Heads Publications
Publications in biogeography
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Heads, M. 2012. Molecular panbiogeography of the tropics. University of California Press, Berkeley. |
Heads, M. 2010. Old taxa on young Islands: A Critique of the use of Island age to date island-endemic
clades and calibrate phylogenies. Systematic Biology DOI:10.1093/sysbio/syq075 pdf
Heads, M. 2010. New Caledonian biogeography: a reply to Murienne. Journal of Biogeography pdf
Heads, M. 2010. The endemic plant families and the palms of New Caledonia: a biogeographic
analysis. Journal of Biogeography 37, 1239-1250. pdf
Heads, M. 2010. Biogeographical affinities of the New Caledonian biota: a puzzle with 24 pieces.
Journal of Biogeography 37, 1179-1201. pdf Supplementary material
Heads, M. 2009. Evolution and biogeography of primates: a new model based on molecular phylogenetics,
vicariance and plate tectonics. Zoologica Scripta 39, 107-127. pdf
Heads, M. 2009. Inferring biogeographic history from molecular phylogenies. Biological Journal of the
Linnean Society 98, 757-774. pdf
Heads, M. 2009. Vicariance In Encyclopedia of Islands (ed. by R. Gillespie and D. Clague), pp. 947-950.
University of California Press. pdf
Heads, M. 2009. Darwin’s changing views on evolution: from centres of origin and teleology to vicariance and
incomplete lineage sorting. Journal of Biogeography. pdf
Heads, M. 2009. Globally basal centres of endemism: the Tasman-Coral Sea region (south-west Pacific),
Latin America and Madagascar/South Africa. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 96, 222–245. pdf
Heads, M. 2008. Biological disjunction along the West Caledonian fault, New Caledonia: a synthesis of
molecular phylogenetics and panbiogeography. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 158, 470–488. pdf
Heads, M. 2008. Panbiogeography of New Caledonia, south-west Pacific: basal angiosperms on basement
terranes, ultramafic endemics inherited from volcanic island arcs and old taxa endemic to young islands.
Journal of Biogeography 35, 2153-2175. pdf supplementary material
Heads, M. 2006. Seed plants of Fiji: an ecological analysis. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 89,
407-431. pdf supplemental material
Heads, M. 2006. Biogeography, ecology and tectonics in New Guinea. Journal of Biogeography 33,
957-958. pdf
Heads, M. 2006 Panbiogeography of Nothofagus (Nothofagaceae): analysis of the main species
massings. Journal of Biogeography 33, 1066-1075. pdf
Heads, M. 2005. A reply to Smissen et al. Cladistics 21, 404. pdf
Heads, M. 2005. The history and philosophy of panbiogeography. Regionalización Biogeográfica en
Iberoamérica y Tópicos Afines (ed. by J.Llorente and J.J.Morrone), pp. 67-123. Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México, México. pdf
Heads, M. 2005. Towards a panbiogeography of the seas. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 84,
675-723. pdf
Heads, M. 2005. A review of "R.T. Pennington, Q.C.B. Cronk, and J.A. Richardson (eds.), 2004.
Plant phylogeny and the origin of major biomes". The Systematist 24, 19-22. pdf
Heads, M. 2005. Dating nodes on molecular phylogenies: a critique of molecular biogeography.
