Age and origin of enigmatic megaherbs from the subantarctic islands

• Published in: Nature Precedings
• Main Authors: Wagstaff, Steven J., Breitwieser, Ilse, Quinn, Christopher, Ito, Motomi
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2007
• Subjects: Psychiatry and Mental health; Antarctic; Hooker; Indian; New Zealand; Pacific; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npre.2007.1272.1; http://www.nature.com/articles/npre.2007.1272.1.pdf; http://www.nature.com/articles/npre.2007.1272.1

Abstract Biogeographic relationships in the southern hemisphere have puzzled biologists for the last two centuries. Once joined to form the supercontinent Gondwana, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, New Zealand and South America are widely separated by the Pacific and Indian oceans. Sir Joseph Hooker w...