Handbook of Australasian Biogeography

Malte C. Ebach

• Australasian Bioregionalisation. Australasian Biodiversity: A Taxonomic Perspective. The Demise of the Drowning of the Zealandia Theory. Biogeography of Australasian Freshwater Diatoms. Biogeography of Australasian Marine Macro-Algae. Marine Invertebrate Biogeography. Australasian Marine Fishes: A Review. A Review of Australasian Plant Biogeography. Biogeography of Australasian Fungi. Australasian Insects: Biogeography and History. Arachnid Biogeography of Australasia. Subterranean Biogeography of Australasia. Australasian Reptile Biogeography and Phylogeography. Mammal Zoogeography of Australia. References.

Although impossible to cover all taxonomic groups, the book significantly discusses the biogeography of not only the usual groups of flowering plants and terrestrial vertebrates, but insects, arachnids, marine fishes, algae (diatoms and seaweeds), terrestrial fungi, and subterranean “cave” animals (terrestrial and aquatic troglobionts). This book achieves the goals set out by Ebach in his preface, and I recommend it highly to researchers, teachers, and students.-- Pauline Ladiges, School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, in The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol 93, 2018