collapse of government and institutional funding support for panbiogeography in New Zealand

[Matt]

Dear John,

At 11:42 AM 07/26/2002 -0400, John R. Grehan wrote:
>Espinosa Organista,D.; Morrone,J.J.; Llorente Bousquets,J.; Villela,F. 
>(2002). Introdución al análysis de patrones en biogeografìa histórica. 
>UNAM, Mexico
>
>Following the collapse of government and institutional funding support for 
>panbiogeography in New Zealand,

I am curious (and concerned if your facts are correct?) as a New Zealander 
now residing in the US, where this statement came from?  I would have 
thought "collapse" may be a bit on the harsh side.

Cheers,

Matt


>  Mexico (through the Universdidad Nacional Autonoma de México) may rank 
> as the most advanced and productive country when it comes to generating 
> research and reviews on the leading edge of historical biogeography. The 
> latest textbook (below) provides students with a historical overview of 
> biogeography, an outline of contemporary biogeography involving 
> cladistics, tectonics, and Croizat, issues of patterns in space and time, 
> distribution areas and disjunctions, panbiogeography, endemism, and 
> cladistic analysis of areas of endemism. The book is in Spanish and 
> regrettably I am mostly illiterate in that language, but for those who 
> are not so disadvantaged the book provides students with an excellent 
> opportunity to avoid the Darwinian curtain drawn over the biogeographic 
> horizon of English language textbooks.
>
>Espinosa Organista,D.; Morrone,J.J.; Llorente Bousquets,J.; Villela,F. 
>(2002). Introdución al análysis de patrones en biogeografìa histórica. 
>UNAM, Mexico
>
>John Grehan
>
>John Grehan
>Frost Entomological Museum
>Pennsylvania State University
>Department of Entomology
>501 ASI Building
>University Park, PA 16802. USA.
>
>Phone: (814) 863-2865
>Fax: (814) 865-3048
>
>Frost Museum
>http://www.ento.psu.edu/home/Frost/index.html

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