RESEARCH
Publications by staff member, students, and associates of the Natural History Collections and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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2025
2025
Coombs, M. C., Kampouridis, P., and Cote S. (2025) Chalicotheres (Perissodactyla) from La Grive, southeast France: a transition from the mid to late Miocene. 5th International Virtual Congress.
Cote, S., and Coombs, M. C. (2025) 17. Siwalik Chalicotheriidae. In: At the Foot of the Himalayas: Paleontology and Ecosystem Dynamics of the Siwalik Record, Badgley, C. M., Morgan, E., and Pilbeam, D., eds., Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Baltimore, pp. 272-280.
Devarajan K., Fidino M., Farris Z. J., … 78 authors … Kamilar J. M … 136 authors … Gerber B. (2025) When the wild things are: Defining mammalian diel activity and plasticity. Science Advances 11: eado3843.
Montalvo, V.H., Fuller, T. K., Sáenz-Bolaños, C., and Carrillo, E. (2025) Notes on the coexistence of sympatric northern raccoons and white-nosed coatis in a dry forest of northwest Costa Rica. Therya Notes 6:1-6.
Godfrey, L. R., Klukkert, Z. S., Crowley, B. E., Dawson, R. R., Faina, P., Freed, B. Z., Hekkala, E., Borgerson, C., Rasolonjatovo, H. A. M., Wright, P. C., and Burns, S. J. (2025) Patterns of late Holocene and historical extinctions on Madagascar. Cambridge Prisms: Extinction 5 (3):e9. https://doi.org/10.1017/ext.2024.19.
Godfrey, L. R., and Samonds, K. E. (2025) No mass extinction for South American mammals at the Eocene–Oligocene transition, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 24): e2509023122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2509023122.
Htike, M. H., Griffin, C. R., Naing, H., and Fuller, T. K. (2025) Spatial and temporal coexistence dynamics of three phasianids in Htamanthi Wildlife Sanctuary, northern Myanmar. Journal of Asian Ornithology 41:15-25.
Larsen, O. N., Lohr, B., Podos, J., Peer, B., Rasmussen, J. H., and Wright, T. F. (2025) Bioacoustic Research in Birds. In: Exploring Animal Behavior through Sound: Volume 2, Springer Press, pg. 286-359.
Menezes, J. C. T. and Podos, J. (2025) Diverse relationships between amplitude and frequency in bird vocalizations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: 292:20250781.
Normark, B., Normark, R. D., Garcia Morales, M., Claps, L. E., and Amouroux, P. (2025) Identity of the native South American armored scale insect species (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Diaspididae) widely misidentified as the North American species Diaspidiotus ancylus Putnam. Annals of the Entomological Society of America.
Phelps, L. N., Razanatsoa, E., Davis, D. S., Hackel, J., … Godfrey, L. R., … many authors … Lehmann, C. (2025) Advancing transdisciplinary research on Madagascar's grassy biomes to support resilience in ecosystems and livelihoods. Ecological Monographs 95.2 2025: e70011.
Pinilla, C. E, Cox Fernandes, C. and Alves-Gomes, J. A. 2025). Microsternarchus javieri, a new species of weakly electric fish (Gymnotiformes: Hypopomidae, Microsternarchini) from the Rio Negro basin, Brazil. Acta Amazônica 2025.
Sandel, A. A., Scott, J. E., and Kamilar, J. M. 2025). Primate behavior and the importance of comparative studies in biological anthropology. Yearbook of Biological Anthropology 186(S78): e70009.
Weyher, A. H., Katinta, M., Mubemba, B., Petersdorf, M., Kamilar, J. M., Schneider-Crease, I. A., and Chiou, K. L. 2025). A friendlier “kinda” social system: male Kinda baboons invest in long-term social bonds with females. American Journal of Biological Anthropology 186: e25056. Press release!
Zintel, T. M., Ely, J. J., Raghanti, M. A., Hopkins, W. D., Hof, P. R., Sherwood, C. C., Kamilar, J. M., Bauernfeind, A. L., and Babbitt, C. C., 2025). Ecological trait differences are associated with gene expression in the primary visual cortex of primates. Genes 16: 117.
2024
2024
Babaasa, D., Finn, J. T., Schweik, C. M., Fuller, T. K., and Sheil, D. (2024) Predictive mapping of tree species assemblages in an African montane rainforest. Biotropica 56:e13302.
Cardoso, C. A. F., de Castro, F. L., Podos, J., Barboza Goncalves, L. C., Fedullo, L. P. L., Mello, R. B., Albuquerque, V. S., Netto, V. D., and Cunha, V. G. (2024) Admiraves: Avifauna do Parque Municipal Montanhas de Teresoplis (Avifauna of the Teresopolis Municipal Mountain Park), Volume 2. In Portuguese with English translation by JP. Editora Unifeso, Rio de Janeiro Brazil.
Carrillo, E., and Fuller, T. K. (2024) Jaguar predation on lemon sharks in Costa Rica. Cat News 79:8-11.
Cox Fernandes, C., Keeffe, R. and Pinilla C. E. (2024) Microsternarchus schonmanni, a new species of weakly electric fish (Gymnotiformes: Hypopomidae, Microsternarchini) from the Mamoré-Guaporé River Basin, Brazil. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 168(1): 237-249.
Cruz-Díaz, J. C., Villalobos, M., Montalvo, V. H., Sáenz-Bolaños,C., Fuller, T. K., and Carrillo, E. (2024) Habituation of wildlife to ecotourism: a COVID-19 lockdown experiment in Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica. Wildlife Letters 2:5-16.
Dawson, R. R., Castañeda, I. S., Burns, S. J., Salacup, J. M., Scroxton, N., McGee, D., Faina, P., Godfrey, L. R., and Ranivoharimanana, L. (2024) Investigating the application of organic geochemical techniques to tropical Anjohibe (Madagascar) stalagmites. Organic Geochemistry 195: 104810.
Dawson, R. R., Burns, S. J., Scroxton, N., McGee, D., Tiger, B. H., Faina, P., Godfrey, L. R., and Ranivoharimanana, L. (2024) Zonal control on Holocene precipitation in northwestern Madagascar based on a stalagmite from Anjohibe. Scientific Reports 14: 5496.
Fuller, T. K., Montalvo,V. H., Sáenz-Bolaños, C., and Carrillo, E. (2024). Aspects of coexistence of two sympatric skunks in a dry forest of northwest Costa Rica. Mammalian Biology.
Htike, M. H., Fuller, T. K., Naing, H., and Griffin, C. R. (2024) Exploring the ecological and human influences on sun bear distribution in Htamanthi Wildlife Sanctuary, northern Myanmar. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 72:424-437.
Morera, B., Montalvo, V., Moya, J., Obondo, J., Sáenz-Bolaños, C., Fuller, T. K., and Carrillo, E. (2024) Jaguar predation on domestic horses in the dry forest of northwestern Costa Rica. Journal of Wildlife Management 88(7):e22637.
Podos, J. and Schroeder, K. M. (2024) Ecological speciation in Darwin's finches: Ghosts of finches future. Science 386:211-217.
Rowan, J., Du, A., Lundgren, E. J. , Faith, J. T., Beaudrot, L., Campisano, C. J., Joordens, J., Lazagabaster, I. A., Locke, E. M., Smail, I. E., Reed, K. E., Kamilar, J. M. (2024) The biogeographic context of hominin evolution in the East African Rift System. Nature Ecology and Evolution. pdf
Rulu, P., Bertone-Johnson, E. R., Kamilar, J. M., Dhall, M., Sievert, L. L. (2024) Chronic stress, social support, and symptoms at midlife. Is there a buffering effect? American Journal of Biological Anthropology 184:e24936.
Rulu, P., Bertone-Johnson, E. R., Kamilar, J. M., Dhall, M., Sievert, L. L. (2024) Midlife symptoms and household stress are associated with fingernail cortisol. Menopause 31: 116-122.
Vinitpornsawan, S., Htike, M. H., Randhir, T. O., Duangchantrasiri, S., and Fuller, T. K. (2024) Distribution patterns of tigers and leopards in Thung Yai Naresuan (East) Wildlife Sanctuary, Western Thailand. Ecology and Diversity 1:10003.
