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Recent Publications
Indigenous pyrodiversity promotes plant diversity
Greenwood, L., Bliege Bird, R., McGuire, C., Jadai, N., Price, J., Skroblin, A., van Leeuwen, S. & Nimmo, D., Mar 2024, In: Biological Conservation. 291, 110479.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Promise and peril of ecological and evolutionary modelling using cross-cultural datasets
Bliege Bird, R. & Codding, B. F., Jan 2022, In: Nature Ecology and Evolution. 6, 1, p. 6-8 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
Indigenous burning shapes the structure of visible and invisible fire mosaics
Greenwood, L., Bliege Bird, R. & Nimmo, D., Mar 2022, In: Landscape Ecology. 37, 3, p. 811-827 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
What do you mean, ‘megafire’?
Linley, G. D., Jolly, C. J., Doherty, T. S., Geary, W. L., Armenteras, D., Belcher, C. M., Bliege Bird, R., Duane, A., Fletcher, M. S., Giorgis, M. A., Haslem, A., Jones, G. M., Kelly, L. T., Lee, C. K. F., Nolan, R. H., Parr, C. L., Pausas, J. G., Price, J. N., Regos, A., Ritchie, E. G., & 4 others, Oct 2022, In: Global Ecology and Biogeography. 31, 10, p. 1906-1922 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Deconstructing Hunting Returns: Can We Reconstruct and Predict Payoffs from Pursuing Prey?
Morin, E., Bird, D., Winterhalder, B. & Bliege Bird, R., Jun 2022, In: Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 29, 2, p. 561-623 63 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Cooperating to show that you care: Costly helping as an honest signal of fitness interdependence
Barclay, P., Bliege Bird, R., Roberts, G. & Számadó, S., 2021, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 376, 1838, p. 429-431 3 p., 20200292.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Climate, landscape diversity, and food sovereignty in arid Australia: The firestick farming hypothesis
Bliege Bird, R. & Bird, D. W., Jul 1 2021, In: American Journal of Human Biology. 33, 4, e23527.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years
Ellis, E. C., Gauthier, N., Goldewijk, K. K., Bird, R. B., Boivin, N., Díaz, S., Fuller, D. Q., Gill, J. L., Kaplan, J. O., Kingston, N., Locke, H., McMichael, C. N. H., Ranco, D., Rick, T. C., Rebecca Shaw, M., Stephens, L., Svenning, J. C. & Watson, J. E. M., Apr 27 2021, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 118, 17, e2023483118.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
How can evolutionary and biological anthropologists engage broader audiences?
Jones, J. H., Pisor, A. C., Douglass, K. G., Bird, R. B., Ready, E., Hazel, A., Hackman, J., Kramer, K. L., Kohler, T. A., Pontzer, H. & Towner, M. C., Jul 1 2021, In: American Journal of Human Biology. 33, 4, e23592.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Revitalized Karuk and Yurok cultural burning to enhance California hazelnut for basketweaving in northwestern California, USA
Marks-Block, T., Lake, F. K., Bliege Bird, R. & Curran, L. M., Dec 2021, In: Fire Ecology. 17, 1, 6.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Fire mosaics and habitat choice in nomadic foragers
Bird, R. B., McGuire, C., Bird, D. W., Price, M. H., Zeanah, D. & Nimmo, D. G., Jun 9 2020, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 117, 23, p. 12904-12914 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The life history of human foraging: Cross-cultural and individual variation
Koster, J., McElreath, R., Hill, K., Yu, D., Shepard, G., Van Vliet, N., Gurven, M., Trumble, B., Bird, R. B., Bird, D., Codding, B., Coad, L., Pacheco-Cobos, L., Winterhalder, B., Lupo, K., Schmitt, D., Sillitoe, P., Franzen, M., Alvard, M., Venkataraman, V., & 21 others, Jun 2020, In: Science Advances. 6, 26, eaax9070.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Mass procurement and prey rankings: insights from the European rabbit
Morin, E., Bliege Bird, R. & Bird, D., Nov 1 2020, In: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 12, 11, 262.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Variability in the organization and size of hunter-gatherer groups: Foragers do not live in small-scale societies
Bird, D. W., Bird, R. B., Codding, B. F. & Zeanah, D. W., Jun 2019, In: Journal of Human Evolution. 131, p. 96-108 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Subsistence Transitions and the Simplification of Ecological Networks in the Western Desert of Australia
Crabtree, S. A., Bird, D. W. & Bird, R. B., Apr 1 2019, In: Human Ecology. 47, 2, p. 165-177 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review