2023

Zhe, C., O. Nevo, K. Valenta, H. Sun, and Y. Niu. In Press. Red fruits exhibit lower colour diversity than red flowers as perceived by birds. Functional Ecology.

Sarkar, D., J.F. Gogarten, X. Liang, C. Andris, E. Opito, K. Valenta, U. Kalbitzer, R. Sengupta and C.A. Chapman. In Press. Impacts of COVID-19 on biodiversity conservation and community networks at Kibale National Park, Uganda. Professional Geographer.

Nevo, O., C. Filla*, K. Valenta, and E.W. Schupp. 2023. What drives seed dispersal effectiveness? A metaanalysis. Ecology and Evolution: e10459.

Waters, S., T. Watson, Z.J. Farris, S. Bornbusch, K. Valenta, T. Clarke, J. Owen, Z. Randriana, D. Chetry, A. Pal, and C. Home. 2023. Invited. “Dogs, primates, and people: A review.” In Primates in Anthropogenic Landscapes: Exploring Primate Behavioral Ecology Across Human Contexts, T. McKinney, S. Waters, and M. Rodrigues, eds. Springer.

2022

Hixon, S.*, M. Neelin*, S. Chan*, D. Mayo*, C. Filla*, Z. Farris, S. deFrance, J. Krigbaum, and K. Valenta. In Press. Consistently diverse meals of dogs across a forest ecotone in eastern Madagascar. Plants, People, Planet.

Nevo, O., K. Valenta, A. Helman*, J. Ganzhorn, and M. Ayasse. In Press. Fruit scent as an honest signal for fruit quality. BMC Ecology and Evolution.

Eppley, T.M, S. Hoeks….. K. Valenta, S. Van Belle, N. Vasey, R.B. Wallace, G. Welch, P.C. Wright, G. Donati, L. Santini. In Press. Descending from the trees: Factors favoring transitions to terrestriality in arboreal primates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Wampole, E.M., B.D. Gerber, Z.J. Farris, J.C. Razafimahaimodison, M.H. Andrianarisoa, P. Wright, S.E. Johnson, C.N. Filla*, K. Valenta, P. Ross*, F. Rasambainarivo, A. Murphy, S.M. Karpanty, M.J. Kelly, C. Anderson, P. Razafy, R. Rafaliarison, S.D. Merson, and E. Larney. 2022. Madagascar Terrestrial Camera Survey Database 2021: A collation of terrestrial camera surveys conducted in forests of Madagascar from 2007-2019. Ecology.

Chalkowski, K., Christopher A. Lepczyk, Alan E. Wilson, K. Valenta, B. Sipley, J. Brownlee, A.M. Morgan, S.R. Santos, J.R. Willoughby, and S. Zohdy. 2022. Parasite and pathogen prevalence in our closest animal companions is determined by accessibility of sanitation services. bioRxiv 2022.03.08.483406; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.08.483406

Valenta, K., H.D. Bhramdat*, G.V. Calhoun*, D.J. Daegling, and O. Nevo. 2022. Invited, Special issue on frugivory and seed dispersal. Variation in ripe fruit hardness: A mechanical constraint? Oikos.

Valenta, K., and O. Nevo. 2022. Invited. The illusiveness of seed dispersal syndromes: a commentary on “Fleshy fruit traits and seed dispersers.” Annals of Botany.

Ross, A.C., M.A.H. Byer, C.A. Chapman, J.M. Rothman, O. Nevo and K. Valenta. 2022. Why eat flowers? Cercopithecines eat Symphonia globulifera flowers for their fat content. Folia Primatologica.

Chapman, C.A., A. Corriveau, K. Valenta, F. Espinosa, and V.A.M. Schoof. 2022. “Colobine population ecology.” In The Colobines: Natural History, Behaviour and Ecological Diversity, I. Matsuda, C.C. Grueter, and J.A. Teichroeb, eds. Pp. 312-323.

2021

Valenta, K., S. Bornbusch, Y.D. Jacques, and O. Nevo. 2021. In the eye of the beholder: Is color classification consistent amongst human observers? Ecology and Evolution.

Valenta, K., M.H. Schmitt, M. Ayasse, and O. Nevo. 2021. The sensory ecology of fear: African elephants show aversion to olfactory predator signals. Conservation Science and Practice 3: e333.

Merz, L.*, A. Kshirsagar*, R.R. Rafaliarison, T. Rajaonarivelo, Z. Farris, Z. Randriana, and K. Valenta. 2021. Dog predation on wildlife in Madagascar. Biotropica.

