Curriculum Vitae

John Douglas Damuth, Jr.
ADDRESS:

Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology University of California Santa Barbara, California 93106 Phone: (805)-729-4393 damuth@lifesci.ucsb.edu Nationality: U.S.A.

EDUCATION:

B.A., Anthropology, Yale University, 1974. M.S., Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago, 1976. Ph.D., Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago, 1982.

CURRENT POSITIONS:

2004–present: Research Biologist (research faculty appointment at Full Professor level), Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara.

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

2019–2020. Edward P. Bass Distinguished Environmental Scholar, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT.

2014 (July). Visiting Professor, Centre Interfacultaire Bernoulli, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.

2012. (July-August). STIAS Fellow, Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study, Stellenbosch, South Africa. Project:Systemic elimination as a major evolutionary force.

2004–2006. Program Director, Population and Evolutionary Processes Cluster, Division of Environmental Biology, National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia.

1998–2002. Lecturer, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara.

1988–2004: Assistant Research Biologist (non-salaried faculty appointment at Assistant Professor level), Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara.

1986–1988: Visiting Scientist, Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems Program, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.

1985–1986: NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.

1984–1985: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Invertebrates, American Museum of Natural History, New York.

1983–1984: Visiting Lecturer, Department of Geology, University of California, Davis.

1979–1981: Assistant, Fossil Vertebrates, Department of Geology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.

OTHER POSITIONS & APPOINTMENTS:

2006—2015. Curator of Mammalogy, Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration, University of California, Santa Barbara (unsalaried).

2001–2012. President and CEO, Pantherion Corporation, Santa Barbara, CA.

1990–2000: Research Associate, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.

1995: (April–September) Visiting Researcher, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Laboratoire d'Écologie, CNRS-URA 258, Paris.

1971–1974. Student employee, Geology Department, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, CT.

DISSERTATION:

The Evaluation of the Degree of Community Structure Preserved in Assemblages of Fossil Mammals.

ADDITIONAL SKILLS:

Foreign Languages: French (read, speak); German, Spanish (read).


Computer: Coding in R, C, X Window, PHP, Python, SQL and Java; UNIX and Mac OS systems; relational database design and implementation; web applications; statistical analysis in R.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Evolutionary theory — particularly, mechanisms of long-term evolutionary change and of multilevel selection Ecological aspects of “macroevolution” Analysis and reconstruction of vertebrate paleocommunities Ecology and functional morphology of living and fossil mammalian herbivores Structure and evolution of mammal communities Vertebrate paleobiology Allometry and scaling Ecological correlates of body size

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS (POSTGRADUATE):

University Unendowed Fellowships (U. of Chicago), 1974–1976. Chicago Natural History Museum Fellowship (U. of Chicago), 1976–1979. T. J. Dee Academic Fellowship (Field Museum), 1977–1978. Hinds Fund (U. of Chicago), 1977. Sigma Xi, 1978. E. A. Nierman Foundation (through U. of Chicago), 1978.

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS (POSTDOCTORAL):

1984-1985.Thorne Research Fellowship, American Museum of Natural History, New York.

1985-1986. National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Environmental Biology, NSF BSR–8408030, $24,500, used at the Smithsonian Institution.

1989. Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Contract SF9023200000, $6,000.

1990. Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Contract SF0039460000, $5,000.

1991. Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Contract SF1022340000, $8,000.

1992. Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Contract SF1022340000, $8,000.

1992. Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Contract FP2022820000, $12,000.

1993-1995. National Science Foundation, Database Activities Program, BIR-9202183, $99,230, Increased Functionality and Accessibility of the ETE Database.

1993. Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Contract FP3028680000, $8,000.

1994. Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Contract F9436PC03720, $8,000.

1996-98. National Science Foundation, Database Activities Program, DBI-9600253, $90,000, Internet Access to the Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems Database.

1998-1999. National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), $39,052, support for Working Group on Inferring Climate and Vegetation from Mammal Communities.

2010-2012. National Science Foundation, Sedimentary Geology & Paleontology Program, EAR-0958250, $140,000, "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Were there “too many” browser species worldwide in local faunas of the Early Miocene? A test of a global hypothesis using the Australian fossil mammal record.

