• Audley-Charles, M.G. 1981. Geological history of the region of Wallace’s line. pp. 24-35 In: ed. T.C. Whitmore. Wallace’s Line and Plate Tectonics. Clarendon Press, Oxford.
• Hall, R. 2002. Cenozoic geological and plate tectonic evolution of SE Asia and the SW Pacific: computer-based reconstructions, model and animations. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 20: 353-431.
• Spakman, W. and Hall, R. 2010. Surface deformation and slab-mantle interaction during Banda arc subduction rollback. Nature Geoscience 3: 562-566.
• Whitmore, T.C. 1981. Wallace’s Line and Plate Tectonics. Clarendon Press, Oxford.

Fauna

• Coates, B.J. and Bishop, K.D. 1997. A Guide to the Birds of Wallacea. Dove Publications, Alderley, Queensland.
• Kitchener, D.J. 1990. Wild Mammals of Lombok Island. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Perth.
• Monk, K.A., Fretes, Y. and Reksodiharjo-Lilley, G. 1997. The Ecology of Nusa Tenggara and Maluku. Periplus Editions.
• Quammen, D. 1996. The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions. Scribner, New York.
• Trainor, C., Coates, B. and Bishop, D. 2007. As Aves de Timor-Leste (The Birds of Timor-Leste). BirdLife International and Dove Publications.
• Wallace, A.R. 1869. The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature. Volumes 1 & 2. Macmillan and Co., London.
• van Oosterzee, P. 1997. Where Worlds Collide. Cornell University Press, Ithaca & London.