Williams, B. L., Burns, S. J., Scroxton, N., Godfrey, L. R., Tiger, B. H., Yellen B., Dawson, R. R., Faina, P., McGee, D., and Ranivoharimanana, L. (2024) A speleothem record of hydroclimate variability in Northwestern Madagascar during the Mid-Late Holocene. The Holocene 34(5): 593-603.
2023
2023
Amulike, B. B., Griffin, C. R., and Fuller, T. K. (2023) Using local ecological knowledge to inform grey crowned crane distribution and status in Tanzania. African Journal of Wildlife Research 53:29–44.
Amulike, B. B., Griffin, C. R., and Fuller, T. K. (2023) Conservation-related knowledge, interactions, and attitudes of local people toward Grey Crowned-Cranes (Balearica regulorum) in Tanzania. Avian Conservation and Ecology 18(2):3.
Beausoleil, M-O., Carríon-Avilés, P. L., Podos, J., Camacho, C., Rabadán-González, J., Richard, R., Lalla, K., Raeymaekers, J., Knutie, S., De León, L., Chaves, J., Clayton, D., Koop, J., Gotanda, K., Huber, S. K., Barret, R., and Hendry, A. P. (2023) The fitness landscape of a community of Darwin's finches. Evolution 77: 2533-2546.
Best, A., Lieberman, D., Gerson, A., Holt, B., Kamilar, J. M. (2023) Variation in human functional eccrine gland density and its implications for the evolution of human sweating. American Journal of Biological Anthropology 181:379–391. http://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24723
Crowley, B. E., Godfrey, L. R., Samonds, K. E. (2023) What can hippopotamus isotopes tell us about past distributions of C4 grassy biomes on Madagascar? Plants, People, Planet 5(6): 997-1010. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10402
Falconi, N., Finn, J., Fuller,T. K., DeStefano, S., and Organ, J. F. (2023) Do unpublished data help to redraw distributions? The case of the Spectacled bear in Peru. Mammal Research 68:143–150.
Gold, C. L., Kitrinos, C., Sievert, L. L., Kamilar, J. M. (2023) Mean age at menarche and climate variables on a global scale. American Journal of Human Biology 35: e23961. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23961
LeFlore, E. G., Fuller, T. K., and Stein, A. B. (2023) Lion (Panthera leo) movements in a multi-use area of the eastern panhandle of the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Journal of Mammalogy 104:1317–1328.
Mittermeier, R. A., Reuter, K. E., Rylands, A. B., … Godfrey, L. R, … many authors… Rajaobelina, S. (2023) Lemurs of Madagascar, Fifth Edition. Austin, TX: Re:wild. (975 pp)
Moheb, Z., Nelson, M. F., Ostrowski, S., Zahler, P. I., Bowlick, F. J., and Fuller, T. K. (2023) Factors influencing the diurnal spring distribution of sympatric urial and Siberian ibex in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Wakhan National Park, Afghanistan. Global Ecology and Conservation e02423.
Moheb, Z., Rajabi, A. M., Jahed, N., Ostrowski, S., Zahler, P. I., and Fuller, T. K. (2023). Using double-observer surveys to monitor urial and ibex populations in the Hindu Kush of Wakhan National Park, Afghanistan. Oryx 57(3):379-385.
Montalvo, V., Sáenz-Bolaños, C., Cruz, J., Kamilar, J. M., Carrillo, E., Fuller, T. K.(2023) Camera trap site placement effect on dry forest wildlife photo rates in northwestern Costa Rica: Further implications for jaguar (Panthera onca) camera trap studies. Wildlife Society Bulletin. http://doi.org/10.1002/wsb.1428
Montalvo, V. H., Saénz-Bolaños, C., Carrillo, E., and Fuller, T. K. (2023) A review of environmental and anthropogenic variables used to model jaguar occurrence. Neotropical Biology and Conservation 18:31-51.
Montalvo, V. H., Saenz-Bolanos,C., Cruz-Diaz, J. C., Kamilar, J. M., Carrillo, E. and Fuller, T. K. (2023) Effects of camera trap placement on photo rates of jaguars, their prey, and competitors in northwestern Costa Rica. Wildlife Society Bulletin 47:e1428.
Morera, B., Montalvo, V., Carrillo, E., Sánchez, R., Selwyn, M., Fedriani, J. M., Saénz-Bolaños, C., and Fuller, T. K. (2023) Spatiotemporal effects of free-roaming horses on white-tailed deer distribution during the wet season in northwestern Costa Rica. Rangeland Ecology and Management 86:80-86.
Naing, H., Fuller, T. K., Sievert, P. R., Randhir, T. O., Saw Htoo Tha Po, Saw Htun, and Than Myint (2023) Dry-season habitat occupancy by ungulate tiger prey in the Hukaung Valley of northern Myanmar. Tropical Zoology. 36:21-34
Schroeder, K. M. and Podos, J. (2023) Early exposure to songs of another subspecies enhances song discrimination in wild sparrow nestlings. Animal Behaviour 203: 123-132.
Scroxton, N., Burns, S. J., McGee, D., Godfrey, L. R., Ranivoharimanana, L., Faina, P., and Tiger, B.H. (2023) Tropical Indian Ocean basin hydroclimate at the Mid- to Late-Holocene transition and the double drying hypothesis. Quaternary Science Reviews 300: 107837. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107837
Scroxton, N., Burns, S. J., McGee, D., Godfrey, L. R., Ranivoharimanana, L., Faina, P., and Tiger, B.H. (2023) Hydroclimate variability in the Madagascar and Southeast African summer monsoons at the Mid- to Late-Holocene transition. Quaternary Science Reviews 300:107874. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107874
Sievert, P. R. and Fuller, T. K. (2023) Brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) predation on an Eastern chipmunk (Eutamias striatus). Northeastern Naturalist. 30(4):N54-N56.
Tapanes, E., Kamilar, J. M., Nukala, M., Irwin, M.T., Bradley, B. J. (2023) Melanism in a wild sifaka population: Darker where cold and fragmented. International Journal of Primatology 44: 74–93. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-022-00323-w
Tiger, B. H., Burns, S. J., Dawson, R., Scroxton, N., Godfrey, L. R., Ranivoharimanana, L., Faina, P., McGee, D. (2023) Zonal Indian Ocean variability drives millennial-scale precipitation changes in northern Madagascar. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 38(11): e2023PA004626. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023PA004626
Vinitpornsawan, S., and Fuller, T. K. (2023) A camera-trap survey of mammals in Thung Yai Naresuan (East) Wildlife Sanctuary in western Thailand. Animals 13(8):1286.
2022
2022
Burns, S. J., McGee, D., Scroxton, N., Kinsley, C. W., Godfrey, L. R., Faina, P. and Ranivoharimanana, L. (2022) Southern Hemisphere controls on ITCZ variability in southwest Madagascar over the past 117,000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews 276: Art. # 107317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107317
Carrillo, E. and Fuller, T. K. (2022) Heterospecific infanticide among sympatric peccaries in Costa Rica. Biotropica 54:284–288.
Carrión, P. L., Raeymaekers, J. A. M., De León, L. F., Chaves, J., Sharpe, D. M. T., Huber, S. K., Herrel, A., Vanhooydonck, B., Gotanda, K. M., Koop, J. A. H., Knutie, S. A., Clayton, D. H., Podos, J., and Hendry, AP. (2022) The terroir of the finch: how spatial and temporal effects shape phenotypic variation in Darwin's finches. Ecology and Evolution 12:e9399.
Falconi, N., Carlo, T. A., Fuller, T. K., DeStefano, S., and Organ, J. F. (2022) Bear diets and human-bear conflicts: insights from isotopic ecology. Mammal Review 52:322–327.
Godfrey, L. R. and Jungers, W. L. (2022) Subfossil lemurs. In: The new natural history of Madagascar, ed. S.M. Goodman. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Pp. 1824-1828.
Godfrey, L. R. and Douglass, K. G. (2022) New insights into the relationship between human ecological pressure and the vertebrate extinctions. In: The new natural history of Madagascar, ed. S.M. Goodman. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Pp. 191-197.
