Staff Profile
Deputy Divisional Director
Adrian M Paterson
BSc(Hons) PhD (Otago)
Contact Details
Ecology Department
| Location | Burns 526 |
| Phone | 64 3 321 8953 |
| Extension | 8953 |
| Adrian Paterson |
Academic and Professional Background
Member of:
- New Zealand Parasitological Society
- New Zealand Ornithological Society
- Systematic Society of Biologists.
Current Research and Publications
- Biogeography of New Zealand
- Host-parasite coevolution and the evolution of parasitism
- Evolution of behaviour and systematics
- Conservation and behavioural ecology.
In particular:
- dispersal and colonization of species on islands
- speciation on the Chatham Islands
- evolution of parasitism in mites
- coevolution of penguins and their lice
- behavioural evolution and conservation management of seabirds and oystercatchers
- systematics of penguins
- hepialid moths
- lycosid and katipo spiders
- foraging behaviour in tahr
- effects of roads on pukekos
- cat behaviour in native areas
- patterns of bird population fragmentation and extinction in New Zealand
- wax eggs as a tool to monitor predators in braided rivers
- non-invasive methods of collecting DNA from field populations
- spider diversity in grasslands
- historical DNA analysis.
Selected Publications
Cruickshank, R.C., Paterson, A.M. 2006. The Great Escape: Do Parasite's Break Dollo's Law? Trends in Parasitology 22: 509-515.
Trewick, S.A., Paterson, A.M., Campbell, H.J. 2007. Hello New Zealand. Journal of Biogeography 34: 1-6.
Landis, C.A., Campbell, H.J., Begg, J.G., Mildenhall, D.C., Paterson, A.M., Trewick, S.A. 2008. The Waipounamu erosion surface: questioning the antiquity of the New Zealand land surface and terrestrial fauna and flora. Geological Magazine 145: 173-197.
Goldberg, J., Trewick, S.A., Paterson, A.M. 2008. Evolution of New Zealand's terrestrial fauna: a review of molecular evidence. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 363: 3319-3334.
Vink, C.J., Sirvid, P., Malumbres-Olarte, J., Griffiths, J.W., Paquin, P., Paterson, A.M. 2008. Species status and conservation issues of New Zealand's endemic Latrodectus spider species (Theridiidae: Araneae). Invertebrate Systematics 22: 589-604.
Saxton, V.P., Creasy, G.L., Paterson, A.M., Trought, M.C.T. 2009. Behavioural responses of European blackbirds and Australasian silvereyes to varying acid and sugar levels in artificial grapes. American Journal of Enology and Viticulture 60: 82-88.
Vargas, M.L., Cruickshank, R.H., Ross, J.G., Holyoake, A.J., Ogilvie, S.C., Paterson, A.M. 2009. Non-invasive recovery and detection of possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) DNA from bitten bait interference devices (WaxTags®). Molecular Ecology Resources 9: 505-515.
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