Filla, C.*, M. Rajeev, Z. Randriana, C. Hanitriniana, R.R. Rafaliarison, G. Edosoa, M. Andriamananjara, F. Daniel*, T.A. Clarke, Z. Farris, T. Stone, J. Lastdrager, T. Rajaonarivelo, K. Hampson, C.J.E. Metcalf, and K. Valenta. 2021. Lessons learned and paths forward for rabies dog vaccination in Madagascar: a case study of pilot vaccination campaigns in Moramanga District. Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, Special issue on One Health and Neglected Tropical Diseases.

Amato, K.R., O.M. Chaves, E.K. Mallott, T.M. Eppley, F. Abreu, A.L. Baden, A.A. Barnett, J.C. Bicca-Marques, S.A. Boyle, C.J. Campbell, C.A. Chapman, M.F. De la Fuente, P. Fan, P.J. Fashing, A. Felton, B. Fruth, V.B. Fortes, C.C. Grueter, G. Hohmann, M. Irwin, J.K. Matthews, A. Mekonnen, A.D. Melin, D.B. Morgan, J. Ostner, N. Nguyen, A. Piel, B. Pinacho-Guendulain, E. P. Quintino Aredes, P.T. Razanaparany, N. Schiel, C. Sanz, O. Schulke, S. Shanee, A. Souto, J.P. Souza-Alves, F. Stewart, K.M. Stewart, A. Stone, B. Sun, S. Tecot, K. Valenta, E.R. Vogel, S. Wich, Y. Zeng. 2021. Fermented food consumption in wild non-human primates and its ecological drivers. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

Waters, S., T. Watson, Z.J. Farris, S. Bornbusch, K. Valenta, T. Clarke, J. Owen, Z. Randriana, D. Chetry, A. Pal, and C. Home. 2021. Invited. “Dogs, primates, and people: A review.” In Primates in Anthropogenic Landscapes: Exploring Primate Behavioral Ecology Across Human Contexts, T. McKinney, S. Waters, and M. Rodrigues, eds. Springer.

2020

Valenta, K. and O. Nevo. 2020. The dispersal syndrome hypothesis: how animals shaped fruit traits, and how they did not. Invited. Functional Ecology 34 (6):1158-1169.

Valenta, K., K. Dimac-Stohl, F. Baines, T. Smith, G. Piotrowski, N. Hill, J. Kuppler, and O. Nevo. 2020. Ultraviolet radiation changes plant color. BMC Plant Biology 20: 253.

Valenta, K., D. Daegling, O. Nevo, J. Ledogar, D. Sarkar, U. Kalbitzer, S. Bortolamiol, P. Omeja, M. Ayasse, C.A. Chapman, R. Kay, and B. Williams. 2020. Fruit selectivity in anthropoid primates: Size matters. International Journal of Primatology 41 (3): 525-537.

Nevo, O., M.H. Schmitt, M. Ayasse, and K. Valenta. 2020. Sweet tooth: Elephants detect fruit sugar levels based on scent alone. Ecology and Evolution 10: 11399-11407.

Kuhn, J.H., S.D. Sibley, C.A. Chapman, N.J. Knowles, M. Lauck, J.C. Johnson, C. Campos Lawson, M.G. Lackemeyer, K. Valenta, P. Omeja, P.B. Jahrling, D.H. O’Connor, and T.L. Goldberg. 2020. Discovery of lanama virus, a distinct member of species Kunsagivirus C (Picornavirales: Picornaviridae), in wild vervets (Chlorocebus pygerythrus). Archives of Virology 12: 1436-1443.

Kshirsigar, A.*, J. Applebaum*, R. Rafaliarison*, T. Rajaonarivelo, Z. Randriana, Z. Farris, and K. Valenta. 2020. Invited. Human-dog interactions in rural Madagascar: cultural and conservation implications. Journal of Ethnobiology 40: 483-498.

Nevo, O., K. Valenta, A. Kleiner, D. Razafimandimby, J.A.J. Jeffrey, C.A. Chapman, and M. Ayasse. 2020. The evolution of fruit scent: phylogenetic and developmental constraints. BMC Ecology and Evolution 20 (138).

Aurélie, A., S. Buerki, G.E. Onjalalaina, S. Perillo, R. Rabarijaona, O.H. Razafindratsima, H. Sato, K. Valenta, P.C. Wright, and W. Stuppy. 2020. The ghost fruits of Madagascar: Identifying dysfunctional seed dispersal in Madagascar’s endemic flora. Biological Conservation 242: 1084383.