FIELD EXPERIENCE:

1973: Wyoming, Colorado (with M. C. McKenna; Eocene mammals).

1974: New Mexico (with B. J. MacFadden; Mio-Pliocene mammals and stratigraphy).

1977: Pakistan (with joint Yale/Geological Survey of Pakistan Research Project on the Neogene of Pakistan; Miocene mammals and stratigraphy).

1977, 1978: Wyoming (Miocene mammals and stratigraphy).

1978: South Dakota (Oligocene mammals).

1985: Kenya (with A. K. Behrensmeyer; taphonomy of bones in a Recent environment).

1990. Peru (Field assistant to Susan Mazer, Smithsonian BIOLAT program).

TEACHING:

1983: Lecturer (in charge), “Vertebrate Paleobiology,” U. of California, Davis, one quarter.

1989: Resource person, Organization of Tropical Studies course in Tropical Biology (OTS 89–1), February-March.

1990, Instructor, “Techniques for Assessing Biodiversity,” a workshop sponsored by the Smithsonian BIOLAT Program and the Museo de Historia Natural, Lima and Tambopata, Peru.

1998,1999,2000,2002 "Evolutionary Ecology", EEMB 135 (co-taught with S. J. Mazer), University of California, Santa Barbara, Dept. Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

1986-200: Founding Member, Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems Consortium, Washington, DC.

1988: Association of Systematics Collections workshop on Biological Collections Resources for the 1990’s, Washington, DC.

1992, Member, Collections & Databases Committee, Systematics Agenda 2000, (sponsored by: American Society of Plant Taxonomists, Society of Systematic Zoologists, and the Willi Hennig Society).

1992 Association of Systematics Collections Workshop on Data Standards, Cornell University,.

1987-1992 Member, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Data Management and Computerization Committee.

1995—present Advisory Board, Neogene of the Old World (NOW) Database, Helsinki, Finland (currently, "New and Old Worlds" Fossil Mammal Database).

1997 Editorial Committee, Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics.

1998-1999 Convenor, working group on Inferring Climate and Vegetation from Mammal Communities, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA.

1998-2005 Drafting Committee, European Science Foundation Programme Environments and Ecosystem Dynamics of the Eurasian Neogene (EEDEN).

2005 Co-organizer, Workshop on Quantitative Ecology, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy.

REVIEWER FOR THE FOLLOWING JOURNALS AND ORGANIZATIONS:

Acta Oecologica American Naturalist Annales Zoologici Fennici Bioscience Biological Journal of the Linnean Society Biology Letters Cambridge University Press Columbia University Press Conservation Biology Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming Ecology Ecology Letters Evolution Evolutionary Anthropology Evolutionary Ecology Evolutionary Theory Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution Functional Ecology Historical Biology History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Journal of Archaeological Science Journal of Evolutionary Biology Journal of Herpetology Journal of Mammalogy Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Journal of Zoology (London) Mammalian Biology Nature Nature Geoscience Northwest Science NSF Oxford University Press Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology Paleobiology PLoS Biology Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA Trends in Ecology and Evolution University of Chicago Press Western North American Naturalist

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Sigma Xi

INVITED TALKS AND SYMPOSIA:

