TY  - BOOK
AU  - McDowall,R.M.
TI  - New Zealand freshwater fishes: an historical and ecological biogeography 
T2  - Fish & fisheries series
SN  - 9789048192700 (alk. paper)
AV  - QL636.2 .M326 2010
U1  - 597.1760993 DOW 23
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Dordrecht, New York
PB  - Springer
KW  - Freshwater fishes
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - Diadromous fishes
KW  - Geographical distribution
KW  - Phylogeny
KW  - Dispersal
KW  - Ecology
KW  - Freshwater ecology
N1  - 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
ER  -