Getachew Mulualem

Position PhD student
Direction biogeography, phylogenetics

+420 775 250 836

PhD thesis

Evolution of Rodent Biodiversity in Eastern Afromontane Biodiversity Hotspots

Publications

2024

Meheretu Y, Mikula O, Frynta D, Frýdlová P, Mulualem G, Lavrenchenko LA, Kostin DS, Elmi HSA, Šumbera R, Bryja J (2024). Phylogeny, biogeography, and integrative taxonomic revision of the Afro-Arabian rodent genus Ochromyscus (Muridae: Murinae: Praomyini). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 202: zlad158.
Mulualem G, Lavrenchenko LA, Peterhans JCK, Mikula O, Bryjová A, Meheretu Y, Bryja J (2024). Taxonomic revision and evolutionary history of the climbing mice in eastern Africa (Dendromus mystacalis clade): the role of elevation and geographical barriers in the speciation process. Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 24: 573-598.
Welegerima K, Meheretu Y, Bryja J, Mulualem G, Hayelom W, Kedir F, Massawe AW, Mbije NE, Makundi RH (2024). Afromontane mosaic vegetation acts as a barrier between small mammals from two savannah biomes in northern Ethiopia. Biodiversity and Conservation, 33: 1459-1478.

2023

Haileselasie TH, Mulualem G, Welegerima K (2023). The first large-scale record of gelada's spatial distribution and population size in Mountain chains of Tigray, Northern Ethiopia. Heliyon, 9: e19346.
Mulualem G, Collinson WJ, Tesfahunegny W, Walle M, Kassie A, Mesfin M, Chala D, Teferi M, Haileselasie TH (2023). Examining vertebrate road mortality on highways passing through protected areas of eastern Ethiopia. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 69: 117.

2022

Bryja J, Meheretu Y, Boratyński Z, Zeynu A, Denys C, Mulualem G, Welegerima K, Bryjová A, Kasso M, Kostin DS, Martynov AA, Lavrenchenko LA (2022). Rodents of the Afar Triangle (Ethiopia): geographical isolation causes high level of endemism. Biodiversity and Conservation, 31: 629-650.
Meheretu Y, Tilahun T, Engdayehu G, Bosma L, Mulualem G, Craig EW, Bryja J, van Steenbergen F (2022). A snapshot of rodents and shrews of agroecosystems in Ethiopian highlands using camera traps. Mammalia, 86: 230-238.