1984 • Queens College (CUNY).
• Brooklyn College (CUNY).
1985 • UCLA, Department of Biology.
• Symposium on Evolution in Communities and the Red Queen’s Hypothesis, International Congress of Systematics and Evolutionary Biology III, University of Sussex, England.
• University of Arizona.
1986 • Brown university.
1987 • Rutgers University.
• Duke University.
• University of Florida.
1988 • Ohio State Conference on the Foundations of Evolutionary Biology (NSF-sponsored workshop).
1989 • UCLA.
• Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Workshop on Applications of Computers to Collections Management, University of Texas.
1990 • Symposium on Twenty-first Century Data and Knowledge Bases in Biology, International Congress of Systematics and Evolutionary Biology IV, University of Maryland.
• Symposium on Energy and Evolution, International Congress of Systematics and Evolutionary Biology IV, University of Maryland.
1992 • Symposium The Meaning of Higher Taxa in Macroevolutionary Studies, North American Paleontological Convention V, Chicago, June 1992.
1995 • SUNY Stony Brook.
• Université Pierre-et-Marie Curie (Paris VI), Lab. d’Écologie, Paris, France.
• Institut des Sciences d’Évolution, Université Montpellier II, Montpellier, France.
1996 • Symposium, Philosophical Aspects of Individuality and Development, International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology V, Budapest, Hungary, August 17–24.
• University of Chicago (Nierman Speaker).
• University of Vermont.
1998 • Symposium on Hierarchical Selection, Sixth International Conference on Artificial Life, UCLA, June.
• University of Utrecht, Netherlands.
2000 • Workshop State of the Art, Environments and Ecosystem Dynamics of the European Neogene (EEDEN) Programme, European Science Foundation, Lyon, France.
2001 • Symposium talk, Middle to Late Miocene Perturbations of the Earth Ocean and Climate Systems: An Integrated Approach. American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting, May-June 2001, Boston, MA.
2002 • Workshop Mid Miocene Crisis, Environments and Ecosystem Dynamics of the European Neogene (EEDEN) Programme, European Science Foundation, November, Frankfurt, Germany.
2003 • Workshop Birth of the Modern World: Eurasian Environments and Ecosystems Around Ten Million Years Ago, Environments and Ecosystem Dynamics of the European Neogene (EEDEN) Programme, European Science Foundation, November, Stará Lesná, Slovakia.
2005 • Workshop on Quantitative Ecology, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. May-9-20.
• Sandelzhausen Symposium 2005, University of Munich, Germany. Sept. 13-16.
• University of Hawaii, Manoa.
2007 • Workshop, Hawai‘i Island Digital Geo-Collaboratory Project, Pahala, HI.
• Stony Brook University.
• University of Michigan.
2008 • Red Queen round table discussion, Aug 18-19, Oslo, Norway; Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, University of Oslo.
• International Union of Biological Sciences workshop on “Integrative Climate Change Biology”, Sept 22-27, Helsinki, Finland• International Union of Biological Sciences workshop on “Integrative Climate Change Biology”, Sept 22-27, Helsinki, Finland.
• University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.
2012 • Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies, Fellows Seminar Series, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
• Ginzburg Lecture, Stony Brook University.
2014 • Workshop, “Non-Adaptive Selection; Explaining Macroscopic Laws in Ecology and Evolution”. Centre Interfacultaire Bernoulli, EFFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
2019 • Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, Yale University.
PUBLICATIONS

PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS:

Damuth, J. (1981). Population density and body size in mammals. Nature 290:699-700.

Damuth, J. (1981). Home range, home range overlap, and species energy use among herbivorous mammals. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 15:185-193.

Damuth, J. (1982). Analysis of the preservation of community structure in assemblages of fossil mammals. Paleobiology 8:434-446.

Damuth, J. (1985). Selection among “species”: a formulation in terms of natural functional units. Evolution 39:1132-1146.

Heisler, I. L. and J. Damuth. (1987). A method for analyzing selection in hierarchically structured populations. American Naturalist 130:582-602.

Damuth, J. (1987). Interspecific allometry of population density in mammals and other animals: the independence of body mass and population energy-use. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 31:193-246.

Damuth, J. and I. L. Heisler. (1988). Alternative formulations of multilevel selection. Biology and Philosophy 3:407-430.

Janis, C. M. and J. Damuth. (1990). Mammals; pp. 301-345 in K. J. McNamara, (ed.), Evolutionary Trends. Belhaven Press, London.

Damuth, J. (1990). Problems in estimating body masses of archaic ungulates using dental measurements; pp. 229-253 in J. Damuth and B. J. MacFadden, (eds), Body size in mammalian paleobiology: estimation and biological implications. Cambridge University Press, New York.

Damuth, J. and B. J. MacFadden. (1990). Introduction: body size and its estimation; pp. 1-10 in J. Damuth and B. J. MacFadden, (eds), Body size in mammalian paleobiology: estimation and biological implications. Cambridge University Press, New York.

Damuth, J. (1991). Electronic research collections: perspectives and an example from the Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems Consortium; pp. 966-972 in E. C. Dudley, (ed.), The Unity of Evolutionary Biology: Proceedings of the Fourth ICSEB. Dioscorides Press, Portland, Oregon.

