Story: Evolution of plants and animals

More links and websites

• The Allan Wilson Centre

  This Massey University research centre investigates the molecular ecology and evolution of New Zealand species.

• Ghosts of Gondwana

  A documentary about New Zealand's unusual plant and animal species, on the NZ On Screen website.

• New Zealand evolutionary evidence

  These web pages from the University of Waikato have information on evolution and species radiation in New Zealand.

More suggestions and sources

• Dawson, John, and Rob Lucas. Nature guide to the New Zealand forest. Auckland: Godwit, 2000.
• Gibbs, George. Ghosts of Gondwana. Nelson: Craig Potton, 2006.
• McIntyre, Teresa, ed. Biology Aotearoa: unique flora, fauna and fungi. Auckland: Pearson Education New Zealand, 2006.
• Wardle, Peter. Vegetation of New Zealand. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
• Worthy, Trevor H., and Richard N. Holdaway. The lost world of the moa: prehistoric life in New Zealand. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2002.