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Ecology and Evolution
Australia
2023

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
110
Citations
66797
World Ranking
173
National Ranking
16

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Australia Leader Award
  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2014 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science

Overview

Craig Moritz is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a strong focus on genetics and ecological modeling.

The scientist's work addresses various subfields, including genetics, ecological modeling, ecology, global and planetary change, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Key research topics covered by Craig Moritz include genetic diversity and population structure, species distribution and climate change, amphibian and reptile biology, wildlife ecology and conservation, animal behavior and reproduction, evolution and paleontology studies, and genomics and phylogenetic studies.

Craig Moritz has published in several prominent scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Molecular Ecology (6 publications)
  • Systematic Biology (2 publications)
  • Ecology and Evolution (2 publications)
  • Current Biology (2 publications)
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (2 publications)

Selected recent papers demonstrate the range and focus of their research:

  • "Museum Genomics," 2021, Annual Review of Genetics
  • "Museum genomics reveals the rapid decline and extinction of Australian rodents since European settlement," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "The macroevolutionary singularity of snakes," 2024, Science
  • "The Evolution of Comparative Phylogeography: Putting the Geography (and More) into Comparative Population Genomics," 2021, Genome Biology and Evolution
  • "Congruence and Conflict in the Higher-Level Phylogenetics of Squamate Reptiles: An Expanded Phylogenomic Perspective," 2020, Systematic Biology

Frequent collaborators of Craig Moritz include:

  • Jéssica Fenker
  • Sonal Singhal
  • Daniel L. Rabosky
  • Mark D. B. Eldridge
  • Leo Joseph

Craig Moritz has been recognized by peers through election to prestigious academies, including being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017 and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Novel methods improve prediction of species' distributions from occurrence data

    Jane Elith;Catherine H. Graham;Robert P. Anderson;Miroslav Dudík

  • Defining ‘Evolutionarily Significant Units’ for conservation

    Craig Moritz

  • Nucleic acids II: the polymerase chain reaction

    David M. Hillis;Craig Moritz;Barbara K. Mable;Stephen R. Palumbi

  • EVOLUTION OF ANIMAL MITOCHONDRIAL DNA: RELEVANCE FOR POPULATION BIOLOGY AND SYSTEMATICS

    C. Moritz;T. E. Dowling;W. M. Brown

  • New developments in museum-based informatics and applications in biodiversity analysis

    Catherine H. Graham;Catherine H. Graham;Simon Ferrier;Falk Huettman;Craig Moritz

  • Impact of a Century of Climate Change on Small-Mammal Communities in Yosemite National Park, USA

    Craig Moritz;James L. Patton;Chris J. Conroy;Juan L. Parra

  • DNA Barcoding: Promise and Pitfalls

    Craig Moritz;Carla Cicero

  • Stability Predicts Genetic Diversity in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest Hotspot

    Ana Carolina Oliveira de Queiroz Carnaval;Michael J. Hickerson;Célio Fernando Baptista Haddad;Miguel Trefaut Urbano Rodrigues

  • Strategies to protect biological diversity and the evolutionary processes that sustain it.

    Craig Moritz

  • Applications of mitochondrial DNA analysis in conservation: a critical review

    C. Moritz

  • DIVERSIFICATION OF RAINFOREST FAUNAS: An Integrated Molecular Approach

    C. Moritz;J. L. Patton;C. J. Schneider;T. B. Smith

  • Historical climate modelling predicts patterns of current biodiversity in the Brazilian Atlantic forest

    Ana Carolina Carnaval;Craig Moritz

  • Coalescent-based species delimitation in an integrative taxonomy

    Matthew K. Fujita;Adam D. Leaché;Frank T. Burbrink;Jimmy A. McGuire

  • Integrating phylogenetics and environmental niche models to explore speciation mechanisms in dendrobatid frogs.

    Catherine H. Graham;Santiago R. Ron;Santiago R. Ron;Juan C. Santos;Juan C. Santos;Christopher J. Schneider

  • The Future of Species Under Climate Change: Resilience or Decline?

    Craig Moritz;Craig Moritz;Rosa Agudo

  • Birds track their Grinnellian niche through a century of climate change

    Morgan W. Tingley;William B. Monahan;Steven R. Beissinger;Craig Moritz

  • EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN THE ENSATINA ESCHSCHOLTZII COMPLEX CONFIRM THE RING SPECIES INTERPRETATION

    Craig Moritz;Christopher J. Schneider;David B. Wake

  • CONSERVATION UNITS AND TRANSLOCATIONS : STRATEGIES FOR CONSERVING EVOLUTIONARY PROCESSES

    Craig Moritz

  • Conservation and dynamics of microsatellite loci over 300 million years of marine turtle evolution.

    N N FitzSimmons;C Moritz;S S Moore

  • Reinforcement drives rapid allopatric speciation

    Conrad J. Hoskin;Megan Higgie;Keith R. McDonald;Craig Moritz

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher W. Dick
Christopher W. Dick University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Stephen E. Williams
Stephen E. Williams James Cook University
Ben L. Phillips
Ben L. Phillips University of Melbourne
Stephen C. Donnellan
Stephen C. Donnellan South Australian Museum
Conrad J. Hoskin
Conrad J. Hoskin James Cook University
Catherine H. Graham
Catherine H. Graham Stony Brook University
Jeremy VanDerWal
Jeremy VanDerWal James Cook University
Ana Carolina Carnaval
Ana Carolina Carnaval City University of New York
Wesley M. Brown
Wesley M. Brown University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Steven R. Beissinger
Steven R. Beissinger University of California, Berkeley

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