Dr Heidi Meudt

Dr Heidi M. Meudt Adjunct Research Associate Phone: 0-4-463-5026 Email: heidim@tepapa.govt.nz Room 611, New Kirk Building, Kelburn Pde

Research Fellow

Research Scientist, Systematics (Botany)
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Wellington

Research Interests

My research interests are in systematics, biogeography, phylogeography, and speciation of plants, particularly alpine plants in the Southern Hemisphere.  The main goals of my research are to use molecular tools (including AFLP and DNA sequencing) to better understand the taxonomy and geographical and morphological patterns of species, and especially New Zealand species radiations.  To date I have been involved in projects largely on genera in the family Plantaginaceae, including Ourisia, Veronica, and Plantago.

For more information about botanical research at Te Papa, please see:
http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/TePapa/English/CollectionsAndResearch/CollectionAreas/NaturalEnvironment/Plants/

For more information on my research on Ourisia and my involvement in the New Zealand Plant Radiation Network, please see:
http://www.allanwilsoncentre.ac.nz/NZPRN/

Student Supervision

Mei Lin Tay (VUW MSc awarded 2008): "Evolution of Australasian Plantago (Plantaginaceae)".  Co-supervisor, with Phil Garnock-Jones and Peter Ritchie.

Jessie Prebble (VUW BSc (Hons) awarded 2008):" DNA barcodes and phylogeny in rapidly evolving complexes: examples from the New Zealand Veronica (Plantaginaceae)".  Co-supervisor, with Phil Garnock-Jones and Peter Ritchie.

Jessie Prebble (VUW MSc in progress): "Phylogeny of Australasian Wahlenbergia (Campanulaceae)". Co-supervisor, with Phil Garnock-Jones.

Selected Publications

Meudt, Heidi M., Peter J Lockhart, and David Bryant. 2009. Species delimitation and phylogeny of a New Zealand plant species radiation. BMC Evolutionary Biology 9:111.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/9/111
doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-111

Meudt, Heidi M. 2008. Taxonomic revision of the snow hebes (Veronica s.l., Plantaginaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 21(6) 387-421.
http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/150/paper/SB08034.htm
doi: 10.1071/SB08034

Holland, Barbara R., Andrew C. Clarke and Heidi M. Meudt.  2008.  Optimizing automated AFLP scoring parameters to improve phylogenetic resolution.  Systematic Biology 57(3): 347-366. doi:10.1080/10635150802044037

Meudt, Heidi M. and Michael J. Bayly.  2008.  Phylogeographic patterns in the Australasian genus Chionohebe (Veronica s.l., Plantaginaceae) based on AFLP and chloroplast DNA sequences.  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47(1): 319-338
doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2007.12.019   

Meudt, Heidi M. and Beryl B. Simpson.  2007.  Phylogenetic analysis of morphological characters in Ourisia (Plantaginaceae): taxonomic and evolutionary implications.  Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 94(3):554-570. [Abstract]

Meudt, Heidi M. and Andrew C. Clarke. 2007.  Almost Forgotten or Latest Practice? AFLP applications, analyses and advances.   Trends in Plant Science. 12(3):106-117. [ doi:]

Meudt, Heidi M. and Beryl B. Simpson.  2006.  The biogeography of subalpine, austral Ourisia (Plantaginaceae) based on molecular phylogenetic evidence: South American origin and dispersal to New Zealand and Tasmania.  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 87: 479-513. [doi:]

Meudt, Heidi M.  2006.  A revision of the genus Ourisia (Plantaginaceae). Systematic Botany Monographs 77: 1-188. [Abstract]

Albach, Dirk C., Heidi M. Meudt, and Bengt Oxelman.  2005. Piecing together the “new” Plantaginaceae.  American Journal of Botany. 92: 297-315.[Abstract]