Alison Cree

Alison Cree
CNZM
Alison Cree CNZM
	Cree in 2024
Education	University of Waikato
	Scientific career
Fields	Herpetology
Workplaces	University of Otago
Thesis	Water relations of the endemic New Zealand frogs Leiopelma archeyi, L. Hamiltoni and L. Hochstetteri (1986);

Alison Marion Cree CNZM is a New Zealand herpetologist. She is currently a professor at the University of Otago.

Academic career

Cree graduated from the University of Waikato in 1986 with a D.Phil. for her thesis titled "Water relations of the endemic New Zealand frogs Leiopelma archeyi, L. Hamiltoni and L. Hochstetteri". Prior to this she had attained a diploma on environmental pollution in Christchurch, through the University of Canterbury.

Cree's work has been on a number of species, but her work with tuatara has attracted the most media attention.

In the 2023 King's Birthday and Coronation Honours, Cree was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to herpetology, particularly tuatara.

Selected publications

Scholia has a profile for Alison Cree (Q41984123).

Book

Cree, Alison (2014). Tuatara: Biology and conservation of a venerable survivor. Christchurch, New Zealand: Canterbury University Press. ISBN 978-1-927145-44-9. OCLC 888553607.

Journal articles

Scott Jarvie; Jowett, Tim Timothy Winston Dudley; Thompson, Michael; Seddon, Phillip John; Cree, Alison Marion (2018). "Effects of Warm Temperatures on Metabolic Rate and Evaporative Water Loss in Tuatara, a Cool-Climate Rhynchocephalian Survivor". Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology. 91 (4): 950–966. doi:10.1086/698495. PMID 29863954. Wikidata Q57178857. {{Cite Q}}: Missing first/last names in Wikidata for Scott Jarvie (help)
Ricardo de Sá Rocha Mello; Scott Jarvie; Lindsay Hazley; Cree, Alison Marion (2019). "Comparison among three body parts and three software packages to optimise photographic identification of a reptile (tuatara, Sphenodon punctatus)". Amphibia-Reptilia. 40 (2): 233–244. doi:10.1163/15685381-20181059. Wikidata Q101402446. {{Cite Q}}: Missing first/last names in Wikidata for Ricardo de Sá Rocha Mello, Scott Jarvie, Lindsay Hazley (help)
Viren, Josef Jo; Cree, Alison Marion (2019). "Pregnancy reduces critical thermal maximum, but not voluntary thermal maximum, in a viviparous skink". Journal of Comparative Physiology B. 189 (5): 611–621. doi:10.1007/s00360-019-01230-y. PMID 31493184. Wikidata Q93164259.