New Zealand Freshwater Fishes an Historical and Ecological Biogeography
This book provides a synthesis of taxonomic and ecological information on New Zealand’s freshwater fish fauna. New Zealand has been isolated in the southwestern Pacific Ocean since it separated from Gondwana during the Cretaceous period, some 80 million years ago. This prolonged geological isolation...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2010, 2010
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2010 |
| Series: | Fish & Fisheries Series
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- New Zealand’s Distinctive and Well-Known Freshwater Fish Fauna
- The Geographical Setting of New Zealand and Its Place in Global Geography
- New Zealand’s Geological and Climatic History and Its Biogeographical Context
- A Conceptual Basis for Biogeography
- Some Essentials of Freshwater Fish Biogeography, Fish Life Histories, and the Place of Diadromy
- Data Sources for the Present Study
- Phylogenetic Lineages in the Fauna and the Evolution of Diadromy: A Broad Perspective
- Galaxias and Gondwana
- Broad-Scale, Macroecological Patterns, Ranges and Community Species Richness in the Fauna
- Pattern and Process in the Distributions and Biogeography of New Zealand Freshwater Fishes: The Diadromous Species
- Pattern and Process in the Distributions of Non-diadromous Species – 1: The Galaxias vulgaris Species Complex
- Pattern and Process in the Distributions of Non-diadromous Species 2: The ‘Pencil-Galaxias’ Species Group
- Pattern and Process in the Distributions of Non-diadromous Species 3: The Dune Lakes Galaxias
- Distribution, History and Biogeography of the Neochanna Mudfishes
- Distribution and Biogeography of the Non-diadromous Gobiomorphus Bullies
- A Biogeographical Synthesis: 1. The Big Picture
- Biogeographical Synthesis: 2. More Local Issues and Patterns
- A Biogeographical Synthesis 3: Issues of Diadromy, Diversification and Dispersal
- Some General Biogeographical Patterns in the Fish Fauna
- A More Global Perspective and a Final Summation