Abstract Although New Zealand separated from Gondwana during the late Cretaceous (80
million years ago) it shares strong floristic affinities with other Southern Hemisphere …

Twenty‐five years ago, it was suggested that current‐day New Zealand, part of the largely
sunken continent of Zealandia, could have been completely inundated during the Oligocene …

The Southern Hemisphere has traditionally been considered as having a fundamentally
vicariant history. The common trans-Pacific disjunctions are usually explained by the …

" Rather than favoring only one approach, Juan J. Morrone proposes a comprehensive
treatment of the developments and theories of evolutionary biogeography. Evolutionary …

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 …

Areas of endemism are central to cladistic biogeography. The concept has been much
debated in the past, and from this has emerged the generally accepted definition as an area …

Taxa have been dated using three methods: equating their age with the age of the oldest
known fossil, with the age of strata the taxa are endemic to, and with the age of …

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 …

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 …

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