New Zealand Freshwater Fishes : an Historical and Ecological Biogeography - McDowall, R.M.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010)
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.
Keywords: Life sciences; Aquatic ecology .; Wildlife; Fish; Life Sciences, general; Freshwater & Marine Ecology; Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management