Publications:
Anderson,
R. P.
and E. E. Gutiérrez. (in press) Taxonomy, distribution, and natural history of
the genus Heteromys (Rodentia:
Heteromyidae)
in central and eastern Venezuela, with the description of a new species from the
Cordillera de la Costa. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 104 ms pages + 14 figures.
Anderson,
R. P. and S.A. Jansa. 2007. Genetic
comparisons between Heteromys
desmarestianus and the newly described H.
nubicolens (Rodentia: Heteromyidae) in northwestern Costa Rica. Mammalian
Biology, 72:54-61. pdf
Anderson,
R. P.,
A. T. Peterson, and S. L. Egbert.
2006. Vegetation-index
models predict areas vulnerable to purple loosestrife (Lythrum
salicaria) invasion in Kansas.
Southwestern Naturalist, 51:471-480. pdf
Anderson,
R. P. and R. M. Timm. 2006. A new montane species of spiny pocket mouse (Rodentia: Heteromyidae: Heteromys)
from northwestern Costa Rica. American Museum Novitates, 3509:1-38. pdf
Anderson,
R. P.,
M. Weksler, and D. S. Rogers. 2006. Phylogenetic analyses of spiny
pocket mice (Heteromyidae: Heteromyinae) based on allozymic and morphological data. Journal of Mammalogy,
87:1218-1233. pdf
Elith,
J., C. H. Graham, R.
P. Anderson,
M. Dudík, S. Ferrier, A. Guisan, R. J. Hijmans, F. Huettmann, J. R. Leathwick, A.
Lehmann, J. Li, L. G. Lohmann, B. A. Loiselle, G. Manion, C. Moritz, M.
Nakamura, Y. Nakazawa, J. M. Overton, A. T. Peterson, S. J. Phillips, K.
Richardson, R. Scachetti-Pereira, R. E. Schapire, J. Soberón, S. Williams, M. S.
Wisz, and N. E. Zimmerman. 2006. Novel methods improve prediction of
species’ distributions from occurrence data. Ecography, 29:129-151. pdf
[This work was featured in the "Research
Highlights" section of Nature, 18 May 2006: 259 pdf].
Phillips,
S. J., R. P. Anderson, and R. E. Schapire. 2006. Maximum entropy
modeling of species geographic distributions. Ecological Modelling,
190:231-259. pdf
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comma-delimited file of training localities from this paper
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comma-delimited file of test localities from this paper
Anderson, R. P. and Martínez-Meyer. 2004. Modeling species’ geographic distributions for conservation
assessments: an implementation with the spiny pocket mice (Heteromys) of Ecuador. Biological Conservation,
116:167-179.
pdf
Gómez-Laverde, M., R. P. Anderson, and L. F. García.
2004. Integrated systematic
reevaluation of the Amazonian genus Scolomys (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae). Mammalian
Biology, 69:119-139.
pdf
Anderson, R. P. 2003. Real vs. artefactual absences in species distributions: tests for Oryzomys albigularis (Rodentia: Muridae) in Venezuela. Journal of Biogeography,
30:591-605. pdf
Anderson, R. P. 2003. Taxonomy, distribution, and natural history of the genus Heteromys (Rodentia:
Heteromyidae) in western Venezuela, with the description of a dwarf species from the Península de Paraguaná. American
Museum Novitates, 3396:1-43. pdf
Anderson, R. P., D. Lew, and A. T. Peterson. 2003. Evaluating predictive models of species' distributions:
criteria for selecting optimal models. Ecological Modelling, 162:211-232.
pdf
Anderson, R. P., M. Gómez-Laverde, and A. T. Peterson. 2002.
Geographical distributions of spiny pocket mice in South America: insights from predictive models.
Global Ecology & Biogeography, 11:131-141. pdf
Anderson, R. P. and C. O. Handley, Jr. 2002.
Dwarfism in insular sloths: biogeography, selection, and evolutionary rate. Evolution, 56:1045-1058.
pdf
Anderson, R. P. and P. Jarrín-V. 2002. A new species
of spiny pocket mouse (Heteromyidae: Heteromys) endemic to western Ecuador. American Museum Novitates, 3382:1-26.
pdf
Anderson, R. P., A. T. Peterson, and M. Gómez-Laverde. 2002.
