John Alroy

John Alroy (* 3. Juli 1966 i​n New York City) i​st ein US-amerikanischer Paläontologe u​nd Evolutionsbiologe.

Alroy studierte Biologie a​m Reed College m​it dem Bachelor-Abschluss 1989 u​nd wurde 1994 a​n der University o​f Chicago (Committee o​n Evolutionary Biology) promoviert. Als Post-Doktorand w​ar er a​n der University o​f Arizona, a​n der Smithsonian Institution (1996 b​is 1998) u​nd am National Center f​or Ecological Analysis a​nd Synthesis d​er University o​f California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Ab 2000 forschte e​r als Assistent a​m Institut für Meeresforschung d​er UCSB u​nd ab 2010 a​n der Macquarie University i​n Sydney a​ls Future Fellow u​nd Associate Professor.

Er untersucht Entwicklung d​er Artenvielfalt, Massenaussterben (auch d​urch Eingriff d​es Menschen) u​nd Evolutonsmuster u​nter anderem v​on marinen Wirbellosen i​m Phanerozoikum, a​ber auch d​as Aussterben v​on Säugetierarten i​n Nordamerika (durch Menschen-Einfluss). 2017 schätzte e​r den Rückgang d​er Artenvielfalt aufgrund d​urch Menschen verursachtes Massenaussterben i​n den tropischen Regenwäldern a​uf rund 40 Prozent.

2007 erhielt e​r den Charles Schuchert Award, 1994 d​en Romer Prize d​er Society o​f Vertebrate Paleontology u​nd 2010 d​en NAS Award f​or Scientific Reviewing.

Schriften (Auswahl)
  • Constant extinction, constrained diversification, and uncoordinated stasis in North American mammals. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Band 127, 1996, S. 285–311
  • Equilibrial diversity dynamics in North American mammals, in: M. L. McKinney, J. Drake (Hrsg.), Biodiversity Dynamics: Turnover of Populations, Taxa and Communities. Columbia University Press, York, 1998, S. 232–287
  • Cope's rule and the dynamics of body mass evolution in North American mammals, Science, Band 280, 1998, S. 731–734.
  • The fossil record of North American mammals: evidence for a Paleocene evolutionary radiation, Systematic Biology, Band 48, 1999, S. 107–118
  • Putting North America's end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinction in context: large scale analyses of spatial patterns, extinction rates, and size distributions, in: R. D. E. MacPhee (Hrsg.), Extinctions in near time: causes, contexts, and consequences, Plenum, 1999, S. 105–143
  • mit Paul L. Koch, James C. Zachos: Global climate change and North American mammalian evolution, The Paleontological Society 2000
  • Successive approximations of diversity curves: Ten more years in the library, Geology, Band 28, 2000, S. 1023–1026.
  • New methods for quantifying macroevolutionary patterns and processes, Paleobiology, Band 26, 2000, S. 707–733
  • A multispecies overkill simulation of the end-Pleistocene megafaunal mass extinction, Science, Band 292, 2001, S. 1893–1896
  • How many named species are valid?, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Band 99, 2002, S. 3706–3711
  • Taxonomic inflation and body mass distributions in North American fossil mammals, Journal of Mammalogy, Band 84, 2003, S. 431–443
  • Are Sepkoski's evolutionary faunas dynamically coherent ?, Evolutionary Ecology Research, Band 6, 2004, S. 1–32
  • mit Madin u. a.: Statistical independence of escalatory ecological trends in Phanerozoic marine invertebrates, Science, Band 312, 2006, S. 897–900
  • Dynamics of origination and extinction in the marine fossil record, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., Band 105, 2008, S. 11536–11542.
  • mit anderen: Phanerozoic trends in the global diversity of marine invertebrates, Science, Band 321, 2008, S. 97–100
  • Speciation and extinction in the fossil record of North American mammals, in: R. Butlin, J. Bridle, D. Schluter (Hrsg.), Speciation and Patterns of Diversity. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009, S. 301–323
  • The shifting balance of diversity among major marine animal groups. Science, Band 329, 2010, S. 1191–1194
  • Effects of habitat disturbance on tropical forest biodiversity, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 2017
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