Damuth, J. (1991). Trends in collection computing. Pages 57–62 in S. D. Blum, ed., Guidelines and Standards for Fossil Vertebrate Databases. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, New York.

Potts, R, A. K. Behrensmeyer, R. Taggart, G. Spaulding, J. A. Harris, B. Van Valkenburgh, J. Damuth, L. Martin, and R. Foley. (1992). Late Cenozoic terrestrial ecosystems: a review of patterns and processes. Pages 419–541 in A. K. Behrensmeyer, J. D. Damuth, W. A. DiMichele, R. Potts, H.-D. Sues, and S. L. Wing, (eds.) Terrestrial Ecosystems through Time: Evolutionary Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants and Animals. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Damuth, J. D., D. Jablonski, J. A. Harris, R. Potts, R. K. Stucky, H.-D. Suess and D. B. Weishampel. (1992). Taxon-free characterization of animal communities; pp. 183-203 in A. K. Behrensmeyer, J. D. Damuth, W. A. DiMichele, R. Potts, H.-D. Sues and S. L. Wing, (eds), Terrestrial ecosystems through time: evolutionary paleoecology of terrestrial plants and animals. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Damuth, J. (1992). Extinction. Pages 106–111 in E. F. Keller and E. A. Lloyd, eds., Keywords in Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Damuth, J. (1993). Cope's rule, the island rule and the scaling of mammalian population density. Nature 365:748-750.

Anderson, D. K., J. Damuth and T. M. Bown. (1995). Rapid morphological change in Miocene marsupials and rodents associated with a volcanic catastrophe in Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15:640-649.

Damuth, J. (1999). Evolution: tempo and mode. In Embryonic Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, Nature Publishing Group, London, www.els.net.

Janis, C. M., J. Damuth and J. M. Theodor. (2000). Miocene ungulates and terrestrial primary productivity: Where have all the browsers gone? Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA 97:7899-7904.

Mazer, S. J., and J. Damuth. (2001). Variation: evolutionary significance of variation among individuals and populations. In C. Fox, D. Fairbairn and D. Roff (eds.), Evolutionary ecology: concepts and case studies. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Mazer, S. J., and J. Damuth. (2001). Variation: the nature and causes of variation in phenotypic traits. In C. Fox, D. Fairbairn and D. Roff (eds.), Evolutionary ecology: concepts and case studies. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Banavar, J. R., J. Damuth, A. Maritan, and A. Rinaldo. (2002). Ontogenetic growth: Modeling universality and scaling. Nature 420:626.

Banavar, J. R., J. Damuth, A. Maritan, and A. Rinaldo. (2002). Supply-demand balance and metabolic scaling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA. 99:10506–10509.

Janis, C. M., J. Damuth, and J. M. Theodor. (2002). The origins and evolution of the North American grassland biome: the story from the hoofed mammals. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 177:183–198.

Damuth, J, van Dam, J. A., and Utescher, T. (2003). Palaeoclimate estimates from biotic proxies. In: R. Bernor, et al. Recent Advances on Multidisciplinary Research at Rudabánya, Late Miocene (MN9), Hungary: a compendium. Palaeontographia Italica 89:1–34.

Banavar, J. R., J. Damuth, A. Maritan, and A. Rinaldo. (2003). Allometric cascades. Nature 421:713–714.

Van Valkenburgh, B., X. Wang and J. Damuth. (2004). Cope’s Rule, hypercarnivory, and extinction in North American canids. Science 306:101-104.

Millien, V. and J. Damuth. (2004). Climate change and size evolution in an island rodent species: new perspectives on the island rule. Evolution 58:1353–1360.

Janis, C. M., J. Damuth, and J. M. Theodor. (2004). The species richness of Miocene browsers, and implications for habitat type and primary productivity in the North American grassland biome. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 207:371–398.

Banavar, J. R., J. Damuth, A. Maritan and A. Rinaldo. (2006). Comment on "Revising the distributive networks models of West, Brown and Enquist (1997) and Banavar, Maritan and Rinaldo (1999):Metabolic inequity of living tissues provides clues for the observed allometric scaling rules’’ by Makarieva, Gorshkov and Li. Journal of Theoretical Biology 239:391-393.

