New Zealand has long been a conundrum to biogeographers, possessing as it does
geophysical and biotic features characteristic of both an island and a continent. This schism …

Hernández-Ledesma P., Berendsohn WG, Borsch Th., Mering S. von, Akhani H., Arias S.,
Castañeda-Noa I., Eggli U., Eriksson R., Flores-Olvera H., Fuentes-Bazán S., Kadereit G …

The aim of the present study was to infer a substantially larger, more evenly sampled,
phylogenetic tree for Caryophyllaceae in order to more confidently resolve relationships …

The Australian fossil record shows that from ca. 25 Myr ago, the aseasonal–wet biome
(rainforest and wet heath) gave way to the unique Australian sclerophyll biomes dominated …

Understanding the relationships within the Caryophyllaceae has been difficult, in part
because of arbitrarily and poorly defined genera and difficulty in determining …

Taxa have been dated using three methods: equating their age with the age of the oldest
known fossil, with the age of strata the taxa are endemic to, and with the age of …

Caryophyllaceae is a principally holarctic family including around 2200 species often
classified into the three subfamilies Alsinoideae, Caryophylloideae, and Paronychioideae …

The New Zealand mountains provide a unique system in which to study the evolution of
alpine plants. The relationship between the recent uplift of mountain habitats (5–2 million …

Over the last decade, molecular studies carried out on the Australasian biota have revealed
a new world of organic structure that exists from submicroscopic to continental scale …

Understanding the evolutionary history and biogeography of the New Zealand alpine flora
has been impeded by the lack of an integrated model of geomorphology and climate events …