Ken Glander

Duke University || Biology Department || Biological Anthropology
Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences


background faculty students degree structure & admissions rules & regulations curriculum financial support administration classes home	Ken Glander
	Professor, Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy

	Degrees	PhD - University of Chicago, 1975

	Research Interests	Dr. Glander studies primate ecology and social organization: the interaction between feeding patterns and social structure; the evolutionary development of optimal group size and composition; factors affecting short and long-term demographic changes in stable groups; and primate use of regenerating forests.

	Recent Publications	Teaford, M.R. and K.E. Glander. 1997. Dental microwear and diet in a wild population of mantled howlers (Alouatta palliata). Pp. 433-449. In: Norconk, M.A., A.L. Rosenberger and P.A. Garber, (eds.). Adaptive Radiations of Neotropical Primates. Plenum Press, New York. Schoeninger, M.J., U.T. Iwaniec and K.E. Glander. 1997. Stable isotope ratios indicate diet and habitat use in New World monkeys. American. Journal of Physical Anthropology 102:1-15. Glander, K.E. and R.A. Nisbett. 1998. Community structure and species density in tropical forest associations at Hacienda La Pacifica in Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica. Brenesia 45-46:113-142.

	Graduate Students	Recent Graduates: 1995: Claire A. Hemingway, Ph.D. Dissertation title: Reproductive strategies in free-ranging female Propithecus diadema edwardsi 1997: Joyce Powzyk, Ph.D. Dissertation title: The socio-ecology of two sympatric Indriids: Propithecus diadema diadema and Indir indri: a comparison of feeding strategies and their possible repercussion on species-specific behaviors 1999: Michele Rasmussen, Ph.D. Dissertation title: Cathemeral behavior in Eulemur species

	Contact	E-mail: glander@duke.edu Telephone: 919-489-3364 ext 223 Web: http://www.baa.duke.edu/FacPages/glander.html
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