Chapman, C.A., K. Valenta, S. Bortolamiol, S. K. Mugume, and M. Yao. 2020. “Chimpanzee conservation: What we know, what we do not know, and ways forward.” In L.M. Hopper and S.R. Ross (eds). Chimpanzees in context: A comparative perspective on chimpanzee behavior, cognition, conservation, and welfare. University of Chicago Press, New York.

2019

Farris, Z.J., S. Chan*, R. Rafaliarison*, and K. Valenta. 2019. Occupancy modeling reveals inter-specific variation in habitat use and negative effects of dogs for lemur populations in Madagascar. International Journal of Primatology.

Nevo, O., D. Razafimandimby, K. Valenta, J.A.J. Jeffrey, C. Reisdorff, C.A. Chapman, J.U. Ganzhorn, M. Ayasse. 2019. Signal and reward in wild fleshy fruits: Does fruit scent predict nutrient content. Ecology and Evolution 9: 10534–10543.

Zohdy, S., K. Valenta, C.J. Karanewsky, W. Zaky, N. Pilotte, C.A. Chapman, and Z.J. Farris. 2019. Causative agent of canine heartworm (Dirofilaria immitis) detected in wild lemurs . International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife. doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2019.04.005

Sarkar, D., C.A. Chapman, K. Valenta, S. Angom, K. Wilson, and R. Sengupta. 2019. Research stations as conservation instruments. A tiered analysis of community benefits and conservation engagement from the Makerere University Biological Field Station, Uganda. Professional Geographer doi/full/10.1080/00330124.2018.1547976.

Kirumira, D., D. Baranga, J. Hartter, K. Valenta, C. Tumwesigye, W. Kagoro, and C.A. Chapman. 2019. Evaluating a union between health care and conservation: A mobile clinic improves park-people relations, yet poaching increases. Conservation and Society 17:51-62.

2018

Valenta, K., U. Kalbitzer, D. Razafimandimby, P. Omeja, M. Ayasse, C.A. Chapman, and O. Nevo. 2018. The evolution of fruit colour: phylogeny, abiotic factors and the role of mutualists. Scientific Reports 8: 14302. Featured in the New York Times, October 2018.

Nevo, O.+, K. Valenta+, D. Razafimandimby, A.D. Melin, M. Ayasse and C.A. Chapman. 2018. Frugivores and the evolution of fruit color. Biology Letters 19: 20180377. +denotes equal contribution.

Valenta, K. and O. Nevo. 2018. Primate fruit color: Useful concept, or alluring myth? International Journal of Primatology 39: 321-337. (Invited, Special issue on seed dispersal).

Nevo, O. and K. Valenta. 2018. The ecology and evolution of fruit odors. International Journal of Primatology 39: 338-355. (Invited, Special issue on seed dispersal).

Valenta, K. and C.A. Chapman. 2018. “Primate-plant mutualisms: Is there evidence for primate fruit syndromes?” In Kalbitzer U, Jack KM (eds) Primate Life Histories, Sex Roles, and Adaptability - Essays in Honour of Linda M. Fedigan. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. Springer, New York, NY. Pp. 245-255.

Chapman, C.A., K. Valenta, and S. Bortolamiol. 2018. “How variable is a primate’s world: Spatial and temporal variation in potential ecological drivers of behaviour?” In Kalbitzer U, Jack KM (eds) Primate Life Histories, Sex Roles, and Adaptability - Essays in Honour of Linda M. Fedigan. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. Springer, New York, NY. Pp. 359-374.

Chapman, C.A., S. Bortolamiol, I. Matsuda, P.A. Omeja, F.P. Paim, R. Sengupta, J.P Skorupa and K. Valenta. 2018. Primate population dynamics: variation over space and time. Biodiversity and Conservation 27: 1221-1238.

Chapman, C.A., K. Valenta, T. Bonnell, K.A. Brown, and L.J. Chapman. 2018. Invited, Special issue on tropical phenology. Solar radiation and ENSO predict fruiting phenology patterns in a 15-year record from Kibale National Park, Uganda. Biotropica 50: 384-395.

Paim, F.P., K. Valenta, C.A. Chapman, A. Paglia, H.L. Queiroz. 2018. Tree community structure reflects niche segregation of three parapatric squirrel monkey species (Saimiri spp.). Primates 59: 395-404.

