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 …

Advances in sequencing technology and phylogenetics have revolutionised avian biology
by providing an evolutionary framework for studying natural grou**s. In the parrots …

Gene tree discordance is expected in phylogenomic trees and biological processes are
often invoked to explain it. However, heterogeneous levels of phylogenetic signal among …

Over the last decade, molecular studies carried out on the Australasian biota have revealed
a new world of organic structure that exists from submicroscopic to continental scale …

Parrots of the Wild explores recent scientific discoveries and what they reveal about the lives
of wild parrots, which are among the most intelligent and rarest of birds. Catherine A. Toft …

Twenty‐five years ago, it was suggested that current‐day New Zealand, part of the largely
sunken continent of Zealandia, could have been completely inundated during the Oligocene …

Recent phylogeographic studies have examined the location and timing of putative Plio-
Pleistocene bio-geographical barriers in moulding present-day patterns of diversity in …

The lories and lorikeets (Aves: Loriinae: Loriini) are a readily recognizable, discrete group of
nectarivorous parrots confined to the Indo-Pacific region between Wallace's Line and the …

The recently proposed concept of´ endangered living fossils'(ELFs) integrates high-
endangered status and evolutionary singularity for any species. In this review, I gathered …

Parrots (Psittaciformes) are a well-studied, diverse group of birds distributed mainly in
tropical and subtropical regions. Today, one-third of their species face extinction, mainly due …