The Biogeography Working Group of the Association of Geographers at German Universities (VGDH) serves as a forum for scientists working in the field of biogeography.
This website is intended to provide information about current activities, facilitate communication between the members of the working group and offer interested parties an introduction to research.
What is biogeography?
„… that grand subject, that almost keystone of the laws of creation, Geographical Distribution.“ (Charles Darwin, 1845, Brief an J.D. Hooker, Direktor des Royal Botanic Garden, Kew)
Biogeography is concerned with the causes of the distribution of plants, animals, and biodiversity — both in local landscapes and in a global context.
This raises countless questions, e.g. about changes in distribution patterns, their consequences and the role played by evolution, climate change, competition between life forms or human activity.
Geographers, geoecologists and biologists are primarily concerned with such questions. Biogeography is the mediating link between geosciences and biosciences.