Kristofer M. Helgen

Australian Museum — Australia

Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physical Sciences

48h-index9.1kcitations238works3.32yr avg
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Research Topics

Evolution and Paleontology Studies(81), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation(71), Bat Biology and Ecology Studies(67), Species Distribution and Climate Change(39), Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies(39)

Publications238 total

Phylogenetic analysis of the New Guinean forest wallabies, Dorcopsis and Dorcopsulus reveals cryptic divergent lineages impacted by highland and lowland barriers
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution·2026
Complete Rainforest Elevational Gradient Reveals Unusual Diversity Patterns of Non‐Volant Mammals in New Guinea
Diversity and Distributions·2025Open Access
Author response for "Complete rainforest elevational gradient reveals unusual diversity patterns of non-volant mammals in New Guinea"
2025
Author response for "Complete rainforest elevational gradient reveals unusual diversity patterns of non-volant mammals in New Guinea"
2025
Genomic and morphometric evidence for Austronesian-mediated pig translocation in the Pacific
2025Open Access
Evolution and ecology of body size in the world’s largest bats
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Author response for "Evolution and ecology of body size in the world’s largest bats"
2025
The complete mitochondrial genome of Poncelet’s giant rat ( <i>Solomys ponceleti</i> ) from the Solomon Islands Archipelago
Mitochondrial DNA Part B·2025Open Access
Attenborough’s echidna rediscovered by combining Indigenous knowledge with camera-trapping
npj Biodiversity·2025Open Access
President Roosevelt’s lions reveal a century of population fragmentation in Africa’s largest carnivore
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Large‐scale and long‐term wildlife research and monitoring using camera traps: a continental synthesis
Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society·2025· 20 citedOpen Access
An annotated checklist of Australasian fossil mammals
Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology·2024· 5 cited
Author Correction: Extant and extinct bilby genomes combined with Indigenous knowledge improve conservation of a unique Australian marsupial
Nature Ecology & Evolution·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Extant and extinct bilby genomes combined with Indigenous knowledge improve conservation of a unique Australian marsupial
Nature Ecology & Evolution·2024· 15 citedOpen Access
A replacement name for the endemic Rattus (Muridae, Mammalia) of the island of Obi, Indonesia
Records of the Australian Museum·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Molecular systematics of the Dendrolagus goodfellowi species group (Marsupialia: Macropodidae)
Records of the Australian Museum·2024Open Access
A diverse assemblage of monotremes (Monotremata) from the Cenomanian Lightning Ridge fauna of New South Wales, Australia
Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology·2024· 8 citedOpen Access
Shifting mammal communities and declining species richness along an elevational gradient on Mount Kenya
Ecology and Evolution·2024· 6 citedOpen Access
Extant and extinct bilby genomes combined with Indigenous knowledge improve conservation of a unique Australian marsupial
2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Two new species of Halmaheramys (Murinae: Rattini) from archaeological deposits on Morotai Island, North Moluccas, Indonesia
Records of the Australian Museum·2023· 4 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

William J. Murphy(6), Hillary S. Young(6), Don E. Wilson(5), Rodolfo Dirzo(5), Douglas J. McCauley(5), Alan Cooper(5), M. Thomas P. Gilbert(4), Jan E. Janečka(4), Mark S. Springer(4), Mark D. B. Eldridge(4), Kyriakos Tsangaras(4), Eliécer E. Gutiérrez(4), Melissa T. R. Hawkins(4), Jesús E. Maldonado(4), Todd M. Palmer(4), Robert M. Pringle(4), Molly M. McDonough(4), Katherine Belov(3), Carolyn J. Hogg(3), Warren E. Johnson(3)