New Caledonia has generally been considered a continental island, the biota of which
largely dates back to Gondwanan times owing to its geological origin and the presence of …

Permo-Carboniferous glaciation, confined to icecaps and mountain glaciers, was followed
by Permian coal measures and Early Triassic barren measures and redbeds, in the east …

The concept of 'Gondwana', an ancient Southern Hemisphere supercontinent, is firmly
established in geological and biogeographical models of Earth history. The term Gondwana …

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

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

The galaxioid fishes are the dominant, most speciose group of freshwater fishes (with> 50
species) in the lands of the cool southern hemisphere, with representatives in western and …

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 …

The Waipounamu Erosion Surface is a time-transgressive, nearly planar, wave-cut surface. It
is not a peneplain. Formation of the Waipounamu Erosion Surface began in Late …

Geological and climatological processes that have impacted the biota of the Northern
Hemisphere during the Tertiary are expected to yield little resolution when area cladograms …

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 …