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Dennis P. Gordon is affiliated with the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in New Zealand. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a significant emphasis on marine ecology and invasive species, marine biology and ecology research, and related topics.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Subfields of particular interest to them are:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Oceanography
  • Cancer Research
  • Ocean Engineering

Their research covers a range of marine and aquatic biology subjects, including:

  • Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Myxozoan Parasites in Aquatic Species
  • Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
  • Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Dennis P. Gordon include:

  • Paleozoic origins of cheilostome bryozoans and their parental care inferred by a new genome-skimmed phylogeny, 2022, Science Advances
  • Phylum Bryozoa Ehrenberg, 1831 in the first twenty years of Zootaxa, 2021, Zootaxa
  • A broadly resolved molecular phylogeny of New Zealand cheilostome bryozoans as a framework for hypotheses of morphological evolution, 2021, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • An atlas of seabed biodiversity for Aotearoa New Zealand, 2023, Earth system science data
  • A revision of the ctenostome bryozoan family Pherusellidae, with description of two new species, 2021, Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Abigail M. Smith (16 publications)
  • Andrea Waeschenbach (13 publications)
  • Lee Hsiang Liow (11 publications)
  • Emanuela Di Martino (10 publications)
  • Paul D. Taylor (10 publications)

The scientist has contributed notably to several publication venues, including:

  • Zootaxa (12 publications)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (5 publications)
  • Journal of Morphology (2 publications)
  • New Zealand Science Review (2 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2 publications)

Dennis P. Gordon has authored at least one book published by Wiley, titled Bryozoa from the Maastrichtian Korojon Formation, Western Australia, published in 2024.

Best Publications

  • The magnitude of global marine species diversity

    Ward Appeltans;Shane T. Ahyong;Shane T. Ahyong;Gary Anderson;Martin V. Angel

  • A higher level classification of all living organisms.

    Michael A. Ruggiero;Dennis P. Gordon;Thomas M. Orrell;Nicolas Bailly

  • Global coordination and standardisation in marine biodiversity through the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) and related databases.

    Mark J. Costello;Philippe Bouchet;Geoff Boxshall;Kristian Fauchald

  • Application of Bryozoan zoarial growth-form studies in facies analysis of non-tropical carbonate deposits in New Zealand

    Campbell S. Nelson;Fiona M. Hyden;Sandra L. Keane;William L. Leask

  • Skeletal mineralogy of bryozoans: Taxonomic and temporal patterns

    Abigail M. Smith;Marcus M. Key;Dennis P. Gordon

  • Matrotrophy and placentation in invertebrates: a new paradigm

    Andrew N. Ostrovsky;Andrew N. Ostrovsky;Scott Lidgard;Dennis P. Gordon;Thomas Schwaha

  • Marine biodiversity of Aotearoa New Zealand.

    Dennis P. Gordon;Jennifer Beaumont;Alison MacDiarmid;Donald A. Robertson

  • Coral-like bryozoan growths in Tasman Bay, and their protection to conserve commercial fish stocks

    Mike Bradstock;Dennis P. Gordon

  • Phylum Bryozoa Ehrenberg, 1831. In : Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013)

    Philip E. Bock;Dennis P. Gordon

  • Cheilostomatous Bryozoa from Vanuatu

    Kevin J. Tilbrook;P. J. Hayward;P. J. Hayward;D. P. Gordon

  • ‘Lophenteropneust’ hypothesis refuted by collection and photos of new deep-sea hemichordates

    Nicholas D. Holland;David A. Clague;Dennis P. Gordon;Andrey Gebruk

  • Macrofaunal assemblages of benthic habitat of different complexity and the proposition of a model of biogenic reef habitat regeneration in Foveaux Strait, New Zealand

    H.J Cranfield;A.A Rowden;D.J Smith;D.P Gordon

  • Correction: A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms.

    Michael A. Ruggiero;Dennis P. Gordon;Thomas M. Orrell;Nicolas Bailly

  • Division of labor and recurrent evolution of polymorphisms in a group of colonial animals

    Scott Lidgard;Michelle C. Carter;Matthew H. Dick;Dennis P. Gordon

  • Independent evolution of matrotrophy in the major classes of Bryozoa: transitions among reproductive patterns and their ecological background

    Andrew N. Ostrovsky;Dennis P. Gordon;Scott Lidgard

  • Biological Relationships of an Intertidal Bryozoan Population

    Unknown

  • Microarchitecture and function of the lophophore in the bryozoan Cryptosula pallasiana

    Unknown

  • Megafauna of the German exploration licence area for seafloor massive sulphides along the Central and South East Indian Ridge (Indian Ocean).

    Klaas Gerdes;Terue Cristina Kihara;Pedro Martínez Arbizu;Thomas Kuhn

  • 10 – The Aging Process in Bryozoans

    Unknown

  • Adventive occurrence of the fouling serpulid Ficopomatus enigmaticus (Polychaeta) in New Zealand

    Geoffrey B. Read;Dennis P. Gordon

  • Paleozoic origins of cheilostome bryozoans and their parental care inferred by a new genome-skimmed phylogeny

    Unknown

  • First record of a living ditaxiporine catenicellid in the Atlantic, with a description of Vasignyella ovicellata n. sp. (Bryozoa)

    Leandro M. Vieira;Dennis P. Gordon;Monica D. Correia

  • New Hippothoidae (Bryozoa) from Australasia.

    Dennis P. Gordon

  • Modularity is the mother of invention: a review of polymorphism in bryozoans.

    Carolann R. Schack;Carolann R. Schack;Dennis P. Gordon;Ken G. Ryan

  • Cellaria (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata) from the deep: new species from the southern Zealandian region.

    Katerina Achilleos;Dennis P. Gordon;Abigail M. Smith

  • Living and fossil Steginoporellidae (Bryozoa: Cheilostomata) from New Zealand.

    Dennis P. Gordon;Kjetil L. Voje;Paul D. Taylor

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul D. Taylor
Paul D. Taylor American Museum of Natural History
Mark J. Costello
Mark J. Costello Nord University
Gary C. B. Poore
Gary C. B. Poore Museums Victoria
Michael D. Guiry
Michael D. Guiry University of Galway
Bert W. Hoeksema
Bert W. Hoeksema University of Groningen
Shane T. Ahyong
Shane T. Ahyong Australian Museum
Andreas Kroh
Andreas Kroh Natural History Museum Vienna
Farid Dahdouh-Guebas
Farid Dahdouh-Guebas Université Libre de Bruxelles
Stephen D. Cairns
Stephen D. Cairns National Museum of Natural History
Jonathan P. A. Gardner
Jonathan P. A. Gardner Victoria University of Wellington

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