[Taxacom] Chatham Islands biogeography

[Geoff Read]

A multiuse common name like "The Weta" is a fun journal title to search
for on the web.

There's the giant insect, the film companies, the media companies, the
place names, and not forgetting the San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency
Transportation Authority.

A small niche publication is rather inconspicuous, but here it is online:
"The Weta is the news bulletin of the Entomological Society of New
Zealand"

John Grehan's article in pdf is here:
https://weta.ento.org.nz/index.php/weta/article/view/386

I'll see if I have the skill to add this publication  to the Wikipedia
disambiguation page.

Geoff

On Thu, January 14, 2021 1:17 am, John Grehan via Taxacom wrote:
> Anyone interested in a copy of the following article please let me know.
>
> Cheers, John Grehan
>
> Gehan 2021 The Chatham Islands (Rēkohu) biota as a fragment of East
> Gondwana biodiversity. The Weta 55: 48-61.
>
> Informal abstract
>
> While the modern Chatham Islands is a geographic outlier, this cannot be
> said of its biodiversity. The foregoing examples illustrate how the
> Chatham
> Islands is an integral component of both regional and global biodiversity.
> The Alpine Fault correlation shows how an originally contiguous
> distribution between the mainland and the Chatham Islands has been
> displaced by lateral fault movement beginning about 23 Ma. The endemism
> and
> phylogenetic relationships of living Chatham Islands taxa, the molecular
> dates for clades that are older than the modern islands, and the
> geological
> evidence for continuous land in the area, all support the idea that the
> Chatham Islands biota is derived from widespread ancestors rather than
> stray derivatives from mainland New Zealand. A Gondwana timeline for
> Chatham Islands biodiversity is incredible only if one fails to recognize
> that organisms are dispersible and able to survive and persist within
> geographically and geologically unstable environments over long geological
> periods.
> _______________________________________________


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Geoffrey B. Read, Ph.D.
Wellington, NEW ZEALAND
gread at actrix.gen.nz