Heffernan, K. S., Samonds, K. E., Godfrey, L. R., Raharison, J. L., Ranaivoarisoa, J. F. and Irwin, M. T. (2022) Diademed sifakas (Propithecus diadema) in intact and degraded forest habitat at Tsinjoarivo, Madagascar, show high reproductive success and no evidence that dental senescence or rainfall affects reproductive output. Folia Primatologica 93(1): 21-40. https://doi.org/10.1163/14219980-20210403
Kitrinos, C., Bell, R. B., Bradley, B. J., and Kamilar, J. M. (2022) Hair Microbiome Diversity within and across Primate Species. mSystems7:e00478-22. https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.00478-22
Moheb, Z., Fuller, T.K., and Zahler, P. I. (2022) Snow leopard-human conflict as a conservation challenge – a review. Snow Leopard Reports 1:11-24.
Montalvo, V. H., Hagnauer, I., Cruz-Diaz,J. C., Morera, B., Lloyd, K., Saénz-Bolaños, C.. Fuller, T. K., and Carrillo, E. (2022) Experimental release of orphaned wild felids into a tropical rainforest in southwestern Costa Rica. Veterinary Sciences 9:468.
Montalvo, V. H., Sáenz-Bolaños, C., Cruz-Diaz, J. C., Carrillo, E., and Fuller, T. K. (2022) The use of camera traps and auxiliary satellite telemetry to estimate jaguar population density in northwestern Costa Rica. Animals 12:2544.
Montalvo, V. H., Saénz-Bolaños, C., Hagnauer, I., Cruz-Diaz, J. C., Vasquez, P., Ramirez, S., Fuller, T. K., and Carrillo, E. (2022) A backyard puma in Costa Rica: translocation as a successful management option. Urban Naturalist 9(N1):1-7.
Morera, B., Montalvo, V., Saénz-Bolaños, C., Cruz-Diaz, J. C., Fuller, T. K., and Carrillo, E. (2022) Osteophagia of sea turtle bones by white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in Santa Rosa National Park, northwestern Costa Rica. Neotropical Biology and Conservation 17:143–149.
Oswald, J. N., Van Cise, A., Dassow, A., Elliott, T., Johnson, M., Ravignani, A., and Podos, J. (2022) A collection of best practices for bioacoustic analysis of population biology, ecology, and behavior. Applied Sciences 12:12046.
Podos, J. (2022) Costs, constraints and sexual trait elaboration. Animal Behaviour 184: 209-214.
Podos, J. and Fernández-Vargas, M. (2022) Mating displays: the interface of mechanism, function and evolution. Animal Behaviour 184: 131-134.
Podos, J.and Webster, M. S. (2022) Ecology and evolution of bird sounds. Current Biology 32:R1100-R1104.
Saenz-Bolanos, C., Fuller, T. K., Sievert, L., and Carrillo, E. (2022) Human-wildlife conflict in indigenous communities of the Nairi Awari Indigenous Territory of East Central Costa Rica. Biodiversitas - Journal of Biological Diversity 23(4):2238-2244.
Schneider-Crease, I., Weyher, A. H., Mubemba, B., Kamilar, J. M., Petersdorf, M., and Chiou, K. L. (2022) Stronger maternal social bonds and higher rank are associated with accelerated infant maturation in Kinda baboons. Animal Behaviour 189: 47-57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.04.011
Smith, K. S., Czaplewski, N. J., and Coombs, M. C. (2022) Ungulates of the middle Miocene Monarch Mill Formation, Churchill County, Nevada, USA. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 67:239-256, https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00907.2021.
Sullivan, A. P., Godfrey, L. R., Lawler, R. R., Randrianatoandro, H., Eccles, L., Culleton, B., Ryan, T. M., and Perry, G. H. (2022) Potential evolutionary body size reduction in a Malagasy primate (Propithecus verreauxi) in response to human size-selective hunting pressure. American Journal of Biological Anthropology 178: 383-398. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.23.004234
Tapanes, E., Jacobs, R. L., Harryman, I., Louis, E. E, Irwin, M. T., Kamilar, J. M., Bradley, B. J. (2022) Hair phenotype diversity across Indriidae lemurs. American Journal of Biological Anthropology 178: 257–272.
2021
2021
Bell, R. B., Bradley, B. J., and Kamilar, J. M. (2021) The evolutionary ecology of primate hair color: A phylogenetic approach. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 28: 911–927. view pdf
Cove, M., et al. 2021. SNAPSHOT USA 2019: the first coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States. Ecology 102(6):e03353.
Crowley, B. E., Godfrey, L. R., Hansford, J. P., and Samonds, K. E. (2021) Seeing the forest for the trees – and the grasses: Revisiting the evidence for grazer-maintained grasslands in Madagascar’s Central Highlands. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 288(1950): 20201785. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.1785
Douglass, K. Godfrey, L. R., and Burney, D. A., Guest Eds. (2021) The Way of the Future: New Paleosciences Research led by Malagasy Scientists. Malagasy Nature 15 (with guest editors’ Introduction, pp. 2-6).
Faina, P. Burns, S. J., Godfrey, L. R., Crowley, B. E., Scroxton, N., McGee, D., Sutherland, M. R., Ranivoharimanana, L. (2021) Comparing the paleoclimates of northwestern and southwestern Madagascar during the late Holocene: implications for the role of climate in megafaunal extinction. Malagasy Nature 15: 108-127.
Filous, A, Lennox, R. J., Beaury, J. P., Bagnis, H., Mchugh, M, Friedlander, A. M., Clua, E. E. G., Cooke, S. J., Fuller, T. K., and Danylchuk, A. J. (2021) Fisheries science and marine education catalyze the renaissance of traditional management (rahui) to improve an artisanal fishery in French Polynesia. Marine Policy 123:104291.
Godfrey, L. R. (2021) Field notes: Late Holocene changes in Madagascar’s large vertebrates. Natural History, November 2021: 9-11.
Godfrey, L. R., Crowley, B. E., Muldoon, K. M., Burns, S. J., Scroxton, N., Klukkert, Z. S., Ranivoharimanana, L., Alumbaugh, J., Borths, M., Dart, R., Faina, P., Goodman, S. M., Gutierrez, I. J., Hansford, J. P., Hekkala, E. R., Kinsley, C. W., Lehman, P., Lewis, M. E., McGee, D., Pérez, V. R., Rahantaharivao, N. J., Rakotoarijaona, M., Rasolonjatovo, H. A. M., Samonds, K. E., Turvey, S. T., Vasey, N., and Widmann, P. (2021) Teasing apart impacts of human activity and regional drought on Madagascar’s large-bodied vertebrates: insights from new excavations at Tsimanampesotse and Antsirafaly. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9: 742203. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.742203
Hendelman, A., Zebell, S., Rodriguez-Leal, D., Dukler, N., Robitaille, G., Wu, X., Kostyun, J., Tal, L., Wang, P., Bartlett M. E., Eshed, Y., Efroni, I.,and Lippman, Z. B. (2021) Conserved pleiotropy of an ancient plant homeobox gene uncovered by cis-regulatory dissection. Cell. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.02.001
Hixon, S. W., Douglass, K. G., Godfrey, L. R., Eccles, L., Crowley, B. E., Rakotozafy, L. M., Clark, G., Haberle, S., Anderson, A. J., Wright, H., and Kennett, D. J. (2021) Ecological consequences of a millennium of introduced dogs on Madagascar. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. Art. # 689559. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.689559
Kamilar, J. M. and Beaudrot, L. (2021) Quantitative methods for primate biogeography and macroecology. Spatial analysis in field primatology: Applying GIS at varying scales. C. A. Shaffer, F. Dolins, J. R. Hickey, N. P. Nibbelink, L. Porter, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 383-402. proof
Liu, L., Gallagher, J., Demesa Arevalo, E., Chen, R., Skopelitis, T., Wu, Q., Bartlett, M. E., and Jackson, D. (2021) Enhancing grain yield traits by CRISPR/Cas9 promoter editing of maize CLE genes. Nature Plants. doi: 10.1038/s41477-021-00858-5
Marciniak, S., Mughal, M. R., Godfrey, L. R., Bankoff, R. J., Randrianatoandro, H., Crowley, B. E., Bergey, C. M., Muldoon, K. M., Randrianasy, J., Raharivololona, B., Schuster. S. C., Mahli, R. S., Yoder, A. D., Louis, E. E., Jr., Kistler, L., and Perry, G. H. (2021) Evolutionary and phylogenetic insights from a nuclear genome sequence of the extinct, giant subfossil koala lemur, Megaladapis edwardsi. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 118: e2022117118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2022117118
Mongue, A. J., Michaelides,S., Coombe, O., Tena, A., Kim, D. S., Normark, B. B., Gardner, A., and Ross, L. (2021) Sex, males and hermaphrodites in the scale insect Icerya purchasi. Evolution: published online May 2021. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14233
Nomenjanahary, E. S., Freed, B. Z., Dollar, L J., Randrianasy, J., and Godfrey, L. R. (2021) The stories people tell, and how they can contribute to our understanding of megafaunal decline and extinction in Madagascar. Malagasy Nature 15: 159-179.
