中文摘要：

对生物地理学的内涵、研究领域以及进展进行了简要介绍，认为近期海峡两岸生物地理学研究的目标应当集中在：末次冰期以来的海陆变迁对海峡两岸生物分布格局的影响、海峡两岸现代动植物区系的渊源、台湾最后与大陆保持陆地连接的时间与范围、东亚岛弧对台湾生物分布格局的影响以及海峡两岸生物的物种分化与生态适应性五个方面。同时认为海峡两岸现代生物分布格局关系的一种历史生物地理学解释，应当是一个在末次冰期期间存在于长江以南的大区系片断化后对海峡两岸各自不同环境适应的结果。

英文摘要：

As a subject of studying all of the past and existent patterns of biological distribution of geography, biogeography tries to describe the innumerable distributive patterns of the species and the superior classed taxon, and deduce their processes. Taiwan Island is off the coast on the southeast edge of continental shelf. As a part of Fujian- Zhejiang promontory, which were from the Yanshan Movement in the middle and late Mesozoic, Taiwan is a land bridge island, which was divorced from the continent in late ice age. We deem that the historic biogeography interpretation on distributive patterns of geography for both sides of the Taiwan Strait ought to be as a result of the adaptation for diverse environments, which appeared after a large biota existed to the south of Yangtze River had been segmented during the last ice age period. Therefore, targets of the biogeography study for cross-strait should focus on the following five aspects： the influence on distributive patterns which owing to the vicissitude of the ocean and the mainland since the last ice age, the phyletic relationship of biota between two sides of the Taiwan Strait, the period and the range that Taiwan kept final connection with mainland, the influence from the other arched-arranged islands in East Asian on patterns of biological distribution in Taiwan Island, and the species differentiation and the ecological adaptability for the organisms sharing by both banks of the Taiwan Strait.