “floating islands” of vegetation washed out to sea and adrift in the blue wilderness between Sulawesi Wallace knew it as Celebes and Borneo. ❋ David Quammen (2004)
Robert MacArthur, like his distinguished Victorian predecessors, was a biogeographer with a hungry ambition toward theory. ❋ David Quammen (2004)
Mention the phrase to a biogeographer or a population biologist or a theoretical ecologist or an ornithologist who has worked in New Guinea or Indonesia or the Antilles, and your meaning is clear. ❋ David Quammen (2004)
In his early career he had been a mathematician and later he labeled himself an ecologist, but during the final years, according to Wilson, he preferred to think of himself as a biogeographer. ❋ David Quammen (2004)
Charles Darwin himself was an island biogeographer before he was a Darwinist. ❋ David Quammen (2004)
The history-minded biogeographer wonders why hummingbirds, not sunbirds, have occupied the suitable niches on a given continent. ❋ David Quammen (2004)
The species-area equation, almost as familiar to an island biogeographer as E = mc2 is to a physicist. ❋ David Quammen (2004)
Details of this natural experiment have been gathered by a biogeographer named J. H. Hope, about whom I know nothing except her quite interesting work, done originally for a doctoral dissertation at an Australian university. ❋ David Quammen (2004)
[Callie]: What's your major?
Wes: biogeographing, I'd like to be a [biogeographer]
Callie: @??@
Wes: it's the study of the geographical distribution of living things
[Calli]: Oh that's super cool ❋ The Emo Kid Across The Street (2017)
