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DR STEPHEN WROE

| Professional | Research | Publications |

 
PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES/CHAPTERS
  1. Wroe, S., Clausen, P., McHenry, C., Moreno, K., and Cunningham, E. 2007. Computer simulation of feeding behaviour in the thylacine and dingo: a novel test for convergence and niche overlap. Proceedings of the Royal Society (London), Series B, 274: 2819-2828.

  2. Wroe, S., and Milne., N. 2007. Convergence and remarkably consistent constraint in the evolution of carnivore skull shape. Evolution, 61: 1251-1260.

  3. McHenry, C., Wroe, S., Clausen, P., Moreno, K., and Cunningham, E.2007. Super-modeled sabercat, predatory behaviour in Smilodon fatalis revealed by high-resolution 3-D computer simulation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 104: 16010-16015.

  4. Christiansen, P., and Wroe, S. 2007. Bite forces and evolutionary adaptations to feeding ecology in carnivores. Ecology, 88: 347-358.

  5. Wroe, S., Moreno, K., Clausen, P., McHenry, C., and Curnoe, D. 2007. High-resolution computer simulation of hominid cranial mechanics. The Anatomical Record, 290: 1248-1255.

  6. Wroe, S. 2007. High-resolution 3-D computer simulation of feeding behaviour in marsupial and placental lions. Journal of Zoology (online).doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2007.00389.x

  7. Grellet-Tinner, G.; Wroe, S.; Thompson, M.B., and Ji, Q. 2007. A note on pterosaur behavior. Historical Biology, 19 :273-277.

  8. Moreno, K., Wroe, S.,Clausen, P. D., McHenry, C. R., D'Amore, D. C.; Rayfield, E. J., and Cunningham, E. In press. Cranial performance in the Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) as revealed by high-resolution 3-D finite element analysis. Journal of Anatomy (Accepted 04-01-08).

  9. Bourke, J., Wroe, S., Moreno, K., McHenry, C., Clausen, P. In press. Effects of Gape and Tooth Position on Bite Force in the Dingo (Canis lupus dingo) using a 3-D Finite Element Approach. PLoS ONE (Accepted: 12-02-08).

  10. Field, J., Fillios, M., and Wroe, S. In press. Contextualizing Chronologies for the Human Megafauna Overlap in Australia. Earth Science Reviews (Accepted:08-02-08).

  11. Wroe, S., Lowry, M. B., and Anton, M. In press. How to build a mammalian superpredator? Zoology. (Accepted: 01-11-06).

  12. Weisbecker, V., Goswami, A. Wroe, S., Sánchez-Villagra, M. In press. Ossification heterochrony in the mammalian postcranial skeleton and the marsupial-placental dichotomy. Evolution (Accepted: 20-02-08).

  13. Archer, M., Arena, D. A., Bassarova, M., Beck, R., Black, K., Boles, W. E., Brewer, P., Cooke, B. N. , Morrell, A., Muirhead, J., Roberts, K., Scanlon, J. D., Travouillon, K. J., and Wroe, S. (2006). Current status of species-level representation in faunas from selected fossil localities in the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland. Alcheringa Special Issue 1, 1-17.

  14. Wroe, S., Field, J., and Grayson, D. K. (2006). Megafaunal extinction: climate, humans and assumptions. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 21: 61-62.

  15. Wroe, S., and Field, J. (2006). A review of the evidence for a human role in the extinction of Australian megafauna and an alternative interpretation. Quaternary Science Reviews, 25: 2692-2703.

  16. Wroe, S., and Archer, M. (2006). Origins and early radiations of marsupials. Pp. 517-540 in Merrick, J. Archer, M., Hickey, G. M., & Lee, M. S. Y. (eds). Evolution and Biogeography of Australasian Vertebrates, Auscipub Pty Ltd: Sydney.

  17. Wroe, S., McHenry, C., and Thomason, J. (2005). Bite club: Comparative bite force in big biting mammals and the prediction of predatory behaviour in fossil taxa. Proceedings of the Royal Society (London), Series B, 272: 619-625.

  18. McHenry, C., Cook, A., and Wroe, S. (2005). Bottom feeding plesiosaurs. Science, 310: 75.

  19. Wroe, S., McHenry, C., and Thomason, J. (2005). Bite club: Comparative bite force in big biting mammals and the prediction of predatory behaviour in fossil taxa. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 272: 619-625.

  20. Trueman, C. N., Field, J. H, Dortch, J., Charles, B., and Wroe, S. (2005). Prolonged co-existence of humans and megafauna in Pleistocene Australia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 182: 8381-8385.

