Biography
Dr. Paul A. Garber is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA. I am a former Executive Editor of the American Journal of Primatology (2008-2017) and was named the 2017 American Society of Primatologists Distinguished Primatologist. I have conducted primate field research in 8 countries throughout Central and South America, as well as across China focused on the behavioral ecology of tamarins, marmosets, callimicos, capuchins, howler monkeys, snub-nosed monkeys, gibbons, and macaques. I have authored over 250 journal articles and book chapters (including 12 edited books) on the behavior, ecology, cognition, and conservation of nonhuman primates. This includes several recent papers on the impending extinction crisis faced by the world’s primates. I currently serve as an Adjunct Professor at the International Center of Biodiversity and Primate Conservation at Dali University, Dali, Yunnan, China. Recently, I co-organized two workshops on scientific activism and environmental justice.
Highlighted Publications
BOOKS
Garber, Paul Alan, Marilyn Norconk, and Alfred Rosenberger. ADAPTIVE RADIATIONS OF NEOTROPICAL PRIMATES. New York: Plenum Press, 1996.
Boinksi, Sue. ON THE MOVE: HOW AND WHY ANIMALS TRAVEL IN GROUPS. CHICAGO: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Estrada, Alejandro. NEW PERSPECTIVES IN THE STUDY OF MESOAMERICAN PRIMATES: DISTRIBUTION, ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR AND CONSERVATION. Compiled by Paul Garber, New York: Springer, 2006.
Garber, Paul Alan. SOUTH AMERICAN PRIMATES: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES IN THE STUDY OF BEHAVIOR, ECOLOGY, AND CONSERVATION. Compiled by Alejandro Estrada, New York: Springer, 2009.
BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS
"Comparative perspectives in the study of South American primates: research priorities and conservation imperatives." SOUTH AMERICAN PRIMATES: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES IN THE STUDY OF BEHAVIOR, ECOLOGY, AND CONSERVATION, New York: Springer, 2009.
"Advancing the study of South American primates." SOUTH AMERICAN PRIMATES: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES IN THE STUDY OF BEHAVIOR, ECOLOGY, AND CONSERVATION, New York: Springer, 2009.
"Integrating social and ecological information in decision-making." SOUTH AMERICAN PRIMATES: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES IN THE STUDY OF BEHAVIOR, ECOLOGY, AND CONSERVATION, New York: Springer, 2009.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
"Trunk-to-trunk Leaping in wild Callimico goeldii in northern Bolivia." Neotropical Primates, vol. 16, no. 1, 2009.
"Mating promiscuity and reproductive tactics in female black and gold howler monkeys (Alouatta caraya) inhabiting an island on the Parana River, Argentina." American Journal of Primatology, vol. 72, 2010.
"Analysis of the hydrogenotrophic microbiota of wild and captive black howler monkeys (Alouatta pigra) in Palenque National Park, Mexico." American Journal of Primatology, vol. 73, 2011.
Qi, Xiao-Guang, Bin Yang, Paul A. Garber, Weihong Ji, Kunio Watanabe, and Bao-Guo Li. "Sexual Interference in the Golden Snub-Nosed Monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana): A Test of the Sexual Competition Hypothesis in a Polygynous Species." American Journal of Primatology, vol. 73, 2011, p. 366-377.
"Evidence of Allomaternal nursing Across One-Male Units in the Yunnan Snub-Nosed Monkey (Rhinopithecus bieti)." PLoS ONE, 2012.
"Grooming reciprocity in female Tibetan macaques Macaca thibetana." American Journal of Primatology, vol. 74, no. 6, 2012.
"Infant mortality in Alouatta caraya living in a flooded forest in Northeastern Argentina." International Journal of Primatology, vol. 33, 2012.
"ission–fusion behavior in Yunnan snub‐nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus bieti) inYunnan, China." Int J Primatol, vol. 33, 2012.
"Grooming reciprocity in male Tibetan macaques." American Journal of Primatology, vol. 75, no. 10, 2013.