Vera Weisbecker

The paper examines how species richness and trait diversity correlate with island size and isolation in Australian islands, finding that trait diversity is primarily influenced by species accumulation rather than direct geographic factors.

The paper demonstrates that phylogenetic-generalised-least-squares (PGLS) can obscure conservative trait correlation (CTC) in shape analysis, using geometric morphometrics on rock-wallaby crania.

The paper examines cranial shape adaptations in rat-kangaroos to hard biting, finding shared and divergent biomechanical strategies in species with similar diets.

Ozboneviz provides FAIR 3D imagery of Australasian vertebrate skeletons to enhance research and public engagement with biodiversity collections.

The paper demonstrates that different muscle force scaling methods in finite element analysis of skulls can yield contrasting results, depending on the hypothesis being tested.

The paper validates digital endocast surface area measurements as accurate proxies for telencephalon and cerebellum volumes in birds using histology and CT data.

This study uses geometric morphometrics and machine learning to accurately classify kangaroo postcranial bones, improving taxonomic identification in zooarchaeology.