Vicariance biogeography and terrane tectonics in the South Pacific: Analysis of the genus Abrotanella (Compositae)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 391-432

  Heads, Michael ^a,b  

^a University of Goroka   (Papua New Guinea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Alpine; Chile; Ecology; Endemism; Geology; New Guinea; Phylogeny; Seed plants; Tasmania; Taxonomy; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; TECTONICS; VICARIANCE;

AUSTRALASIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

ABROTANELLA; ANIMALIA; ASTERACEAE; SPERMATOPHYTA;

EID: 0032799183     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1998.0309     Document Type: Article

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