  21. Wroe, S., Argot, C., Crowther, M., and Dickman, C. (2004). On the rarity of big fierce carnivores. Proceedings of the Royal Society (London), Series B, 271: 1203-1211.

  22. Wroe, S., Field, J., Fullagar, R., and Jermiin, L. (2004). Megafaunal extinction in the Late Quaternary and the global overkill hypothesis. Alcheringa, 28: 291-331.

  23. Wroe, S., Crowther, M., Dortch, J., and Chong, J. (2004). The size of the largest marsupial and why it matters. Proceedings of the Royal Society (London) Series B (Suppl.), 271: S34-S36.

  24. Wroe, S., Myers, T., Seebacher, F., Kear, B., Gillespie, A., Crowther, M., and Salisbury, S. (2003). An alternative method for predicting body-mass: The case of the marsupial lion. Paleobiology, 29: 404-412.

  25. Johnson, C., and Wroe, S. (2003). Causes of extinctions of vertebrates during the Holocene of mainland Australia: arrival of the dingo or human impact? The Holocene, 13: 109-116.

  26.  Wroe, S. (2003). Australian marsupial carnivores: Advances in palaeontology, palaeoecology and phylogeny. Pp. 71-94 in M. Jones, C. Dickman & M. Archer (eds), Predators with Pouches: the Biology of Carnivorous Marsupials, CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne.

  27. Wroe, S. (2002). A review of terrestrial mammalian and reptilian carnivore ecology in Australian fossil faunas and factors influencing their diversity. Australian Journal of Zoology, 50: 1-24.

  28. Wroe, S. (2001). Maximucinus muirheadae, gen. et sp. nov. (Thylacinidae, Marsupialia), from the Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, with estimates of body weights for fossil thylacinids. Australian Journal of Zoology, 49: 603-614.

  29. Wroe, S. (2001). A new genus and species of dasyuromorphian, from the Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Pp. 53-59. In S. J. Hand and J. R. Laurie (eds), Riversleigh Symposium 1998: Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 25: 1-154.

  30. Wroe, S., and Musser, A. (2001). The skull of Nimbacinus dicksoni (Thylacinidae, Marsupialia). Australian Journal of Zoology, 49: 487-514.

  31. Mackness, B. S., Wroe, S., Muirhead, J., Wilkinson, C., and Wilkinson, D. (2000). First fossil bandicoot from the Pliocene Chinchilla Local Fauna. Australian Mammalogy, 22: 133-136.

  32. Wroe, S., and Mackness, B. S. (2000). Additional material referred to Dasyurus dunmalli from the Pliocene Chinchilla Local Fauna of south-eastern Queensland and its phylogenetic implications. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 45: 641-645.

  33. Wroe, S., and Mackness, B. S. (2000). A new genus and species of dasyurine dasyurid (Marsupialia) from the Pliocene Chinchilla Local Fauna of Southeastern Queensland. Alcheringa, 24: 319-325.

  34. Wroe, S., Ebach, M., Ahyong, S., Muizon, C. de, and Muirhead, J. (2000). Phylogeny of Australian marsupicarnivores: a parsimony-based analysis using cranial and dental data. Journal of Mammalogy, 88: 1008-1024.

  35. Krajewski, C., Wroe, S., and Westerman, M. (2000). Molecular evidence for phylogenetic relationships and the timing of cladogenesis in dasyurid marsupials. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 130: 375-404.

  36. Wroe, S. (1999). The geologically oldest dasyurid (Marsupialia) from the Miocene of Riversleigh, north-western Queensland. Palaeontology, 42: 501-527.

  37. Wroe, S., and Muirhead, J. (1999). Evolution of Australian marsupicarnivores (Dasyuridae, Thylacinidae, Myrmecobiidae, Dasyuromorphia incertae sedis, Marsupialia incertae sedis). Australian Mammalogy, 21: 10-11.

  38. Wroe, S., Myers, T. J., Wells, R. T., and Gillespie, A. (1999). Estimating the weight of the Pleistocene marsupial lion (Thylacoleo carnifex, Thylacoleonidae: Marsupialia): implications for the ecomorphology of a marsupial super-predator and hypotheses for the impoverishment of marsupial carnivore faunas. Australian Journal of Zoology, 47: 489-498.

  39. Dawson, L., Muirhead, J., and Wroe, S. (1999). The Big Sink Local Fauna: a new lower Pliocene mammalian fauna from the Wellington Caves complex, Wellington, New South Wales. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement No. 57: 265-290.

