Biogeography

All taxonomy has biogeographic implications, but the following publications are more directly concerned with biogeography than most of my others:

1975 Notes on the Gazelles. 1. Gazella rufifrons and the Zoogeography of Central African Bovidae. Z.f. Saugetierk. 40:308-319.

This paper draws attention to the importance of Lake Chad and the Shari system as a zoogeographic barrier in the distribution of African savannah mammals.

1976 The Origin of the Mammalian Fauna of Sulawesi (Celebes). Z.f. Saugetierkunde 41:201-216.

There is little or no evidence for zoogeographic connections between Sulawesi and either the Philippines or Nusatenggara. Sulawesi mammals, the cuscuses excepted, are essentially an archaic Oriental fauna. Over-water dispersal is an inadequate explanation for its origin.

1983 (with T. Flannery). The Mammals of West Irian. Hemisphere, 27:378-84.

1984 Of Mice and Men and Pigs in the Indo-Australian Archipelago. Canberra Anthropology, 7:1-19.

1984 Pigs East of the Wallace Line. J. Société des Océanistes, 39:105-119.

1985 Mammal Faunas and the Palaeogeograhy of the Indo-Australian Region. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg No. 69 pp. 267-273.

1985 Plio-Pleistocene Mammals in Island Southeast Asia. Mod. Quaternary Res. S.E. Asia 9:43-54.

1986 On the Cuscuses of the Phalanger orientalis group from Indonesian Territory. In M. Archer, (ed) Possums and Opossums: Studies in Evolution 569-579.

1987 (with J.F. Eisenberg and K. MacKinnon). Tapire. In Grzimeks Enzyklopadie, 4:598-608.

1989 A Theory of Human and Primate Evolution. Oxford University Press, pp. 384.

1989 Feral Mammals of the Mediterranean Islands: documents of early domestication. pp. 46-58 in J. Clutton-Brock, (ed) The Walking Larder. London: Unwin Hyman.

1989 (with T. Flannery, K. Aplin and M. Adams.) Revision of the New Guinean genus Mallomys (Muridae: Rodentia), with descriptions of two new species from subalpine habitats. Rec. Aust. Mus., 41:83-105.

1990 The centrifugal pattern of speciation in Meganesian rainforest mammals. Mem.Qd.Mus. 28:325-8.

1994 (with T.Flannery) A revision of the genus Uromys Peters, 1867 with descriptions of two new species. Rec.Aust.Mus., 46:145-170.

1995 Domesticated and Commensal Mammals of Austronesia and their Histories. Pp. 152-163 in The Austronesians: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (P. Bellwood, J.J. Fox and D. Tryon, eds.). Canberra: Department of Anthropology, ANU.

1996 Hovering on the brink: nearly but not quite getting to Australia. Perspectives in Human Biology, 2:83-7.

1997 Major biogeographic regions of the world. Section of article “Biosphere”. Pp 1160-1167 (vol.14) in The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Macropaedia, 15th edition.

2000 (with G.B.Schaller). The phylogeny and biogeography of the newly discovered Annamite artiodactyls. In E.S.Vrba and G.B.Schaller (eds.), Antelopes, Deer, and Relatives, 261-282. New Haven & London: Yale University Press.

2001 (with A.Braun, P.Grubb, Yang Q. & Xia L.). Catalogue of the Musée Heude collection of mammal skulls. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 21, no.4 (special issue).

Père Pierre-Marie Heude

2001 Mammals in Sulawesi: where did they come from and when, and what happened to them when they got there? In I.Metcalfe, J.M.B.Smith, M.Morwood and I.Davidson (eds.), Faunal and Floral Migrations and Evolution in SE Asia-Australasia. 333-342. Lisse, etc.: A.A.Balkema.

Surely the Sulawesi mammals did not get from Sundaland by chance dispersal - they form two clear "layers", indicating two, and only two, windows of opportunity for entry.

2001. Time and Taxonomy. Ludus Vitalis, 19, 15:91-96.

Arguing that there must be some objective standard for deciding on taxonomic rank above the species level, and arguing that this should be time depth.

2006 (with E.Meijaard). The geography of mammals and rivers in mainland Southeast Asia. In Primate Biogeogaphy: Progress and Prospects, S.M.Lehman & J.G.Fleagle, eds, Springer, 305-329.

2006. Taxonomy and Biogeography of the Primates of Western Uganda. In Primates of Western Uganda, N.E.Newton-Fisher, H.Notman, J.D.Paterson & V.Reynolds, eds, Springer, 3-20.

Juvenile female Saola (Pseudoryx ngetinhensis) in arboretum of Forest Industry and Planning Institute, Hanoi, 1994. One of the newly discovered Annamite artiodactyls.

Head of the saola