List of works - Leo Joseph

A case for realigning species limits in the southern Australian whipbirds long recognised as the Western Whipbird (Psophodes nigrogularis)

article

A cryptic and critically endangered species revealed by mitochondrial DNA analyses: the Western Ground Parrot

article

A framework for incorporating evolutionary genomics into biodiversity conservation and management

A genomic approach reinforces a hypothesis of mitochondrial capture in eastern Australian rosellas

scholarly article published in The Auk, January 2017

A multilocus coalescent analysis of the speciational history of the Australo-Papuan butcherbirds and their allies

scientific article (publication date: March 2013)

A review of evolutionary research on birds of the New Guinean savannas and closely associated habitats of riparian rainforests, mangroves and grasslands

scientific article published on 28 May 2019

A species assemblage approach to comparative phylogeography of birds in southern Australia

scientific article (publication date: February 2012)

A tangled tale of two teal: population history of the greyAnas gracilisand chestnut tealA. castaneaof Australia

article

A taxonomic framework for interpreting evolution within theAmytornis textilis—modestuscomplex of grasswrens

scientific article published in December 2010

Ancient DNA resolves the subspecific identity of the holotype of the Galah Eolophus roseicapilla, a widespread Australian cockatoo

article

Are natural history collections coming to an end as time-series?

article

Australia's arid-adapted butcherbirds experienced range expansions during Pleistocene glacial maxima

scientific article

Australian songbird body size tracks climate variation: 82 species over 50 years

scientific article published on 27 November 2019

Biogeography and speciation of terrestrial fauna in the south-western Australian biodiversity hotspot

scientific article

Climate-driven mitochondrial selection: A test in Australian songbirds

scientific article published on 15 January 2018

Complete subspecies-level phylogeny of the Oriolidae (Aves: Passeriformes): Out of Australasia and return

scientific article published on 23 March 2019

Complex histories of gene flow and a mitochondrial capture event in a nonsister pair of birds

scientific article published on 31 March 2021

Correction: Phylogeography of the iconic Australian red-tailed black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii) and implications for its conservation

scientific article published on 21 July 2020

Current geography masks dynamic history of gene flow during speciation in northern Australian birds

scientific article published on 06 February 2019

De-novo emergence of SINE retroposons during the early evolution of passerine birds

scientific article published on 14 December 2017

Decline of a biome: evolution, contraction, fragmentation, extinction and invasion of the Australian mesic zone biota

scholarly article published in 2011

Declining body size: a third universal response to warming?

scientific article

Disparate origins for endemic bird taxa from the ‘Gondwana Rainforests’ of Central Eastern Australia

Dissection by genomic and plumage variation of a geographically complex hybrid zone between two Australian non-sister parrot species, Platycercus adscitus and Platycercus eximius

article

Earth history and the passerine superradiation

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Ecological Divergence, Adaptive Diversification, and the Evolution of Social Signaling Traits: An Empirical Study in Arid Australian Lizards.

scientific article

Evolution of arid zone birds in Australia: leapfrog distribution patterns and mesic-arid connections in quail-thrush (Cinclosoma, Cinclosomatidae)

scientific article

Evolutionary history of birds across southern Australia: structure, history and taxonomic implications of mitochondrial DNA diversity in an ecologically diverse suite of species

scientific article (publication date: 2015)

Genome of an iconic Australian bird: High-quality assembly and linkage map of the superb fairy-wren (Malurus cyaneus)

scientific article published on 02 January 2020

Higher classification of New World parrots (Psittaciformes; Arinae), with diagnoses of tribes

scientific article (publication date: 25 July 2013)

Impacts of recent climate change on terrestrial flora and fauna: Some emerging Australian examples

article

Implications of mitochondrial DNA polyphyly in two ecologically undifferentiated but morphologically distinct migratory birds, the masked and white-browed woodswallows Artamus spp. of inland Australia

article

Improved systematics of lorikeets reflects their evolutionary history and frames conservation priorities

scientific article published on 2 July 2020

Independent evolution of migration on the South American landscape in a long-distance temperate-tropical migratory bird, Swainson's flycatcher (Myiarchus swainsoni)

Lack of phylogeographic structure in three widespread Australian birds reinforces emerging challenges in Australian historical biogeography

article

Male sex-ratio bias in the endangered South Australian Glossy Black-Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami halmaturinus

article

Mechanisms and consequences of changing body size: reply to Bickford et al. and McCauley and Mabry

scientific article published in 2011

Microscopic characteristics of the plumulaceous feathers of Australian birds: a preliminary analysis of taxonomic discrimination for forensic purposes

article

Molecular phylogenetics suggests a New Guinean origin and frequent episodes of founder-event speciation in the nectarivorous lories and lorikeets (Aves: Psittaciformes).

