| Department of Biological Sciences | phone: +61 2 9850 8185 |
| Faculty of Science and Engineering | fax: +61 2 9850 8245 |
| Macquarie University | e-mail: john.alroy@mq.edu.au |
| NSW 2109 | http://www.bio.mq.edu.au/~jalroy |
| Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney | |
| Future Fellow, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney | |
| Associate Researcher, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, California | |
| Assistant Researcher, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, California | |
| 1998 - 1999 | Postdoctoral Fellow, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, California |
| 1996 - 1998 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. |
| 1994 - 1996 | Research Associate, Research Training Group in the Analysis of Biological Diversification, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. |
| 1989 - 1990 | Intern, Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems Program, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. |
| 1994 | Ph.D., Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. Title: "Quantitative mammalian biochronology, biogeography, and diversity history of North America." |
| 1993 | M.S., Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. |
| 1989 | B.A., Biology, Reed College, Portland, Oregon. |
| 2010 - 2014 | Future Fellowship, Australian Research Council. |
| 2010 | National Academy of Sciences Award for Scientific Reviewing. |
| 2007 | Charles Schuchert Award, Paleontological Society. |
| "The Paleobiology Database: an international, web-based community project to assemble, disseminate, and analyze paleontological data." Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology Program, National Science Foundation. | |
| 2000 - 2006 | "The coevolution of biodiversity and the environment through geologic time" (with C. Marshall, J. Hayes, A. Miller, and D. Rothman). Biocomplexity Program, National Science Foundation. |
| 1998 - 2000 | "Phanerozoic marine diversification and extinction" working group (with C. Marshall). National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. |
| 1994 | Alfred Sherwood Romer Prize, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. |
| 1993 - 1994 | William Rainey Harper Fellowship, University of Chicago. |
| 1993 | Grant-in-Aid of Research, Sigma Xi. |
| 1993 | Research Grant, Geological Society of America. |
| 1993 | Hinds Fund Award, University of Chicago. |
Alroy, J. 2019. Latitudinal gradients in the ecology of New World bats. Global Ecology and Biogeography. DOI:10.1111/geb.12892
Ghaly, T. M., J. L. Geoghegan, J. Alroy, and M. R. Gillings. 2019. High diversity and rapid spatial turnover of integron gene cassettes in soil. Environmental Microbiology. DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14551
Alroy, J. 2018. Limits to species richness in terrestrial communities. Ecology Letters 21:1781-1789. DOI: 10.1111/ele.13152
Close, R. A., S. W. Evers, J. Alroy, and R. J. Butler. 2018. How should we estimate diversity in the fossil record? Testing richness estimators using sampling-standardised discovery curves. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 9:1386-1400. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12987
Alroy, J. 2017. Effects of habitat disturbance on tropical forest biodiversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 114:6056-6061. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1611855114
Pineda-Munoz, S., I. A. Lazagabaster, J. Alroy, and A. E. Evans. 2017. Inferring diet from dental morphology in terrestrial mammals. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 8:481-491. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12691
Brook, B. W., and J. Alroy. 2017. Pattern, process, inference and prediction in extinction biology. Biology Letters 13:20160828. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0828
Alroy, J. 2016c. On a conservative Bayesian method of inferring extinction. Paleobiology. DOI: 10.1017/pab.2016.12
Pineda-Munoz, S., A. R. Evans, and J. Alroy. 2016. The relationship between diet and body mass in terrestrial mammals. Paleobiology. DOI: 10.1017/pab.2016.6
Johnson, C. N., J. Alroy, N. J. Beeton, M. I. Bird, B. W. Brook, A. Cooper, R. Gillespie, S. Herrando-Pérez, Z. Jacobs, G. H. Miller, G. J Prideaux, R. G. Roberts, M. Rodríguez-Rey, F. Saltré, C. S. M. Turney, and C. J. A. Bradshaw. 2016. What caused extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna of Sahul? Proceedings of the Royal Society B 283:20152399. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2399
Benson, R. B. J., R. J. Butler, J. Alroy, P. D. Mannion, M. T. Carrano, and G. T. Lloyd. 2016. Near-stasis in the long-term diversification of Mesozoic tetrapods. PLOS Biology 14(2):e1002359. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002359
Alroy, J. 2015f. A more precise speciation and extinction rate estimator. Paleobiology 41(4):633-639. DOI: 10.1017/pab.2015.26
--------. 2015e. Current extinction rates of reptiles and amphibians. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 112:13003-13008. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1508681112
--------. 2015d. The shape of terrestrial abundance distributions. Science Advances 1:e1500082. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1500082
--------. 2015c. A simple way to improve multivariate analyses of paleoecological data sets. Paleobiology 41(3):377-386. DOI: 10.1017/pab.2014.21
--------. 2015b. Limits to captive breeding of mammals in zoos. Conservation Biology 29(3):926-931. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12471
--------. 2015a. A new twist on a very old binary similarity coefficient. Ecology 96(2):575-586. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1890/14-0471.1
--------. 2014b. A simple Bayesian method of inferring extinction. Paleobiology 40(4):584-607.
