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Lack of assortative mating might explain reduced phenotypic differentiation where two grasshopper species meet by Morgan‐Richards, Mary, Vilcot, Maurine, Trewick, Steven A.

“…Hybridization is an evolutionary process with wide‐ranging potential outcomes, from providing populations with important genetic variation for adaptation to…”
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Global warming leads to habitat loss and genetic erosion of alpine biodiversity by Meza‐Joya, Fabio Leonardo, Morgan‐Richards, Mary, Koot, Emily M., Trewick, Steven A.

“…Aim Species living on steep environmental gradients are expected to be especially sensitive to global climate change, but little is known about the factors…”
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High‐resolution stable isotope profiles from shells of the land snail Placostylus reveal contrasting patterns between snails originating from New Zealand and New Caledonia by Quenu, Mathieu, Judd, Emily J., Morgan‐richards, Mary, Trewick, Steven A., Holt, Katherine, Tyler, Jonathan, Lorrey, Andrew M.

“…ABSTRACT The stable oxygen (δ 18 O shell ) and carbon (δ 13 C shell ) isotope ratios retrieved from the carbonate shell of terrestrial gastropods can be used…”
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Loss and gain of sexual reproduction in the same stick insect by Morgan‐Richards, Mary, Langton‐Myers, Shelley S., Trewick, Steven A.

“…The outcome of competition between different reproductive strategies within a single species can be used to infer selective advantage of the winning strategy…”
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New Caledonian rovers and the historical biogeography of a hyper‐diverse endemic lineage of South Pacific leaf beetles by Platania, Leonardo, Cardoso, Anabela, Anderson, Mark, Fikáček, Martin, Gauthier, Jérémy, Hendrich, Lars, Mille, Christian, Morii, Yuta, Reid, Chris A. M., Seidel, Matthias, Morgan‐Richards, Mary, Trewick, Steven A., Toussaint, Emmanuel F. A., Gómez‐Zurita, Jesús

“…South Pacific archipelagos are central in the biogeographic debate on the relative importance of vicariance and dispersal in shaping the distribution of…”
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Climate and ice in the last glacial maximum explain patterns of isolation by distance inferred for alpine grasshoppers by Carmelet‐Rescan, David, Morgan‐Richards, Mary, Koot, Emily M., Trewick, Steven A.

“…Cold‐adapted species are likely to have had more widespread ranges and greater population connectivity during the last glacial period than is the case today…”
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Tuatara and a new morphometric dataset for Rhynchocephalia: Comments on Herrera‐Flores et al by Vaux, Felix, Morgan‐Richards, Mary, Daly, Elizabeth E., Trewick, Steven A., O'Regan, Hannah

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Anthropogenic cause of range shifts and gene flow between two grasshopper species revealed by environmental modelling, geometric morphometrics and population genetics by Sivyer, Louisa, Morgan‐Richards, Mary, Koot, Emily, Trewick, Steven A., Stewart, Alan, Keyghobadi, Nusha

“…The range of a species is controlled by biotic and abiotic factors; both could have changed recently due to human activity. We used environmental modelling,…”
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Shifting ranges of two tree weta species (Hemideina spp.): competitive exclusion and changing climate by Bulgarella, Mariana, Trewick, Steven A., Minards, Niki A., Jacobson, Melissa J., Morgan-Richards, Mary

“…Aim Species' responses to climate change are likely to depend on their ability to overcome abiotic constraints as well as on the suite of species with which…”
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Indigenous plant naming and experimentation reveal a plant–insect relationship in New Zealand forests by Wehi, Priscilla M., Brownstein, Gretchen, Morgan‐Richards, Mary

“…Drawing from both Indigenous and “Western” scientific knowledge offers the opportunity to better incorporate ecological systems knowledge into conservation…”
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Geographic parthenogenesis and the common tea-tree stick insect of New Zealand by Morgan-Richards, Mary, Trewick, Steve A, Stringer, Ian A.N

“…Worldwide, parthenogenetic reproduction has evolved many times in the stick insects (Phasmatidae). Many parthenogenetic stick insects show the distribution…”
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Phenotypic and genetic divergence in a cold-adapted grasshopper may lead to lineage-specific responses to rapid climate change by Meza-Joya, Fabio Leonardo, Morgan-Richards, Mary, Trewick, Steven A.

“…Aim Species responses to global warming will depend on intraspecific diversity, yet studies of factors governing biogeographic patterns of variability are…”
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Viability and fertility of hybrid New Zealand tree wētā Hemideina spp. (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae) by Mckean, Natasha E., Trewick, Steven A., Griffin, Melissa J., Dowle, Eddy J., Morgan-Richards, Mary

“…Natural hybridization between species provides an opportunity to study the mechanisms that maintain independent lineages and may help us understand the process…”
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Little and large: body size and genetic clines in a New Zealand gecko (Woodworthia maculata) along a coastal transect by Fitness, Josephine, Hitchmough, Rodney A., Morgan‐Richards, Mary

“…Clinal variation can result from primary differentiation or secondary contact and determining which of these two processes is responsible for the existence of…”
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Lineages, splits and divergence challenge whether the terms anagenesis and cladogenesis are necessary by Vaux, Felix, Trewick, Steven A, Morgan‐Richards, Mary

“…Using the framework of evolutionary lineages to separate the process of evolution and classification of species, we observe that ‘anagenesis’ and…”
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Time‐calibrated phylogeny and ecological niche models indicate Pliocene aridification drove intraspecific diversification of brushtail possums in Australia by Carmelet‐Rescan, David, Morgan‐Richards, Mary, Pattabiraman, Nimeshika, Trewick, Steven A.

“…Major aridification events in Australia during the Pliocene may have had significant impact on the distribution and structure of widespread species. To explore…”
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Climate change and alpine-adapted insects: modelling environmental envelopes of a grasshopper radiation by Koot, Emily M, Morgan-Richards, Mary, Trewick, Steven A

“…Mountains create steep environmental gradients that are sensitive barometers of climate change. We calibrated 10 statistical models to formulate ensemble…”
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High alpine sorcerers: revision of the cave wētā genus Pharmacus Pictet & de Saussure (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae: Macropathinae), with the description of six new species and three new subspecies by Hegg, Danilo, Morgan-Richards, Mary, Trewick, Steven A.

“…The New Zealand alpine cave wētā genus Pharmacus was first described by Pictet & de Saussure (1893) as a monotypic taxon. Three species were added to the genus…”
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Wētā Aotearoa-Polyphyly of the New Zealand Anostostomatidae (Insecta: Orthoptera) by Trewick, Steven A, Taylor-Smith, Briar L, Morgan-Richards, Mary

“…The Anostostomatidae of Aotearoa New Zealand are well-characterized at the genus and species level, but the higher-level systematics of the family as a whole…”
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Closing the gap: Avian lineage splits at a young, narrow seaway imply a protracted history of mixed population response by Trewick, Steve A., Pilkington, Stephen, Shepherd, Lara D., Gibb, Gillian C., Morgan‐Richards, Mary

“…The evolutionary significance of spatial habitat gaps has been well recognized since Alfred Russel Wallace compared the faunas of Bali and Lombok. Gaps between…”
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