scientific article published on 28 April 2015

Molecular resolution of population history, systematics and historical biogeography of the Australian ringneck parrots Barnardius: are we there yet?

article

Molecular systematics and phylogeography of New Guinean logrunners (Orthonychidae)

scientific article published in December 2001

Molecular systematics of two enigmatic genera Psittacella and Pezoporus illuminate the ecological radiation of Australo-Papuan parrots (Aves: Psittaciformes)

scientific article

Multi-locus phylogeny clarifies the systematics of the Australo-Papuan robins (Family Petroicidae, Passeriformes).

scientific article

Multi-locus sequence data illuminate demographic drivers of Pleistocene speciation in semi-arid southern Australian birds (Cinclosoma spp.)

scientific article

Museum specimens provide reliable SNP data for population genomic analysis of a widely distributed but threatened cockatoo species

scientific article published on 19 September 2019

Neutral and selective drivers of colour evolution in a widespread Australian passerine

article

Norfolk Island Robins are a distinct endangered species: ancient DNA unlocks surprising relationships and phenotypic discordance within the Australo-Pacific Robins

Nuclear introns help unravel the diversification history of the Australo-Pacific Petroica robins

scientific article published on 25 October 2018

Observations on breeding Night Parrots (Pezoporus occidentalis) in western Queensland

article by Stephen A. Murphy et al published 28 February 2017 in Emu

Parallel Evolution of Bower-Building Behavior in Two Groups of Bowerbirds Suggested by Phylogenomics

scientific article published on 16 May 2020

Perched at the mito-nuclear crossroads: divergent mitochondrial lineages correlate with environment in the face of ongoing nuclear gene flow in an Australian bird

scientific article published on 9 April 2013

Perpendicular axes of differentiation generated by mitochondrial introgression

scientific article published on 22 March 2017

Perpendicular axes of incipient speciation generated by mitochondrial introgression

Phylogeography of a ‘great speciator’ (Aves: Edolisoma tenuirostre ) reveals complex dispersal and diversification dynamics across the Indo-Pacific

article published in 2018

Phylogeography of the blue-winged kookaburra<i>Dacelo leachii</i>across tropical northern Australia and New Guinea

scientific article published on 15 October 2019

Phylogeography of the iconic Australian red-tailed black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii) and implications for its conservation

scientific article published on 12 May 2020

Phylogeography: its development and impact in Australo-Papuan ornithology with special reference to paraphyly in Australian birds

article

Pleistocene-dated biogeographic barriers drove divergence within the Australo-Papuan region in a sex-specific manner: an example in a widespread Australian songbird

scientific article published on 15 March 2019

Positive and purifying selection in mitochondrial genomes of a bird with mitonuclear discordance

scientific article published on 19 May 2015

Relationships of the New Guinean subspecies, Gymnorhina tibicen papuana, of the Australian Magpie: an assessment from DNA sequence data

Resources for phylogenomic analyses of Australian terrestrial vertebrates.

scientific article

Rise (and demise?) of subspecies in the Galah (Eolophus roseicapilla), a widespread and abundant Australian cockatoo

article

Robbery in progress: Historical museum collections bring to light a mitochondrial capture within a bird species widespread across southern Australia, the Copperback Quail-thrush Cinclosoma clarum

scientific article published on 31 May 2020

Shifting latitudinal clines in avian body size correlate with global warming in Australian passerines

article

Systematic dismantlement of Lichenostomus improves the basis for understanding relationships within the honeyeaters (Meliphagidae) and the historical development of Australo-Papuan bird communities

article

Testing the effect of transient Plio-Pleistocene barriers in monsoonal Australo-Papua: did mangrove habitats maintain genetic connectivity in the Black Butcherbird?

scientific article published on 8 November 2011

The impact of Pleistocene changes of climate and landscape on Australian birds: a test using the Pied Butcherbird ( Cracticus nigrogularis )

scientific article (publication date: 2010)

Towards a phylogenetic framework for the evolution of shakes, rattles, and rolls in Myiarchus tyrant-flycatchers (Aves: Passeriformes: Tyrannidae).