Pineda-Munoz, S., and J. Alroy. 2014. Dietary characterization of terrestrial mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 281:20141173.
Alroy, J. 2014a. Accurate and precise estimates of origination and extinction rates. Paleobiology 40(3):374-397.
Kowalewski, M., J. L. Payne, F. A. Smith, S. C. Wang, D. W. McShea, S. Xiao, P. Novack-Gottshall, C. R. McClain, R. A. Krause, Jr., A. G. Boyer, S. Finnegan, S. K. Lyons, J. A. Stempien, J. Alroy, and P. A. Spaeth. 2011. The Geozoic supereon. Palaios 26(5-6):251-255.
Kosnik, M. A., J. Alroy, A. K. Behrensmeyer, F. T. Fürsich, R. A. Gastaldo, S. M. Kidwell, M. Kowalewski, R. E. Plotnick, R. R. Rogers, and P. J. Wagner. 2011. Changes in shell durability of common marine taxa through the Phanerozoic: evidence for biological rather than taphonomic drivers. Paleobiology 37(2):303-331.
Alroy, J. 2010c. Geographical, environmental and intrinsic biotic controls on Phanerozoic marine diversification. Palaeontology 53:1211-1235.
--------. 2010b. Fair sampling of taxonomic richness and unbiased estimation of origination and extinction rates. In J. Alroy and G. Hunt (eds.), Quantitative Methods in Paleobiology. Paleontological Society Papers 16:55-80.
--------. 2010a. The shifting balance of diversity among major marine animal groups. Science 329:1191-1194.
--------. 2009. Speciation and extinction in the fossil record of North American mammals. Pp. 301-323 in R. Butlin, J. Bridle, and D. Schluter, (eds.), Speciation and Patterns of Diversity. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
--------. 2008. Dynamics of origination and extinction in the marine fossil record. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 105:11536-11542.
Alroy, J., M. Aberhan, D. J. Bottjer, M. Foote, F. T. Fürsich, P. J. Harries, A. J. W. Hendy, S. M. Holland, L. C. Ivany, W. Kiessling, M. A. Kosnik, C. R. Marshall, A. J. McGowan, A. I. Miller, T. D. Olszewski, M. E. Patzkowsky, S. E. Peters, L. Villier, P. J. Wagner, N. Bonuso, P. S. Borkow, B. Brenneis, M. E. Clapham, L. M. Fall, C. A. Ferguson, V. L. Hanson, A. Z. Krug, K. M. Layou, E. H. Leckey, S. Nürnberg, C. M. Powers, J. A. Sessa, C. Simpson, A. Tomasovych, and C. C. Visaggi. 2008. Phanerozoic trends in the global diversity of marine invertebrates. Science 321:97-100.
Madin, J. S., J. Alroy, M. Aberhan, F. T. Fürsich, W. Kiessling, M. A. Kosnik, and P. J. Wagner. 2006. Statistical independence of escalatory ecological trends in Phanerozoic marine invertebrates. Science 312:897-900.
Behrensmeyer, A. K., F. T. Fürsich, R. A. Gastaldo, S. M. Kidwell, M. A. Kosnik, M. Kowalewski, R. E. Plotnick, R. R. Rogers, and J. Alroy. 2005. Are the most durable shelly taxa also the most common in the marine fossil record? Paleobiology 31(4):607-623.
Smith, F. A., J. H. Brown, J. P. Haskell, S. K. Lyons, J. Alroy, E. L. Charnov, T. Dayan, B. J. Enquist, S. K. M. Ernest, E. A. Hadly, K. E. Jones, D. M. Kaufman, P. A. Marquet, B. A. Maurer, K. J. Niklas, W. P. Porter, B. Tiffney, and M. R. Willig. 2004. Similarity of mammalian body size across the taxonomic hierarchy and across space and time. American Naturalist 163(5):672-691.
