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Brandon Hedrick
PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer
4,190 Points

Contributions by role

Author 270
Preprint Author 70
Reviewer 115
Editor 3,735

Contributions by subject area

Biodiversity
Evolutionary Studies
Paleontology
Taxonomy
Zoology
Ecology
Ecosystem Science
Conservation Biology
Plant Science
Data Mining and Machine Learning
Environmental Impacts
Population Biology
Anatomy and Physiology
Genetics
Histology
Climate Change Biology
Biogeography
Marine Biology
Environmental Sciences
Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science
Computational Science
Natural Resource Management
Computational Biology
Statistics
Animal Behavior

Brandon P Hedrick

PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer

Summary

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University

An evolutionary biologist, paleobiologist, and ecologist primarily interested in comparative morphology. I work across the vertebrate tree including reptiles, amphibians, and birds, but specialize on bats and dinosaurs.

Animal Behavior Biodiversity Climate Change Biology Conservation Biology Ecology Environmental Sciences Evolutionary Studies Marine Biology Paleontology Taxonomy Zoology

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

Cornell University
University of Pennsylvania
University of Oxford

Work details

Assistant Professor

Cornell University
Biomedical Sciences

Websites

  • Hedrick Lab

PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 3
  • Preprints 2
  • Edited 31
  • Reviewed 2
December 21, 2023
Validating osteological correlates for the hepatic piston in the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)
Clinton A. Grand Pré, William Thielicke, Raul E. Diaz Jr, Brandon P. Hedrick, Ruth M. Elsey, Emma R. Schachner
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16542 PubMed 38144194
July 12, 2021
Inter- and intraspecific variation in the Artibeus species complex demonstrates size and shape partitioning among species
Brandon P. Hedrick
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11777 PubMed 34306832
January 18, 2016
Cranial ontogenetic variation in early saurischians and the role of heterochrony in the diversification of predatory dinosaurs
Christian Foth, Brandon P. Hedrick, Martin D. Ezcurra
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1589 PubMed 26839749
July 15, 2019 - Version: 1
Digitization and the future of natural history collections
Brandon Hedrick, Mason Heberling, Emily Meineke, Kathryn Turner, Christopher Grassa, Daniel Park, Jonathan Kennedy, Julia Clarke, Joseph Cook, David Blackburn, Scott Edwards, Charles Davis
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27859v1
June 18, 2015 - Version: 1
Cranial ontogenetic variation in early saurischians and the role of heterochrony in the diversification of predatory dinosaurs
Christian Foth, Brandon P Hedrick, Martin D Ezcurra
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1185v1