Rahantaharivao, N. J., Godfrey, L. R., Schwartz, G. T., King, S., and Ranivoharimanana, L. (2021) The growth and development of Pachylemur, a large-bodied lemurid. Malagasy Nature 15: 141-158.
Ramarolahy, F. M., Burney, D. A., and Godfrey, L. R. (2021) Paleoecological evidence for late Holocene aridification from the Taolambiby subfossil site of southwestern Madagascar. Malagasy Nature 15: 79-93.
Tapanes, E., Kamilar, J. M., Bradley, B. J. (2021) Molecular and cellular processes of pelage pigmentation and growth in primate evolution. Evolutionary Cell Processes in Primates: Genes, Skin, Energetics, Breathing, and Feeding. MK Pitirri, JT Richtsmeier, eds. New York: Taylor and Francis/CRC Press.
Wuesthoff, E., Fuller, T. K., Sutherland, C., Kamilar, J. M., Ramanankirahina, R., Rakotondravony, R., Rouse, S., Radespiel, U. (2021) Differential habitat use by sympatric species of mouse lemurs across a mangrove–dry forest habitat gradient. Journal of Mammalogy 102: 1266-1278.
Wei, J.,Schneider, S. A., Normark, R. D., and Normark, B. B. (2021) Four new species of Aspidiotini from Panama, with a key to Panamanian species. ZooKeys 1047: 1-25. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1047.68409
2020
2020
Abraham-Juarez, M. J., Schrager-Lavelle, A., Man, J., Whipple, C. J., Handakumbura, P., Babbitt, C. C., Bartlett, M. E. (2020) Evolutionary variation in MADS-box dimerization affects floral development and protein degradation dynamics. The Plant Cell. doi: 10.1105/tpc.20.00300
Amulike, B. B., Fuller, T. K., Houlihan, P. W., and Griffin, C. R. (2020) Seasonal variation in grey crowned crane (Balearica regulorum) abundance in the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania. African Journal of Ecology 58:685-691.
Amouroux, P., Wei, J., Claps, L. E. , Normark, R. D., and Normark, B. B. (2020) Chusqueaspis, a new genus of armored scale insects (Hemiptera: Diaspididae: Lepidosaphidini) on bamboos in southern South America. Austral Entomology 59: 731-746. https://dio.org/10.1111/aen.12505
Burney, D. A., Andriamialison, H., Andrianaivoarivelo, R. A., Bourne, S., Crowley, B. E., de Boer, E. J., Godfrey, L. R., Goodman, S. M., Griffiths, C., Hume, J. P., Jungers, W. L., Marciniak, S., Middleton, G., Muldoon, K. M., Noromalala, E. V., Pérez, R., Perry, G. H., Randalana, R., and Wright, H. E. (2020) Subfossil lemur discoveries from Beanka protected area in western Madagascar. Quaternary Research 93: 187-203. https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2019.54
Cardoso, C. A. F., de Castro Jesus, F. L., Podos, J., Barboza Goncalves, L. C., Fedullo, L. P. L, Lopes, R. A., and Albuquerque, V. S. (2020) Admiraves: Avifauna do Parque Municipal Montanhas de Teresoplis (Avifauna of the Teresopolis Municipal Mountain Park). AdmirAVES: Avifauna do Parque Municipal Montanhas de Teresópolis (Avifauna of the Teresópolis Municipal Mountain Park). In Portuguese with English translation by JP. Editora Unifeso, Rio de Janeiro Brazil.
Coombs, M. C. and Göhlich, U. B. (2020) Anisodon (Perissodactyla, Chalicotheriinae) from the Middle Miocene locality Gračanica (Bugojno Basin, Gornji Vakuf, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 100:363-372, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-018-0357-9.
Falconi, N., Fuller, T. K., DeStefano, S., and Organ. J. (2020) An open-access occurrence database for Andean bears in Peru. Ursus 31e11:1-6.
Fuller, T. K., Silva, A. M., Montalvo, V. H., Sáenz-Bolaños, C., and Carrillo, E. (2020) Reproduction of white-tailed deer in a seasonally dry tropical forest of Costa Rica: a test of aseasonality. Journal of Mammalogy 101:241-247.
Gilbert M. C, Alberto, A., Cox Fernandes, C., and Albertson, R. C. (2020) Rapid morphological change in multiple cichlid ecotypes following the damming of a major clearwater river in Brazil. Evolutionary Applications 13:2754-2771
Godfrey, L. R., Samonds, K. E., Baldwin, J., Sutherland, M. R., Kamilar, J. M., Allfisher, K. (2020) Mid-Tertiary climate change and extinction in Madagascar and their bearing on the evolution of Madagascar’s lemurs. BMC Evolutionary Biology 20: 97.
Henkhaus, N., Bartlett, M. E., Gang, D., Grumet, R., Haswell, E., Jordon-Thaden, I., Lorence, A., Lyons, E., Miller, S., Murray, S., Nelson, A., Specht, C., Tyler, B., Wentworth, T., Ackerly, D., Baltensperger, D., Benfey, P., Birchler, J., Chellamma, S., Crowder, R., Donoghue, M., Dundore-Arias, J. P., Fletcher, J., Gillespie, K., Guralnick, L., Hunter, M., Kaeppler, S., Kepinski, S., Li, F-W., Mackenzie, S., McDade, L., Min, Y., Nemhauser, J., Pearson, B., Petracek, P., Rogers, K., Sakai, A., Sickler, D., Spady, T., Taylor, C., Wayne, L., Wendroth, O., Zapata, F., and Stern, D. (2020) Plant Science Decadal Vision 2020-2030: Reimagining the Potential of Plants for a Healthy and Sustainable Future. Plant Direct. doi: 10.1002/pld3.252
LeFlore, E. G., Fuller, T. K., Tomeletso, M., Dimbindo, T. C., and Stein, A. B. (2020) Human dimensions of human-lion conflict: a pre- and post-assessment of a lion conservation programme in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Environmental Conservation 47:182-189.
Malatsi, P. P., Fuller, T. K., Campbell, S. M., Dreyer, J., Fiocchi, J., Fiocchi, L. C., Fuller, D., Fuller, M.R., Hazard, A., Sievert, P. R., and Griffin, C. R. (2020) Honey badger Mellivora capensis predation on an African sharptooth catfish in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Small Carnivore Conservation 58:e58004 (pp73-78).
Mamba, H., Randhir, T., and Fuller, T. K. (2020) Community attitudes and perceptions concerning rhinoceros poaching and conservation: a case study in eSwatini. African Journal of Wildlife Research 50:1-7.
Man, J., Gallagher, J. P., and Bartlett, M. E. (2020) Structural variation in the LRR-RLK gene family drives receptor diversification. New Phytologist. doi: 10.1111/nph.16455
Manica, L., Graves, J., Podos, J., and Macedo, R. H. (2020) Hidden leks in a migratory songbird: mating advantages for earlier and more attractive males. Behavioral Ecology 31:1180-1191. doi:10.1093/beheco/araa065
Montalvo, V., Fuller, T. K., Saénz-Bolaños, C., Cruz, J. C., Hagnauer, I., Herrera, H. and Carrillo, E. (2020) Influence of sea turtle nesting on hunting behavior and movements of jaguars in the dry forest of northwest Costa Rica. Biotropica 52:1076-1083.
