Animal Distribution

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Defining and evaluating the umbrella species concept for conserving and restoring landscape connectivity. 
  • Eco-evolutionary dynamics, density-dependent dispersal and collective behaviour: implications for salmon metapopulation robustness. 
  • Ecology and morphology of mouse lemurs (Microcebus spp.) in a hotspot of microendemism in northeastern Madagascar, with the description of a new species. 
  • Elevational Ranges of Montane Birds and Deforestation in the Western Andes of Colombia. 
  • Evaluating the landscape of fear between apex predatory sharks and mobile sea turtles across a large dynamic seascape. 
  • Evolutionary dynamics of sexual size dimorphism in non-volant mammals following their independent colonization of Madagascar. 
  • Genetics of dispersal. 
  • Group Living and Male Dispersal Predict the Core Gut Microbiome in Wild Baboons. 
  • Hormonal correlates of natal dispersal and rank attainment in wild male baboons. 
  • Inbreeding risk and maternal support have opposite effects on female chimpanzee dispersal. 
  • Mainland size variation informs predictive models of exceptional insular body size change in rodents. 
  • Multilocus phylogenetic and geospatial analyses illuminate diversification patterns and the biogeographic history of Malagasy endemic plated lizards (Gerrhosauridae: Zonosaurinae). 
  • Natural and anthropogenic events influence the soundscapes of four bays on Hawaii Island. 
  • New fossils, systematics, and biogeography of the oldest known crown primate Teilhardina from the earliest Eocene of Asia, Europe, and North America. 
  • Predicting changes in the distribution and abundance of species under environmental change. 
  • Puberty and dispersal in a wild primate population. 
  • Resource base influences genome-wide DNA methylation levels in wild baboons (Papio cynocephalus). 
  • Setting practical conservation priorities for birds in the Western Andes of Colombia. 
  • The Importance of Interspecific Interactions on the Present Range of the Invasive Mosquito Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) and Persistence of Resident Container Species in the United States. 
  • The Snail's Charm. 
  • The impact of large terrestrial carnivores on Pleistocene ecosystems 
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  Keywords of People

  • Pimm, Stuart L., Doris Duke Distinguished Professor of Conservation Ecology in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke Science & Society