Doctorate, University of Sciences, Montpellier II. 1992, Institute of Botany of Montpellier. Jury : Hilgard O’Reilly Sternberg (Univ. Berkeley), Gabriel Rougerie (Univ. paris VII), Michel Godron (Univ. Montpellier II), Francis Hallé (Univ. Montpellier II), Jean-Louis Guillaumet (IRD) (unanimous very honorable mention). Published IRD (Research Institute for Development) 1993, Coll. TDM n° 104, 443 p. + annexes, Index
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The term Biogeography comes from bios = life, geos = earth, and graphein: to write, to draw.
Biogeography, geography of the living, can be understood in the limited sense of phyto- and zoogeography, concerning only plant and animal distribution. This is the conception of life and natural sciences.
But Biogeography, considered as a geography of the living in a wider sense, is also a “Geography of the Biosphere “ (Rougerie, Gabriel. Géographie de la Biosphère. A. Colin Ed., (...)