Damuth, J. (2007). A macroevolutionary explanation for energy equivalence in the scaling of population density and body mass. American Naturalist 169:621-631.

Banavar, J. R., J. Damuth, A. Maritan, and A. Rinaldo. (2007). Scaling in ecosystems and the linkage of macroecological laws. Physical Review Letters 98:168104.

Ginzburg, L. R. and J. Damuth. (2008). The space-lifetime hypothesis: viewing organisms in four dimensions, literally. American Naturalist 171:125-131.

Ginzburg, L. R., O. Burger, and J. Damuth. (2010). The May threshold and life history allometry. Biology Letters 6:850-853.

Banavar, J. R., M. E. Moses, J. H. Brown, J. Damuth, A. Rinaldo, R. M. Sibley, and A. Maritan. (2010). A general basis for quarter power scaling in biology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 107: 15816-15820.

Eronen, J. T., P. D. Polly, M. Fred, J. Damuth, D. C. Frank, V. Mosbrugger, C. Scheidegger, N. C. Stenseth, and M. Fortelius. (2010). Ecometrics: the traits that bind the past and present together. Integrative Zoology 5:88-101.

Eronen, J. T., K. Puolamäki, L. Liu, K. Lintulaakso, J. Damuth, C. M. Janis, and M. Fortelius. (2010). Precipitation and large herbivorous mammals, part II: Application to fossil data. Evolutionary Ecology Research 12:235-248.

Eronen, J. T., K. Puolamäki, L. Liu, K. Lintulaakso, J. Damuth, C. M. Janis, and M. Fortelius. (2010). Precipitation and large herbivorous mammals, part I: estimates from present-day communities. Evolutionary Ecology Research 12:217-233.

Polly, P. D., J. T. Eronen, M. Fred, G. P. Dietl, V. Mosbrugger, C. Scheidegger, D. C. Frank, J. Damuth, N. C. Stenseth, and M. Fortelius. (2011). History matters: integrative climate change biology. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Science 278:1131-1140.

Damuth, J., and C. M. Janis. (2011). On the relationship between hypsodonty and feeding ecology in ungulate mammals, and its utility in palaeoecology. Biological Reviews 86:733-758.

Bernor, R. L., G. M. Semprebon, and J. Damuth. (2014). Maragheh ungulate mesowear: interpreting paleodiet and paleoecology from a diverse fauna with restricted sample sizes. Annales Zoologici Fennici 51:201-208.

Damuth, J. and C. M. Janis. (2014). A comparison of observed molar wear rates in extant herbivorous mammals. Annales Zoologici Fennici 51:188-200.

Borrelli, J. J., S. Allesina, P. Amarasekare, R. Arditi, I. Chase, J. Damuth, R. D. Holt, D. O. Logofet, M. Novak, R. P. Rohr, A. G. Rossberg, M. Spencer, J. K. Tran, and L. R. Ginzburg. (2015). Selection on stability across ecological scales. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 30:417-425.

Janis, C. M., J. Damuth, K. J. Travouillon, B. Figueirido, S. J. Hand and M. Archer. (2016). Palaeoecology of Oligo-Miocene macropodoids determined from craniodental and calcaneal data. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 74:209-232.

Ginzburg, L. R. and J. Damuth. (2022). The issue isn’t which model of consumer interference is right, but which one is least wrong. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10:860542. (doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.860542).

Fortelius, M., J. Agustí, R. L. Bernor, H. de Bruijn, J. A. van Dam, J. Damuth, J. T. Eronen, G. Evans, L. W. van den Hoek Ostende, C. M. Janis, J. Jernvall, A. Kaakinen, W. von Koenigswald, K. Lintulaakso, L. Liu, M. Mirzaie Ataabadi, H. Mittmann, D. Pushkina, J. Saarinen, S. Sen, S. Sova, L. K. Säilä, A. Tesakov, J. Vepsäläinen, S. Viranta, I. Vislobokova, L. Werdelin, Z. Zhang and I. Žliobaitė. (2023). The Origin and Early History of NOW as It Happened; pp 7-32 in I. Casanovas-Pilar, L. W. van den Hoek Ostende, C. M. Janis and J. Saarinen (eds), Evolution of Cenozoic Land Mammal Faunas and Ecosystems. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

ARTICLES IN PRESS OR REVIEW:

Richardson, W., N. M. Morales-Garcia, J. Damuth, S. Singh and C. M. Janis. (2024). Why the short face? The face lengths of sthenurine kangaroos scale with negative allometry. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology In Press.

