Victorian-Era Map Helps Researchers Redraw Distribution Of Biodiversity

RedOrbit: Ecologists have collected massive amounts of data over the past 130 years and a research team led by University of Copenhagen scientists has used that wealth of information to redraw a Victorian map used to illustrate the geographic distribution of animals. The original map by the renowned English naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, with assistance from Charles Darwin, has been in use since it was drawn up in 1874, when it established the foundation for global biodiversity. Based on evolutionary......

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