George Wittemyer

 

 

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Wittemyer, G. 2005. The Socio-Ecology of the African Elephant (Loxodonta africana). PhD Thesis, University of California, Berkeley.  PDF

 

Wittemyer, G.*, Brashares, J.S.*, Elsen, P., Bean, W.T. and Burton, A.C.O. In press. Accelerated human population growth at protected area edges. Science

Wittemyer, G., Polansky, L., Douglas-Hamilton, I. and Getz, W.M. In press. Disentangling the effects of forage, social rank and risk on movement autocorrelation of elephants using Fourier and wavelet analysis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Okello, J.B.A.*, Wittemyer, G.*, Rasmussen, H.B., Arctander, P., Nyakaana, S., Douglas-Hamilton, I., & Siegismund, H. In press. Effective population size dynamics reveal impacts of historic climatic events and recent anthropogenic pressure in African elephants. Molecular Ecology

Wittemyer, G., Cerling, T.E., & Douglas-Hamilton I. Preliminarily Accepted. Establishing longitudinal diet chronologies from isotopic profiles in serially collected hairs. Chemical Geology

Okello, J.B.A., Masembe, C., Rasmussen, H.B., Wittemyer, G., Omondi, P., Kahindi, O., Douglas-Hamilton, I., Arctander, P., Nyakaana, S., & Siegismund, H. In press. Population genetic structure of elephants in Kenya. Journal of Heredity

Rasmussen, H.B., Okello, J.B.A., Wittemyer, G., Siegismund, H., Vollrath, F., & Douglas-Hamilton, I. 2008. Age and tactic related paternity success in male African elephants. Behavioral Ecology 19: 9-15 PDF

Wittemyer, G., Getz, W.M., Vollrath, F. & Douglas-Hamilton, I. 2007. Social dominance, seasonal movements, and spatial segregation in the African elephant: A contribution to conservation behavior. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 61:1919-1931 PDF [Supplementary Material]

Wittemyer, G., Ganswindt, A., and Hodges, K. 2007. The impact of ecological variability on the reproductive endocrinology of wild female African elephants. Hormones and Behavior 51:346-354 PDF [Correction PDF]

Wittemyer, G.*, Rasmussen, H. B.*, & Douglas-Hamilton, I. 2007. The influence of primary productivity variability on female elephant reproductive strategies. Ecography 30:42-50 PDF

Wittemyer, G. and Getz, W.M. 2007. Testing socio-ecological predictions of dominance relationships in a scramble competitor.  Animal Behaviour 73:671-681 PDF

Wittemyer, G. and Getz, W.M. 2006. A Likely Ranking Interpolation for Resolving Optimal Dominance Orders in Systems with Unknown Relationships. Behaviour 143:909-930 PDF

Rasmussen, H. B.*, Wittemyer, G.*, & Douglas-Hamilton, I. In press. Predicting time specific changes in demographic processes using remote sensing data. Journal of Applied Ecology 43:366-376 PDF

Cerling, T.E., Wittemyer, G., Rasmussen, H., Vollrath, F., Cerling, C.E., Robinson, T.J. & Douglas-Hamilton, I. 2006. Stable isotopes in elephant hair documents migration patterns and diet changes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103:371-373  PDF

Douglas-Hamilton, I., Bhalla, S., Wittemyer, G., & Vollrath, F. 2006. Behavioural reactions of elephants towards a dying and deceased matriarch.  Applied Animal Behaviour Science 100:87-102 PDF

Wittemyer, G., Douglas-Hamilton, I., & Getz, W.M. 2005. The socio-ecology of   elephants: Analysis of the processes creating multileveled societies. Animal Behaviour 69:1357-1371  PDF

Wittemyer, G., Daballen, D., Rasmussen, H., Kahindi, O., Douglas-Hamilton, I. 2005. Demographic status of elephants in the Samburu and Buffalo Springs National Reserves, Kenya. African Journal of Ecology 43:44-47  PDF

Okello, J.B.A., Wittemyer, G., Rasmussen, H.B., Douglas-Hamilton, I., Nyakanna, S., Arctander, P., & Siegismund, H. 2005. Noninvasive microsatellite genotyping and Mendelian inheritance in African savanna elephants. Journal of Heredity 96:679-687  PDF

Rasmussen, H. B., Wittemyer, G., & Douglas-Hamilton, I. 2005. Estimating age of immobilized elephants from teeth impressions using dental silicon. African Journal of Ecology 43:215-219  PDF

Rasmussen, L.E.L. & Wittemyer, G. 2002.  Chemosignaling of musth by individual wild African elephants, (Loxodonta africana): implications for conservation and management. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences 269:853-860  PDF

Wittemyer, G. 2001.  The elephant population of Samburu and Buffalo Springs National Reserves, Kenya.  African Journal of Ecology 39:357-365  PDF

*Joint first authors