Table 1.
The number of representative taxa for each georegion included in this analysis
| Area | Distance | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Georegion | Taxa | Sites | (km2) | (km) | |
| New Guinea | 159 | 785,753 | |||
| V | Vogelkop Peninsula | 4 | 3 | ||
| A | Accreted Terranes | 32 | 7 | ||
| F | Fold Belt | 19 | 8 | ||
| C | Australian Craton | 3 | 3 | ||
| E | EPCT | 101 | 37 | ||
| Y | Normanby Island | 18 | 6 | 1,040 | 40 |
| F | Fergusson Island | 3 | 1 | 1,437 | 40 |
| B | New Britain | 2 | 2 | 36,520 | 79 |
| W | Woodlark Island | 6 | 1 | 874 | 253 |
| M | Misima Island | 4 | 1 | 202 | 202 |
| S | Sudest Island | 8 | 4 | 866 | 303 |
| R | Rossel Island | 8 | 3 | 262 | 372 |
Island area data from (Lyon 1991) http://islands.unep.ch/Tiarea.htm. Distances are oceanic distances from islands to the nearest point on the mainland.