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46
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12616
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4545
National Ranking
1577

Overview

Lawrence R. Heaney is affiliated with the Field Museum of Natural History in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the fields of Environmental Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. The scientist's work extensively covers subfields including Paleontology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, and Social Psychology.

The scientist's main topics of research include Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Bat Biology and Ecology Studies, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Primate Behavior and Ecology, and Genetic Diversity and Population Structure.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Lawrence R. Heaney include Dakota M. Rowsey, Eric A. Rickart, Danilo S. Balete, Link E. Olson, and Roselyn S. Quidlat.

Lawrence R. Heaney has published in various scientific venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in the Journal of Mammalogy, followed by Zootaxa, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Global Biodiversity Information Facility, and Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Notable recent papers authored by or associated with Lawrence R. Heaney include:

  • "Wallace's line, Wallacea, and associated divides and areas: history of a tortuous tangle of ideas and labels," 2021, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • "Specimen collection is essential for modern science," 2023, PLoS Biology
  • "A new genus and species of shrew-like mouse (Rodentia: Muridae) from a new center of endemism in eastern Mindanao, Philippines," 2022, Journal of Mammalogy
  • "Alfred R. Wallace's enduring influence on biogeographical studies of the Indo-Australian archipelago," 2022, Journal of Biogeography
  • "Molecular assessment of dietary niche partitioning in an endemic island radiation of tropical mammals," 2021, Molecular Ecology

Best Publications

  • The status of the world's land and marine mammals: diversity, threat, and knowledge

    Jan Schipper;Jan Schipper;Janice S. Chanson;Janice S. Chanson;Federica Chiozza;Neil A. Cox;Neil A. Cox

  • The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World’s Vertebrates

    Michael Hoffmann;Craig Hilton-Taylor;Ariadne Angulo;Monika Böhm

  • Biogeography of mammals in SE Asia: estimates of rates of colonization, extinction and speciation

    Lawrence R. Heaney

  • A Synopsis of Climatic and Vegetational Change in Southeast Asia

    Lawrence R. Heaney

  • Small mammal diversity along elevational gradients in the Philippines: an assessment of patterns and hypotheses

    Lawrence R. Heaney

  • Dynamic disequilibrium: a long-term, large-scale perspective on the equilibrium model of island biogeography

    Lawrence R. Heaney

  • Frontiers of biogeography : new directions in the geography of nature

    Mark V. Lomolino;Lawrence R. Heaney

  • ISLAND AREA AND BODY SIZE OF INSULAR MAMMALS: EVIDENCE FROM THE TRI-COLORED SQUIRREL (CALLOSCIURUS PREVOSTI) OF SOUTHEAST ASIA.

    Lawrence R. Heaney

  • A synopsis of the mammalian fauna of the Philippine Islands

    Lawrence R. Heaney

  • The Pattern and Timing of Diversification of Philippine Endemic Rodents: Evidence from Mitochondrial and Nuclear Gene Sequences

    Sharon A. Jansa;Sharon A. Jansa;F. Keith Barker;Lawrence R. Heaney

  • Single-locus species delimitation: a test of the mixed Yule–coalescent model, with an empirical application to Philippine round-leaf bats

    Jacob A. Esselstyn;Ben J. Evans;Jodi L. Sedlock;Faisal Ali Anwarali Khan

  • Is a new paradigm emerging for oceanic island biogeography

    Lawrence R. Heaney

  • Vanishing Treasures of the Philippine Rain Forest

    Lawrence R. Heaney;Jacinto C. Regalado

  • A synopsis of the mammalian fauna of the Philippine Islands

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  • Body Proportions and Gliding Adaptations of Flying Squirrels (Petauristinae)

    Richard W. Thorington;Richard W. Thorington;Lawrence R. Heaney;Lawrence R. Heaney

  • The roles of geological history and colonization abilities in genetic differentiation between mammalian populations in the Philippine archipelago

    Lawrence R. Heaney;Joseph S. Walsh;Joseph S. Walsh;A. Townsend Peterson

  • A key to the bats of the Philippine Islands

    Nina R. Ingle;Lawrence R. Heaney

  • Mammalian species richness on islands on the Sunda Shelf, Southeast Asia

    Lawrence R. Heaney

  • Oceanic island biogeography through the lens of the general dynamic model: assessment and prospect.

    Michael K. Borregaard;Michael K. Borregaard;Isabel R. Amorim;Paulo A. V. Borges;Juliano S. Cabral

  • Elevational zonation of mammals in the central Philippines

    Lawrence R. Heaney;Paul D. Heideman;Eric A. Rickart;Ruth B. Utzurrum

  • Distribution and Ecology of Small Mammals along an Elevational Transect in Southeastern Luzon, Philippines

    Eric A. Rickart;Lawrence R. Heaney;Ruth C. B. Utzurrum

  • Molecular phylogeny of the endemic Philippine rodent Apomys (Muridae) and the dynamics of diversification in an oceanic archipelago

    Scott J. Steppan;Christopher Zawadzki;Lawrence R. Heaney

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacob A. Esselstyn
Jacob A. Esselstyn Louisiana State University
Robert M. Timm
Robert M. Timm University of Kansas
Bruce D. Patterson
Bruce D. Patterson Field Museum of Natural History
Robert J. Whittaker
Robert J. Whittaker University of Oxford
Thomas M. Brooks
Thomas M. Brooks International Union for Conservation of Nature
Thomas E. Lacher
Thomas E. Lacher Texas A&M University
Michael R. Hoffmann
Michael R. Hoffmann California Institute of Technology
Simon N. Stuart
Simon N. Stuart Synchronicity Earth
Thomas J. Matthews
Thomas J. Matthews University of Birmingham
Richard W. Thorington
Richard W. Thorington National Museum of Natural History

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