Melanie J. Hopkins

Looking forward through the past: identification of 50 priority research questions in palaeoecology

Alistair W. R. Seddon, Anson W. Mackay, Ambroise Baker et al. · Journal of Ecology · 2013 · 256 citations · Full text

Biodiversity Loss, Engineering, Priority Research Areas +16

Simple versus complex models of trait evolution and stasis as a response to environmental change

Gene Hunt, Melanie J. Hopkins, Scott Lidgard · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2015 · 165 citations · Full text

Living Fossil, Fitness, Natural Selection +19

Dynamic evolutionary change in post-Paleozoic echinoids and the importance of scale when interpreting changes in rates of evolution

Melanie J. Hopkins, Andrew B. Smith · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2015 · 139 citations · Full text

Biology, Morphological Evidence, Biodiversity +12

Evolutionary mode routinely varies among morphological traits within fossil species lineages

Melanie J. Hopkins, Scott Lidgard · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2012 · 83 citations · Full text

Ignoring stratigraphic age uncertainty leads to erroneous estimates of species divergence times under the fossilized birth–death process

Joëlle Barido‐Sottani, Gabriel Aguirre‐Fernández, Melanie J. Hopkins et al. · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2019 · 77 citations · Full text

Biology, Engineering, Living Fossil +12