Mexican Transition Zone

This book presents an evolutionary biogeographic analysis of the Mexican TransitionZone, which is situated in the overlap of the Nearctic and Neotropical regions. It includes acomprehensive review of previous track, cladistic and molecular biogeographic analyses and isillustrated with full color maps and vegetation photographs of the respective areas covered. Given its scope, the book will be of interest to students and researchers whose work involves systematic and biogeographic analyses of plant and animal taxa of the Mexican Transition Zone or other transition zones of the world, and to ecologists working in biodiversity conservation, who will be able to appreciate the evolutionary relevance of the Mexican Transition Zone for establishing conservation areas..