Alroy, J. 2004. Are Sepkoski's evolutionary faunas dynamically coherent? Evolutionary Ecology Research 6(1):1-32. PDF
--------. 2003c. Taxonomic inflation and body mass distributions in North American fossil mammals. Journal of Mammalogy 84(2):431-443. PDF
--------. 2003b. Cenozoic bolide impacts and biotic change in North American mammals. Astrobiology 3:119-132. PDF
Bowen, G. J., W. C. Clyde, P. L. Koch, S. Ting, J. Alroy, T. Tsubamoto, Y. Wang, and Y. Wang. 2002. Mammalian dispersal at the Paleocene/Eocene boundary. Science 295:2062-2065. PDF
Alroy, J. 2002a. How many named species are valid? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 99:3706-3711. PDF
--------. 2001a. A multi-species overkill simulation of the end-Pleistocene megafaunal mass extinction. Science 292:1893-1896. PDF
Alroy, J., C. R. Marshall, R. K. Bambach, K. Bezusko, M. Foote, F. T. Fürsich, T. A. Hansen, S. M. Holland, L. C. Ivany, D. Jablonski, D. K. Jacobs, D. C. Jones, M. A. Kosnik, S. Lidgard, S. Low, A. I. Miller, P. M. Novack-Gottshall, T. D. Olszewski, M. E. Patzkowsky, D. M. Raup, K. Roy, J. J. Sepkoski, Jr., M. G. Sommers, P. J. Wagner, and A. Webber. 2001. Effects of sampling standardization on estimates of Phanerozoic marine diversification. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 98(11):6261-6266. PDF
Alroy, J., P. L. Koch, and J. C. Zachos. 2000. Global climate change and North American mammalian evolution. In D. H. Erwin and S. L. Wing, eds. Deep time: Paleobiology's perspective. Paleobiology 26(Suppl. to No. 4):259-288.
Alroy, J. 2000c. New methods for quantifying macroevolutionary patterns and processes. Paleobiology 26(4):707-733. PDF
--------. 2000b. Successive approximations of diversity curves: ten more years in the library. Geology 28(11):1023-1026. PDF
--------. 2000a. Understanding the dynamics of trends within evolving lineages. Paleobiology 26(3):319-329. PDF
--------. 1999b. Putting North America's end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinction in context: large scale analyses of spatial patterns, extinction rates, and size distributions. Pp. 105-143 in R. D. E. MacPhee (ed.), Extinctions in near time: causes, contexts, and consequences. Plenum, New York.
--------. 1999a. The fossil record of North American mammals: Evidence for a Paleocene evolutionary radiation. Systematic Biology 48(1):107-118. PDF
Alroy, J., R. L. Bernor, M. Fortelius, and L. Werdelin. 1998. The MN system: regional or continental? Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssamlung für Paläontologie und historische Geologie 38:243-258.
Alroy, J. 1998e. Equilibrial diversity dynamics in North American mammals. Pp. 232-287 in M. L. McKinney and J. A. Drake (eds.), Biodiversity dynamics: turnover of populations, taxa, and communities. Columbia University Press, New York.
--------. 1998b. Cope's rule and the dynamics of body mass evolution in North American mammals. Science 280:731-734. PDF
--------. 1998a. Diachrony of mammalian appearance events: implications for biochronology. Geology 26(1):23-27. PDF
--------. 1996. Constant extinction, constrained diversification, and uncoordinated stasis in North American mammals. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 127(1/4):285-311. PDF
--------. 1995. Continuous track analysis: a new phylogenetic and biogeographic method. Systematic Biology 44(2):152-178. PDF
Wing, S. L., J. Alroy, and L. J. Hickey. 1995. Plant and mammal diversity in the Paleocene to early Eocene of the Bighorn Basin. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 115:117-155. PDF
Alroy, J. 1994b. Four permutation tests for phylogenetic structure. Systematic Biology 43(3):430-437. PDF
--------. 1994a. Appearance event ordination: a new biochronologic method. Paleobiology 20(2):191-207. PDF
--------. 1992. Conjunction among taxonomic distributions and the Miocene mammalian biochronology of the Great Plains. Paleobiology 18(3):326-343. PDF
Alroy, J. 2016b. A simple Bayesian method of inferring extinction: Reply. Ecology 97(3):798-800. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1321
--------. 2016a. Reply to Solow: Sense and nonsense in the choice of extinction priors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 113:E1133. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1600387113
--------. 2011. On the flux ratio method and correcting incorrect forms of correct equations. Paleobiology 37(4):710-711.
--------. 2003a. Global databases will yield reliable measures of global biodiversity. Paleobiology 29(1):26-29. PDF
--------. 2002b. Stratigraphy in phylogeny reconstruction - reply to Smith (2000). Journal of Paleontology 76:587-589. PDF
--------. 2001b. Did human hunting cause mass extinction? Science 294:1459-1462.
--------. 1998d. Diachrony of mammalian appearance events: implications for biochronology: Reply. Geology 26(10):956-958. PDF
--------. 1998c. Cope's rule. Science 282:50-51.
Alroy, J., and A. Levine. 1994. Driving both ways: Wilson and Sober's conflicting criteria for the identification of groups as vehicles of selection. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 17(4):608-610.
