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 …

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 …

Advances in the sequencing of DNA extracted from media such as soil and water offer huge
opportunities for biodiversity monitoring and assessment, particularly where the collection or …

The spatial and temporal patterns of plant species radiations are largely unknown. I used a
nonlinear regression to estimate speciation and extinction rates from all relevant dated …

Aim To evaluate competing views on the origin and distribution of the New Zealand flora by
testing the hypothesis that the geographical distribution of species is unrelated to ecological …

Plants annual, biennial or perennial, herbaceous or suffrutescent, rarely climbers, shrubs or
trees. Stems erect, ascending or prostrate. Leaves opposite or alternate, entire, rarely …

The New Zealand mountains provide a unique system in which to study the evolution of
alpine plants. The relationship between the recent uplift of mountain habitats (5–2 million …

Based on the most recent evidence from phylogenetic analyses of Veronica and its related
genera, we propose a new infratribal and infrageneric rearrangement for Veroniceae and …

Whole genome duplication or polyploidy is widespread among floras globally, but
traditionally has been thought to have played a minor role in the evolution of island …

PREMISE Recent, rapid radiations present a challenge for phylogenetic reconstruction. Fast
successive speciation events typically lead to low sequence divergence and poorly resolved …