[Taxacom] Ontong Java Nui

[John Grehan]

Anyone interested in a copy of the article below please let me know. Mostly
summarizes studies by Michael Heads.

Grehan, J.R. 2021. Ontong Java Nui  - a critical element in the evolution
of New Zealand's biodiversity. Botanical Society of Otago Newsletter 92:
13-18.

Excerpt

There is now good evidence for former terrestrial landscapes on the Ontong
Java Nui plateau and its derivatives, as well as other Pacific plateaus and
intra-plate hotspots (Heads 2012). This geological structure provides a
geological and
geographic mechanism for the persistence of ancestral terrestrial and
coastal marine distributions within the Pacific basin, and also
for vicariance of ancestral populations through tectonic transport.