Mammalian biogeography of the Alexander Archipelago of Alaska: a north temperate nested fauna

Postglacial Distribution Patterns of Mammals in the Southern Coastal Regions of Alaska

D URING the Wisconsin glaciation the present land areas of the coastal regions of Alaska bordering the Gulf of Alaska were virtually completely overridden by ice. The now existing flora and fauna of the region have presumably become established in the 10,000 years since the recession of the ice. Swarth discussed the origins of the fauna of the “Sitkan District’’ in 1936, and since then addition...

First Alaskan records and a significant northern range extension for two species of Diplura 147 First Alaskan records and a significant northern range extension for two species of Diplura (Diplura, Campodeidae)

Species in the class Diplura are recorded from Alaska for the first time. Two species, Tricampa rileyi Silvestri from Dall and Prince of Wales Islands in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska and Metriocampa allocerca Conde & Geeraert from near Quartz Lake, southeast of Fairbanks, both in the family Campodeidae, are documented based on recently collected specimens deposited in the Unive...

Influences of Island Characteristics on Plant Community Structure of Farasan Archipelago, Saudi Arabia: Island Biogeography and Nested Pattern

Molecular biogeography and diversification of the endemic terrestrial fauna of the Hawaiian Islands.

Oceanic islands have played a central role in biogeography and evolutionary biology. Here, we review molecular studies of the endemic terrestrial fauna of the Hawaiian archipelago. For some groups, monophyly and presumed single origin of the Hawaiian radiations have been confirmed (achatinelline tree snails, drepanidine honeycreepers, drosophilid flies, Havaika spiders, Hylaeus bees, Laupala cr...

Mammals from the mid-Cretaceous Khodzhakul Formation, Kyzylkum Desert, Uzbekistan

Six localities in the mid-Cretaceous (early Cenomanian) Khodzhakul Formation, western Kyzylkum Desert, Uzbekistan, produced mammalian remains of a possible zalambdalestoid (Bobolestes), a possible zalambdalestid, and two (Sheikhdzheilia rezvyii, gen. et sp. nov. and Eozhelestes mangit) or three zhelestids (‘‘Zhelestidae’’ indet., unnamed large sp. A). This is termed the Sheikhdzheili local faun...