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December 12, 2024
The largest sauropodomorph skull from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation of China
Qian-Nan Zhang, Lei Jia, Tao Wang, Yu-Guang Zhang, Hai-Lu You
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18629 PubMed 39677945
March 27, 2023
Reconstructing the dietary habits and trophic positions of the Longipterygidae (Aves: Enantiornithes) using neontological and comparative morphological methods
Alexander D. Clark, Han Hu, Roger BJ Benson, Jingmai K. O’Connor
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15139 PubMed 37009163
March 14, 2023
A tragedy of the commons case study: modeling the fishers king crab system in Southern Chile
Alan Zambrano, María F. Laguna, Marcelo N. Kuperman, Pedro Laterra, Jorge A. Monjeau, Laura Nahuelhual
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14906 PubMed 36935908
January 13, 2023
Systematics and diversification of the Ichthyomyini (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae) revisited: evidence from molecular, morphological, and combined approaches
Jorge Salazar-Bravo, Nicolás Tinoco, Horacio Zeballos, Jorge Brito, Daniela Arenas-Viveros, David Marín-C, José Daniel Ramírez-Fernández, Alexandre R. Percequillo, Jr., Thomas E. Lee, Sergio Solari, Javier Colmenares-Pinzon, Carlos Nivelo, Bernal Rodríguez Herrera, William Merino, Cesar E. Medina, Oscar Murillo-García, Ulyses F.J. Pardiñas
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14319 PubMed 36655048
September 28, 2022
When aggressiveness could be too risky: linking personality traits and predator response in superb fairy-wrens
Jack Bilby, Diane Colombelli-Négrel, Andrew C. Katsis, Sonia Kleindorfer
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14011 PubMed 36193436
August 25, 2022
Heterochronies and allometries in the evolution of the hominid cranium: a morphometric approach using classical anthropometric variables
Juan Antonio Pérez-Claros, Paul Palmqvist
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13991 PubMed 36042865
June 15, 2022
A new gigantic carnivore (Carnivora, Amphicyonidae) from the late middle Miocene of France
Floréal Solé, Jean-François Lesport, Antoine Heitz, Bastien Mennecart
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13457 PubMed 35726261
May 16, 2022
First records of extinct kentriodontid and squalodelphinid dolphins from the Upper Marine Molasse (Burdigalian age) of Switzerland and a reappraisal of the Swiss cetacean fauna
Gabriel Aguirre-Fernández, Jürg Jost, Sarah Hilfiker
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13251 PubMed 35602890
April 22, 2022
An earliest Triassic age for Tasmaniolimulus and comments on synchrotron tomography of Gondwanan horseshoe crabs
Russell D.C. Bicknell, Patrick M. Smith, Sienna A Birch, Joseph J. Bevitt
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13326 PubMed 35480564
April 7, 2022
A new basal ichthyosauromorph from the Lower Triassic (Olenekian) of Zhebao, Guangxi Autonomous Region, South China
Jicheng Ren, Haishui Jiang, Kunpeng Xiang, Corwin Sullivan, Yongzhong He, Long Cheng, Fenglu Han
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13209 PubMed 35415016
March 28, 2022
The relationship between distal trunk morphology and object grasping in the African savannah elephant (Loxodonta africana)
Julie Soppelsa, Emmanuelle Pouydebat, Maëlle Lefeuvre, Baptiste Mulot, Céline Houssin, Raphaël Cornette
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13108 PubMed 35368332
January 27, 2022
Conservation paleobiology on Minami-Daito Island, Okinawa, Japan: anthropogenic extinction of cave-dwelling bats on a tropical oceanic island
Yuri Kimura, Dai Fukui, Mizuko Yoshiyuki, Kazuaki Higashi
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12702 PubMed 35127280
January 24, 2022
Almost all known sauropod necks are incomplete and distorted
Michael P. Taylor
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12810 PubMed 35127288
September 30, 2021
Mandible histology in Metoposaurus krasiejowensis (Temnospondyli, Stereospondyli) from the Upper Triassic of Poland
Kamil Gruntmejer, Adam Bodzioch, Dorota Konietzko-Meier
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12218 PubMed 34703667
September 8, 2021
Inter-element variation in the bone histology of Anteosaurus (Dinocephalia, Anteosauridae) from the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone of the Karoo Basin of South Africa
Mohd Shafi Bhat, Christen D. Shelton, Anusuya Chinsamy
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12082 PubMed 34589298
July 30, 2021
Morphological variation of the relictual alveolar structures in the mandibles of baleen whales
Carlos Mauricio Peredo, Nicholas D. Pyenson
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11890 PubMed 34395101
July 22, 2021
Comparative anatomy of the middle ear in some lizard species with comments on the evolutionary changes within Squamata
Paola María Sánchez-Martínez, Juan D. Daza, Julio Mario Hoyos
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11722 PubMed 34327053
July 20, 2021
The main stage of recovery after the end-Permian mass extinction: taxonomic rediversification and ecologic reorganization of marine level-bottom communities during the Middle Triassic
Evelyn Friesenbichler, Michael Hautmann, Hugo Bucher
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11654 PubMed 34322318
June 16, 2021
Cranial anatomy of Bolotridon frerensis, an enigmatic cynodont from the Middle Triassic of South Africa, and its phylogenetic significance
Luisa C. Pusch, Christian F. Kammerer, Jörg Fröbisch
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11542 PubMed 34178451
March 15, 2021
Divergent morphological responses to millennia of climate change in two species of bats from Hall’s Cave, Texas, USA
Molly Moroz, Illiam S.C. Jackson, Daniel Ramirez, Melissa E. Kemp
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10856 PubMed 33777514
March 8, 2021
A revision of Prolimulus woodwardi Fritsch, 1899 with comparison to other highly paedomorphic belinurids
Lorenzo Lustri, Lukáš Laibl, Russell D.C. Bicknell
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10980 PubMed 33732551
March 4, 2021
Maniraptoran pelvic musculature highlights evolutionary patterns in theropod locomotion on the line to birds
Matthew M. Rhodes, Donald M. Henderson, Philip J. Currie
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10855 PubMed 33717681
March 2, 2021
Ontogeny of highly variable ceratitid ammonoids from the Anisian (Middle Triassic)
Eva Alexandra Bischof, Nils Schlüter, Dieter Korn, Jens Lehmann
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10931 PubMed 33717689
February 24, 2021
A new kentriodontid (Cetacea: Odontoceti) from the early to middle Miocene of the western North Pacific and a revision of kentriodontid phylogeny
Zixuan Guo, Naoki Kohno
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10945 PubMed 33665037
December 22, 2020
The ecomorphology of the shell of extant turtles and its applications for fossil turtles
Ilya Dziomber, Walter G. Joyce, Christian Foth
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10490 PubMed 33391873
December 15, 2020
Polyester or epoxy: assessing embedding product efficacy in paleohistological methods
Christian T. Heck, Gwyneth Volkmann, Holly N. Woodward
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10495 PubMed 33362969
December 15, 2020
Canines and carnassials as indicators of sociality in durophagous hyaenids: analyzing the past to understand the present
Juan Antonio Pérez-Claros, Carlos Coca-Ortega
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10541 PubMed 33362977
November 16, 2020
The easternmost occurrence of Mammut pacificus (Proboscidea: Mammutidae), based on a partial skull from eastern Montana, USA
Andrew T. McDonald, Amy L. Atwater, Alton C. Dooley Jr, Charlotte J.H. Hohman
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10030 PubMed 33240588
September 18, 2020
Endocranial anatomy of the ceratopsid dinosaur Triceratops and interpretations of sensory and motor function
Rina Sakagami, Soichiro Kawabe
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9888 PubMed 32999761
September 7, 2020
Adaptations to cursoriality and digit reduction in the forelimb of the African wild dog (Lycaon pictus)
Heather F. Smith, Brent Adrian, Rahul Koshy, Ryan Alwiel, Aryeh Grossman
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9866 PubMed 33194359
May 20, 2020
The effect of landscape on functional connectivity and shell shape in the land snail Humboldtiana durangoensis
Benjamín López, Omar Mejía, Gerardo Zúñiga
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9177 PubMed 32509461

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October 7, 2020
Effects of taphonomic deformation on geometric morphometric analysis of fossils: a study using the dicynodont Diictodon feliceps (Therapsida, Anomodontia)
Christian F. Kammerer, Michol Deutsch, Jacqueline K. Lungmus, Kenneth D. Angielczyk
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9925 PubMed 33083110
August 26, 2019
Effectiveness of small road tunnels and fences in reducing amphibian roadkill and barrier effects at retrofitted roads in Sweden
Jan Olof Helldin, Silviu O. Petrovan
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7518 PubMed 31523500