Ghosts of Gondwana : the history of life in New Zealand / George Gibbs
- Bib ID:
- 3854442
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Gibbs, George W
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Nelson, N.Z. : Craig Potton, 2006
- 232 p. : col. ill., maps ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781877333484
- 1877333484
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: SECTION I Unique Aotearoa
- 1 Unique Aoearoa: Our Endemic Life
- SSuccss New Zealand-sle A Parrot and a Bat
- SECT1ION II Seeking Explanations
- S What is Historical Biogeographv 8
- S Go ndwanan Ancestry of the land 49
- SDeep Time and Fossis 9
- 6 Tracing Relatihonships Family rees 66
- SECTION III Explanations for New Zealands Life
- SLandmarks in New Zealand's History
- 8 Seeking the Ghosts of Gondwana 8
- 9 The Oligocene Drowning 99
- 0o A Miocene Window on the Past 1
- i Trans-oceanic Inmmigrants in
- 12a and Uplifted High: The Alpine Zone ,
- "3 A Last-minute Cold Snap:T Ie Pleistocene I
- 14 Human Interventions )39
- SECTION IV Made in New Zealand Special Evolutionary Opportunities 44
- 5 Evolution in Action: Insect Songsters 6
- 16 A Herpetological Haven 1
- Ghosts in sthe Bush: Shrubs ersus the Moa 16
- 8 Whatever Happened to the Flowers? 67
- 1 Patterns of New Zealand Lie 72
- SECTION V New Zealand in the Southern Hemisphere 18
- 20 Strean Faunas: Our Connection with Antarctica 86
- 21 lhe Darwn-Croizat Paradox 19.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 208-215.
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