BOOKS:

Damuth, J. and B. J. MacFadden. (1990). Body size in mammalian paleobiology: estimation and biological implications. Cambridge University Press, New York. 412 pp.

Behrensmeyer, A. K., Damuth, J. D., DiMichele, W. A., Potts, R., Sues, H.-D. and Wing, S. L. (eds.). (1992). Terrestrial ecosystems through time: evolutionary paleoecology of terrestrial plants and animals. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 568 pp.

Damuth, J. (1993). The ETE Database Manual. Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems Consortium, Washington, D.C. 195 pp.

Damuth, J. and Members of the ETE Consortium. (1997). The ETE Database Manual. 2nd edition. Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems Consortium, Washington, D.C., 195 pp.

Damuth, J. and L. R. Ginzburg. (2024). Non-Adaptive Selection: An Evolutionary Source of Ecological Laws. (in press). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

REVIEWS, COMMENTARY, PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS:

Damuth, J. 1989. The electronic museum: Non-material research collections in biology and paleontology. ASC Newsletter 17:25-27.

Damuth, J. 1993. The megaherbivore syndrome [review of Owen-Smith 1988, Megaherbivores]. Ecology 74:633–634.

Damuth, J. 1994. No conflict among abundance rules. Trends Ecol. Syst. 9:487.

Behrensmeyer, A K; Todd, N E; McBrinn, G; Damuth, J D. 1995. Exploring terrestrial ecosystems through time with the ETE multirelational database. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15, n.3 SUPPL:18A.

Damuth, J. 1991. Review of: Les communautés de mammifères du Paléogène (Eocène supérieur et Oligocène) d’Europe occidentale: structures, milieux et évolution, by Serge Legendre, 1989 Münchner Geowiss. Abh. A 16:1-110. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 11:400-402.

Damuth, J. 1996. Comment on R. J. Smith, “Biology and body size in human evolution: statistical inference misapplied”. Current Anthropology 37:461–462.

Damuth, J. 1998. The role of paleoecology in evolutionary theory. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18, n.3 SUPPL:37A.

Damuth, J. 1998. Common rules for animals and plants. Nature 395:115-116.

Janis, C. M.; Damuth, J.; Theodor, J. M. 1999. Mammal evolution, grasslands, and atmospheric carbon dioxide: Where have all the browsers gone? (Fifty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Denver, Colorado, USA October 20-23, 1999) Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Sept. 14, 1999. 19(SUPPL. 3):55A.

Damuth, J. 2001. Scaling of growth: Plants and animals are not so different. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA 98:2113-2114.

Badgley, C., J. Damuth, J. Theodor, L. Werdelin, et al. 2001. Global variation in ecological structure of mammalian faunas and paleoenvironmental inference. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 22 August, 2001. 21(3 Supplement):30A.

Van Dam, J. A., P. Andrews, C. Badgley, J. Damuth, M. Fortelius, E. A. Hadly, S. Hixson, C. Janis, R. H. Madden, K. Reed, et al. 2001. Within-habitat mammal diversity and productivity and their recent patterns across latitude. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 22 August, 2001. 21(3 Supplement):43A. “Evolution of Grass-Dominated Ecosystems During the Tertiary”, theme session at the North American Paleontological Convention, Berkeley, CA.) (Invited contribution)351:268-269.

Janis, C. M., J. Damuth, and J. Theodor (2001). The origins and evolution of the North American grassland biome: the story from the hoofed mammals. Paleobios 21 (suppl. to no. 2), p. 74. For “Evolution of Grass-Dominated Ecosystems During the Tertiary”, theme session at the North American Paleontological Convention, Berkeley, CA.) (Invited contribution.)

Janis, C. M. and J. Damuth (2001). Mid Miocene Terrestrial Ecosystems: Information from mammalian herbivore communities. American Geophysical Union 2001 Spring Meeting. (Invited contribution for session on Miocene climates.)

