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[John Grehan]

For those interested in American biogeographic patterns the
following publication recently became available:

Morrone, J. J. 2001. Biogeograf?a de Am?rica Latina y el Caribe. M & T - 
Manuales & Tesis SEA, vol. 3. Zaragoza, 148 p.

This document divides America south of the US border into a series of areas 
of endemism arranged as subregions and provinces. While I do not
regard such divisions as historical units of biogeographic origin, the
arrangement does provide geographically localized information on 
vegetation, distributions, taxa, interrelationships and conservation for 
designated  areas. The publication is also presents numerous illustrations 
throughout the region in the form of tracks that provides some interesting 
(in my opinion) indications of the geographic structure of distributions in 
the region.

While not as detailed in biogeographic analysis as Croizat's (1976) study, 
the work appears to be indicative of current efforts to develop a 
comprehensive framework in the future.

The publication is jointly supported by the Programa Iberoamericano de 
Ciencia y Tecnolog?a para el Desarrollo, the Oficina Regional de Ciencia y 
technolg?a para Am?rica Latina y el Caribe, UNESCO, and the Sociedad 
Entomol?gica Aragonesa.

Copies may be obtained from the editor, Antonio Melic
<amelic at retemail.es>

John Grehan