Adamescu, G. K. Abernethy, C. Boesch, T. Breuer, F. Bujo, C.A. Chapman, Cordeiro, C.N. Ewango, A. Fayolle, I. Gilby, T. Hart, M. Hockemba, J. Jeffrey, D. Morgan, B. Mugerwa, F. Mulindahabi, H. Ndangalasi, L. Ndolo, L. Polansky, A. Pusey, C. Sanz, D. Sheil, F. Ssali, C. Tutin, K. Valenta, L. White, and A. Plumptre, 2018. Annual cycles dominate reproductive phenology of African tropical trees. Biotropica 50: 418-430.

Brown, K.A., L.K. MacDougall, K. Valenta, A. Simor, J. Johnstone, S. Mubareka, G. Broukhanski, G. Garber, A. McGeer, and N. Daneman. 2018. Increased environmental sample area and recovery of Clostridium difficile spores from hospital surfaces by quantitative PCR and enrichment culture. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 39: 917-923. 

2017

Valenta, K., Nevo, O., Martel, C. and Chapman, C.A., 2017. Plant attractants: integrating insights from pollination and seed dispersal ecology. Evolutionary Ecology: 1-19.

Valenta, K., D. Twinomugisha, C. Lui, V.A.M. Schoof, T.L. Goldberg and C.A. Chapman. 2017. Habitat effects on gastrointestinal parasites in vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops). Integrative Zoology 12: 512-520.

Nevo, O., K. Valenta, A.G. Tevlin, S.A. Styler, D.J. Jackson, C.A. Chapman, and M. Ayasse. 2017. Fruit defence syndromes: The independent evolution of mechanical and chemical defences. Evolutionary Ecology 31: 913-923.

Farris, Z, B.D. Gerber, K. Valenta, R. Rafaliarison, J. Razafimahaimodison, E. Larney, T. Rajaonarivelo, Z. Randriana, P.C. Wright, C.A. Chapman. 2017. Threats to a rainforest carnivore community: a multi-year assessment of occupancy and co-occurrence in Madagascar. Biological Conservation 210: 116-124.

Malcolm, J., K. Valenta and S.M. Lehman. 2017. Edge effects in tropical dry forest in Madagascar: additivity or synergy? Landscape Ecology 32; 327-341.

Chapman, C.A., A. Corriveau, V.A.M. Schoof, D. Twinomugisha and K. Valenta. 2017. Long-term simian research and its significance for developing theory and conservation plans. Journal of Mammalogy 98: 652-660.

Parada, J., K. Valenta, R. Reyna-Hurtado. 2017. Spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi) travel to resting trees in a seasonal forest of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Folia Primatologica. 87: 375-380.

Federman, S., M. Sinnott-Armstrong, A.L. Baden, C.A. Chapman, D.C. Daly, A.R. Richard, K. Valenta and M.J. Donoghue. 2017. Tropical phenology in a variable environment: implications for the evolution and maintenance of frugivore assemblages. PLoS ONE 12(1): e0168943.

Vololonirina, F.F., J. Randrianasy, J.F. Ranaivoarisoa and K. Valenta. 2017. Effets de la luminosité et de l’éclairement solaire sur les activités diurnes d’Eulemur fulvus dans le Parc Nation d’Ankarafantsika. Lemur News 20: 43-47.

Chapman, C.A. and K. Valenta. 2017. Habitat selection and use. In: Encyclopedia of Primatology, A. Fuentes et al. (eds.), Wiley, New York.

Chapman, C.A., A. Corriveau, V.A.M. Schoof, F.P. Paim and K. Valenta. 2017. Long-term field studies – Africa. In: Encyclopedia of Primatology, A. Fuentes et al. (eds.), Wiley, New York.

Chapman, C.A. and K. Valenta. 2017. Habitat use (including strata and habitats). In: The International Encyclopedia of Biological Anthropology, Wenda Trevathan (ed).  John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

2016

Valenta, K., J.A. Gettinger-Larson, C.A. Chapman and Z. Farris. 2016. Barking up the right tree: understanding local attitudes to dogs in villages surrounding Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar can benefit applied conservation. Madagascar Conservation and Development 11: 87-90.

Omeja, P., M. Lawes, A.G. Corriveau, K. Valenta and C.A. Chapman. 2016. Recovery of the animal and plant communities across large scales in Kibale National Park, Uganda. Biotropica 48: 770-779.

Chapman, C.A., S. Friant, K. Godfrey, C. Liu, V.A.M. Schoof, D. Twinomugisha, J.M. Rothman, D. Sarkar, R. Sengupta, K. Valenta, and T.L. Goldberg. 2016. Social behaviour and networks of vervet monkeys are influenced by gastrointestinal parasites. PLoS ONE 11: e0161113.

