Publications of Kim Valenta

Book Sections/Chapters

  1. Valenta, K; Lehman, SM, Seed dispersal by mouse lemurs: Do Microcebus represent a unique frugivorous guild?, in The Dwarf and Mouse Lemurs of Madagascar: Biology, Behavior and Conservation Biogeography of the Cheirogaleidae (April, 2016), pp. 353-365, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9781107075597

Journal Articles

  1. Zohdy, S; Valenta, K; Rabaoarivola, B; Karanewsky, CJ; Zaky, W; Pilotte, N; Williams, SA; Chapman, CA; Farris, ZJ, Causative agent of canine heartworm (Dirofilaria immitis) detected in wild lemurs., International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, vol. 9 (August, 2019), pp. 119-121
  2. Sarkar, D; Chapman, CA; Valenta, K; Angom, SC; Kagoro, W; Sengupta, R, A Tiered Analysis of Community Benefits and Conservation Engagement from the Makerere University Biological Field Station, Uganda, The Professional Geographer (January, 2019)
  3. Kirumira, D; Baranga, D; Hartter, J; Valenta, K; Tumwesigye, C; Kagoro, W; Chapman, C, Evaluating a union between health care and conservation: A mobile clinic improves park-people relations, yet poaching increases, Conservation and Society, vol. 17 no. 1 (January, 2019), pp. 51-62
  4. Nevo, O; Valenta, K; Razafimandimby, D; Melin, AD; Ayasse, M; Chapman, CA, Frugivores and the evolution of fruit colour., Biology Letters, vol. 14 no. 9 (September, 2018)
  5. Valenta, K; Kalbitzer, U; Razafimandimby, D; Omeja, P; Ayasse, M; Chapman, CA; Nevo, O, The evolution of fruit colour: phylogeny, abiotic factors and the role of mutualists., Scientific Reports, vol. 8 no. 1 (September, 2018), pp. 14302
  6. Brown, KA; MacDougall, LK; Valenta, K; Simor, A; Johnstone, J; Mubareka, S; Broukhanski, G; Garber, G; McGeer, A; Daneman, N, Increased environmental sample area and recovery of Clostridium difficile spores from hospital surfaces by quantitative PCR and enrichment culture., Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, vol. 39 no. 8 (August, 2018), pp. 917-923
  7. Paim, FP; Valenta, K; Chapman, CA; Paglia, AP; de Queiroz, HL, Tree community structure reflects niche segregation of three parapatric squirrel monkey species (Saimiri spp.)., Primates; Journal of Primatology, vol. 59 no. 4 (July, 2018), pp. 395-404
  8. Valenta, K; Nevo, O; Chapman, CA, Primate Fruit Color: Useful Concept or Alluring Myth?, International Journal of Primatology, vol. 39 no. 3 (June, 2018), pp. 321-337, Springer Nature America, Inc
  9. Nevo, O; Valenta, K, The Ecology and Evolution of Fruit Odor: Implications for Primate Seed Dispersal, International Journal of Primatology, vol. 39 no. 3 (June, 2018), pp. 338-355, Springer Nature America, Inc
  10. Adamescu, GS; Plumptre, AJ; Abernethy, KA; Polansky, L; Bush, ER; Chapman, CA; Shoo, LP; Fayolle, A; Janmaat, KRL; Robbins, MM; Ndangalasi, HJ; Cordeiro, NJ; Gilby, IC; Wittig, RM; Breuer, T; Hockemba, MBN; Sanz, CM; Morgan, DB; Pusey, AE; Mugerwa, B; Gilagiza, B; Tutin, C; Ewango, CEN; Sheil, D; Dimoto, E; Baya, F; Bujo, F; Ssali, F; Dikangadissi, JT; Jeffery, K; Valenta, K; White, L; Masozera, M; Wilson, ML; Bitariho, R; Ndolo Ebika, ST; Gourlet-Fleury, S; Mulindahabi, F; Beale, CM, Annual cycles are the most common reproductive strategy in African tropical tree communities, Biotropica, vol. 50 no. 3 (May, 2018), pp. 418-430, WILEY
  11. Chapman, CA; Valenta, K; Bonnell, TR; Brown, KA; Chapman, LJ, Solar radiation and ENSO predict fruiting phenology patterns in a 15-year record from Kibale National Park, Uganda, Biotropica, vol. 50 no. 3 (May, 2018), pp. 384-395, WILEY
  12. Chapman, CA; Bortolamiol, S; Matsuda, I; Omeja, PA; Paim, FP; Reyna-Hurtado, R; Sengupta, R; Valenta, K, Primate population dynamics: variation in abundance over space and time, Biodiversity and Conservation, vol. 27 no. 5 (April, 2018), pp. 1221-1238, Springer Nature
  13. Nevo, O; Valenta, K; Tevlin, AG; Omeja, P; Styler, SA; Jackson, DJ; Chapman, CA; Ayasse, M, Fruit defence syndromes: the independent evolution of mechanical and chemical defences, Evolutionary Ecology, vol. 31 no. 6 (December, 2017), pp. 913-923, Springer Nature
