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Peter S. Cranston is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their research spans environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a focus on ecology and insect science. The scientist's work integrates several subfields including ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, molecular biology, and nature and landscape conservation.

The main topics addressed in Peter S. Cranston's research include:

  • Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
  • Aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior
  • Coleoptera taxonomy and distribution
  • Invertebrate taxonomy and ecology
  • Environmental DNA in biodiversity studies
  • Diptera species taxonomy and behavior
  • Fish ecology and management studies

Peter S. Cranston has published in several academic venues with repeated contributions to:

  • CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research
  • Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • Zootaxa
  • Systematic Entomology
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Cranston include:

  • "Revisiting global trends in freshwater insect biodiversity," 2020, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water
  • "Rapid assessment of biodiversity using 'biological diversity technicians'," 2023, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • "Protecting stable biological nomenclatural systems enables universal communication: A collective international appeal," 2024, BioScience
  • "Wanted, tracked down and identified: Mesozoic non-biting midges of the subfamily Chironominae (Chironomidae, Diptera)," 2021, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • "A new molecular phylogeny for the Tanypodinae (Diptera: Chironomidae) places the Australian diversity in a global context," 2021, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Peter S. Cranston are:

  • Matt N. Krosch
  • Hongqu Tang
  • Andrew Baker
  • Terry J. Hillman
  • Martín Spies

Best Publications

  • The Insects - An Outline of Entomology

    Penny Gullan;Peter Cranston

  • The Chironomidae: the biology and ecology of non-biting midges.

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  • Could a cladogram this short have arisen by chance alone?: on permutation tests for cladistic structure

    Daniel P. Faith;Peter S. Cranston

  • The Chironomidae

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  • The adult males of Orthocladiinae of the Holarctic Region. Keys and diagnoses

    P. S. Cranston

  • A key to the larvae of the British Orthocladiinae (Chironomidae)

    P. S Cranston

  • A dated molecular phylogeny for the Chironomidae (Diptera)

    Peter S. Cranston;Peter S. Cranston;Nate B. Hardy;Geoffrey E. Morse;Geoffrey E. Morse

  • A Catalog of Nearctic Chironomidae

    Donald R. Oliver;M. E. Dillon;Peter S. Cranston

  • When molecules and morphology concur: the ‘Gondwanan’ midges (Diptera: Chironomidae)

    Peter S. Cranston;Nate B. Hardy;Geoffrey E. Morse;Louise Puslednik

  • CLADISTICS AND COMPUTERS: A CHIRONOMID CONUNDRUM?

    P. S. Cranston;C. J. Humphries

  • 'Direct PCR' optimization yields a rapid, cost-effective, nondestructive and efficient method for obtaining DNA barcodes without DNA extraction.

    Wing Hing Wong;Ywee Chieh Tay;Jayanthi Puniamoorthy;Michael Balke

  • Systematics and biogeography of the Gondwanan Orthocladiinae (Diptera: Chironomidae).

    Matthew N. Krosch;Andrew Baker;Peter Mather;Peter Cranston

  • Rapid Assessment of Biodiversity using 'Biological Diversity Technicians'

    Peter. Cranston;Terry. Hillman

  • Skusella Freeman (Diptera: Chironomidae): new species, immature stages from Africa, Asia and Australia, and expanded distributions.

    Peter S. Cranston;Hongqu Tang

  • Biomonitoring and invertebrate taxonomy

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  • An Australian Holocene climate reconstruction using Chironomidae from a tropical volcanic maar lake

    Sophia Dimitriadis;Peter S Cranston

  • Midges (Chironomidae, Ceratopogonidae, Chaoboridae) as a temperature proxy: a training set from Tasmania, Australia

    Andrew B. H. Rees;Les C. Cwynar;Peter S. Cranston

  • Probability, parsimony, and Popper

    Daniel P. Faith;Peter S. Cranston

  • Revisiting global trends in freshwater insect biodiversity

    Sonja C. Jähnig;Sonja C. Jähnig;Viktor Baranov;Florian Altermatt;Florian Altermatt;Peter Cranston

  • CHECKLIST AND KEYS TO THE CULICINAE OF IRAN (DIPTERA; CULICIDAE)

    M Zaim;P S Cranston

  • Gondwanan mesotherms and cosmopolitan eurytherms: effects of temperature on the development and survival of Australian Chironomidae (Diptera) from tropical and temperate populations

    Brendan G. McKie;Peter S. Cranston;Richard G. Pearson

  • Cryptic species in the nuisance midge Polypedilum nubifer (Skuse (Diptera: Chironomidae) and the status of Tripedilum Kieffer

    Peter S. Cranston;Jon Martin;Martin Spies

  • Botryocladius gen.n: a new transantarctic genus of orthocladiine midge (Diptera: Chironomidae)

    Peter S. Cranston;Donald H. D. Edward

  • Keystone coleopterans? Colonization by wood-feeding elmids of experimentally immersed woods in south-eastern Australia

    B. G. L. McKie;Peter Cranston

  • Riethia (Kieffer 1917) (Diptera: Chironomidae) revised for the Austro-Pacific region.

    Peter S. Cranston

  • A phylogenomic analysis of Culicomorpha (Diptera) resolves the relationships among the eight constituent families

    Sujatha Narayanan Kutty;Wing Hing Wong;Wing Hing Wong;Karen Meusemann;Karen Meusemann;Rudolf Meier

Frequent Co-Authors

Brendan G. McKie
Brendan G. McKie Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Rudolf Meier
Rudolf Meier Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Peter B. Mather
Peter B. Mather Queensland University of Technology
Richard G. Pearson
Richard G. Pearson James Cook University
Danwei Huang
Danwei Huang National University of Singapore
Klement Tockner
Klement Tockner Goethe University Frankfurt
Michael T. Monaghan
Michael T. Monaghan Freie Universität Berlin
Sonja C. Jähnig
Sonja C. Jähnig Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Karen Meusemann
Karen Meusemann University of Freiburg
Thomas Pape
Thomas Pape University of Copenhagen

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