The south‐western land division of Western Australia (SWWA), bordering the temperate
Southern and Indian Oceans, is the only global biodiversity hotspot recognised in Australia …

Abstract Aim The tomato family Solanaceae is distributed on all major continents except
Antarctica and has its centre of diversity in South America. Its worldwide distribution …

For a long time, New Caledonia was considered a continental island, a fragment of
Gondwana harbouring old clades that originated by vicariance and so were thought to be …

To re-evaluate the relationships of the major bivalve lineages, we amassed detailed morpho-
anatomical, ultrastructural and molecular sequence data for a targeted selection of exemplar …

Fossil spiders have not been fully cataloged since Bonnet's Bibliographia Araneorum and
are not included in the current Catalog. Since Bonnet's time there has been considerable …

Abstract Background Dung beetles (subfamily Scarabaeinae) are popular model organisms
in ecology and developmental biology, and for the last two decades they have experienced …

Following the acceptance of plate tectonics theory in the latter half of the 20th century,
vicariance became the dominant explanation for the distributions of many plant and animal …

The current distributions of widespread groups of terrestrial animals and plants are
supposedly the result of a mixture of either vicariance owing to continental split or more …

The taxonomy of harvestmen is progressing at a fast pace. Many of the figures given in the
previous outline Kury (2011) have changed in this short space of two years. The total …

Opiliones are iconic arachnids with a Palaeozoic origin and a diversity that reflects ancient
biogeographic patterns dating back at least to the times of Pangea. Owing to interest in …