We review the major phylogeographic patterns in Aotearoa New Zealand's terrestrial flora
and fauna that have been associated with the Ōtira Glaciation of the Pleistocene, the end of …

Thirty years ago, DNA sequences were obtained from an extinct Aotearoa New Zealand
animal for the first time. Since then, ancient DNA research has provided many–often …

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The resources available to safeguard biodiversity are limited, and so funding must be
allocated cost‐effectively. To achieve this, conservation projects—such as threatened …

Aim Parrots are thought to have originated on Gondwana during the Cretaceous. The initial
split within crown group parrots separated the New Zealand taxa from the remaining extant …

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 …

Abstract The Southern Ground-hornbill (SGH)(Bucorvus leadbeateri) is considered an
umbrella species for biodiversity conservation in savannah biomes since they require large …

Background DNA barcoding utilises a standardised region of the cytochrome c oxidase I
(COI) gene to identify specimens to the species level. It has proven to be an effective tool for …

Inferring past demography is a central question in evolutionary and conservation biology. It
is, however, sometimes challenging to infer the processes that shaped the current patterns …

Understanding patterns and modalities of species' colonization in insular ecosystems is a
major goal of biogeography and may be key to decision makers, in terms of eg …