Recent Publications from the Van Valkenburgh Lab

  1. Kitchener, A. Van Valkenburgh, B, and Yamaguchi, N.  Felid form and function.  In. Macdonald, D. W, and Loveridge, A, (eds)  Biology and Conservation of Wild felids. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford (in press).

  2. Binder, W. J. and Van Valkenburgh, B. A comparison of tooth wear and breakage in Rancho la Brea sabertooth cats and dire wolves across time.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (in press).

  3. Meachen-Samuels, J. and Van Valkenburgh, B. 2009. Craniodental indicators of prey size preference in the Felidae. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 96. 784-799.

  4. Slater, G. J. and Van, Valkenburgh, B. 2009. Allometry and performance: the evolution of skull form and function in felids. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22. 278-2287.

  5. Slater, G. J., Dumont, E.R., and Van Valkenburgh, B. 2009. Implications of predatory specialization for cranial form and function in canids.  Journal of Zoology 278, 181-188.   

  6. Meachen-Samuels, J. and Van Valkenburgh, B. Forelimb Indicators of prey-size preference in the Felidae.  2009.  Journal of Morphology 270: 729-744.

  7. Roemer, G., Gompper, M., and Van Valkenburgh, B. 2009.  The ecological role of the mammalian mesocarnivore.  Bioscience 59:165-173.

  8. Samuels, J. and Van Valkenburgh, B. 2009. Craniodental adaptations for digging in extinct burrowing beavers. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (in press).

  9. Carbone, C., Maddox, T., Funston, P.J., Mills, M.G.L., Grether, G., and Van Valkenburgh, B.  2009.  Parallels between playbacks and Pleistocene tar seeps suggest sociality in an extinct sabertooth cat, Smilodon.  Biology Letters 5:81-85.

  10. Van Valkenburgh, B.  2009. Costs of carnivory:  tooth fracture in Pleistocene and recent carnivorans.  Biological  Journal of the Linnean Society 96:68-81.

  11. Samuels, J. and Van Valkenburgh, B. 2008. Skeletal indicators of locomotor adaptations in living and fossil rodents. Journal of Morphology 269:1397-1411.

  12. Slater, G. J. and Van Valkenburgh, B.  2008. Long in the tooth: evolution of sabertooth cat cranial shape.  Paleobiology 34:403-419.

  13. Friscia, A.R., Van Valkenburgh, B., Spencer, L., Harris, J.  2008.  Chronology and spatial distribution of large mammal bones in Pit 91, Rancho La Brea.  Palaios 23:35-42.

  14. Van Valkenburgh, B.  2008. Déjà vu:  evolution of feeding adaptations in carnivorans.  Integrative and Comparative Biology 47:147-163.

  15. Leonard, J., Vila, C., Fox-Dobbs, K., Koch, P., Wayne, R.K., and Van Valkenburgh, B.  2007. Genetics, isotopes, and morphology reveal a cryptic extinction of Pleistocene wolves.  Current Biology 17:1146-1150.

  16. Friscia, A.R., Van Valkenburgh, B., Biknevicius, A.R.  2007.  An ecomorphological analysis of extant small carnivores.  J. Zoology 272:82-100.

  17. Munoz-Duran, J. and Van Valkenburgh, B.  2006.  The Rancholabrean record of Carnivora:  taphonomic effect of body size, habitat breadth, and the preservation potential of caves.  Palaios :421-430.

  18. Koepfli, K-P., Jenks, S.M., Eizirik, E., Zahirpour, T., Van Valkenburgh, B., and Wayne, R.K.  2006.  Molecular systematics of the Hyaenidae:  relationships of a relictual lineage resolved by molecular supermatrix.  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 38:603-620.

  19. Van Valkenburgh, B., Wang, X., and Damuth, J.  2004.  Cope’s rule, hypercarnivory, and extinction in North American canids.  Science 306:101-103.  (Cited as “Must Read” by the Faculty of 1000 website)

  20. Van Valkenburgh, B., Theodor, J., Friscia, A., Pollack, A., and T. Rowe.  2004.  Respiratory turbinates of canids and felids:  a quantitative comparison.  J. Zoology 264:1-13.

  21. Wang, X., Tedford, R.H., Van Valkenburgh, B., and Wayne, R.K.  2004.  Phylogeny, classification, and evolutionary ecology of Canidae.  In Canids: Foxes, Wolves, Jackals, and Dogs. C. Sillero-Zubiri, M. Hoffmann, and D.W. Macdonald, eds., IUCN Press.

  22. Tedford, R.H., Wang, X., Van Valkenburgh, B. and Wayne, R.K.  2004.  Evolutionary history, molecular systematics and evolutionary ecology.  In Biology and Conservation of Wild Canids.  D.W. Macdonald and C. Sillero-Zubiri, eds., Oxford University Press.

  23. Sacco, T. and Van Valkenburgh, B.  2004.  Ecomorphological indicators of feeding behaviour in the bears.  J. Zoology 263:41-54.

  24. Van Valkenburgh, B., Sacco, T. and Wang, X.  2003.  Pack hunting in Miocene borophagine dogs:  evidence from craniodental morphology and body size.  Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278: 147-162.

  25. Spencer, L., Van Valkenburgh, B., and Harris, J.M.  2003.  A taphonomic investigation of Pit 91, Rancho La Brea.  Paleobiology 29:561-575.