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PEER REVIEWED                                                                                                                                   904 citations; h-index of 14
Floeter SR, Bender M, Siqueira AC, & Cowman PF (2018). Phylogenetic perspectives on reef fish functional traits. Biological Reviews. doi: 10.1111/brv.12336
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Cowman PF, Parravicini V, Kulbicki M, (2017). The biogeography of tropical reef fishes: endemism and provinciality through time. Biological Reviews.
Siqueira AC, Oliveira-Santos LGR, Cowman PF, & Floeter, SR (2016). Evolutionary processes underlying latitudinal differences in reef fish biodiversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography 25 (12), 1466-1476
Leprieur F, Descombes P, Gaboriau T, Cowman PF, Parravicini V, Kulbicki M, et al., (2016). Plate tectonics drive tropical reef biodiversity dynamics. Nature Communications 7.
Mouillot D, Parravicini V, Bellwood DR, Leprieur F, Huang D, Cowman PF, Albouy C, Hughes TP, Thuiller W, and Guilhaumon F. (2016) Global marine protected areas do not secure the evolutionary history of tropical corals and fishes. Nature Communications.
  • Extensive media coverage and highlighted by Nature (Jan 2016)
Leprieur F, Colosio S, Descombes P, Parravicini V, Kulbicki M, Cowman PF, Bellwood DR, Mouillot D, and Pellissier L. (2015) Historical and contemporary determinants of global phylogenetic structure in tropical reef fish faunas. Ecography 39, 825–835.
Hua, X, Cowman PF, Warren D, Bromham L. (2015) Longevity is linked to mitochondrial mutation rates in rockfish: a test using Poisson regression. Molecular Biology & Evolution.
Bromham L, Hua X, Lanfear R, Cowman PF (2015) Exploring the relationships between mutation rates, life history, genome size, environment and species richness in flowering plants. American Naturalist. 185.
Cowman, PF (2014) Historical factors that have shaped the evolution of tropical reef fishes: a review of phylogenies, biogeography, and remaining questions. Front. Genet. 5, 1–15.
Pellissier L, Leprieur F, Parravicini V, Cowman PF, Kulbicki M, Litsios G, Olsen SM, Wisz MS, Bellwood DR, and Mouillot D (2014) Quaternary coral reef refugia preserved fish diversity. Science 344 (6187): 1016–1019.
D’agata S, Mouillot D, Kulbicki M, Andréfouët, S, Bellwood DR, Cinner, JE, Cowman PF, Kronen, M, Pinca S, and Vigliola L (2014) Human-mediated loss of phylogenetic and functional diversity in coral reef fishes. Current Biology 25 (5): 555-560.
Cowman PF, and Bellwood DR (2013) Vicariance across major marine biogeographic barriers: temporal concordance and the relative intensity of hard vs. soft barriers. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Biology 280 (1768): 20131541.
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Cowman PF, and Bellwood DR (2013) The historical biogeography of coral reef fishes: global patterns of origination and dispersal. Journal of Biogeography 40: 209–224.
  • Faculty of 1000 reviewed and featured on the journal homepage (Aug 2013).
Bromham L, Cowman PF, Lanfear R (2013) Parasitic plants have increased rates of molecular evolution across all three genomes. BMC Evolutionary Biology 13 (1): 126.
Mitchell MD, Cowman PF, and McCormick MI (2012) Are chemical alarm cues conserved within the coral reef fish family Pomacentridae?  PLoS ONE 7 (10): e47428.
Leprieur F, Albouy C, De Bortoli J, Cowman PF, Bellwood DR, and Mouillot D (2012) Quantifying phylogenetic beta diversity: distinguishing between ‘true’ turnover of lineages and phylogenetic diversity gradients. PLoS ONE 7 (8): e42760.
Cowman PF, and Bellwood DR (2011) Coral reefs as drivers of cladogenesis: expanding coral reefs, cryptic extinction events, and the development of biodiversity hotspots. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24 (12): 2543-2562
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Bellwood DR, Klanten S, Cowman PF, Pratchett MS, Konow N, and van Herwerden L (2010) Evolutionary history of the butterflyfishes (f: Chaetodontidae) and the rise of coral feeding fishes. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23 (2): 335-349.​
Cowman PF, Bellwood DR, and van Herwerden L (2009) Dating the evolutionary origins of wrasse lineages and the rise of trophic novelty on coral reefs. Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution 52 (3): 621-631.
  • Virginia Chadwick Award for best student publication, 2009
BOOK CHAPTER
Bellwood DR, Goatley CHR, Cowman PF, and Bellwood O (2015) The evolution of fishes on coral reefs: fossils, phylogenies and functions. Chapter in: Ecology of fishes on coral reefs by Cambridge University Press (Ed. Mora C).
OTHER
Huang D, Reimer JD, Timmers M, Cowman PF, Hodge J (2016). Summary of Session 7: Biodiversity. Biogeography and evolution of coral reef organisms. Proceedings of the 13th International Coral Reef Symposium, Honolulu: 24-26
Saslis-Lagoudakis CH, Cowman PF, Cardillo M, Catullo RA, Rosauer DF, and Warren DL (2014).
Biogeography: multidisciplinary approaches in space and time. Frontiers in Biogeography 6.
Cowman PF (2013). Book Review: Discovery of Australia’s Fishes: A History of Australian Ichthyology to 1930, Brian Saunders. 2012 (hard cover). Copeia 2013 (4): 786–788.
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