Barbara J. Welker

Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo
"Proximate mechanisms governing feeding behavior and selectivity in mantled howler monkeys, Alouatta palliata. Ph.D. Thesis, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York.

M.A., State University of New York at Buffalo

B.A., State University of New York at Buffalo

Melin A.D., Ketpal V., Matsushita Y., Zhou K., Campos F.A., Welker B., Kawamura S. (2017) Howler monkey foraging ecology suggests convergent evolution of routine trichromacy as an adaptation for folivory. Ecology and Evolution. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2716.

Welker B.J. (2017) The evolution of our tribe: Hominini. SUNY Open Access Publications.

Welker B. Embedding undergraduate research in an Anthropology curriculum. CUR Quarterly: 37 (1)

Welker BJ (2015) Factors Involved in Variation in Tree and Species Use by Mantled Howler Monkeys. Pages 495-523 in Huettmann F. (ed.), Biodiversity of Central America: An Overview. Springer Publisher, New York.

Matsushita, Y., Oota, H., Welker, B. J., Pavelka, M. S. and Kawamura, S. (2014). Color vision variation as evidenced by hybrid L/M opsin genes in wild populations of trichromatic Alouatta New World monkeys. International Journal of Primatology 35 (1): 71-87.

Welker B.J., W. König, M. Pietsch, R. Adams. (2007) Feeding selectivity by mantled howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata) in relation to leaf secondary chemistry in Hymenaea courbaril, J Chem Ecology 33: 1186-1196.