User:Ced015

Hi everyone. My name is Carly Downs and I am a Junior at Bucknell with a Psychology and Econ major and a minor in French. I am a member of the History of Ecology class for the spring of 2014, where we will be contributing to Wikipedia articles related to our course of study.

For my project, I will be researching Biogeography: Biogeography describes the combination of concepts that come from ecology, evolutionary biology, geology, and geography. It is the study of the distribution of organisms and their ecosystems in a certain geographic place in a particular time in history. I want to work on this article because it is clear that it is important to understanding the history of ecology, which emphasizes the role of interactions among species and their environment. The article on biogeography has a brief subsection on the history of the science, which can definitely be expanded on and linked to the history of ecology that gave rise to evolutionary biology. It is clear that the number of sciences combined in the study of biogeography is intertwined through understanding the history of geography, which is why it would be important to describe the history in greater detail as it relates to ecology. There should be subsections for the important, individual contributors whose discoveries led to the recognition of biogeography (i.e. Darwin, Humboldt, Linnaeus, Lyell, Watson, Wallace, and others the followed). The section on paleobiogeography should also be expanded upon, since it notes the consideration of plate tectonics in the first sentence. The relationship between plate tectonics and biogeography Is not explicitly clear after reading this section, which is why it should be expanded upon and clarified as an aspect of biogeography that arose for a particular reason in history. There is a final section that discusses the classification of biogeography and includes a few fundamental concepts of biogeography. These concepts have a label and a few words describing what it is, though none of them have many details about how it specifically relates to the study of biogeography. I would add more details about these fundamental concepts, in addition to background information and specific examples as they relate to the ways in which species are distributed in a certain time or place. Since the article has numerous topics attached to the end in the “See also” heading, it is clear that the topic is very important and relates to significant information connected to the history of ecology.