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 …

Senecioneae is the largest tribe of Asteraceae, comprised of ca. 150 genera and 3,000
species. Approximately one‐third of its species are placed in Senecio, making it one of the …

Biogeographers have often been puzzled by several unusual features in the Juan
Fernández Islands (JFI) biota. These include the very high endemism density, multiple …

The largest family of flowering plants Asteraceae (Compositae) is found to contain 12 major
lineages rather than five as previously suggested. Five of these lineages heretofore had …

Aim We analysed the effects of alpine area, geographical distance between mountains and
isolation due to topography on mountain plant species richness, regional species turnover …

Background There are conflicting views between palaeobotanists and plant systematists/
evolutionary biologists regarding the occurrence of plant speciation in the Quaternary …

Background New powerful biogeographic methods have focused attention on long-standing
hypotheses regarding the influence of the break-up of Gondwana on the biogeography of …

Aim Recent studies suggest that if constrained by prevailing wind or ocean currents
dispersal may produce predictable, repeated distribution patterns. Dispersal mediated by …

Biogeography of the tropical alpine flora of South and Central America, the páramo flora,
has been studied by dividing genera into tropical, temperate, and cosmopolitan chorological …

The age of a clade has been estimated by using the age of its oldest fossils, the age of
islands or strata that the clade is endemic to, and the age of tectonic events that are spatially …