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New Zealand Freshwater Fishes

an Historical and Ecological Biogeography

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  • © 2010

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Authors:
  1. R.M. McDowall

    1. National Institute of Water and Atmosphe, Christchurch, New Zealand

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  • Connects New Zealand's turbulent geological past to contemporary distribution patterns
  • Separates in a distinctive way the roles of history and ecology in a fauna
  • Connects life history strategies to distribution patterns

Part of the book series: Fish & Fisheries Series (FIFI, volume 32)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. New Zealand’s Distinctive and Well-Known Freshwater Fish Fauna

    • R. M. McDowall
    Pages 1-33

  3. The Geographical Setting of New Zealand and Its Place in Global Geography

    • R. M. McDowall
    Pages 35-53

  4. New Zealand’s Geological and Climatic History and Its Biogeographical Context

    • R. M. McDowall
    Pages 55-85

  5. A Conceptual Basis for Biogeography

    • R. M. McDowall
    Pages 87-103

  6. Some Essentials of Freshwater Fish Biogeography, Fish Life Histories, and the Place of Diadromy

    • R. M. McDowall
    Pages 105-134

  7. Data Sources for the Present Study

    • R. M. McDowall
    Pages 135-149

  8. Phylogenetic Lineages in the Fauna and the Evolution of Diadromy: A Broad Perspective

    • R. M. McDowall
    Pages 151-168

  9. Galaxias and Gondwana

    • R. M. McDowall
    Pages 169-203

  10. Broad-Scale, Macroecological Patterns, Ranges and Community Species Richness in the Fauna

    • R. M. McDowall
    Pages 205-240

  11. Pattern and Process in the Distributions and Biogeography of New Zealand Freshwater Fishes: The Diadromous Species

    • R. M. McDowall
    Pages 241-256

  12. Pattern and Process in the Distributions of Non-diadromous Species – 1: The Galaxias vulgaris Species Complex

    • R. M. McDowall
    Pages 257-280

  13. Pattern and Process in the Distributions of Non-diadromous Species 2: The ‘Pencil-Galaxias’ Species Group

    • R. M. McDowall
    Pages 281-296

  14. Pattern and Process in the Distributions of Non-diadromous Species 3: The Dune Lakes Galaxias

    • R. M. McDowall
    Pages 297-302

  15. Distribution, History and Biogeography of the Neochanna Mudfishes

    • R. M. McDowall
    Pages 303-314

  16. Distribution and Biogeography of the Non-diadromous Gobiomorphus Bullies

    • R. M. McDowall
    Pages 315-327

  17. A Biogeographical Synthesis: 1. The Big Picture

    • R. M. McDowall
    Pages 329-337

  18. Biogeographical Synthesis: 2. More Local Issues and Patterns

    • R. M. McDowall
    Pages 339-374

  19. A Biogeographical Synthesis 3: Issues of Diadromy, Diversification and Dispersal

    • R. M. McDowall
    Pages 375-397

  20. Some General Biogeographical Patterns in the Fish Fauna

    • R. M. McDowall
    Pages 399-423
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About this book

In many ways, this book is the culmination of more than four decades of my exp- ration of the taxonomy, biogeography and ecology of New Zealand’s quite small freshwater fish fauna. I began this firstly as a fisheries ecologist with the New Zealand Marine Department (then responsible for the nation’s fisheries research and mana- ment), and then with my PhD at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA in the early–mid 1960s. Since then, employed by a series of agencies that have successively been assigned a role in fisheries research in New Zealand, I have been able to explore very widely the natural history of that fauna. Studies of the fishes of other warm to cold temperate southern lands have followed, particularly southern Australia, New Caledonia, Patagonian South America, the Falkland Islands, and South Africa and, in many ways, have provided the rather broader context within which the New Zealand fauna is embedded in terms of geography, phylogeny, and evolutionary history, and knowing this context makes the patterns within New Zealand all the clearer. An additional stream in these studies, in substantial measure driven by the beh- ioural ecology of these fishes round the Southern Hemisphere, has been exploration of the role of diadromy (regular migrations between marine and freshwater biomes) in fisheries ecology and biogeography, and eventually of diadromous fishes wor- wide.

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  • National Institute of Water and Atmosphe, Christchurch, New Zealand

    R.M. McDowall

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