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Michael J. Hickerson is affiliated with the City University of New York in the United States and focuses on research within Environmental Science, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work encompasses a range of subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Genetics, Ecology, Ecological Modeling, and Aquatic Science.

The scientist's research interests concentrate extensively on genetic diversity and population structure, species distribution and climate change, as well as various aspects of fish biology, ecology, and behavior. Additional topics covered in their work include plant and animal studies, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, and aquatic life and conservation.

Recent publications by Michael J. Hickerson include the following:

  • Quaternary climate changes as speciation drivers in the Amazon floodplains, 2020, Science Advances
  • Asymmetrical gene flow in five co-distributed syngnathids explained by ocean currents and rafting propensity, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • A unified model of species abundance, genetic diversity, and functional diversity reveals the mechanisms structuring ecological communities, 2021, Molecular Ecology Resources
  • Global determinants of insect mitochondrial genetic diversity, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Comparative phylogeographic inference with genome-wide data from aggregated population pairs, 2020, Evolution

Michael J. Hickerson frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable coauthors include Isaac Overcast, Ana Carolina Carnaval, Rosemary G. Gillespie, Andrew J. Rominger, and Connor M. French.

The scientist has published multiple papers in several venues, with the most frequent being Molecular Ecology, Evolution, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Science Advances, and Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Stability Predicts Genetic Diversity in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest Hotspot

    Ana Carolina Oliveira de Queiroz Carnaval;Michael J. Hickerson;Célio Fernando Baptista Haddad;Miguel Trefaut Urbano Rodrigues

  • MTML-msBayes: Approximate Bayesian comparative phylogeographic inference from multiple taxa and multiple loci with rate heterogeneity

    Wen Huang;Naoki Takebayashi;Yan Qi;Michael J Hickerson

  • Phylogeography's past, present, and future: 10 years after Avise, 2000

    M. J. Hickerson;B. C. Carstens;Jeannine M Cavender-Bares;K. A. Crandall

  • The drivers of tropical speciation

    Brian Tilston Smith;John E. McCormack;Andrés M. Cuervo;Michael. J. Hickerson

  • DNA Barcoding Will Often Fail to Discover New Animal Species over Broad Parameter Space

    Michael J. Hickerson;Christopher P. Meyer;Craig Moritz

  • Evolution of Mitochondrial Relationships and Biogeography of Palearctic Green Toads (Bufo Viridis Subgroup) With Insights in Their Genomic Plasticity

    Matthias Stöck;Craig Moritz;Michael Hickerson;Daniel Frynta

  • In defence of model-based inference in phylogeography.

    Mark A. Beaumont;Rasmus Nielsen;Christian Robert;Jody Hey

  • Predicting the distribution of Sasquatch in western North America: anything goes with ecological niche modelling

    J. D. Lozier;P. Aniello;M. J. Hickerson

  • TEST FOR SIMULTANEOUS DIVERGENCE USING APPROXIMATE BAYESIAN COMPUTATION

    Michael J. Hickerson;Eli A. Stahl;Harilaos A. Lessios

  • The role of molecular genetics in sculpting the future of integrative biogeography

    Brett R. Riddle;Michael N. Dawson;Elizabeth A. Hadly;David J. Hafner

  • msBayes: Pipeline for testing comparative phylogeographic histories using hierarchical approximate Bayesian computation

    Michael J Hickerson;Eli Stahl;Naoki Takebayashi

  • Dramatic Mitochondrial Gene Rearrangements in the Hermit Crab Pagurus longicarpus (Crustacea, Anomura)

    M. J. Hickerson;C. W. Cunningham

  • Testing comparative phylogeographic models of marine vicariance and dispersal using a hierarchical Bayesian approach

    Michael J Hickerson;Christopher P Meyer

  • Comparative phylogeographic summary statistics for testing simultaneous vicariance

    M. J. Hickerson;G. Dolman;C. Moritz

  • Two waves of diversification in mammals and reptiles of Baja California revealed by hierarchical Bayesian analysis

    Adam D Leaché;Sarah C Crews;Michael J Hickerson

  • Inferring responses to climate dynamics from historical demography in neotropical forest lizards

    Ivan Prates;Ivan Prates;Alexander T. Xue;Alexander T. Xue;Jason L. Brown;Jason L. Brown;Diego F. Alvarado-Serrano;Diego F. Alvarado-Serrano

  • CONTRASTING QUATERNARY HISTORIES IN AN ECOLOGICALLY DIVERGENT SISTER PAIR OF LOW‐DISPERSING INTERTIDAL FISH (XIPHISTER) REVEALED BY MULTILOCUS DNA ANALYSIS

    Michael J. Hickerson;Clifford W. Cunningham

  • Reconstructing community assembly in time and space reveals enemy escape in a Western Palearctic insect community.

    Graham N. Stone;Konrad Lohse;James A. Nicholls;Pablo Fuentes-Utrilla

  • Comparative multi-locus phylogeography confirms multiple vicariance events in co-distributed rainforest frogs

    Rayna C. Bell;Jason B. MacKenzie;Jason B. MacKenzie;Michael J. Hickerson;Michael J. Hickerson;Krystle L. Chavarria

  • Uncovering cryptic diversity and refugial persistence among small mammal lineages across the Eastern Afromontane biodiversity hotspot

    Terrence C. Demos;Terrence C. Demos;Terrence C. Demos;Julian C. Kerbis Peterhans;Julian C. Kerbis Peterhans;Bernard Agwanda;Michael J. Hickerson;Michael J. Hickerson

  • A MULTILOCUS PERSPECTIVE ON COLONIZATION ACCOMPANIED BY SELECTION AND GENE FLOW

    Erica Bree Rosenblum;Michael J. Hickerson;Craig Moritz

Frequent Co-Authors

Brent C. Emerson
Brent C. Emerson Spanish National Research Council
Ana Carolina Carnaval
Ana Carolina Carnaval City University of New York
Craig Moritz
Craig Moritz Australian National University
Jairo Patiño
Jairo Patiño Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología
Alexandre Aleixo
Alexandre Aleixo Instituto Tecnológico Vale
Laurent Excoffier
Laurent Excoffier University of Bern
Clifford W. Cunningham
Clifford W. Cunningham Duke University
John R. Waldman
John R. Waldman Queens College, CUNY
Ziheng Yang
Ziheng Yang University College London
Eli A. Stahl
Eli A. Stahl Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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