Using niche-based GIS modeling to test geographic predictions of competitive exclusion and
competitive release in South American pocket mice. Oikos, 98:3-16. pdf
Anderson, R. P. and C. O. Handley, Jr. 2001. A new species of three-toed sloth
(Mammalia: Xenarthra) from Panamá, with a review of the genus Bradypus. Proceedings of the Biological
Society of Washington, 114:1-33. pdf
[This work was featured in the "Discoveries" section of BBC Wildlife magazine,
October 2001:17; and in the “Wildlife” section of National Geographic magazine,
March 2006:2, 20].
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Excel file of Bradypus localities from this paper
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comma-delimited file of Bradypus localities from this paper
Anderson, R. P.
1999 [2000]. Preliminary review of the systematics and
biogeography of the spiny pocket mice (Heteromys) of Colombia. Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias
Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, 23 (Suplemento especial):613-630. pdf
Anderson, R. P.
and P. J. Soriano. 1999. The occurrence and biogeographic
significance of the southern spiny pocket mouse Heteromys australis in Venezuela. Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde,
64:121-125. pdf
Lim, B. K., M. D. Engstrom, R. M. Timm, R. P. Anderson, and L. C. Watson. 1999.
First records of 10 bat species in Guyana and comments on diversity of bats in Iwokrama Forest.
Acta Chiropterologica, 1:179-190. pdf
Cadena, A., R. P. Anderson, and P. Rivas-Pava. 1998. Colombian mammals from
the Chocoan slopes of Nariño. Occasional Papers of the Museum, Texas Tech University, 180:1-15.
pdf
Anderson, R. P. 1994. Faunal Analysis of Feature 4, 14JW1. Pp. 55-64 In:
White Rock Revised: Archaeological investigation of the White Rock and Warne sites, Lovewell Reservoir, Jewell
County, Kansas. (B. Logan and W. E. Banks, editors). University of Kansas Museum of Anthropology Project
Report Series, 85.
western Nariño, Colombia in 1995; see Cadena et al. 1998
Ph.D. dissertation:
Anderson, R. P. 2001.
Systematics and biogeographic modeling of spiny pocket mice (Rodentia:
Heteromyidae: Heteromys) in South America. Ph.D. Dissertation, University
of Kansas, Lawrence. ix + 169 pp.
Presentations at scientific meetings:
Effect
of study region on GIS models of species distributions and estimates of niche
evolution: tests with montane rodents (genus Nephelomys) in Venezuela.
Evolution 2008 Meeting, 20–24 June 2008, Minneapolis, Minnesota. R. P.
Anderson and A. Raza.
Can
interspecific competition promote geographic isolation? Insights from GIS-based
niche modeling, with an example using mouse opossums (genus Marmosa).
Evolution 2008 Meeting, 20–24 June 2008, Minneapolis, Minnesota. E. E.
Gutiérrez and R. P. Anderson.
Do
small mammals inhabit novel climatic conditions on the Península de Paraguaná
in northwestern Venezuela? Insights from GIS modeling. Evolution 2008 Meeting,
20–24 June 2008, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Poster presentation. D. M. Thomas, E.
E. Gutiérrez, R. P. Anderson, J. Ochoa-G., and M. Aguilera.
A
jackknife approach to tuning GIS models of species geographic distributions and
estimating niche evolution: tests with pocket mice (Heteromys) in South
America.
Evolution 2008 Meeting, 20–24 June 2008, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Poster
presentation. M. Shcheglovitova and R. P. Anderson.
A
new species of Heteromys (Rodentia:
Heteromyidae) from the Cordillera de la Costa in Venezuela. 87th Annual
Meeting, American Society of Mammalogists, 6–10 June 2007, Albuquerque, New
Mexico. E. E. Gutiérrez and R. P.
Anderson.
