Goodbye Gondwana? New Zealand biogeography, geology, and the problem of circularity

Systematic Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 351-356

  Waters, Jonathan M ^a   Craw, Dave ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; FISH; FROGS AND TOADS; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGY; NEW ZEALAND; PLANT; REPTILE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; ANURA; FISHES; GENETIC SPECIATION; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGY; NEW ZEALAND; PALAEOGNATHAE; PLANTS; REPTILES;

EID: 33744966862     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150600681659     Document Type: Review

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