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Steven A. Trewick

Steven A. Trewick

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
39
Citations
7296
World Ranking
6319
National Ranking
76

Overview

Steven A. Trewick is affiliated with Massey University in New Zealand and has a research focus spanning multiple intersecting fields in biological and environmental sciences. Their work primarily addresses topics within Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Environmental Science, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's research frequently revolves around subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, and Paleontology. The main themes they investigate include Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior.

Steven A. Trewick has published extensively on the ecology and taxonomy of grasshoppers and other insects, their response to climate change, and related evolutionary studies. Their research outputs have appeared in various scientific journals, with frequent publications in:

  • Zootaxa
  • Insects
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • European Journal of Taxonomy

Some recent representative publications include:

  • Climate change and alpine-adapted insects: modelling environmental envelopes of a grasshopper radiation (2022, 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, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution)
  • Chemical Ecology and Olfaction in Short-Horned Grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae) (2022, Journal of Chemical Ecology)
  • Global warming leads to habitat loss and genetic erosion of alpine biodiversity (2023, Journal of Biogeography)
  • Convergent morphological responses to loss of flight in rails (Aves: Rallidae) (2020, Ecology and Evolution)

The scientist collaborates frequently with several co-authors, among them:

  • Mary Morgan-Richards
  • Emily Koot
  • Mari Nakano
  • Fabio Leonardo Meza-Joya
  • Andrea Clavijo McCormick

Steven A. Trewick's research interests combine ecological, evolutionary, and genetic approaches to investigate insect biodiversity, particularly focusing on alpine environments and the impacts of climate change on species distribution and genetic structure. Their contributions also include studies on morphological evolution and chemical ecology within Orthoptera and related groups.

Best Publications

  • The Waipounamu Erosion Surface: questioning the antiquity of the New Zealand land surface and terrestrial fauna and flora

    C. A. Landis;H. J. Campbell;J. G. Begg;D. C. Mildenhall

  • Hypothesis testing in biogeography

    Michael Crisp;Steve A. Trewick;Lynette Gai Cook

  • New Zealand phylogeography: evolution on a small continent.

    Graham P. Wallis;Steven A. Trewick

  • 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

  • Sympatric cryptic species in New Zealand Onychophora

    Steven A. Trewick

  • GUEST EDITORIAL: Hello New Zealand

    Steven A. Trewick;Adrian M. Paterson;Hamish J. Campbell

  • Hello New Zealand

    Steven A. Trewick;Adrian M. Paterson;Hamish J. Campbell

  • Molecular evidence for dispersal rather than vicariance as the origin of flightless insect species on the Chatham Islands, New Zealand

    Steven A. Trewick

  • Relict species: a relict concept?

    Philippe Grandcolas;Romain Nattier;Steve Trewick

  • Evolution of New Zealand's terrestrial fauna: a review of molecular evidence

    Julia Goldberg;Steven A Trewick;Adrian M Paterson

  • BRIDGING THE “BEECH-GAP”: NEW ZEALAND INVERTEBRATE PHYLOGEOGRAPHY IMPLICATES PLEISTOCENE GLACIATION AND PLIOCENE ISOLATION

    Steven A. Trewick;Graham P. Wallis

  • Flightlessness and phylogeny amongst endemic rails (Aves:Rallidae) of the New Zealand region.

    S. A. Trewick

  • DNA Barcoding is not enough: mismatch of taxonomy and genealogy in New Zealand grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae).

    Steven A. Trewick

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

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

  • Fire and slice: palaeogeography for biogeography at New Zealand's North Island/ South Island juncture

    SA Trewick;KJ Bland

  • Molecular evolution and the latitudinal biodiversity gradient

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

  • Deep global evolutionary radiation in birds: diversification and trait evolution in the cosmopolitan bird family Rallidae.

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

    Steven A. Trewick;Mary Morgan‐Richards

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

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

  • Mitochondrial DNA sequences support allozyme evidence for cryptic radiation of New Zealand Peripatoides (Onychophora)

    S. A. Trewick

  • Vicars, tramps and assembly of the New Zealand avifauna: a review of molecular phylogenetic evidence

    Steven A. Trewick;Gillian C. Gibb

Frequent Co-Authors

Mary Morgan-Richards
Mary Morgan-Richards Massey University
Graham P. Wallis
Graham P. Wallis University of Otago
James S. Crampton
James S. Crampton Victoria University of Wellington
Hamish G. Spencer
Hamish G. Spencer University of Otago
Brent J. Sinclair
Brent J. Sinclair University of Western Ontario
Vincent E. Neall
Vincent E. Neall Massey University
Dave Craw
Dave Craw University of Otago
Peter J. Lockhart
Peter J. Lockhart Massey University
Shinichi Nakagawa
Shinichi Nakagawa University of New South Wales
David A. Wheeler
David A. Wheeler Baylor College of Medicine

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