Comparisons
of the non-volant mammalian faunas of two tropical sky islands in northwestern
Venezuela. 87th Annual Meeting, American Society of Mammalogists, 6–10
June 2007, Albuquerque, New Mexico. R. P.
Anderson, J. Ochoa-G., E. E. Gutiérrez, F. García, and M. Aguilera.
Effect
of study region for GIS models of distributions and niche overlap in Rhipidomys.
87th Annual Meeting, American Society of Mammalogists, 6–10 June 2007,
Albuquerque, New Mexico. A. Raza and R.
P. Anderson.
Growth,
sexual dimorphism, and geographic variation: using bootstrapping to study
multivariate growth trajectories in the rodent Heteromys
anomalus. Evolution 2006 Meeting, 23–27 June 2006, Stony Brook, New York. R.
P. Anderson and N. A. Slade.
Modeling
the geographic distribution of the shrew Cryptotis meridensis in
Venezuela: robustness to small sample sizes and sampling bias. 86th Annual
Meeting, American Society of Mammalogists, 17–21 June 2006, Amherst,
Massachusetts. Poster presentation. Israel Gonzalez and R. P. Anderson.
Phylogenetic
relationships of spiny pocket mice (genera Heteromys and Liomys)
based on morphological and allozymic data. 86th Annual Meeting, American Society
of Mammalogists, 17–21 June 2006, Amherst, Massachusetts. R. P. Anderson,
M. Weksler, and D. S. Rogers.
Discovery
of a new Heteromys (Rodentia: Heteromyidae) endemic to northwestern Costa
Rica. 85th Annual Meeting, American Society of Mammalogists, 15–19 June 2005,
Springfield, Missouri. R. P. Anderson
and R. M. Timm.
Modeling the geographic distributions of South
American mammals using the Maximum Entropy method. Invited contribution to the
symposium What do species distribution models add to conservation biology?
18th Annual Meeting, Society for Conservation Biology, 30 July–2 August 2004,
New York, New York. R.
P. Anderson, S. J. Phillips, and R. E. Schapire.
Bootstrapping
analyses in Heteromys anomalus (Rodentia:
Heteromyidae): a modern approach to assessing nongeographic variation. 84th
Annual Meeting, American Society of Mammalogists, 12–16 June 2004, Arcata,
California. R. P. Anderson and
N. A. Slade.
Evaluating sampling effort in areas lacking
records of a species: tests for Oryzomys
albigularis in Venezuela. 83rd Annual Meeting, American Society of
Mammalogists, 21–25 June 2003, Lubbock, Texas. R.
P. Anderson.
Discovery and conservation assessment of a new
species of spiny pocket mouse (Heteromys)
endemic to western Ecuador. 82nd Annual Meeting, American
Society of Mammalogists, 15–19 June 2002, Lake Charles, Louisiana. R. P.
Anderson, E. Martínez-Meyer, and P. Jarrín-V.
Evolutionary
allometry and ontogenetic truncation in an isolated species of Heteromys
from northwestern Venezuela. 81st Annual Meeting, American Society of
Mammalogists, 16–20 June 2001, Missoula, Montana. R. P. Anderson.
Modelos
predictivos de distribución potencial de las especies del género Phyllostomus (Mammalia, Chiroptera) en Venezuela. IV Congreso
Venezolano de Ecología, 29 October–2 November 2001, Mérida, Venezuela. D.
Lew, R. Anderson, V. Romero, H. Rojas, and E. Martínez-Meyer. Presented
by D. Lew.
Testing
ecological hypotheses with museum records: evidence for competition in spiny
pocket mice? Central Plains Society of Mammalogists’ Meeting, 14 October 2000,
Emporia, Kansas. R. P. Anderson.
Biogeography
of three-toed sloths on the islands of Bocas del Toro, Panama: parallel
evolution of dwarfism during the Holocene. Evolution 2000 Meeting, 23–27 June
2000, Bloomington, Indiana. R. P. Anderson and C. O. Handley, Jr.
