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Mary Morgan-Richards

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Mary Morgan-Richards publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mary Morgan-Richards sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

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Mary Morgan-Richards D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mary Morgan-Richards sits on this spectrum.

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Overview

Mary Morgan-Richards is a researcher affiliated with Massey University in New Zealand. Their work primarily spans Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant focus on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, and Ecological Modeling.

The main research topics include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Mary Morgan-Richards include:

  • "Climate change and alpine-adapted insects: modelling environmental envelopes of a grasshopper radiation" (2022) published in Royal Society Open Science
  • "An alpine grasshopper radiation older than the mountains, on Kā Tiritiri o te Moana (Southern Alps) of Aotearoa (New Zealand)" (2020) published in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • "Chemical Ecology and Olfaction in Short-Horned Grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae)" (2022) published in Journal of Chemical Ecology
  • "Global warming leads to habitat loss and genetic erosion of alpine biodiversity" (2023) published in Journal of Biogeography
  • "Insect Freeze-Tolerance Downunder: The Microbial Connection" (2023) published in Insects

Mary Morgan-Richards has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Insects
  • Zootaxa
  • New Zealand Journal of Zoology
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • European Journal of Taxonomy

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Steven A. Trewick
  • Emily Koot
  • Mari Nakano
  • Fabio Leonardo Meza-Joya
  • David Carmelet-Rescan

Best Publications

  • Polyploidy, phylogeography and Pleistocene refugia of the rockfern Asplenium ceterach: evidence from chloroplast DNA.

    S. A. Trewick;M. Morgan-Richards;S. J. Russell;S. Henderson

  • Phylogeographical pattern correlates with Pliocene mountain building in the alpine scree weta (Orthoptera, Anostostomatidae)

    S. A. Trewick;G. P. Wallis;M. Morgan‐Richards

  • Molecular evolution and the latitudinal biodiversity gradient

    E J Dowle;M Morgan-Richards;S A Trewick

  • Toward Resolving Deep Neoaves Phylogeny: Data, Signal Enhancement, and Priors

    Renae C. Pratt;Gillian C. Gibb;Mary Morgan-Richards;Matthew J. Phillips

  • After the deluge: mitochondrial DNA indicates Miocene radiation and Pliocene adaptation of tree and giant weta (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae)

    Steven A. Trewick;Mary Morgan‐Richards

  • PCR markers distinguish Plantago major subspecies

    K. Wolff;M. Morgan-Richards

  • Bird evolution: testing the Metaves clade with six new mitochondrial genomes

    Mary Morgan-Richards;Steve A Trewick;Anna Bartosch-Harlid;Olga Kardailsky

  • Geographic parthenogenesis and the common tea-tree stick insect of New Zealand.

    Mary Morgan-Richards;Steve A. Trewick;Ian A. N. Stringer

  • Interspecific hybridization among Hieracium species in New Zealand: evidence from flow cytometry

    M Morgan-Richards;SA Trewick;SA Trewick;HM Chapman;A Krahulcova

  • Diversification of New Zealand weta (Orthoptera: Ensifera: Anostostomatidae) and their relationships in Australasia

    Renae C Pratt;Mary Morgan-Richards;Steve A Trewick

  • A review of genetic analyses of hybridisation in New Zealand

    Mary Morgan‐Richards;Rob D. Smissen;Lara D. Shepherd;Graham P. Wallis

  • The Invertebrate Life of New Zealand: A Phylogeographic Approach.

    Steven A. Trewick;Graham P. Wallis;Mary Morgan-Richards

  • Hybrid origin of a parthenogenetic genus

    Mary Morgan-Richards;Steven A. Trewick

  • Phylogenetic and biosystematic relationships in four highly disjunct polyploid complexes in the subgenera Ceterach and Phyllitis in Asplenium (Aspleniaceae)

    Istvan Pinter;Freek Bakker;John Barrett;Cymon Cox

  • Chromosome races with Pliocene origins: evidence from mtDNA.

    Mary Morgan‐Richards;Steven A. Trewick;Graham P. Wallis

  • On the distribution of tree weta in the North Island, New Zealand

    Steven A. Trewick;Mary Morgan‐Richards

  • Intraspecific karyotype variation is not concordant with allozyme variation in the Auckland tree weta of New Zealand,Hemideina thoracica(Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae)

    Mary Morgan-Richards

  • Diversity and distribution of Pleioplectron Hutton cave wētā (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae: Macropathinae), with the synonymy of Weta Chopard and the description of seven new species

    Danilo Hegg;Mary Morgan-Richards;Steven A. Trewick

  • A comparison of five hybrid zones of the weta Hemideina thoracica (orthoptera: Anostostomatidae): Degree of cytogenetic differentiation fails to predict zone width

    Mary Morgan-Richards;Graham P. Wallis

  • Shifting ranges of two tree weta species (Hemideina spp.): Competitive exclusion and changing climate

    Mariana Bulgarella;Steven A. Trewick;Niki A. Minards;Melissa J. Jacobson

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven A. Trewick
Steven A. Trewick Massey University
James S. Crampton
James S. Crampton Victoria University of Wellington
Graham P. Wallis
Graham P. Wallis University of Otago
David Penny
David Penny Massey University
Harald Schneider
Harald Schneider Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden
Dianne H. Brunton
Dianne H. Brunton Massey University
David A. Wheeler
David A. Wheeler Baylor College of Medicine
Brent J. Sinclair
Brent J. Sinclair University of Western Ontario
Shinichi Nakagawa
Shinichi Nakagawa University of New South Wales
Cymon J. Cox
Cymon J. Cox University of Algarve

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