Cladistics 21, 62-78. pdf
Heads, M. & Craw, R.C. 2004. The Alpine fault biogeographic hypothesis revisited. Cladistics 20, 184-190. pdf
Heads, M. 2004. What is a node? Journal of Biogeography 31, 1883-1891. pdf
Heads, M. 2003. Ericaceae in Malesia: vicariance biogeography, terrane tectonics and ecology. Telopea 10,
311-449. pdf
Heads, M. 2002. Regional patterns of biodiversity in New Guinea animals. Journal of Biogeography 29,
285-294. pdf
Heads, M. 2002. Birds of paradise, vicariance biogeogrpahy and terrane tectonics in New Guinea. Journal of
Biogeography 29, 261-284. pdf
Heads, M. 2001. Regional patterns of biodiversity in New Guinea plants. Botantical Journal of the Linnean
Society 136, 67-73. pdf
Heads, M. 2001. Birds of paradise, biogeography and ecology in New Guinea: A review. Journal of
Biogeography 28, 1-33. pdf
Heads, M. 2001. Birds of paradise (Paradisaeidae) and bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchidae): Regional levels of
biodiversity and terrane tectonics in New Guinea. Journal of Zoology, London 255, 331-339.pdf
Heads, M. 1999. Vicariance biogeography and terrane tectonics in the South Pacific: Analysis of the genus
Abrotanella (Compositae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 67, 391-432. pdf
Craw,R.C., Grehan,J.R., & Heads, M. 1999. Panbiogeography: tracking the history of life Oxford
University Press, New York.
Heads, M. 1998. Biodiversity in the New Zealand divaricating tree daisies: Olearia sect. nov. (Compositae).
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 127, 239-285.pdf
Heads, M. 1998 Biogeographic disjunction along the Alpine fault, New Zealand. Biological Journal of the Linnean
Society 63, 161-176. pdf
Heads, M. 1997. Regional patterns of biodiversity in New Zealand: one degree grid analysis of plant and animal
distributions. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 27, 337-354. pdf
Heads, M. 1996. Biogeography, taxonomy and evolution in the Pacific genus Coprosma (Rubiaceae).
Candollea 51, 1-405.
Heads, M. 1994. A biogeographic review of Ourisia in New Zealand. Candollea 49, 23-36.
Heads, M. 1994. A biogeographic review of Parahebe (Scrophulariaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean
Society 115, 65-89.
Heads, M. 1994. Biogeography and evolution in the Hebe complex (Scrophulariaceae): Leonohebe and
Chionohebe. Candollea 49, 81-119.
Heads, M. 1994. Biogeographic studies in New Zealand Scrophulariaceae: tribes Rhinantheae, Calceolarieae
and Gratioleae. Candollea 49, 55-80.
Heads, M. 1994. Biogeography and biodiversity in New Zealand Pimelea (Thymelaeaceae). Candollea 49,
37-53.
Heads, M. 1993. Biogeography and biodiversity in Hebe, a South Pacific genus of Scrophulariaceae.
Candollea 48, 19-60.
Heads, M. 1992. Taxonomic notes on the Hebe complex (Scrophulariaceae) in the New Zealand mountains.
Candollea 47, 583-595.
Chin, N., Brown, M., & Heads, M. 1991. The biogeography of Macrocystis (Lessoniaceae). Hydrobiologia 215,
1-11.
Heads,M. 1990. Mesozoic tectonics and the deconstruction of biogeography: a new model of Australasian
biology. Journal of Biogeography 17, 223-225.
Heads,M. 1990. Integrating earth and life sciences in New Zealand natural history: the parallel arcs model.
New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 16, 549-585. pdf copy
Craw,R.C. & Heads,M. 1988. Reading Croizat: on the edge of biology. Revista di Biologia-Biology Forum 81,
499-532.
Heads, M. 1986. Panbiogeography of the Auckland Islands. The Lepidoptera, bryophytes and panbiogeography
of the Auckland Islands (ed. R.D. Archibald), pp. 30-44. Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington.
Heads, M. 1985. Biogeographic analysis of Nothofagus (Fagaceae). Taxon 34, 474-492 pdf
Heads, M. 1985. On the nature of ancestors. Systematic Zoology 34, 205-215. pdf
Heads, M. & Craw, R.C. 1984. Bibliography of the scientific work of Leon Croizat, 1932-1982. Tuatara 27,
67-75.
Heads, M. 1984. Bibliography of the scientific work of Leon Croizat, 1930-1984. Tuatara 27, 67-75.
Heads, M. 1984. Principia Botanica: Croizat's contribution to botany. Tuatara 27, 26-48.
Heads, M. 1983. Pacific plate biogeography, with special reference to shorefishes [review]. Journal of
Biogeography 10, 543-548.