Predictive
models of spiny pocket mouse (Heteromys)
distributions in South America: historical and biotic restrictions to potential
ranges. 80th Annual Meeting, American Society of Mammalogists, 17–21 June
2000, Durham, New Hampshire. R. P. Anderson, M. Gómez-Laverde, and A. T.
Peterson.
Physical,
historical, and biotic determinants of pocket mouse distributions in South
America: insights from predictive models. 51st Annual Meeting, American
Institute of Biological Sciences, 22–24 March 2000, Washington, DC. Poster
presentation. R. P. Anderson, M. Gómez-Laverde, and A. T. Peterson.
Evolutionary
rates and selection intensities in insular populations of three-toed sloths.
Kansas Mammal Meeting, 25 September 1999, Emporia, Kansas. R. P. Anderson
and C. O. Handley, Jr.
Allometry
and the ontogeny of sexual dimorphism in heteromyid rodents: reducing
non-geographic variation in morphometric studies. 79th Annual Meeting, American
Society of Mammalogists, 20–24 June 1999, Seattle, Washington. R. P.
Anderson.
Removing
the effects of age and sex from a mensural data set: examples from spiny pocket
mice (Heteromys). Kansas Mammal
Meeting, 12 September 1998, Emporia, Kansas. R. P. Anderson.
Dwarfism
and speciation in three-toed sloths (Bradypus)
on the islands of Bocas del Toro, Panama. 78th Annual Meeting, American Society
of Mammalogists, 6–10 June 1998, Blacksburg, Virginia. R. P. Anderson
and C. O. Handley, Jr.
The
biogeographic significance of the southern spiny pocket mouse (Heteromys
australis: Heteromyidae) in Venezuela. Kansas Mammal Meeting, 27 September
1997, Emporia, Kansas. R. P. Anderson and P. J. Soriano.
the northern Neotropics
Presentations at undergraduate research symposia:
Assessing the conservation
status of the spiny pocket mouse Heteromys
teleus using Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
2007 City College Academy for Professional Preparation Annual Poster
Presentation, 29 November 2007. M. Shcheglovitova
(CCNY undergraduate student) and R. P. Anderson.
Modeling
the geographic distributions of the spiny pocket mice (Heteromys)
of Ecuador for conservation assessments. 2006 City College Academy for
Professional Preparation Annual Poster Presentation, 30 November 2006. S. D.
Claxton (CCNY undergraduate student), N. Rana (CCNY undergraduate student), and R.
P. Anderson.
Modeling
geographic distributions and niche overlap between related species of rodents
(genus Rhipidomys) in South America. 2006 City College Academy for
Professional Preparation Annual Poster Presentation, 30 November 2006. A. Raza (CCNY
undergraduate student) and R. P. Anderson.
Modeling
the geographic distribution of the shrew Cryptotis meridensis in
Venezuela. 2005 City College Academy for Professional Preparation Annual Poster
Presentation, 17 November, 2005. I. Gonzalez (CCNY undergraduate student) and
Robert P. Anderson.
Selected research seminars at foreign institutions:
Estudio
de pequeños mamíferos no voladores de dos montañas aisladas en el
noroccidente venezolano. Departamento de Biología, Facultad Experimental de
Ciencias y Tecnología, Universidad de Carabobo, Valencia, Venezuela, 25 July
2007.
Modelos de distribución geográfica: su uso en estudios de evolución, ecología y conservación de
pequeños mamíferos. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de
Colombia, Bogotá,
Colombia, 29 January 2002.
El uso de sistemas de información geográfica en estudios de evolución: un ejemplo con ratones bolseros Heteromys spp.
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador, 16 January 2001
Biogeografía de ratones mochileros (Heteromys) en Suramérica: el uso de sistemas de información
geográfica (SIG) en estudios de evolución y conservación.
Universidad Simón Bolívar, Baruta, Venezuela, 23 May 2000, and
Fundación La Salle, Caracas, Venezuela, 26 May 2000
Evolución de los perezosos de tres dedos (Bradypus) de las islas de Bocas del Toro, Panamá.
Instituto de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Villa de Leiva, Colombia, August 1998 and
Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia, 11 August 1998
Quindío, Colombia, 1995
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