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 …

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

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 …

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 …

The Antarctic biota is highly endemic, and the diversity and abundance of taxonomic groups
differ from elsewhere in the world. Such characteristics have resulted from evolution in …

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 …

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

We have applied Bayesian and maximum likelihood methods of phylogenetic estimation to
data from four mitochondrial genes (COI, COII, 12S, and 16S) and a single nuclear gene …

The study of genome size evolution in a phylogenetic context in related polyploid and
diploid lineages can help us to understand the advantages and disadvantages of genome …