Australia has a mostly dry, open, fire-shaped landscape of sclerophyllous and xeromorphic
flora dominated by eucalypt and acacia trees, with diverse shrubs from a few families such …

Australia is an ancient continent with an interesting geological history that includes a recent
major shift in its position, both globally and compared with neighbouring land masses. This …

Although temporal calibration is widely recognized as critical for obtaining accurate
divergence-time estimates using molecular dating methods, few studies have evaluated the …

The Australian fossil record shows that from ca. 25 Myr ago, the aseasonal–wet biome
(rainforest and wet heath) gave way to the unique Australian sclerophyll biomes dominated …

Though biogeography may be simply defined--the study of the geographic distributions of
organisms--the subject itself is extraordinarily complex, involving a range of scientific …

Nothofagus (southern beech), with an 80-million-year-old fossil record, has become iconic
as a plant genus whose ancient Gondwanan relationships reach back into the Cretaceous …

Background Parasitoidism, a specialized life strategy in which a parasite eventually kills its
host, is frequently found within the insect order Hymenoptera (wasps, ants and bees). A …

The generic taxonomy of the Nothofagaceae is revised. We present a new phylogenetic
analysis of morphological characters and map these characters onto a recently published …

This study uses a molecular-dating approach to test hypotheses about the biogeography of
Nothofagus. The molecular modelling suggests that the present-day subgenera and species …

Continental‐scale assembly of floras results from past and present in situ diversification in
association with several external processes. Among these processes are the making and …