Rebecca Bliege Bird

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Titles and Affiliations
Professor, Anthropology

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Recent Publications

Seed dispersal by Martu peoples promotes the distribution of native plants in arid Australia

Bliege Bird, R., Bird, D. W., Martine, C. T., McGuire, C., Greenwood, L., Taylor, D., Williams, T. M. & Veth, P. M., Dec 2024, In: Nature communications. 15, 1, 6019.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

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 journalArticlepeer-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 journalComment/debatepeer-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.

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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, Ruffault, J., Williamson, G. J., Wu, Q. & Nimmo, D. G., Oct 2022, In: Global Ecology and Biogeography. 31, 10, p. 1906-1922 17 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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, Kraft, T., Endicott, K., Beckerman, S., Marks, S. A., Headland, T., Pangau-Adam, M., Siren, A., Kramer, K., Greaves, R., Reyes-García, V., Guèze, M., Duda, R., Fernández-Llamazares, Á., Gallois, S., Napitupulu, L., Ellen, R., Ziker, J., Nielsen, M. R., Ready, E., Healey, C. & Ross, C., Jun 2020, In: Science Advances. 6, 26, eaax9070.

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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.

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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.

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