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New Zealand freshwater fishes : an historical and ecological biogeography / R. M. McDowall.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, 2010Description: xxi, 449 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9048192706
  • 9789048192700
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 597.1760993 22
LOC classification:
  • QL636.2 .M326 2010
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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