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PROF GARETH NELSON



Contact Details

Organization: Botany
Position: Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
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Work: 8344 0297
Fax: 8344 7049
Room: Systematics lab
Level: 01
Building: Natural Philosophy
Campus: Parkville

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science University of Chicago
Doctor of Philosophy University of Hawaii

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Linnean Society of London Elected Foreign Member, Linnean Society of London 01-Jan-1987

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Medal Linnean Society of London 01-Jan-2001
Other (Award) American Society of Ichthyologists & Herpetologist 01-Jan-1992

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Books

  • Foundations of Systematics and Biogeography
    Year: 2008
    Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media(New York)
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Journal Articles

  • The two Wallaces then and now
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London
    Volume: 9
    Page numbers: 25-34
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  • Tremaux on species: a theory of allopatric speciation (and punctuated equilibrium) before Wagner
    Year: 2008
    Journal: History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
    Volume: 30
    Page numbers: 179-206
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Taxonomic impediment or impediment to taxonomy? A commentary on systematics and the cybertaxonomic-automation paradigm
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Evolutionary Biology
    Volume: 34
    Issue: 3-4
    Page numbers: 140-143
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Hawaiian Vicariance
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Biogeography
    Volume: 33
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 2154-2155
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  • Historical biogeography of Rhododendron section Vireya and the Malesian Archipelago
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Biogeography
    Volume: 33
    Page numbers: 1929-1944
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Historical biogeography of Australian Rhamnaceae, tribe Pomaderreae
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Biogeography
    Volume: 32
    Page numbers: 1909-1919
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Oxford)
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  • Revisiting the taxonomic impediment
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Science
    Volume: 307
    Page numbers: 353
    Publisher: American Society for the Advancement of Science(Washington DC)
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Cladistics: Its arrested development
    Year: 2004
    Book: Milestones in Systematics
    Publisher: CRC Press(Florida)
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Journal Articles

  • Methods for preparing dry, partially articulated skeletons of osteichthyans, with notes on making Ridewood dissections of the cranial skeleton
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Copeia
    Volume: 3
    Page numbers: 603-609
    Publisher: American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists(Charleston)
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  • The reform of palaeontology and the rise of biogeography - 25 years after ontogeny, phylogeny, paleontology and the biogenetic law'
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Biogeography
    Volume: 31
    Page numbers: 685-712
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Oxford)
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Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • Geographic paralogy
    Year: 2003
    Book: Una perspectiva latinoamericana de la biogeografía
    Publisher: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico(Mexico City)
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Journal Articles

  • A question of conflict: three-item and standard parsimony compared
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Systematics and Biodiversity
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 145-149
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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  • Australian biogeographical connections and the phylogeny of large genera in the plant family Myrtaceae
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Biogeography
    Volume: 30
    Page numbers: 989-998
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Oxford)
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  • Book review - "Species concepts and phylogenetic theory: a debate"
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Cladistics - The International Journal of the Willi Hennig Society
    Volume: 19
    Page numbers: 274-275
    Publisher: Academic Press(London)
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  • Brummitt on paraphyly: a response
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Taxon
    Volume: 52
    Page numbers: 295-298
    Publisher: International Association for Plant Taxonomy
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Book Review: Alfred Russel Wallace - A Life
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Science
    Volume: 293
    Page numbers: 1260-1261
    Publisher: American Society for the Advancement of Science(Washington DC)
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  • Gondwana, vicariance biogeography and the New York School revisited
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Australian Journal of Botany
    Volume: 49
    Page numbers: 389-409
    Publisher: CSIRO Publications(Collingwood)
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