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- The review examines how New Zealand's flora and fauna have been influenced by the Ōtira Glaciation during the Pleistocene, which coincides with the Last Glacial Maximum.
- The authors highlight the complexity of species' biogeographic histories, showing how past glaciation and mountain-building shaped their distribution.
- They also discuss glacial refugia locations, shared habitats among species, and how glaciation contributed to species diversification, while suggesting future research directions using genomic tools.
Article Abstract
We review the major phylogeographic patterns in Aotearoa New Zealand's terrestrial flora and fauna that have been associated with the Ōtira Glaciation of the Pleistocene, the end of which coincides with the global Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). We focus on (1) the complexity of biogeographic histories of New Zealand species, with LGM-driven phenomena overlaying the impacts of mountain-building and other drivers of phylogeographic structure; (2) the locations of glacial refugia and sets of taxa which may have shared refugia; and (3) the role of glaciation in driving diversification. We end with a brief focus on the next directions, including what can we learn about New Zealand's glacial history by expanding our phylogeographic toolbox to include genomic methods and hypothesis-driven inference methods. We provide follow-up questions which take advantage of the wealth of phylogeographic data for New Zealand.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11459792 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2022.2079682 | DOI Listing |
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