Peterson, D. A., Hardy, N. B., Morse, G. E., Itioka, T., Wei, J., and Normark, B. B. (2020) Non-adaptive host-use specificity in tropical armored scale insects. Ecology and Evolution 10: 12910-12919. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.686718/
Podos, J. and Sung, H-C. (2020) Vocal Performance in Songbirds: From mechanisms to evolution. Sakata, J., Woolley, S., and Popp, A. (Eds). The Neuroethology of Birdsong: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, Volume 63, Springer Press, pp. 245-268.
Rowan, J., Beaudrot, L., Franklin, J., Reed, K. E., Smail, I. E., Zamora, A., and Kamilar, J. M. (2020) Geographically divergent evolutionary and ecological legacies shape large mammal biodiversity in the global tropics and sub-tropics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 117: 1559-1565.
Sáenz-Bolaños, C., Fuller, T. K., and Carrillo, E. (2020) Wildlife diversity and relative abundance among a variety of adjacent protected areas in the Northern Talamanca Mountains of Costa Rica. Diversity 12:134.
Schneider, S. A, L. E. Claps, J. Wei, R. D. Normark, and B. B. Normark. (2020) Five new species of Aspidiotini from Argentina, with a key to Argentine species. ZooKeys 948: 47-73. https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/54618/
Searcy, K. and T. Seidler (2020) The Plant Collections of William Smith Clark (1826-1886). Rhodora 122 (990): 116–117.
Tapanes, E., Anestis, S., Kamilar, J. M., and Bradley, B. J. (2020) Does facial hair greying in chimpanzees provide a salient progressive cue of ageing? PLoS ONE 15: e0235610.
Vinitporsawan, S. and Fuller, T. K. (2020) Spatio-temporal correlations of large predators and their prey in western Thailand. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 68:118-131. RBZ-2020-0013
2019
2019
Baden, A. L., Mancini, A. N., Federman, S., Holmes, S., Johnson, S. E., Kamilar, J. M., Louis Jr., E. E., and Bradley, B. J. (2019) Anthropogenic pressures drive population genetic structuring across a Critically Endangered lemur species range. Scientific Reports 9: 16276.
Beausoleil, M. O., Frishkoff, L. O., M'Gonigle, L., Raeymaekers, J. A. M., Knutie, S. A., De León, L., Huber, S. K., Chaves, J. A., Clayton, D. H., Koop, J. A. H., Podos, J., Sharpe, D. M. T., Hendry, A. P., and Barrett, R. D. H. (2019) Temporally varying disruptive selection in the medium ground finch (Geospiza fortis). Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286: 2019.2290. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2290.
Best, A., Lieberman, D. E., and Kamilar, J. M. (2019) Diversity and evolution of human eccrine sweat gland density. Journal of Thermal Biology 84: 331-338.
Coombs, M. C. and Cote, S. (2019) Chalicotheres of Pakistan: piecing together the biogeographic puzzles of a rare perissodactyl group in the Neogene of southern Asia. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology: Abstracts of Papers 79th Annual Meeting, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia: 83-84
Crowley, B. E. and Godfrey, L. R. (2019) Strontium isotopes support small home ranges for extinct lemurs. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7: Art. #490. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2019.00490
Douglass, K., Hixon, S., Wright, H. T., Godfrey, L. R., Crowley, B. E., Manjakahery, B., Rasolondrainy, R., Crossland, Z. and Radimilahy, C. ( 2019) A critical review of radiocarbon dates clarifies the human settlement of Madagascar. Quaternary Science Reviews 221: 195878 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.105878
Godfrey, L. R., Scroxton, N., Crowley, B. E., Burns, S. J., Sutherland, M. R., Pérez, V. R., Faina, P., McGee, D., and Ranivoharimanana, L. (2019) A new interpretation of Madagascar’s megafaunal decline: the ‘Subsistence Shift Hypothesis’. Journal of Human Evolution 130:126-140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.03.002
Irwin, M.T., Samonds,K. E., Raharison, J. L., Junge, R. E., Mahefarisoa, K. L., Rasambainarivo, F., Godfrey, L. R., and Glander, K. E. (2019) Morphometric signals of population decline in diademed sifakas occupying degraded rainforest habitat in Madagascar. Scientific Reports 9:8776. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-45426-2
Keeffe, R., Hilton, E. J., Thomé de Souza, M. J. F., and Cox Fernandes, C. (2019) Cranial morphology and osteology of the sexually dimorphic electric fish, Compsaraia samueli Albert & Crampton (Apteronotidae, Gymnotiformes), with comparisons to C. compsa (Mago-Leccia). Zootaxa 4555 (1): 101–112.
Lee, J. H., Podos, J.. and Sung, H. C. (2019) Distinct patterns of geographic variation for different song components in Daurian Redstarts Phoenicurus auroreus. Bird Study 66:73-82.
Meador, L. R., Godfrey, L. R., Rakotondramavo, J. C., Ranivoharimanana, L., Zamora, A., Sutherland, M. R., and Irwin, M. T. (2019) Cryptoprocta spelea (Carnivora: Eupleridae): What did it eat and how do we know? Journal of Mammalian Evolution 26: 237-251 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-017-9391-z
Normark, B. B., Okusu, A., and Miller, D. R. (2019) A new species of Thysanaspis Ferris (Hemiptera: Diaspididae: Leucaspidini) from Florida mangroves. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 121: 681-692. https://doi.org/10.4289/0013-8797.121.4.681
Normark, B. B., Morse, G. E., Peterson, D. A., Itioka, T., Okusu, A., and Schneider, S. A. (2019) Phylogeny and classification of armored scale insects (Hemiptera: Diaspididae). Zootaxa 4616: 1-98. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4616.1.1
Petersdorf, M., Weyher, A., Kamilar, J. M., Dubuc, C., Higham, J. P. (2019) Sexual selection in the Kinda baboon (Papio kindae). Journal of Human Evolution 135: 102635.
Podos, J. & Cohn-Haft, M. (2019) Extremely loud mating signals at close range in white bellbirds. Current Biology 29 R1068-1069.
Samonds, K. E., Crowley, B. E., Rasolofomanana, T. R. N., Andriambelomanana, M.C., Andrianavalona, H. T., Rakotozandry, R. B., Nomenjanahary, Z. B., Irwin, M. T., Wells, N. A., and Godfrey, L. R. (2019) A new late Pleistocene subfossil site (Tsaramody, Sambaina basin, central Madagascar) with implications for the chronology of habitat and megafaunal community change on Madagascar’s central plateau. Journal of Quaternary Science. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3096
Schneider, S. A., Fizdale, M. A., and Normark, B. B. (2019) An interactive identification key to common pest species of Aspidiotini (Hemiptera, Coccomorpha, Diaspididae), Version 1.0. ZooKeys 867: 87-96. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.867.34937
Scroxton, N., Burns, S. J., McGee, D., Hardt, B., Godfrey, L. R., Ranivoharimanana, L., and Faina, P. (2019) Competing temperature and atmospheric circulation effects on southwest Madagascan rainfall during the last deglaciation. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 34 2): 275-286. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018PA003466
Vander Linden, A., Hedrick, B. P., Kamilar, J. M., and Dumont, E. R. (2019) Atlas morphology, scaling, and locomotor behavior in primates, rodents, and relatives (Mammalia: Euarchontoglires). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 185: 283–299.
2018
2018
Best, A., and Kamilar, J. M. (2018) The evolution of sweat glands in human and nonhuman primates. Journal of Human Evolution. 117:33-43.
De León, L., Sharpe, D. M. T., Gotanda, K., Raeymaekers, J. A. M., Chaves, J. A., Hendry, A. P., and Podos, J. (2018) Urbanization erodes niche segregation in Darwin’s finches. Evolutionary Applications 2018:1-15 doi: 10.1111/eva.12721.
Fuchs, A. J., Gilbert, C. C. and Kamilar, J. M. (2018) Ecological niche modeling of the genus Papio. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 166:812-823.
Hansford, J., Wright, P. C., Rasoamiaramanana, A., Perez, A., Godfrey, L. R., Errickson, D., Thompson, T., and Turvery, S. T., (2018) Early Holocene human presence in Madagascar evidenced by exploitation of avian megafauna. Sciences Advances. 4:eaat6925.
Kamilar, J. M. and Beadrot, L. (2018). Effects of environmental stress on primate populations. Annual Review of Anthropology.
Macedo, R. H., Podos, J., Graves, J. & Manica, L. (2018) Breeding clusters in birds: ecological selective contexts, mating systems and the role of extra-pair fertilizations. Animal Behaviour 143:145-154.
