Evolution of ecological and behavioural diversity: Australian Acacia thrips as model organisms.

Canberra: ABRS, 2004.
Octavo, publisher's cloth, 321 pp. colour photographs.

This book presents a novel, ‘model clades' approach to the study of biodiversification, explicitly integrating behaviour, ecology, taxonomy, phylogenetics, and evolution. The driving force behind the evolution of over 250 species in 30 genera is the arid and unpredictable Australian climate. The Botanical annexe on the relationships of the host Acacia group will be of interest to botanists.