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 …

Facultad Ciencias del Mar, Universidad Católica del Norte, Larrondo 1281, Coquimbo,
ChileCentro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas (CEAZA), Coquimbo, Chile* E-mail …

Reflecting the increasing interest in the field and its relevance in global environmental
issues, Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review provides authoritative …

Rafting has been inferred as an important dispersal mechanism in the marine environ-ment
by many authors. The success of rafting depends critically on the availability of suitable …

Management of sustainable Pacific oyster fisheries would be assisted by an early, rapid, and
accurate means of detecting their planktonic larvae. Reported here is an approach, based …

Rafting of marine and terrestrial organisms has important ecological, biogeographical and
evolutionary implications. Herein the general principles of rafting are described and how …

In marine environments, many species have apparently colonized high latitude regions
following the last glacial maximum (LGM) yet lack a life‐history stage, such as a free‐living …

Antarctic shallow coastal marine communities were long thought to be isolated from their
nearest neighbours by hundreds of kilometres of deep ocean and the Antarctic Circumpolar …

Molecular approaches have contributed to a drastic reconsideration of organisms'
systematics and evolution especially in some groups of bivalves where high levels of …

A molecular phylogeny is presented for the subfamily Littorininae (including representatives
of all subgeneric taxa and all members of a group of southern-temperate species formerly …