Samonds

Karen Elizabeth

Rôle :

Northern Illinois University

Institution :

Northern Illinois University

Poste occupé :

Email :

ksamonds@niu.edu

Domaine d'expertise :

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research is focused on the origin and evolutionary history of Madagascar’s
modern fauna, one of the most unique and endemic on the planet. How, when, and
from where they arrived has remained largely unknown due to a 65-million-year
gap in the fossil record that occurs precisely within the time period during
which the modern vertebrate groups are hypothesized to have colonized the
island. My research has sought to fill in this “gap” in a number of different
ways. I also continue to collaborate with colleagues on
projects examining dental development, life history, anatomy and growth in both
living and subfossil lemurs. These collaborations have examined life history
variation in extant and extinct primates (including electron microscopy and
ontogenetic studies of dental eruption and root formation), and collected data
from captures of wild lemurs to characterize their growth and health in
pristine forest and disturbed fragments.Domaines d’expertise/Area of expertise: Subfossil lemurs, Lemur growth
and dental development, Lemur life history<o:p></o:p>

Espèces étudiées / Species: Propithecus diadema<o:p></o:p>

1.
Crowley BE, Godfrey LR, Bankoff RJ, Perry GH, Gulleton BJ, Kennett DJ,
Sutherland MR, Samonds KE &
Burney DA (2017). Island-wide aridity did not trigger megafaunal extinctions in
Madagascar. Ecography 40: 901-912.<o:p></o:p>2.
Ohba M, Samonds KE, LaFleur
M, Ali JR, & Godfrey LR (2016). Madagascar’s climate at the K/P boundary. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology,
Palaeoecology 441:
688–695.<o:p></o:p>3.
Samonds KE, Godfrey LR, Ali JR, Goodman SM,
Vences M, Sutherland MR, Irwin MT, and Krause DW (2013). Imperfect isolation:
factors and filters shaping Madagascar's extant vertebrate fauna. PLoS ONE 8(4): e62086.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0062086: <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0062086">http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0062086</a><o:p></o:p>4.
Samonds KE, Godfrey LR, Ali JR, Goodman SM,
Vences M, Sutherland MR, Irwin MT, Krause DW (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.<o:p></o:p>5.
Samonds KE, Parent SN, Muldoon KM, Crowley BE,
and Godfrey LR (2010). Rock matrix surrounding subfossil lemur skull yields
diverse collection of mammalian subfossils: Implications for reconstructing
Madagascar’s paleoenvironments. Malagasy
Nature 4:1-16.<o:p></o:p>6.
Irwin MT, Junge RE, Raharison JL, Samonds
KE (2010). Variation in physiological health of diademed sifakas across
intact and fragmented forest at Tsinjoarivo, eastern Madagascar. American Journal of Primatology 72:1013-1025.
(featured article).<o:p></o:p>7.
Godfrey LR, Schwartz GT, Samonds
KE, Jungers WL, and Catlett K (2006).
The secrets of lemur teeth. Evolutionary
Anthropology 15:142-154.<o:p></o:p>8.
Godfrey LR, Samonds KE,
Wright PC and King SJ (2005). Schultz’s unruly rule: dental developmental
sequences and schedules in small-bodied folivorous lemurs. Folia Primatologica 76:77-99.<o:p></o:p>9.
Godfrey LR, Samonds KE,
Jungers WL, Sutherland MR and Irwin MT (2004). Ontogenetic correlates of diet
in Malagasy lemurs. American Journal of
Physical Anthropology 123:250-276.<o:p></o:p>

10.
Schwartz GT, Samonds KE,
Godfrey LR, Jungers WL and Simons EL (2002). Dental microstructure and life
history in subfossil lemurs. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences 99(9):6124-6129.<o:p></o:p>

ksamonds@niu.edu