Patterns of environmental spatial structure lie at the heart of the most fundamental and
familiar patterns of diversity on Earth. Antarctica contains some of the strongest …

Global cooling and glacial–interglacial cycles since Antarctica's isolation have been
responsible for the diversification of the region's marine fauna. By contrast, these same Earth …

Abstract Australia's Gippsland Basin contains a semi-continuous Eocene-Oligocene (41.5–
28.4 Ma) near-coastal coal record that formed adjacent to Pacific Ocean. Traralgon and …

Although the fossil record of non-avian dinosaurs from the Cretaceous of Antarctica is the
poorest of any continent, fossils representing at least five major taxonomic groups …

Anthropocene Antarctica offers new ways of thinking about the 'Continent for Science and
Peace'in a time of planetary environmental change. In the Anthropocene, Antarctica has …

In benthic communities, echinoderms are dominant in terms of abundance and diversity, and
Asteroidea play an important role in the structure of communities. In the present study …

The Antarctica of today is a forbidding place: isolated from the other landmasses of the
planet, with more than 99.6% of its surface covered in permanent ice, which is on average …

Species with a xylobiont lifestyle (eg, inside fallen tree trunks) are rarely fossilized because
of their taphonomic peculiarities. Reconstructing the evolutionary history of these lineages is …

Australian Jewel Beetles: An Introduction to the Buprestidae is a comprehensive overview of
Australia's buprestid fauna. It presents taxonomic, ecological and biogeographic information …

Australasia has a unique fauna of living vertebrates, which include the oldest known species
on the planet (the lungfish Neoceratodus) as well as many diverse, highly endemic families …