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Overview

Alison Cree is affiliated with the University of Otago in New Zealand. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Within these broad fields, their work addresses subfields such as global and planetary change, ecological modeling, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and nature and landscape conservation.

The main topics covered in Alison Cree's research include amphibian and reptile biology, species distribution and climate change, animal behavior and reproduction, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, turtle biology and conservation, wildlife ecology and conservation, and evolution and paleontology studies.

Their recent scholarly output includes the following papers:

  • Reptiles and amphibians of New Zealand: A Field Guide (2020, Herpetological Bulletin)
  • Thermal heterogeneity of selected retreats in cool-temperate viviparous lizards suggests a potential benefit of future climate warming (2021, Journal of Thermal Biology)
  • Heat and water loss vs shelter: a dilemma in thermoregulatory decision-making for a retreat-dwelling nocturnal gecko (2020, Journal of Experimental Biology)
  • Using Holocene fossils to model the future: Distribution of climate suitability for tuatara, the last rhynchocephalian (2021, Journal of Biogeography)
  • A global analysis of field body temperatures of active squamates in relation to climate and behaviour (2024, Global Ecology and Biogeography)

Alison Cree frequently collaborates with several researchers in their field. These coauthors include Joanne M. Monks, Christian O. Chukwuka, Evelyn Virens, Stephanie S. Godfrey, and Scott Jarvie.

The venues where Alison Cree commonly publishes reflect a focus on ecology and biology. Their frequent publication venues include the New Zealand Journal of Ecology, Journal of Thermal Biology, Journal of Experimental Biology, Herpetological Bulletin, and Journal of Biogeography.

Best Publications

  • Neglected taxonomy and continuing extinctions of tuatara (Sphenodon)

    C. H. Daugherty;A. Cree;J. M. Hay;M. B. Thompson

  • Elevated hormonal stress response and reduced reproductive output in Yellow-eyed penguins exposed to unregulated tourism.

    Ursula Ellenberg;Alvin N. Setiawan;Alison Cree;David M. Houston

  • Low annual reproductive output in female reptiles from New Zealand

    Alison Cree

  • Biology of stress: interactions with reproduction, immunology and intermediary metabolism

    Louis J. GuilletteJr.;Alison Cree;Andrew A. Rooney

  • Relationships between corticosterone concentration and season, time of day and confinement in a wild reptile (tuatara, Sphenodon punctatus).

    C.L. Tyrrell;A. Cree

  • Reproductive cycles of male and female tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) on Stephens Island, New Zealand

    Alison Cree;J. F. Cockrem;L. J. Guillette

  • Raising the prospects for a forgotten fauna: a review of 10 years of conservation effort for New Zealand reptiles

    David R Towns;Charles H Daugherty;Alison Cree

  • Effects of reproductive condition, season, and site on selected temperatures of a viviparous gecko.

    Jennifer Rock;Robin M. Andrews;Alison Cree

  • Tuatara sex determination

    Alison Cree;Michael B. Thompson;Charles H. Daugherty

  • Reproduction of a Rare New Zealand Reptile, the Tuatara Sphenodon punctatus, on Rat‐Free and Rat‐Inhabited Islands

    Alison Cree;Charles H. Daugherty;Jennifer M. Hay

  • EFFECT OF ACUTE CAPTIVITY STRESS ON PLASMA CONCENTRATIONS OF CORTICOSTERONE AND SEX STEROIDS IN FEMALE WHISTLING FROGS, LITORIA EWINGI

    E.J. Coddington;A. Cree

  • Protecting embryos from stress: corticosterone effects and the corticosterone response to capture and confinement during pregnancy in a live-bearing lizard (Hoplodactylus maculatus)

    Alison Cree;Claudine L Tyrrell;Marion R Preest;Dougal Thorburn

  • Biennial Reproduction with a Fourteen-month Pregnancy in the Gecko Hoplodactylus maculatus from Southern New Zealand

    Alison Cree

  • A cold-adapted reptile becomes a more effective thermoregulator in a thermally challenging environment.

    Anne Amélie Besson;Alison Cree

  • Support for a rare pattern of temperature-dependent sex determination in archaic reptiles: evidence from two species of tuatara (Sphenodon)

    Nicola J Mitchell;Nicola J Mitchell;Nicola J Nelson;Alison Cree;Shirley Pledger

  • Low genetic divergence obscures phylogeny among populations of Sphenodon, remnant of an ancient reptile lineage.

    Jennifer M Hay;Charles H Daugherty;Alison Cree;Linda R Maxson

  • Oviductal structure in a viviparous New Zealand gecko, Hoplodactylus maculatus.

    J.E. Girling;A. Cree;L.J. Guillette

  • Corticosterone Treatment Has Subtle Effects on Thermoregulatory Behavior and Raises Metabolic Rate in the New Zealand Common Gecko, Hoplodactylus maculatus

    Marion R. Preest;Alison Cree

  • Tuatara: Biology and Conservation of a Venerable Survivor

    Alison Cree

  • The effect of reproductive condition on thermoregulation in a viviparous gecko from a cool climate

    Jennifer Rock;Alison Cree;Robin M. Andrews

  • Relative use of three types of artificial retreats by terrestrial lizards in grazed coastal shrubland, New Zealand

    Marieke Lettink;Alison Cree

  • Status and longevity of the tuatara, Sphenodon guntheri, and Duvaucel's gecko, Hoplodactylus duvaucelii, on North Brother Island, New Zealand

    Michael B. Thompson;Charles H. Daugherty;Alison Cree;Debbie C. French

  • Removal of introduced predators, but not artificial refuge supplementation, increases skink survival in coastal duneland

    Marieke Lettink;Grant Norbury;Alison Cree;Philip J. Seddon

Frequent Co-Authors

Louis J. Guillette
Louis J. Guillette Medical University of South Carolina
Charles H. Daugherty
Charles H. Daugherty Victoria University of Wellington
Philip J. Seddon
Philip J. Seddon University of Otago
Nicola J. Nelson
Nicola J. Nelson Victoria University of Wellington
David R. Towns
David R. Towns Auckland University of Technology
Michael B. Thompson
Michael B. Thompson University of Sydney
Robin M. Andrews
Robin M. Andrews Virginia Tech
David M. Lambert
David M. Lambert Griffith University
Stephanie S. Godfrey
Stephanie S. Godfrey University of Otago
David M. Sever
David M. Sever Southeastern Louisiana University

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