Podos, J. (2018) Animal Behavior: Song learning out of the box. Current Biology R1195-7.
Webster, M.S. and Podos, J. (2018) Acoustic communication. Morrison, M.L., Rodewald, A.D., Voelker, G., Colón, M.R., & Prather, J.F. (Eds). Ornithology: Foundation, Critique, and Application, pp. 409-436. Johns Hopkins University Press.
2017
2017
Agostini, G., Rasoazanabary, E., and Godfrey, L. R. (2017) The befuddling nature of mouse lemur hands and feet at Bezà Mahafaly, SW Madagascar. American Journal of Primatology 79(9): article # e22680.
Cox Fernandes, C. and Williston, A. (2017) Redescription of Microsternarchus bileantus (Fernandes-Yepez, 1968 (Gymnotiformes: Hypopomidae, Microsternarchini), with the designation of a neotype. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. https://doi.org10.1635/053.165.0107. URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1635/053.165.0107
Crowley, B. E., Godfrey, L. R., Bankoff, R. J., Perry, G. H., Culleton, B. J., Kennett, D. J., Sutherland, M. R., Samonds, K. E., and Burney, D. A. (2017) Island-wide aridity did not trigger recent megafaunal extinctions in Madagascar. Ecography 40(8): 901-912.
Daru, B. H., Park, D. S., Primack, R. B., Willis, C. G., Barrington, D. S., Whitfeld, T. J., Seidler, T. G., Sweeney, P. W., Foster, D. R., Ellison, A. M., and Davis, C. C. (2017) Widespread sampling biases in herbaria revealed from large-scale digitization. New Phytologist. doi: 10.1111/nph.14855
Godfrey, L. R. (2017) Subfossil lemurs. In: The International Encyclopedia of Primatology. Agustin Fuentes, ed. Wiley-Blackwell.
Godfrey, L. R. (2017) Megaladapidae. In: The International Encyclopedia of Primatology. Agustin Fuentes, ed. Wiley-Blackwell.
Hilton, E. J. and Cox Fernandes, C. (2017) Identity of “Apteronotus” bonapartii (Castelnau, 1855), a sexually dimorphic South American knifefish (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae) from the Amazon, with notes on its cranial osteology. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 165: 1-17.
Manica, L., Macedo, R. H., Graves, J., and Podos, J. (2017) Vigor and skill in the acrobatic mating displays of a Neotropical songbird. Behavioral Ecology 28: 164-173.
Masters, J. C., Pozzi, L., and Godfrey, L. R. (2017) The evolution of modern strepsirhines. In: The International Encyclopedia of Primatology. Agustin Fuentes, ed. Wiley-Blackwell.
Moseley, D. L., Joshi, N. R., Prather, J. F., Podos, J., and Remage-Healey, L. (2017) A neuronal signature of accurate imitative learning. Scientific Reports 7:17320.
Muldoon, K. M., Godfrey, L. R, Crowley, B. E, and Simons, E. L. (2017) Predation on subfossil Prolemur simus by multiple predator species at Ankarana Massif, Northern Madagascar. International Journal of Primatology 38(1): 58-79.
Podos, J. (2017) Birdsong performance studies: reports of their death have been greatly exaggerated. Animal Behaviour 125:e17-24.
Podos, J. and Moseley, D. L. (2017) Vocal communication in birds. Stein, J. (Ed). Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology, pp. 1-8. Elsevier Press.
Scroxton, N., Burns, S. J., McGee, D., Hardt, B., Godfrey, L. R., Ranivoharimanana, L., and Faina, P. (2017) Hemispherically in-phase precipitation variability over the last 1700 years in a Madagascar speleothem record. Quaternary Science Reviews 164: 25-36.
Stinson, K. A., Albertine, J. M., Seidler, T. G., and Rogers, C. A. (2017) Elevated CO 2 boosts reproduction and alters selection in northern but not southern ecotypes of allergenic ragweed. American Journal of Botany 104 (9): 1313 – 1322.
2016
2016
Baden, A. L., Webster, T. H., and Kamilar, J. M. (2016) Resource seasonality and reproductive state predict fission-fusion dynamics in a Malagasy strepsirrhine, Varecia variegata. American Journal of Primatology. 78:256-279
Bartlett, M. E., Thompson, B., Brabazon, H., Del Gizzi, R., Zhang, T., and Whipple, C. J. (2016). Evolutionary dynamics of floral homeotic transcription factor protein-protein interactions. Molecular Biology and Evolution 33:1486-1501.
Bernados, R. L., Searcy, K. B., Lombardi, C. R., and Seidler, T. (2016) The Massachusetts State Cabinet Herbarium revisited and revitalized: A collection of New England plants from the early 19th century. Rhodora 117(972): 409-430. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.3119/15-06
Borgerson, C., M. A. McKean, M. R. Sutherland, and L. R. Godfrey. (2016) Who hunts lemurs and why they hunt them. Biological Conservation 197: 124-130.
Borries, C., Sandal, A. A.,Koenig, A., Fernandez-Duque, A., Kamilar, J. M., Amoroso, C. R., Barton, R. A., DiFiore, A., Gilby, I. C., Gordon, A. D., Mundry, R., Port, M., Powell, L. E., Pusey, A. E., Spriggs, A., Nunn, C. L. (2016) Transparency, usability, and reproducibility: Guiding principles for improving comparative databases using primates as examples. Evolutionary Anthropology. 25:232-238.
Burns, S. J., Godfrey L. R., Faina, P., McGee, D., Hardt., B., Ranivoharimanana, L., and Randrianasy, J. (2016) Rapid human-induced landscape transformation in Madagascar at the end of the first millennium of the Common Era. Quaternary Science Reviews. 134:92-99.
Chaves, J. A., Cooper, E. A., Hendry, A. P., Podos, J., De León, L., Raeymaekers, J. A. M., McMillian, O., and Uy, A. C. (2016). Genomic variation at the tips of the adaptive radiation of Darwin’s finches. Molecular Ecology doi: 10.1111/mec. 13743
Conith, A .J., Imburgia, M. J., Crosby, A. J., Dumont, E. R. (2016) The functional significance of morphological changes in the dentitions of early mammals. Journal of the Royal Society: Interface. doi. 10.1098/rsif.2016.0713.
Godfrey, L. R. and Crowley, B. E. (2016) Madagascar’s ephemeral paleo-grazer guild: Who ate the ancient grasses? Proceedings of the Royal Society B – Biological Sciences 283(1834): article #20160360.
Godfrey, L. R., Crowley, B. E., Muldoon, K. M., Kelley, E. A., King, S. J., Best, A. W., and Berthaume, M. A. (2016) What did Hadropithecus eat, and why should paleoanthropologists care? American Journal of Primatology 78(10 Special Issue): 1098-1112. doi: 10.1002/ajp.22506.
Godfrey, L. R., Granatosky, M. C., and Jungers, W. L. (2016) The hands of subfossil lemurs. In: The Evolution of the Primate Hand: Anatomical, Developmental, Functional, and Paleontological Evidence. Kivell, T. L., Lemelin, P., Richmond, B. G., Schmitt, D. (Eds). Springer Science, New York, pp. 421-453.
Kamilar, J. M., Blanco, M., and Muldoon, K. M. (2016) Ecological niche modeling of lemurs and its implications for their species diversity and biogeography. Dwarf and mouse lemurs of Madagascar: Biology, behavior and conservation biology of the Cheirogaleidae. S.M. Lehman, U. Radespiel, E. Zimmerman, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kamilar, J. M. and Tecot, S. R. (2016) Anthropogenic and climatic effects on the distribution of Eulemur species: An ecological niche modeling approach. International Journal of Primatology.
Kelley, E. A., Jablonski, N. G., Chaplin, G. Sussman, R. W., and Kamilar, J. M. (2016) Behavioral thermoregulation in Lemur catta: the significance of sunning and huddling behaviors. American Journal of Primatology.
Lazagabaster, I. A., Rowan, J., Kamilar, J. M., and Reed, K. E. (2016) Evolution of cranial dental correlates of diet in African Bovidae. Journal of Mammailian Evolution 23:385-396.
