Dr. Paul A. Garber
Professor Emeritus
Department of Anthropology
Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology
University of Illinois
Urbana, Illinois 61801 USA
ABOUT
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.
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Guo YQ, Han L, Liu T, Li G, Garber PA and Zhou J. 2020.The genetic status of the critically endangered Hainan gibbon (Nomascus hainanus): a species moving toward extinction. Qing Yan Guo, Ling Han, Tao Liu, Gang Li, Paul A Garber and Jiang Zhou. Frontiers in Genetics DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2020.608633
Estrada A, Garber PA, and Chaudhary A (2020). Current and future trends in socio-economic, demographic, and governance factors affecting global primate conservation. PeerJ 8:e9816 DOI 10.7717/peerj.9816
Garber PA. 2019. Distinguished Primatologist Address - Moving from Advocacy to Activism: changing views of primate field research and conservation over the past 40 years. Paul A. Garber. American Journal of Primatology https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23052
Estrada A, Garber, PA, and Chaudhary A. 2019. Expanding global commodities trade and consumption place the world’s primates at risk of extinction. PeerJ 7:e7068 DOI 10.7717/peerj.7068
De la Fuente MFC, Caselli CB, Bicca-Marques C-J, Souto A, Schiel N, and Garber PA. 2019. Balancing contest competition, scramble competition, and cooperative foraging in wild common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus). American Journal of Primatology 81 (4):e22964
Li B-G, Li M, Li J-H, Fan, P, Ni Q, Lu J, Zhou X, Long Y, Xu W, Jiang Z, Zhang P, Huang Z, Pan R, Gouveia S, Dobrovolski R, Grueter CC, Oxnard C, Groves C, Estrada A, and Garber PA. 2018. The Primate Extinction Crisis in China: Immediate
Challenges and a way forward. Biodiversity and Conservation DOI.org/10.1007/s10531-018-1614-y
Estrada, A., Garber PA, et al. 2018. Primates in peril: the significance of Brazil, Madagascar, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo for global primate conservation. PeerJ 6:e4869;DOI 10.7717/peerj.4869
Estrada A, Garber PA, et al. 2017. Impending extinction crisis of the world´s primates: Why primates matter. Science Advances DOI 10.1126/sciadv., e1600946 (published January 18, 2017)
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Links to Recent High Profile Publications & Scipods
2021 Primates don't need us, we need them Inverse, 2021
Current and future trends in socio-economic, demographic and governance factors affecting global primate conservation PeerJ, 2021
SciPod for Current and future trends in socio-economic, demographic, and governance factors affecting global primate conservation PeerJ, 2021
SciPod for China Must Act Immediately to Protect its Primate Populations from Extinction Springer, 2018
The Primate Extinction Crisis in China: immediate challenges and a way forward Springer, 2018
SciPod for "Impending extinction crisis of the world’s primates: Why primates matter” Science Advances, 2018
SciPod for Primates in Peril: the significance of Brazil, Madagascar, Indonesia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo for global primate conservation PeerJ, 2018
SciPod for Unsustainable global consumer demands drive primate extinction PeerJ, 2019
Primates in peril: the significance of Brazil, Madagascar, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo for global primate conservation PeerJ, 2018
Global consumer demands fuel the extinction crisis facing the worlds primates Mongabay, 2019
New gibbon species found in ancient Chinese tomb Washington Post, 2018
Primates face deepening threat of extinction UIUC, 2018
SciPod Primate extinction crisis in China Springer, 2018
Uncertain Future of China's Primates Natural History Museum, 2018
