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Overview

John Alroy is affiliated with Macquarie University in Australia and conducts research primarily in environmental science. Their work spans several subfields including ecology, nature and landscape conservation, ecological modeling, paleontology, and ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics.

The main topics of John Alroy's research include species distribution and climate change, wildlife ecology and conservation, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, evolution and paleontology studies, bat biology and ecology studies, morphological variations and asymmetry, and marine biology and ecology research.

Among their recent publications are:

  • "On four measures of taxonomic richness," 2020, Paleobiology
  • "Phylogeny-based conservation priorities for Australian freshwater fishes," 2021, Conservation Biology
  • "The legacy of Eastern Mediterranean mountain uplifts: rapid disparity of phylogenetic niche conservatism and divergence in mountain vipers," 2021, BMC Ecology and Evolution

Their frequent co-authors include Barry W. Brook, Benjamin E. Carter, Matthew R. Kerr, Rachael V. Gallagher, and Daniel S. Falster.

John Alroy's work appears regularly in several publication venues such as Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Frontiers of Biogeography, Ecography, Nature Ecology & Evolution, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Best Publications

  • Phanerozoic trends in the global diversity of marine invertebrates.

    John Alroy;Martin Aberhan;David J. Bottjer;Michael Foote

  • A Multispecies Overkill Simulation of the End-Pleistocene Megafaunal Mass Extinction

    John Alroy

  • Cope's Rule and the Dynamics of Body Mass Evolution in North American Fossil Mammals

    John Alroy

  • Effects of sampling standardization on estimates of Phanerozoic marine diversification

    J. Alroy;C. R. Marshall;R. K. Bambach;K. Bezusko

  • Dynamics of origination and extinction in the marine fossil record

    John Alroy

  • The Shifting Balance of Diversity Among Major Marine Animal Groups

    J. Alroy

  • Mammalian dispersal at the Paleocene/Eocene boundary.

    Gabriel J. Bowen;William C. Clyde;Paul L. Koch;Suyin Ting;Suyin Ting

  • The fossil record of North American mammals: evidence for a Paleocene evolutionary radiation.

    John Alroy

  • Effects of habitat disturbance on tropical forest biodiversity.

    John Alroy

  • Constant extinction, constrained diversification, and uncoordinated stasis in North American mammals

    John Alroy

  • New methods for quantifying macroevolutionary patterns and processes

    John Alroy

  • GEOGRAPHICAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND INTRINSIC BIOTIC CONTROLS ON PHANEROZOIC MARINE DIVERSIFICATION

    John Alroy

  • Current extinction rates of reptiles and amphibians

    John Alroy

  • FAIR SAMPLING OF TAXONOMIC RICHNESS AND UNBIASED ESTIMATION OF ORIGINATION AND EXTINCTION RATES

    John Alroy

  • Similarity of mammalian body size across the taxonomic hierarchy and across space and time.

    Felisa A. Smith;Felisa A. Smith;James H. Brown;John P. Haskell;S. Kathleen Lyons

  • Global climate change and North American mammalian evolution

    John Alroy;Paul L. Koch;James C. Zachos

  • Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life

    Rachael V. Gallagher;Daniel S. Falster;Brian S. Maitner;Roberto Salguero-Gómez;Roberto Salguero-Gómez;Roberto Salguero-Gómez

  • Plant and mammal diversity in the Paleocene to early Eocene of the Bighorn Basin

    Scott L. Wing;John Alroy;Leo J. Hickey

  • How many named species are valid

    John Alroy

  • Accurate and precise estimates of origination and extinction rates

    John Alroy

Frequent Co-Authors

Barry W. Brook
Barry W. Brook University of Tasmania
Roberto Salguero-Gómez
Roberto Salguero-Gómez University of Oxford
Franz T. Fürsich
Franz T. Fürsich University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Wolfgang Kiessling
Wolfgang Kiessling University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Peter J. Wagner
Peter J. Wagner University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Brian J. Enquist
Brian J. Enquist University of Arizona
Richard J. Butler
Richard J. Butler University of Birmingham
Anna K. Behrensmeyer
Anna K. Behrensmeyer National Museum of Natural History
Gifford H. Miller
Gifford H. Miller University of Colorado Boulder
Joshua S. Madin
Joshua S. Madin University of Hawaii at Manoa

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