Biological disjunction along the West Caledonian fault, New Caledonia: A synthesis of molecular phylogenetics and panbiogeography

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 158, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 470-488

  Heads, Michael ^a,b  

^a Buffalo Museum of Science   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC   (Fiji)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Distribution; Ecology; Lizard; Molecular clock; Molecular systematics; Pacific; Tectonics; Vicariance

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLADISTICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; LIZARD; MOTH; PHYLOGENETICS; PLANT;

ASIA; AUSTRALASIA; CALIFORNIA; EURASIA; INDONESIA; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; MELANESIA; NEW CALEDONIA [MELANESIA]; NEW GUINEA; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTHEAST ASIA; UNITED STATES;

LEPIDOPTERA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 55649100948     PISSN: 00244074     EISSN: 10958339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2008.00866.x     Document Type: Article

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