scientific article published in April 2004

Two new but threatened subspecies of Rufous Grasswren Amytornis whitei (Maluridae)

scientific article published on 22 June 2020

Ultraconserved elements resolve genus-level relationships in a major Australasian bird radiation (Aves: Meliphagidae)

Uncovering cryptic evolutionary diversity in extant and extinct populations of the southern Australian arid zone Western and Thick-billed Grasswrens (Passeriformes: Maluridae: Amytornis)

article

Using anecdotal reports to clarify the distribution and status of a near mythical species: Australia’s Night Parrot (<i>Pezoporus occidentalis</i>)

scientific article published on 23 June 2021

When DNA throws a spanner in the taxonomic works: testing for monophyly in the Dusky-capped Flycatcher, Myiarchus tuberculifer, and its South American subspecies, M. t. atriceps

Woodland birds and insect decline

scientific article published in 2023

List of works by Leo Joseph

A case for realigning species limits in the southern Australian whipbirds long recognised as the Western Whipbird (Psophodes nigrogularis)

A cryptic and critically endangered species revealed by mitochondrial DNA analyses: the Western Ground Parrot

A framework for incorporating evolutionary genomics into biodiversity conservation and management

A genomic approach reinforces a hypothesis of mitochondrial capture in eastern Australian rosellas

A multilocus coalescent analysis of the speciational history of the Australo-Papuan butcherbirds and their allies

A review of evolutionary research on birds of the New Guinean savannas and closely associated habitats of riparian rainforests, mangroves and grasslands

A species assemblage approach to comparative phylogeography of birds in southern Australia

A tangled tale of two teal: population history of the greyAnas gracilisand chestnut tealA. castaneaof Australia

A taxonomic framework for interpreting evolution within theAmytornis textilis—modestuscomplex of grasswrens

Ancient DNA resolves the subspecific identity of the holotype of the Galah Eolophus roseicapilla, a widespread Australian cockatoo

Are natural history collections coming to an end as time-series?

Australia's arid-adapted butcherbirds experienced range expansions during Pleistocene glacial maxima

Australian songbird body size tracks climate variation: 82 species over 50 years

Biogeography and speciation of terrestrial fauna in the south-western Australian biodiversity hotspot

Climate-driven mitochondrial selection: A test in Australian songbirds

Complete subspecies-level phylogeny of the Oriolidae (Aves: Passeriformes): Out of Australasia and return

Complex histories of gene flow and a mitochondrial capture event in a nonsister pair of birds

Correction: Phylogeography of the iconic Australian red-tailed black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii) and implications for its conservation

Current geography masks dynamic history of gene flow during speciation in northern Australian birds

De-novo emergence of SINE retroposons during the early evolution of passerine birds

Decline of a biome: evolution, contraction, fragmentation, extinction and invasion of the Australian mesic zone biota

Declining body size: a third universal response to warming?

Disparate origins for endemic bird taxa from the ‘Gondwana Rainforests’ of Central Eastern Australia

Dissection by genomic and plumage variation of a geographically complex hybrid zone between two Australian non-sister parrot species, Platycercus adscitus and Platycercus eximius

Earth history and the passerine superradiation

Ecological Divergence, Adaptive Diversification, and the Evolution of Social Signaling Traits: An Empirical Study in Arid Australian Lizards.

Evolution of arid zone birds in Australia: leapfrog distribution patterns and mesic-arid connections in quail-thrush (Cinclosoma, Cinclosomatidae)

Evolutionary history of birds across southern Australia: structure, history and taxonomic implications of mitochondrial DNA diversity in an ecologically diverse suite of species

Genome of an iconic Australian bird: High-quality assembly and linkage map of the superb fairy-wren (Malurus cyaneus)

Higher classification of New World parrots (Psittaciformes; Arinae), with diagnoses of tribes

Impacts of recent climate change on terrestrial flora and fauna: Some emerging Australian examples

Implications of mitochondrial DNA polyphyly in two ecologically undifferentiated but morphologically distinct migratory birds, the masked and white-browed woodswallows Artamus spp. of inland Australia

Improved systematics of lorikeets reflects their evolutionary history and frames conservation priorities

Independent evolution of migration on the South American landscape in a long-distance temperate-tropical migratory bird, Swainson's flycatcher (Myiarchus swainsoni)

Lack of phylogeographic structure in three widespread Australian birds reinforces emerging challenges in Australian historical biogeography

Male sex-ratio bias in the endangered South Australian Glossy Black-Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami halmaturinus

Mechanisms and consequences of changing body size: reply to Bickford et al. and McCauley and Mabry

Microscopic characteristics of the plumulaceous feathers of Australian birds: a preliminary analysis of taxonomic discrimination for forensic purposes

Molecular phylogenetics suggests a New Guinean origin and frequent episodes of founder-event speciation in the nectarivorous lories and lorikeets (Aves: Psittaciformes).

