Handbook of Australasian Biogeography

Handbook of Australasian Biogeography PDF

Author: Malte C. Ebach

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2017-01-06

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 1315355779

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The Handbook of Australasian Biogeography is the most comprehensive overview of the biogeography of Australasian plants, fungi and animal taxa in a single volume. This volume is unique in its coverage of marine, freshwater, terrestrial, and subterranean taxa. It is an essential publication for anyone studying or researching Australasian biogeography. The book contains biogeographic reviews of all major plant, animal and fungal groups in Australasia by experts in the field, including a strong emphasis on invertebrates, algae, fungi and subterranean taxa. It discusses how Australasia is different from the rest of the world and what other areas share its history and biota.

Blood Brothers

Blood Brothers PDF

Author: Jeff Hopkins-Weise

Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited

Published: 2007-01-22

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 1742288626

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By the middle of the nineteenth century, the very existence of European colonial settlement in New Zealand was under threat. With Queen Victoria's British forces stretched thinly across the globe, the New Zealand colony had to look to its sister colonial states in Australia for support. This ground-breaking work shows, for the first time in detail, how the military, social and economic brotherhood later embodied in the notion of the Anzac spirit began not on the sandy beaches of Gallipoli but 50 years earlier in the damp forests and fields of the North Island of New Zealand