Modern biogeography is by nature a multidisciplinary branch of science, but it was part of Theology for centuries. Today, biogeographers test hypotheses about why organisms inhabit some areas of the planet, but not others (ecological biogeography) and about how they colonized -if at all- those areas (historical biogeography).
The historical biogeography section of this website deals mainly with modern advances in biogeography, emphasizing the state of the debate among schools of thought that include dispersalists, panbiogeographers and vicariists.
The ecological biogeography section deals mainly with the biogeography of velvet worms or onychophorans, a group of “living fossils” ideally suited for biogeographical research.
Julian Monge - Najera
State Distance Education University (UNED), Costa Rica
