The Pacific Ocean evolved from the Panthalassic Ocean that was first formed ca 750 Ma with
the rifting apart of Rodinia. By 160 Ma, the first ocean floor ascribed to the current Pacific …

Often, biogeography is applied only as a narrative addition to phylogenetic studies and
lacks scientific rigour. However, if research questions are framed as hypotheses, …

… Steven Trewick studies the evolution and biogeography of the NZ fauna, especially … (a)
North Island and South Island phylogeographic disjunctions (Peripatoides, Trewick 2000a). (b) …

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 …

Chloroplast DNA sequences were obtained from 331 Asplenium ceterach plants representing
143 populations from throughout the range of the complex in Europe, plus outlying sites in …

Islands of the Pacific Ocean have long fascinated evolutionists. Oceanic islands, generally
the products of volcanic activity, provide natural experiments as biological populations are …

DNA barcoding has been touted as a program that will efficiently and relatively cheaply inform
on biological diversity; yet many exemplars purporting to demonstrate the efficacy of the …

… Goldberg 2007, unpublished data) corroborate earlier results for Talitropsis (Trewick
2000a) and emphasize that speciation can be rapid even in a small, young landscape. …

Abstract The existence of areas of lower endemism and disjunction of New Zealand biota is
typified by Nothofagus beech trees (hence “beech‐gap”) and have been attributed to a …

A prominent feature of New Zealand biogeography is that species endemicity and diversity is
not evenly distributed but shows an alternating pattern of latitudinal variation. Endemicity is …