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Jonathan M. Waters

Jonathan M. Waters

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Ecology and Evolution
New Zealand
2022

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
62
Citations
12332
World Ranking
2100
National Ranking
17

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in New Zealand Leader Award

Overview

Jonathan M. Waters is affiliated with the University of Otago in New Zealand and primarily conducts research in the fields of Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans several subfields including Genetics, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Oceanography, and Ecological Modeling.

Their research topics cover a range of ecological and genetic themes such as:

  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Jonathan M. Waters include:

  • Dispersal Reduction: Causes, Genomic Mechanisms, and Evolutionary Consequences (2020) published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Rapid adaptation in a fast-changing world: Emerging insights from insect genomics (2022) published in Global Change Biology
  • Southern Hemisphere coasts are biologically connected by frequent, long-distance rafting events (2022) published in Current Biology
  • River Capture and Freshwater Biological Evolution: A Review of Galaxiid Fish Vicariance (2020) published in Diversity
  • Reinventing the wheel? Reassessing the roles of gene flow, sorting and convergence in repeated evolution (2021) published in Molecular Ecology

Frequent collaborators in their research include Graham A. McCulloch, Ludovic Dutoit, Ceridwen I. Fraser, Dave Craw, and Brodie J. Foster.

Their work has been published extensively in several venues, with multiple contributions appearing in Molecular Ecology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Biogeography, Global Change Biology, and Diversity and Distributions.

Best Publications

  • Long-distance dispersal: A framework for hypothesis testing

    Rosemary G. Gillespie;Bruce G. Baldwin;Jonathan M. Waters;Ceridwen I. Fraser

  • Founder takes all: density-dependent processes structure biodiversity

    Jonathan M. Waters;Ceridwen I. Fraser;Godfrey M. Hewitt

  • Antarctica’s ecological isolation will be broken by storm-driven dispersal and warming

    Ceridwen I. Fraser;Adele K. Morrison;Andrew Mc C. Hogg;Erasmo C. Macaya

  • Kelp genes reveal effects of subantarctic sea ice during the Last Glacial Maximum

    Ceridwen I. Fraser;Raisa Nikula;Hamish G. Spencer;Jonathan M. Waters

  • Oceanic rafting by a coastal community

    Ceridwen I. Fraser;Raisa Nikula;Jonathan M. Waters

  • Geological Dates and Molecular Rates: Fish DNA Sheds Light on Time Dependency

    Christopher P. Burridge;Dave Craw;David Fletcher;Jonathan M. Waters

  • Goodbye Gondwana? New Zealand biogeography, geology, and the problem of circularity.

    Jonathan M. Waters;Dave Craw

  • Poleward bound: biological impacts of Southern Hemisphere glaciation

    Ceridwen I. Fraser;Raisa Nikula;Daniel Eduardo Ruzzante;Jonathan M. Waters

  • Biogeography of a southern hemisphere freshwater fish: how important is marine dispersal?

    Jonathan M. Waters;Lucette H. Dijkstra;Graham P. Wallis

  • GENES MEET GEOLOGY: FISH PHYLOGEOGRAPHIC PATTERN REFLECTS ANCIENT, RATHER THAN MODERN, DRAINAGE CONNECTIONS

    Jonathan M. Waters;Dave Craw;John H. Youngson;Graham P. Wallis

  • Circumpolar dispersal by rafting in two subantarctic kelp-dwelling crustaceans

    Raisa Nikula;Ceridwen Fraser;Hamish Spencer;Jonathan Waters

  • Driven by the West Wind Drift? A synthesis of southern temperate marine biogeography, with new directions for dispersalism

    Jonathan M. Waters

  • River capture, range expansion, and cladogenesis: the genetic signature of freshwater vicariance.

    C. P. Burridge;D. Craw;J. M. Waters

  • Contemporary habitat discontinuity and historic glacial ice drive genetic divergence in Chilean kelp

    Ceridwen I Fraser;Martin Thiel;Hamish G Spencer;Jonathan M Waters

  • CLADOGENESIS AND LOSS OF THE MARINE LIFE-HISTORY PHASE IN FRESHWATER GALAXIID FISHES (OSMERIFORMES: GALAXIIDAE)

    Jonathan M. Waters;Graham P. Wallis

  • Phylogeographical disjunction in abundant high‐dispersal littoral gastropods

    J. M. Waters;T. M. King;P. M. O'loughlin;H. G. Spencer

  • Molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of galaxiid fishes (Osteichthyes: Galaxiidae): dispersal, vicariance, and the position of Lepidogalaxias salamandroides.

    Jonathan M. Waters;J. Andrés López;Graham P. Wallis

  • Conservation status of New Zealand freshwater fish, 2009

    Richard Allibone;Bruno O. David;Rodney Hitchmough;Donald Jellyman

  • Relict or colonizer? Extinction and range expansion of penguins in southern New Zealand.

    Sanne Boessenkool;Jeremy J. Austin;Trevor H. Worthy;Paul Scofield

  • Transverse Alpine Speciation Driven by Glaciation.

    Graham P. Wallis;Jonathan M. Waters;Phaedra Upton;David Craw

  • Phylogeography of a high‐dispersal New Zealand sea‐star: does upwelling block gene‐flow?

    J. M. Waters;M. S. Roy

Frequent Co-Authors

Dave Craw
Dave Craw University of Otago
Graham P. Wallis
Graham P. Wallis University of Otago
Christopher P. Burridge
Christopher P. Burridge University of Tasmania
Hamish G. Spencer
Hamish G. Spencer University of Otago
Peter R. Teske
Peter R. Teske University of Johannesburg
Robert M. McDowall
Robert M. McDowall National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Robert Poulin
Robert Poulin University of Otago
Luciano B. Beheregaray
Luciano B. Beheregaray Flinders University
Philip J. Seddon
Philip J. Seddon University of Otago
Thomas Wernberg
Thomas Wernberg University of Western Australia

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