Publications

Lubbe P, Rawlence NJ, Dussex N, Kardailsky O, Knapp M. 2025. Plio-Pleistocene environmental changes drove the settlement of Aotearoa New Zealand by Australian open-habitat bird lineages. Molecular Ecology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17648

Tennyson AJ, Greer L, Lubbe P, Marx FG, Giovanardi S, Rawlence NJ. 2024. A response to Worthy et al. 2022. A swan-sized fossil anatid (Aves: Anatidae) from the early Miocene St Bathans Fauna of New Zealand. Zootaxa. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5453.1.8

Kennedy M, Rathnayake D, Volponi S, Nupen L, Rawlence N, Salis A, Lubbe P, Seneviratne S, Ryan P. 2023. Phylogeny of the microcormorants, with description of a new genus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad041

Lubbe P, Rawlence NJ, Kardailsky O, Robertson BC, Day R, Knapp M, Dussex N. 2022. Mitogenomes resolve the phylogeography and divergence times within the endemic New Zealand Callaeidae (Aves: Passerida). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 196(4):1451–1463. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac060

 

Tennyson AJ, Greer L, Lubbe P, Marx FG, Richards MD, Giovanardi S, Rawlence NJ. 2022. A new species of large duck (Aves: Anatidae) from the Miocene of New Zealand. Taxonomy. 2(1):136–144. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/taxonomy2010011

 

Verry AJ, Lubbe P, Mitchell KJ, Rawlence NJ. 2022. Thirty years of ancient DNA and the faunal biogeography of Aotearoa New Zealand: lessons and future directions. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2022.2093227

Popular media

Rawlence Nic, Tennyson Alan, Lubbe Pascale. "Are kiwi and moa recent immigrants from Australia? Neither fossils nor genetic evidence support the story." The Conversation, 17 September 2024.

Lewis, John. “DNA analysis uncovers mystery of wattlebird evolution.” Otago Daily Times [Dunedin], 12 August 2022. 

McMorran, Dave. "What's best for birds?" Otago Access Radio: Science Notes [Dunedin], 2 October, 2020.

Joyner, Sarah. "A birds eye view: students study local tree swallows." University of Tennessee [Chattanooga], 31 May, 2018.