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Dr Amanda H Korstjens
BSc, MPhil, PhD

Senior Lecturer in Biological Anthropology

Selected Publications

Book / Book Sections

Korstjens AH, 2008 Importance of kinship in monkey society. In: Early Human Kinship: from sex to social reproduction. Allen, N, Callan, H, Dunbar, RIM, and James, W (eds.) Blackwell Publishing, Malden, Oxford, Carlten, p. 151-159.

Korstjens AH, Galat-Luong A, in press, Colobus polykomos, In: Kingdon, J, Happold, DCD, Butynski, TM, eds., Mammals of Africa, Elsevier Science, Oxford.

Oates JF, Korstjens AH, accepted, Procolobus verus, In: Kingdon, J, Happold, DCD, Butynski, TM, eds., Mammals of Africa, Elsevier Science, Oxford.

Korstjens AH, Bergman K et al., 2007, How small-scale differences in food competition lead to different social systems in three closely related sympatric colobines, In: McGraw, S, Zuberbühler, K, Noë R, eds., The monkeys of the Taï Forest, Ivory Coast: an African primate community, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge .

Sterck EHM, Korstjens AH, 2000, Female dispersal and infanticide avoidance in primates, In: van Schaik, CP, Janson, CH, eds., Infanticide by males and its implications, pp. 293-321, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Korstjens, AH ,2001. The mob, the secret sorority, and the phantoms. An analysis of the socio-ecological strategies of the three colobines of Taï. PhD thesis, Utrecht University. ISBN 90-393-2752-1.

Journal Papers

Dunbar, RIM, Korstjens, AH, and Lehmann, J, accepted. Time as an Ecological Constraint. Biol Rev

Asensio, N, Korstjens, AH, and Aureli, F, in press. Fissioning into subgroups minimizes ranging costs in spider monkeys. Behav Ecol Sociobiol

Asensio, N, Korstjens, AH, Schaffner, CM, Aureli, F, 2008. Intragroup aggression, feeding competition and fission-fusion sociality in spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi). Behaviour 145(7): 883-1001.

Aureli, F, Schaffner, CM, Boesch, C, Bearder, SK, Call, J, Chapman, CA, Connor, R, Di Fiore, Dunbar, RIM, Henzi, SP, Holekamp, K, Korstjens, AH, Layton, RH, Lee, P, Lehmann, J, Manson, JH, Ramos-Frenández, G, Strier, KB and van Schaik, CP, 2008. Fission-Fusion dynamics: new research frameworks. Section: Korstjens, AH, Layton, RH, van Schaik, CP, Boesch, C, and Dunbar, RIM. Fission-fusion dynamics and the evolution of complex human societies. Curr Anthrop.

Lehmann, J, Korstjens AH, and Dunbar, RIM, 2008 online first. Time management in great apes: implications for gorilla biogeography. Evol Ecol Rev

Lehmann, J, Korstjens AH, and Dunbar, RIM, 2007. Group size, grooming and social cohesion in primates. Anim Behav 74. 1617-1629

Lehmann, J, Korstjens AH, and Dunbar, RIM, 2007. Fission-fusion social systems as a strategy for coping with ecological constraints: a primate case. Evol Ecol. 21: 613-634

Korstjens, AH, and Dunbar, RIM, 2007. Time constraints limit group sizes and distribution in red and black-and-white colobus monkeys. Int. J. Primatol. 28, 551-575

Wich, SA, Steenbeek, R, Sterck, EHM, Korstjens, AH, Willems, EP, and van Schaik, CP, 2007. Demography and life history of Thomas langurs (Presbytis thomasi). Am J Primatol. 69:641-651.

Korstjens, AH, Verhoeckx, IL, and Dunbar, RIM, 2006. Time as a constraint on group size in spider monkeys. Behav Ecol Sociobiol. 60:683-69

Korstjens, AH, Nijssen, EC, and Noë, R, 2005. Inter-group relationships in western black-and-white colobus, Colobus polykomos polykomos. Int. J. Primatol. 26(6): 1267-1289

Korstjens, AH, and Noë, R, 2004. The mating system of an exceptional primate, the olive colobus (Procolobus verus). Am. J. Primatol.62: 261-273.

Korstjens, AH, and Schippers, Eph, 2003. Dispersal patterns among olive colobus in Taï National Park. Int. J. Primatol. 24(3): 515-540.

Korstjens, AH, Sterck, EHM, and Noë, R, 2002. How adaptive or phylogenetically inert is primate social behaviour? A test with two sympatric colobines. Behaviour 139:203-225.

Jeurissen F, Kavelaars, A, Korstjens, M, et al., 1994 Monocytes express a non-neurokinin substance P receptor that is functionally coupled to MAP kinase. J Immunol 152:2987-2994.