Age and origin of enigmatic megaherbs from the subantarctic islands

• Main Authors: Steven J. Wagstaff, Ilse Breitwieser, Christopher Quinn, Motomi Ito
• Format: Manuscript
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Ecology; Plant Biology; Evolutionary Biology; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Pacific; Indian; New Zealand; Hooker; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/1272/version/1; http://hdl.handle.net/10101/npre.2007.1272.1

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 was the fi...