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| ociety of Vertebrate Paleontology, Dallas. | |
| Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Berlin. | |
| Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Los Angeles, California. | |
| 14th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution Palaeontology and Systematics, Adelaide, South Australia. | |
| Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Raleigh, North Carolina. | |
| International Geological Congress, Brisbane, Queensland. | |
| Geological Society of America, Minneapolis, Minnesota. | |
| 13th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution Palaeontology and Systematics, Perth, Western Australia. | |
| Geological Society of America, Denver, Colorado (short course co-organizer). | |
| Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. | |
| Geological Society of America, Portland, Oregon. | |
| Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Bristol, United Kingdom. | |
| Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Cleveland, Ohio. | |
| Geological Society of America, Houston, Texas. | |
| Sackler Colloquium on Biodiversity and Extinction, Irvine, California. | |
| Geological Society of America, Denver, Colorado. | |
| Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Austin, Texas. | |
| BES Symposium on Speciation and Ecology, University of Sheffield. | |
| Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Ottawa, Ontario. | |
| Second International Palaeontological Congress, Beijing. | |
| Future Research Directions in Paleontology Workshop, Washington, DC. | |
| Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Mesa, Arizona. | |
| Geological Society of America, Salt Lake City, Utah. | |
| Ecological Society of America, Montreal, Canada. | |
| North American Paleontological Convention, Halifax, Canada. | |
| Palaeontological Association, Lille, France. | |
| Geological Society of America, Denver, Colorado. | |
| Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Denver, Colorado. | |
| Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, New Orleans, Louisiana. | |
| Geological Society of America, Seattle, Washington. | |
| Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, St. Paul, Minnesota. | |
| EarthTime workshop, Washington, D.C. | |
| Society of Systematic Biologists, Chico, California. | |
| International Paleobiology Database Symposium, Berlin (symposium co-organizer). | |
| Geological Society of America, Denver, Colorado. | |
| Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Norman, Oklahoma. | |
| Extinction Thresholds Conference, Helsinki. | |
| Ecological Society of America, Tucson, Arizona. | |
| American Society of Mammalogists, Lake Charles, Louisiana. | |
| Society for American Archaeology, Denver, Colorado. | |
| Rubey Colloquium on Impacts and the Origin, Evolution, and Extinction of Life, University of California, Los Angeles. | |
| November, 2001 | Geological Society of America, Boston, Massachusetts. |
| October, 2001 | Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Bozeman, Montana. |
| North American Paleontological Convention, Berkeley, California. | |
| Geological Society of America, Reno, Nevada (symposium co-organizer). | |
| October, 2000 | Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Mexico City. |
| Sepkoski Memorial Symposium, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. | |
| Society of Systematic Biologists, Bloomington, Indiana (symposium co-organizer). | |
| Origin and Evolutionary Transformations of Mammals, Berlin. | |
| October, 1999 | Geological Society of America, Denver, Colorado. |
| Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Denver, Colorado. | |
| June, 1999 | Society of Systematic Biologists, Madison, Wisconsin. |
| October, 1998 | Geological Society of America, Toronto, Ontario. |
| October, 1998 | Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Snowbird, Utah. |
| Origins of the Mammal Orders Conference, Hayama, Japan. | |
| 10th International Gondwana Conference, Cape Town, South Africa. | |
| June, 1998 | Society of Systematic Biologists, Vancouver, British Columbia. |
| October, 1997 | Geological Society of America, Salt Lake City, Utah. |
| October, 1997 | Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Chicago, Illinois. |
| June, 1997 | Society of Systematic Biologists, Boulder, Colorado. |
| American Geophysical Union, Baltimore, Maryland. | |
| Center for Biodiversity and Conservation Spring Symposium, American Museum of Natural History, New York. | |
| October, 1996 | Geological Society of America, Denver, Colorado. |
| October, 1996 | Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, New York. |
| June, 1996 | North American Paleontological Convention, Field Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. |
| November, 1995 | Geological Society of America, New Orleans, Louisiana. |
| November, 1995 | Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. |
| July, 1995 | Society of Systematic Biologists, Montreal, Quebec. |
| October, 1994 | Geological Society of America, Seattle, Washington. |
| October, 1994 | Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. |
| Ecological Society of America, Knoxville, Tennessee. | |
| June, 1994 | Society of Systematic Biologists, Athens, Georgia. |
| October, 1993 | Geological Society of America, Boston, Massachusetts. |
| October, 1993 | Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Albuquerque, New Mexico. |
| Society of Systematic Biologists, Snowbird, Utah. | |
| October, 1992 | Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario. |
| October, 1992 | Geological Society of America, Cincinatti, Ohio. |
| North American Paleontological Convention, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois. | |
| October, 1991 | Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, California. |
| October, 1991 | Geological Society of America, San Diego, California. |
| October, 1990 | Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Ks. |
| October, 1988 | Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Drumheller, Alberta. |
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