Manica, L., Graves, J., Podos, J., and Macedo, R. H. (2016) Multimodal flight display of a Neotropical songbird predicts social pairing but not extrapair mating success. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 70: 2039-2052.
Ohba, M., Samonds, K. E., LaFleur, M., Ali, J. R., and Godfrey, L. R. (2016) Madagascar's climate at the K/P boundary and its impact on the island's biotic suite. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 441:688-695. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.10.028
Podos, J., Moseley, D. L., Goodwin, S. E, McClure, J., Taft, B. N., Strauss, A. V. H., Rega-Brodsky, C., and Lahti, D. C. (2016). A fine-scale, broadly applicable index of vocal performance: frequency excursion. Animal Behaviour 116:203-212.
Rasoazanabary, E. and Godfrey, L. R. (2016) Living in riverine and xeric forests: Microcebus griseorufus at Beza Mahafaly, SW Madagascar. In: Dwarf and Mouse Lemurs of Madagascar: Biology, Behavior and Conservation Biogeography of the Cheirogaleidae. Lehman, S., Radespiel, U., Zimmermann, E. (Eds.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 255-280.
Rowan, J., Kamilar, J. M., Beaudrot, L., and Reed, K. E. (2016) Strong influence of paleoclimate on the structure of modern African communities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 283(1840): doi:10.1098/rspb/2016.1207.
Rowan, J., Kamilar, J. M., Beaudrot, L., Reed, K. (2016) Strong influence of palaeoclimate on the structure of African mammal communities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 2016 283 20161207: doi 10.1098/rspb.2016.1207.
Stinson, K. A., Albertine, J. M., Hancock, L. M. S., Seidler, T. G., and Rogers, C. A. (2016). Northern ragweed ecotypes flower earlier and longer in response to elevated CO2: what are you sneezing at? Oecologia 182:587–594.
2015
2015
Bernardos, R. L., Searcy, K. B., Lombardi, C. R., and Seidler, T. G. (2015) The Massachusetts State Cabinet revised and revitalized: A collection of New England plants from the early 19th Century. Rhodora 117(972):409–430.
Blanco, M. B., Rasoazanabary, E., and Godfrey, L .R. (2015) Unpredictable environments, opportunistic responses: Reproduction and population turnover in two wild mouse lemur species (Microcebus rufus and Microcebus griseorufus) from eastern and western Madagascar. American Journal of Primatology 77(9):936-947.
Coombs, M. C.and Hunt, R. M., Jr. (2015) New material of Moropus (Perissodactyla, Chalicotheriidae, Schizotheriinae) from the early Hemingfordian Rose Creek Member of the John Day Formation, Oregon, U.S.A. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35, doi:10.1080/02724634.2015.1009992 (9 pages).
Coombs, M. C. and Reynolds, R. E. (2015) Chalicothere material (Perissodactyla, Chalicotheriidae, Schizotheriinae) from late Hemingfordian and early Barstovian faunas of the Cajon Valley Formation in the Mojave Desert Province of southern California. In: Mojave Miocene: The 2015 Desert Symposium Field Guide and Proceedings, R. E. Reynolds, ed., California State University Desert Studies Consortium <http://nsm.fullerton.edu/dsc/desert-studies-center-additional-information>, pp. 259–273.
Cox Fernandes, C., Nogueira, A., Williston, S., and Alves-Gomes, J. A. (2015) A new species of electric knifefish from the Rio Negro, Amazon basin (Gymnotiformes: Hypopomidae, Microsternarchini). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 164:213-227.
Eiting, T. P., Perot, J. B., and Dumont, E. R. (2015) How much does nasal cavity morphology matter? Patterns and rates of olfactory airflow in phyllostomid bats. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282:1800.
Hogg, R. T., Godfrey, L. R., Schwartz, G. T., Dirks,W., and Bromage, T. G. (2015) Lemur biorhythms and life history evolution. PloS ONE 10(8): Article number e0134210.
Kamilar, J. M., Beaudrot, L., and Reed, K. E. (2015) Climate and species richness predict the phylogenetic structure of African mammal communities. PLoS ONE 10:e0121808. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0121808.
Kamilar, J. M. and Tecot, S. R. (2015) Connecting proximate mechanisms and evolutionary patterns: Pituitary gland size and mammalian life History. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28:1997-2008.
Kistler, L., Ratan, A., Godfrey, L. R., Crowley, B. E., Hughes, C. E., Lei, R. H., Cui, Y. Q., Wood, M. L., Muldoon, K. M., Andriamialison, H., McGraw, J. J., Tomsho, L. P., Schuster, S. C., Miller, W., Louis, E. E., Yoder, A. D., Malhi, R. S., and Perry, G. H. (2015) Comparative and population mitogenomic analyses of Madagascar's extinct giant 'subfossil' lemurs. Journal of Human Evolution 79 (Special Issue):45-54.
Rodriguez, I. A., Rasoazanabary, E., and Godfrey, L. R. (2015) Seasonal variation in the abundance and distribution of ticks that parasitize Microcebus griseorufus at the Beza Mahafaly Special Reserve, Madagascar. International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 4:408-413.
Rosenberger, A. L., Godfrey, L. R., Muldoon, K. M., Gunnell, G. F., Rasiamiaramanana, A. H., Randrianasy, J., and Amador, F. E. (2015) Giant subfossil lemur graveyard discovered, submerged, in Madagascar. Journal of Human Evolution 81:83-87.
2014
2014
Berthaume, M.A., Dumont, E.R., Godfrey, L.R., and Grosse, I.R. (2014) The effects of relative food item size on optimal tooth cusp sharpness during brittle food item processing. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 11(10): Article number 20140965.
Blanco, M.B., and Godfrey, L.R. (2014) Hibernation patterns of dwarf lemurs in the high altitude forest of eastern Madagascar. In: High Altitude Primates, Grow, N.B., Gursky-Doyen, S., Krzton, A., (Eds.) Springer: New York, Pp. 223-42.
Cox Fernandes, C., Nogueira, A., and Alves-Gomes, J.A. (2014) Procerusternarchus pixuna, a new genus and species of electric knifefish (Gymnotiformes: Hypopomidae, Microsternarchini) from the Negro River, South America. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 163: 95-118.
Crowley, B.E., Rasoazanabary, E., Godfrey, L.R. (2014) Stable isotopes complement focal individual observations and confirm dietary variability in reddish-gray mouse lemurs (Microcebus griseorufus) from southwestern Madagascar. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 155(1):77-90.
Dumont, E.R., K. Samadevam, I.R. Grosse, O.M. Warsi, B. Baird, and I.M. Davalos. (2014).. Selection for mechanical advantage underlies multiple cranial optima in new world leaf-nosed bats. Evolution 68(5):1436-1449.
Eiting, T.P., T.D. Smith, and E.R. Dumont. (In press). Olfactory epithelium in the olfactory recess: A case study in new world leaf-nosed bats. The Anatomical Record.
Eiting, T.P, T.D. Smith, J.B. Perot, and E.R. Dumont. (2014). The role of the olfactory recess in olfactory airflow. Journal of Experimental Biology. 217:1799-1803.
Krause, D.W., Hoffman, S., Wible, E.C., Kirk, J.A. Schultz, J., von Konigswald, W., Groenke, J.R., Rossie, P.M., O'Connor, E.R., Seiffert, E.R., Dumont, E.R., Holloway, W.L., Rogers, R.R., Rahantarisoa, L.J., Kemp, A.D., and Haingoson, A. (2014) First cranial remains of a gondwanatherian mammal reveal markable mociacism. Nature 515:512-517.
Schultz, J.A., Krause, D.W., von Konigswald, W., and Dumont, E.R. (2014) Dental function and diet of Vintana sertichi (Mammalia, Gondwanatheria) from the late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(Sup):182-202.
Stinson, K., and T. Seidler. (2014). Physiological constraints on the spread of Alliaria petiolata populations in Massachusetts. Ecosphere 5(8).
2013
2013
Bartlett, M.E., and C.J. Whipple. (2013). Protein change in plant evolution: tracing one thread connecting molecular and phenotypic diversity. Frontiers in Plant Science 4:382.
Berthaume, M.A., Dumont, E.R., Godfrey, L.R. (2013) How does tooth cusp radius of curvature affect brittle food item processing? Journal of the Royal Society Interface 10(84): Article number 20130240.
