Geography

Geography

Deep time, shifting continents

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Geological area cladogram

Africa

South America

Madagascar

India

Australia

New Guinea

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Recent time, shifting organisms

@andrewxhill

Sinking island, running to stay in the same place

Figure 22.16 The evolution of fruit fly (Drosophila) species on the Hawaiian archipelago

Hotspot

Properties of maps

Maps are predictable

Navigation is predictable

Every pixel counts

Ground truth

Relative and absolute navigation

Latitude 42.363921Longitude -71.087763

Sources of maps (other than Google)

OpenStreetMap

http://data.gbif.org

See http://www.mendeley.com/groups/1068301/gbif-public-library/

for uses

Lots of data, but some issues, such as sampling bias and errors

@andrewxhill

Transposed latitude and longitude

Boophis periegetes

Boophis periegetes

Things to do with maps

Timemaps

Bounding boxhttp://biostor.org/maps

Plotting things on maps: points

Plotting things on maps: polygons

Plotting things on maps: points and lines

@DavKidd

Geophylogenies

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