  40. Godthelp, H., Wroe, S., and Archer, M. (1999). A new marsupial from the early Eocene Tingamarra Local Fauna of Murgon, Southeastern Queensland: a prototypical Australian marsupial? Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 6: 289-313.

  41. Wroe, S. (1998). A new 'bone-cracking' dasyurid (Marsupialia), from the Miocene of Riversleigh, north-western Queensland. Alcheringa, 22: 277-284.

  42. Wroe, S., Brammall, J., and Cooke, B. (1998). The skull of Ekaltadeta ima (Marsupialia, Hypsiprymnodontidae?): An analysis of some marsupial cranial features and a reinvestigation of propleopine phylogeny, with notes on the inference of carnivory in mammals. Journal of Paleontology, 72: 738-751.

  43. Wroe, S., and Mackness, B. S. (1998). Revision of the Pliocene dasyurid, Dasyurus dunmalli (Dasyuridae, Marsupialia). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 42: 605-612.
  44. Muirhead, J., and Wroe, S. (1998). A new genus and species, Badjcinus turnbulli (Thylacinidae, Marsupialia), from the late Oligocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Australia, and an investigation of thylacinid phylogeny. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 18: 612-626.

  45. Wroe, S. (1997). A re-examination of proposed morphology-based synapomorphies for the families of Dasyuromorphia (Marsupialia): Part I, Dasyuridae. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 4: 19-52.

  46. Wroe, S. (1997). Mayigriphus orbus, a new species of dasyuromorphian (Marsupialia) from the Miocene of Riversleigh, north-western Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 41: 439-448.

  47. Wroe, S. (1997). Stratigraphy and phylogeny in the giant extinct rat-kangaroo Ekaltadeta (Propleopinae, Hypsiprymnodontidae, Marsupialia). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 41: 449-456.

  48. Wroe, S. (1996). An investigation of phylogeny in the giant rat kangaroo Ekaltadeta (Propleopinae, Potoroidae, Marsupialia). Journal of Paleontology, 70: 677-686.

  49. Wroe, S. (1996). Muribacinus gadiyuli (Thylacinidae, Marsupialia), a very plesiomorphic thylacinid from the Miocene of Riversleigh, Northwestern Queensland, and the problem of paraphyly for the Dasyuridae. Journal of Paleontology, 70: 1032-1044.

  50. Wroe, S., and Archer, M. (1995). Extraordinary diphyodonty-related change in dental function for a tooth of the extinct marsupial Ekaltadeta ima (Propleopinae, Hypsiprymndontidae). Archives of Oral Biology, 40: 597-603.
 
POPULAR SCIENCE PUBLICATIONS
Wroe, S. (2005). On little lizards and big extinctions. Quaternary Australasia, 23: 8-12 (Guest Editorial).
Wroe, S. (2004). Killer kangaroos and other murderous marsupials [update]. Scientific American, Spec. Vol. 14: 48-55.
Wroe, S. (2004). Factors behind the rarity of large mammalian carnivores. Australasian Science, (21-23).
Long. J., & Wroe, S. 2003. Marsupial baby killer or Aussie big cat. Australasian Science, (October): 23-24.
Wroe, S., and Johnson, C. (2003). Bring back the devil. Nature Australia, 27: 84.
Wroe, S. (2003). The myth of reptilian domination. Nature Australia, 27: 54-59.
Wroe, S., Field, J., and Fullagar, R. (2002). Lost giants. Nature Australia, 27: 54-61.
Wroe, S. (2001). The killer rat-kangaroo's tooth. Nature Australia, 27: 28-31.
Wroe, S. (2001). The lost kingdoms of Australia. Newton, 4: 98-104.
Wroe, S., and Field, J. (2001). On giant-wombats and red-herrings. Australasian Science, 24: 18.
Wroe, S., and Field, J. (2001). Megafaunal mystery remains. Australasian Science, 22 (September): 21-25.
Wroe, S. (2000). Move over sabre-toothed tiger. Nature Australia, 27: 44-51.
Wroe, S. (1999). Killer kangaroos and other murderous marsupials. Scientific American, 280: 68-74.
Wroe, S. (1999). The bird from hell? Nature Australia, 26: 58-64.
Wroe, S. (1998). Killer kangaroo. Australasian Science, 19: 25-28.
Wroe, S., and Myers, T. J. (1998). Fallacy and future-eating. Australasian Science, 19 (9): 27-29.