Janis, C. M., and J. Damuth. (2002). Patterns of change in mid Miocene faunas, and implications for paleoenvironmental conditions. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23 (3) (suppl.):p. 70A.

Damuth, J. D., M. Fortelius, P. Andrews, C. Badgley, E. A. Hadly, S. Hixon, C. Janis, R. H. Madden, K. Reed, F. A. Smith, J. Theodor, J. A. Van Dam, B. Van Valkenburgh, L. Werdelin. (2002). Reconstructing mean annual precipitation based on mammalian dental morphology and local species richness. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22 (3) (suppl):p. 48A.

Damuth, J., and C. M. Janis. (2005). Paleoecological inferences using tooth wear rates, hypsodonty and life history in ungulates. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25 (3) (suppl):49A.

Burger, O., L. R. Ginzburg, F. A. Smith, M. J. Hamilton, J. H. Brown, J. Damuth, M. L. Rosenzweig, and L. V. Polishchuk. (2010). On the size selectivity of extinction in Late Pleistocene mammals: a mini forum based on Polishchuk (2010: Evol. Ecol. Res., 12:1-22). Evolutionary Ecology Research 12:1-10.

Liow, L. H., C. Simpson, F. Bouchard, J. Damuth, B. Hallgrimsson, G. Hunt, D. McShea, J. Powell, N. Stenseth, M. Stoller, and G. Wagner (2011). Pioneering Paradigms and Magnificent Manifestos - Leigh Van Valen’s priceless contributions to the evolutionary half of biology. Evolution 65:917-922.

Damuth, J., C. M. Janis, K. Travouillon, M. Archer, and S. Hand. (2012). Molar wear gradient analysis in extant and fossil kangaroos (Marsupialia; Macropodoidea). Program and Abstracts, 72nd Annual Meeting, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology: p84.

Janis, C., J. Damuth, K. Travouillon, B. Figueirido, S. Hand, and M. Archer. (2013). Paleoecology of Miocene kangaroos: inferences from craniodental and postcranial data. 10th International Congress on Vertebrate Morphology, Barcelona, Spain. p P-047.

Janis, C. M., J. Damuth, K. J. Travouillon, B. Figueirido, M. Archer, and S. J. Hand. (2013). Why the short face? Craniodental morphology in relation to diet in living and fossil kangaroos. 14th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, 30th September-4th October, Program and Abstracts: p 46.

Damuth, J., C. Janis, K. Travouillon, and B. Figueirido. (2013). Why the short face? Craniodental morphology in relation to diet in living and fossil kangaroos. Program and Abstracts, 72nd Annual Meeting, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology p. 112.

Damuth, J., Janis, C. M., Travouillon, K., Figueirido, B., Archer, M. and Hand, S. 2014. Ecometrics down under: Correlation of morphology with paleohabitat in kangaroos. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, SVP Program and Abstract Book, 2014, 116.

Badgley, C. and Damuth, J. 2014. Ecomorphological structure of mammalian faunas in relation to climate and physiography at the continental scale. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, SVP Program and Abstract Book 2014, 83.

Janis, C. M., J. Damuth, K. Travouillon, S. Hand and M. Archer. 2018. Global mammalian response to mid-Miocene peak in atmospheric carbon dioxide. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Abstracts of Papers, 78th Annual Meeting, 154.

Damuth, J. 2023. Wild mammals through the lens of biomass rather than biodiversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 120:e2301652120. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.2301652120).

SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS

1994–1998: “FossilBEDS,” integrated graphical, GIS-style user interface and management tools for the Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems Database; in C and X Window for UNIX. Approx. 33,000 lines of code.

1996 — Present: “BFV Online,” search engine and database design, electronic, searchable version of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology’s Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates series, approximately 150,000 bibliographic references available over the Internet at URL: http://www.vertpaleo.org. Latest version in HTML 5, CSS, and PHP.

2007. Red Queen Simulator (multiplatform Java), simulation of process underlying energy equivalence, described in Damuth (2007) A macroevolutionary explanation for energy equivalence in the scaling of population density and body mass. American Naturalist 169: 621-631.