Worthy, Trevor - Flinders University - School of Biological Sciences

研究领域

Vertebrate faunas of Australia, the Pacific, and New Zealand, in particular the taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships of birds and their Tertiary and Quaternary evolutionary history, and how faunal composition responded to changes in climate and vegetation patterns over time. 1.Oligo-Miocene avifaunas of Australia - taxonomy and phylogenetics. Current research will focus on the landfowl radiation in Australia and the Pacific. 2.Miocene fauna of New Zealand – description of the terrestrial vertebrates from the St Bathans Fauna, Otago, New Zealand, including frogs, squamates, birds, and mammals with several collaborators. Begun in 2001 in New Zealand and continued in Australia under various ARC Discovery projects, this research is the first major investigation of the terrestrial Miocene vertebrate faunas of NZ. Collaborating Investigators include Dr Suzanne Hand and Professor Michael Archer (University of NSW), Dr Steven Salisbury (University of Queensland), Alan Tennyson at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, and Dr Paul Scofield at Canterbury Museum, Christchurch. 3.The Quaternary avifauna of New Zealand, and how this relates to climate/vegetation, with emphases on palaeoecology and taxonomic issues. This involves collaborations with several researchers re work on moa and other birds. e.g., Drs Jamie Wood & Janet Wilmshurst, Lincoln University, Lincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand, and Prof. Alan Cooper and Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, Adelaide University, SA, and Dr Nicolas Rawlence, Otago University on molecular-based phylogenetic studies of moas. 4.Pacific palaeofaunas. Current projects include New Caledonia, Vanuatu, and Austral Islands, to determine the original prehuman faunal composition. Work to describe these faunas and the new taxa represented is in progress with several collaborators. The New Caledonian work is part of a project on the prehistoric colonisation of the Central Pacific directed by Prof. A. J. Anderson, Australian National University. The Vanuatu work on turtles and birds is with Dr Stuart Bedford and Professor Matthew Spriggs of ANU.

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Worthy, T. (2016). A case of mistaken identity for Australia’s extinct big bird. The Conversation, [Web Link] Worthy, T., Prideaux, G.J. and Shute, E.R. (2016). The world’s biggest cuckoos once roamed the Nullarbor Plain. The Conversation, 29 July 2016 Lee, M. and Worthy, T. (2014). Flight of the kiwi. Australasian Science, 35(7) pp. 22-24. [Web Link] [Web Link] Brook, B., Bradshaw, C., Cooper, A., Johnson, C., Worthy, T.H., Bird, M., et al. (2013). Lack of chronological support for stepwise prehuman extinctions of Australian megafauna. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(36) pp. E3368. [10.1073/pnas.1309226110] [Scopus] Worthy, T.H. (2012). Book Review: Extinct Birds, by J. P. Hume and M. Walters. Emu, 112 pp. 179-180. Tennyson, A.J.D., Palma, R.L., Scofield, R.P. and Worthy, T. (2010). Emending the species name for Lopdells’ penguin. NOTORNIS, 57(1) pp. 54-55. [Web Link] [Web Link]