Blanco, M.B., Elfawal, M.A., Durden, L.A., Beati, L., Xu, G.,Godfrey, L.R., Rich, S.M. (2013) Genetic diversity of ixodid ticks parasitizing eastern mouse and dwarf lemurs in Madagascar, with descriptions of the larva, nymph and male of Ixodes lemuris (ACARI:IXODIDAE). Journal of Parasitology 99(1):11-18.
Blanco, M.B., Godfrey, L.R. (2013) Does hibernation slow the 'pace of life' in dwarf lemurs? International Journal of Primatology 34:130-147.
Coombs, M. C. (2013) A juvenile mandible with deciduous teeth of Ancylotherium pentelicum (Perissodactyla, Chalicotheriidae, Schizotheriinae), collected by Barnum Brown from the late Miocene of Samos (Greece). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33: 233-238.
Crowley, B.E., Godfrey, L.R. (2013) Why all those spines? Anachronistic defences in the Didiereoideae against now extinct lemurs. South African Journal of Science 109(1/2):70-76.
Crowley, B.E., Godfrey, L.R. (2013) Isotopic variabiity and lemur diet in a dry Madagascan forest: A cautionary tale. Leaping Ahead: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. Masters, J., Gamba, M., Genin,F. (Eds.) Springer, New York, Pp. 173-182.
Cuozzo, F.P., Rasoazanabary, E., Godfrey, L.R., Sauther, M.L., Youssouf, I.A., LaFleur, M.M. (2013) Biological variation in a large sample of mouse lemirs from Amboasary, Madagascar: Iplications for interpreting variation in primate biology and paleobiology. Journal of Human Evolution 64:1-20.
Del Toro, I. (2013) Diversity of Eastern North American Ant Communities along Environmental Gradients. PLoS ONE 8(7): e67973. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0067973
Fahlke, J. M., Coombs, M. C., and Semprebon, G. M. (2013) Anisodon sp. (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Chalicotheriidae) from the Turolian of Dorn-Dürkheim 1 (Rheinhessen, Germany): morphology, phylogeny, and palaeoecology of the latest chalicothere in Central Europe. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 93:151-170.
Godfrey, L.R., Schwartz, G.T., Jungers, W.L. Catlett, K.K., Samonds, K.E., King, S.J., Muldoon, K.M., Irwin, M.T., Burney, D.A. (2013) Life history variation in Madagascar's giant extinct lemurs. Leaping Ahead: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. Masters, J., Gamba, M., Genin,F. (Eds.) Springer, New York, Pp. 173-182.
Japoshvili, G., K. J. Abell, B., Normark, B.and Van Driesche, R.G.. (In press). Aphelinid and encyrtid(Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) parasitoids of armored scales (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) attacking hemlocks (Tsuga spp.) in Japan and the USA, with description of eight new species. Annals of the Entomological Society of America.
Longo, G., T. Seidler, L. Garibaldi, P. Tognetti, and E. Chaneton. (2013). Functional group dominance and identity effects influence the magnitude of grassland invasion. Journal of Ecology 101:1114-1124.
Lundberg, J. G., Cox Fernandes, C., Campus da Paz, R. and Sullivan J. P. 2013. Sternarchella calhamazon n. sp., the Amazon’s most abundant species of apteronotid electric fish, with a note on the taxonomic status of Sternarchus capanemae Steindachner, 1868 (Gymnotiformes, Apteronotidae) Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 162:157-173.
Ross, L, N. B. Hardy, A. Okusu, and B. Normark. (2013). Large population size predicts the distribution of asexuality in scale insects. Evolution 67: 196-206.
Sabree, Z. L., C. Y. Huang, A. Okusu, N. A. Moran and B. Normark. (2013). The nutrient supplying capabilities of Uzinura, an endosymbiont of armored scale insects. Environmental Microbiology 15: 1988-1999.
Samonds, K.E., Godfrey, L.R., Ali, J.R., Goodman, S.M., Vences, M., Sutherland, M.R., Irwin, M.T., Krause, D.W. (2013) Imperfect isolation: factors and filters shaping Madagascar's extant vertebrate fauna. PLoS ONE 8(4): Article number e62086.
Schneider, S. A., J. H. Giliomee, J. W. Dooley, and B. Normark. (2013). Mutualism armored scale insects and ants: new speccies and observations on a unique trophobiosis (Hymenoptera: Diaspididae: Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Melissotarsus Emeryl). Systematic Entomology. doi: 10.1111/syen.12033.
Sullivan, J. P.; Zuanon, J.,and Cox Fernandes C (2013). Two new species and a new subgenus of toothed Brachyhypopomus electric knifefishes (Gymnotiformes, Hypopomidae) from the central Amazon and considerations pertaining to the evolution of a monophasic electric organ discharge. ZooKeys 327: 1–34. doi: 10.3887/zookeys 327:5427
Vasey, N., Burney, D.A., Godfrey, L.R. (2013) Coprolites associated with Archaeolemur remains in North-Western Madagascar suggest dietary diversity and cave use in a subfossil prosimian. Leaping Ahead: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. Masters, J., Gamba, M., Genin,F. (Eds.) Springer, New York, Pp. 149-156.
Vea, I. M., R. A. Gwiazdowski, and B. B. Normark. (2013). Corroborating molecular species discovery: five new pine-feeding species of Chionaspis. ZooKeys 270: 38-54.
2012
2012
Cron, G., C. Prone, M.E. Bartlett, J. Kress, and C.D. Specht. (2012). A phylogeny of the Strelitziaceae. Systematic Botany 37:606-619.
Crowley, B.E., Godfrey, L.R., Guilderson, T.P., Zermano, P., Koch, P.L., Dominy, N.J. (2012) Extinction and ecological retreat in a community of primates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B:Biological Sciences 279: 3597-3605.
Dumont, E.R., L.M. Dávalos, A. Goldberg, S.E. Santana, K. Rex and C.C. Voigt (2012). Morphological innovation, diversification and invasion of a new adaptive zone. Proceedings of the Royal Society B:Biological Sciences 79:1797-1805
Godfrey, L.R., Rasoazanabary, E. (2012) Demise of the bet hedgers: A case study of human impacts on past and present lemurs of Madagascar. In: The Anthropology of Extinction: Essays on Culture and Species Death. Sodikoff. G.M. (Ed.). Indiana University Press. Pp. 165-199.
Godfrey, L.R., Winchester, J.M, King, S.J., Boyer, D.M., Jernvall, J. (2012) Dental topography indicates ecological contraction of lemur communities. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 148:215-227.
Muldoon, K.M., Crowley, B.E., Godfrey, L.R., Rasoamiaramanana, A., Aronson, A., Jernvall, J., Wright, P.C., Simons, E. L. (2012) Early holocene fauna from a new subfossil site: a first assessment from Christmas River, south central Madagascar. Madagascar Conservation & Development 7(1):23-29.
Rodriguez, I.A., Rasoazanabary, E., Godfrey, L.E. (2012) Multiple ectoparasites infest Microcebus griseorufus at Beza Mahafaly Special Reserve, Madagascar. Madagascar Conservation & Development 7(1): 45-48.
Ross, L., D. M. Shuker, B. B. Normark, and I. Pen. (2012). The role of endosymbionts in the evolution of haploid-male genetic systems in scale insects (Coccoidea). Ecology and Evolution 2: 1071-1081.
Samonds, K.E., Godfrey, L.R., Ali, J.R., Goodman, S.M., Vences, M., Sutherland, M.R., Irwin, M.T., Krause, D.W. (2012) Spatial and temporal arrival patterns of Madagascar's vertebrate fauna explained by distance, ocean currents, and ancestor type. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 109:5352-5357.
Santana, C. D. , and C. Cox Fernandes. (2012). A new species of sexually dimorphic electric knifefish from the Amazon Basin, Brazil (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae). Copeia. In press.
Santana, S. E., I. R. Grosse, and E. R. Dumont (2012). Dietary hardness, loading behavior, and the evolution of skull form in bats. Evolution 8:2587-2598 DOI:10.111/j/1558-5646.2012.01615.x
Searcy, K. B. (2012) Changes in the flora of the Mount Holyoke Range, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts over the past 150 years (1860-2010). Rhodora In press.
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