Valenta, K., C.N. Miller, S.K. Monckton, S.A. Styler, D.J. Jackson, A.D. Melin, S.M. Lehman, C.A. Chapman and M.J. Lawes. 2016. Forest-wide fruit ripening signals: Haptic cues more reliably signal fruit ripeness than visual cues to dichromatic dispersers in tropical dry forest in Madagascar. Evolutionary Biology 43: 344-355.

Valenta, K. and S.M. Lehman. 2016 Microcebus spp as seed dispersers in the depauperate frugivore communities of Madagascar. In: Dwarf and Mouse Lemurs of Madagascar: Biology, Behavior, and Conservation Biogeography of the Cheirogaleidae. S. Lehman et al. (eds.), Oxford University Press, New York.

Chapman, C.A., D. Twinomugisha, J.A. Teichroeb, K. Valenta, R. Sengupta, D. Sarkar, and J.M. Rothman. 2016. How do primates survive among humans? Mechanisms employed by vervet monkeys at Lake Nabugabo, Uganda. In Ethnoprimatology: Primate Conservation in the 21st Century, M. Waller (ed.), Springer Press, New York. Pp. 77-94.

2015

Valenta, K. A.D. Melin, M. Edwards, N. Dominy, S. Holmes, K.A. Brown, S.E. Johnson, E. Parra and S.M. Lehman. 2015. Visual ecology of true lemurs suggests a cathemeral origin for the primate cone opsin polymorphism. Functional Ecology 30: 932-942.

Chapman, CA. and K. Valenta. 2015. The flexibility of togetherness: Costs and benefits of group living are neither simple nor linear. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 112: 14751-14752.

Valenta, K. K.A. Brown, A.D. Melin, S.K. Monckton, S.A. Styler, D.J. Jackson and C.A. Chapman. 2015. It’s not easy being blue: Are there olfactory and visual tradeoffs in plant signaling? PLoS ONE 10 (6): e0131725.

Valenta, K., K.A. Brown, R.R. Rafaliarison, S.A. Styler, D.J. Jackson, S.M. Lehman and A.D. Melin. 2015. Sensory integration during foraging: the importance of fruit hardness, colour, and odour to brown lemurs. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 69: 1855-1865.

Valenta, K. M. Hopkins, M. Meeking, C.A. Chapman and L.M. Fedigan. 2015. Density-dependent mortality predicts adult tree distributions in a neotropical angiosperm. Journal of Tropical Ecology 31:491-498. 2

Valenta, K. T.S. Steffens, R.R. Rafaliarison, S.M. Lehman and C.A. Chapman. 2015. The effect of forest loss and fragmentation on seed banks in a tropical dry forest in northwestern Madagascar. Biotropica 47: 435-440.

Brown, K.A., K. Valenta, D. Fisman, A. Simor and N. Daneman. 2015. Ward antibiotic prescribing and the risks of C. difficile infection. Journal of the American Medical Association, Internal Medicine 175: 626-633.

Before 2015

Valenta, K. R.J. Burke, S.A. Styler, D.A. Jackson, A.D. Melin and S.M. Lehman. 2013. Colour and odour drive fruit selection and seed dispersal by mouse lemurs. Scientific Reports 3: 1-5.

Valenta, K. and A.M. Melin. 2012. Protein limitation explains variation in primate color vision phenotypes: A unified model for the evolution of primate trichromatic vision. In Zoology. M.D. Garcia (ed.), InTech, ISBN: 978-953-51-0360-8

Valenta, K. and L.M. Fedigan. 2010. Spatial patterns of seed dispersal by white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus): Evaluating distant-dependent seed mortality. Biotropica 42: 223-228.

Valenta, K. and L.M. Fedigan. 2009. Effect of gut passage, feces and seed handling on latency and rate of germination in seeds consumed by capuchins (Cebus capucinus). American Journal of Physical Anthropology 138: 486-492.

Valenta, K, J.A. Klemens, L.M. Fedigan. 2009. Sleep tree use by white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus): Implications for density-dependent seed and seedling mortality. Neotropical Primates 16: 73-76.

Valenta, K. 2008. “Primatology in action” In Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 3rd Canadian Edition. C.R. Ember, M. Ember, P. Peregrine and R.D. Hoppa, eds. Toronto: Prentice-Hall. 3

Valenta, K. and L. Fedigan. 2008. How much is a lot? Seed dispersal by white-faced capuchins and implications for disperser-based studies of seed dispersal systems. Primates 49: 169-175.