Foreword Prologue Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Studying the Distribution of Life on Earth The search for natural biotic areas Cladistics: the search for natural taxa and their relationships Cladistic biogeography: the search for natural areas and their relationships What is an area? Establishing the cladistic biogeographic method How to do cladistic biogeography (or how to start reforming) Reform and the three phases of biogeography Chapter 2: Biogeography Comes to Australasia Biological classification and biogeography: a condensed history The two area classifications: the triumph of Humboldt's plant geography Australian biogeography: flora, fauna, elements and biomes The need for testable hypotheses Chapter 3: Carving up Australasia: The Quest for Natural Biogeographic Regions Is New Zealand a zoological region? Are Australia's regions artificial? Reinvention thesis and bioregionalization Chapter 4: The Spectre of Cladism: Cladistics in the Land of Oz The cladistics war Early Australasian practitioners and critics of numerical cladistics Transformed cladistics in the Land of Oz Cladistics in Australian palaeontology Chapter 5: A New Biogeography: The Panbiogeography Revolt in New Zealand Panbiogeography: Earth and life evolving together The development of panbiogeography in New Zealand (1978-1989) Panbiogeography and its reformation Chapter 6: Goodbye Gondwana: The drowning of Zealandia and the Rise of Neodispersalism New Zealand: archipelago, island continent or oceanic island? The New Zealand drowning hypothesis: towards an integrative biogeography Integrative biogeography: an undisciplined discipline? Chapter 7: All Possible Futures Entering the analytical phase: testing the link between evidence and hypothesis Extending Ball's criteria: invasions, drowning and neodispersalism Towards the analytical phase and biogeographic discovery A future of Australasian biogeography ending the cycle of reinvention Framing biogeographic problems using the taxonomy analogy Glossary Endnotes References Index.