Molecular resolution of population history, systematics and historical biogeography of the Australian ringneck parrots Barnardius: are we there yet?

Molecular systematics and phylogeography of New Guinean logrunners (Orthonychidae)

Molecular systematics of two enigmatic genera Psittacella and Pezoporus illuminate the ecological radiation of Australo-Papuan parrots (Aves: Psittaciformes)

Multi-locus phylogeny clarifies the systematics of the Australo-Papuan robins (Family Petroicidae, Passeriformes).

Multi-locus sequence data illuminate demographic drivers of Pleistocene speciation in semi-arid southern Australian birds (Cinclosoma spp.)

Museum specimens provide reliable SNP data for population genomic analysis of a widely distributed but threatened cockatoo species

Neutral and selective drivers of colour evolution in a widespread Australian passerine

Norfolk Island Robins are a distinct endangered species: ancient DNA unlocks surprising relationships and phenotypic discordance within the Australo-Pacific Robins

Nuclear introns help unravel the diversification history of the Australo-Pacific Petroica robins

Observations on breeding Night Parrots (Pezoporus occidentalis) in western Queensland

Parallel Evolution of Bower-Building Behavior in Two Groups of Bowerbirds Suggested by Phylogenomics

Perched at the mito-nuclear crossroads: divergent mitochondrial lineages correlate with environment in the face of ongoing nuclear gene flow in an Australian bird

Perpendicular axes of differentiation generated by mitochondrial introgression

Perpendicular axes of incipient speciation generated by mitochondrial introgression

Phylogeography of a ‘great speciator’ (Aves: Edolisoma tenuirostre ) reveals complex dispersal and diversification dynamics across the Indo-Pacific

Phylogeography of the blue-winged kookaburra<i>Dacelo leachii</i>across tropical northern Australia and New Guinea

Phylogeography of the iconic Australian red-tailed black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii) and implications for its conservation

Phylogeography: its development and impact in Australo-Papuan ornithology with special reference to paraphyly in Australian birds

Pleistocene-dated biogeographic barriers drove divergence within the Australo-Papuan region in a sex-specific manner: an example in a widespread Australian songbird

Positive and purifying selection in mitochondrial genomes of a bird with mitonuclear discordance

Relationships of the New Guinean subspecies, Gymnorhina tibicen papuana, of the Australian Magpie: an assessment from DNA sequence data

Resources for phylogenomic analyses of Australian terrestrial vertebrates.

Rise (and demise?) of subspecies in the Galah (Eolophus roseicapilla), a widespread and abundant Australian cockatoo

Robbery in progress: Historical museum collections bring to light a mitochondrial capture within a bird species widespread across southern Australia, the Copperback Quail-thrush Cinclosoma clarum

Shifting latitudinal clines in avian body size correlate with global warming in Australian passerines

Systematic dismantlement of Lichenostomus improves the basis for understanding relationships within the honeyeaters (Meliphagidae) and the historical development of Australo-Papuan bird communities

Testing the effect of transient Plio-Pleistocene barriers in monsoonal Australo-Papua: did mangrove habitats maintain genetic connectivity in the Black Butcherbird?

The impact of Pleistocene changes of climate and landscape on Australian birds: a test using the Pied Butcherbird ( Cracticus nigrogularis )

Towards a phylogenetic framework for the evolution of shakes, rattles, and rolls in Myiarchus tyrant-flycatchers (Aves: Passeriformes: Tyrannidae).

Two new but threatened subspecies of Rufous Grasswren Amytornis whitei (Maluridae)

Ultraconserved elements resolve genus-level relationships in a major Australasian bird radiation (Aves: Meliphagidae)

Uncovering cryptic evolutionary diversity in extant and extinct populations of the southern Australian arid zone Western and Thick-billed Grasswrens (Passeriformes: Maluridae: Amytornis)

Using anecdotal reports to clarify the distribution and status of a near mythical species: Australia’s Night Parrot (<i>Pezoporus occidentalis</i>)

When DNA throws a spanner in the taxonomic works: testing for monophyly in the Dusky-capped Flycatcher, Myiarchus tuberculifer, and its South American subspecies, M. t. atriceps

Woodland birds and insect decline