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 …

Growing evidence for lineage diversification that occurs without strong ecological
divergence (ie, nonadaptive radiation) challenges assumptions about the buildup and …

Natural history collections play a crucial role in biodiversity research, and museum
specimens are increasingly being incorporated into modern genetics‐based studies …

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 …

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 internal phylogeny of the arachnid order Opiliones is investigated by including
molecular data from five molecular markers for ca. 140 species totalling 43 families of …

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 …

Aim To test the hypothesis that continental drift drives diversification of organisms through
vicariance, we selected a group of primitive arachnids which originated before the break‐up …

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 …

Abstract Aoraki denticulata (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi, Pettalidae), a widespread
'mite harvestman'endemic to the South Island of New Zealand, is found in leaf littler habitats …