Notes

Table of contents: 1. Unique Aotearoa : our endemic life -- 2. Success New Zealand-style : a parrot and
a bat -- 3. What is historical biogeography? -- 4. Gondwanan ancestry of the land -- 5. Deep time and
fossils -- 6. Landmarks in New Zealand's history -- 8. Seeking the ghosts of Gondwana -- 9. The
Oligocene drowning -- 10. A Miocene window on the past -- 11. Trans-oceanic immigrants -- 12. Land
uplifted high : the alpine zone -- 13. A last-minute cold snap : the Pleistocene -- 14. Human
interventions -- 15. Evolution in action : insect songsters -- 16. A herpetological haven -- 17. Ghosts
in the bush : shrubs versus the moa -- 18. Whatever happened to the flowers? -- 19. Patterns of New
Zealand life -- 20. Stream faunas : our connection with Antarctica -- 21. The Darwin-Croizat paradox.