New Zealand has long been a conundrum to biogeographers, possessing as it does
geophysical and biotic features characteristic of both an island and a continent. This schism …

New Zealand biogeography has been dominated by the knowledge that its geophysical
history is continental in nature. The continental crust (Zealandia) from which New Zealand is …

The diverse scincid lizard fauna of the largely submerged subcontinent of Zealandia (which
incorporates New Zealand, New Caledonia, Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island, and the …

Background The mesic habitats of eastern Australia harbour a highly diverse fauna. We
examined the impact of climatic oscillations and recognised biogeographic barriers on the …

Background Understanding the micro-evolutionary response of populations to demographic
declines is a major goal in evolutionary and conservation biology. In small populations …

The age of a clade has been estimated by using the age of its oldest fossils, the age of
islands or strata that the clade is endemic to, and the age of tectonic events that are spatially …

Aim Our aim was to test for transoceanic dispersal in direct‐develo** species of
Onchidella (Mollusca: Gastropoda). As these slugs are ecologically associated with buoyant …

Since the 1980s, morphological and molecular research has resulted in significant
advances in understanding the relationships and origins of the recent terrestrial vertebrate …

Biogeography and Evolution in New Zealand provides the first in-depth treatment of the
biogeography of New Zealand, a region that has been a place of long-enduring interest to …

We have used phylogeographic analysis of mitochondrial DNA (COI and COII genes) and
ecological niche modelling (ENM) to reconstruct the population history of Argosarchus …