  14. Valenta, K; Twinomugisha, D; Godfrey, K; Liu, C; Schoof, VAM; Goldberg, TL; Chapman, CA, Comparison of gastrointestinal parasite communities in vervet monkeys., Integrative Zoology, vol. 12 no. 6 (November, 2017), pp. 512-520
  15. Farris, ZJ; Gerber, BD; Valenta, K; Rafaliarison, R; Razafimahaimodison, JC; Larney, E; Rajaonarivelo, T; Randriana, Z; Wright, PC; Chapman, CA, Threats to a rainforest carnivore community: A multi-year assessment of occupancy and co-occurrence in Madagascar, Biological Conservation, vol. 210 (June, 2017), pp. 116-124, Elsevier BV
  16. Valenta, K; Nevo, O; Martel, C; Chapman, CA, Plant attractants: integrating insights from pollination and seed dispersal ecology, Evolutionary Ecology, vol. 31 no. 2 (April, 2017), pp. 249-267, Springer Nature
  17. Malcolm, JR; Valenta, K; Lehman, SM, Edge effects in tropical dry forests of Madagascar: additivity or synergy?, Landscape Ecology, vol. 32 no. 2 (February, 2017), pp. 327-341, Springer Nature
  18. Federman, S; Sinnott-Armstrong, M; Baden, AL; Chapman, CA; Daly, DC; Richard, AR; Valenta, K; Donoghue, MJ, The Paucity of Frugivores in Madagascar May Not Be Due to Unpredictable Temperatures or Fruit Resources., Plos One, vol. 12 no. 1 (January, 2017), pp. e0168943
  19. Chapman, CA; Corriveau, A; Schoof, VAM; Twinomugisha, D; Valenta, K, Long-term simian research sites: Significance for theory and conservation, Journal of Mammalogy, vol. 98 no. 3 (January, 2017), pp. 652-660, Oxford University Press (OUP)
  20. Omeja, PA; Lawes, MJ; Corriveau, A; Valenta, K; Sarkar, D; Paim, FP; Chapman, CA, Recovery of tree and mammal communities during large-scale forest regeneration in Kibale National Park, Uganda, Biotropica, vol. 48 no. 6 (November, 2016), pp. 770-779, WILEY
  21. Valenta, K; Miller, CN; Monckton, SK; Melin, AD; Lehman, SM; Styler, SA; Jackson, DA; Chapman, CA; Lawes, MJ, Fruit Ripening Signals and Cues in a Madagascan Dry Forest: Haptic Indicators Reliably Indicate Fruit Ripeness to Dichromatic Lemurs, Evolutionary Biology, vol. 43 no. 3 (September, 2016), pp. 344-355, Springer Nature
  22. Valenta, K; Edwards, M; Rafaliarison, RR; Johnson, SE; Holmes, SM; Brown, KA; Dominy, NJ; Lehman, SM; Parra, EJ; Melin, AD, Visual ecology of true lemurs suggests a cathemeral origin for the primate cone opsin polymorphism, edited by Portugal, S, Functional Ecology., vol. 30 no. 6 (June, 2016), pp. 932-942, WILEY
  23. Parada-López, J; Valenta, K; Chapman, CA; Reyna-Hurtado, R, Spider Monkey (Ateles geoffroyi) Travel to Resting Trees in a Seasonal Forest of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico., Folia Primatologica, vol. 87 no. 6 (January, 2016), pp. 375-380
  24. Chapman, CA; Friant, S; Godfrey, K; Liu, C; Sakar, D; Schoof, VAM; Sengupta, R; Twinomugisha, D; Valenta, K; Goldberg, TL, Social Behaviours and Networks of Vervet Monkeys Are Influenced by Gastrointestinal Parasites., Plos One, vol. 11 no. 8 (January, 2016), pp. e0161113
  25. Valenta, K; Hopkins, ME; Meeking, M; Chapman, CA; Fedigan, LM, Spatial patterns of primary seed dispersal and adult tree distributions: Genipa americana dispersed by Cebus capucinus(Journal of Tropical Ecology (2015) 31(491-498)10.1017/S0266467415000413)), Journal of Tropical Ecology, vol. 32 no. 1 (January, 2016), pp. 88, Cambridge University Press (CUP)
  26. Chapman, CA; Valenta, K, Costs and benefits of group living are neither simple nor linear., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 112 no. 48 (December, 2015), pp. 14751-14752
  27. Valenta, K; Hopkins, ME; Meeking, M; Chapman, CA; Fedigan, LM, Spatial patterns of primary seed dispersal and adult tree distributions: Genipa americana dispersed by Cebus capucinus, Journal of Tropical Ecology, vol. 31 no. 6 (November, 2015), pp. 491-498, Cambridge University Press (CUP)
  28. Valenta, K; Brown, KA; Rafaliarison, RR; Styler, SA; Jackson, D; Lehman, SM; Chapman, CA; Melin, AD, Sensory integration during foraging: the importance of fruit hardness, colour, and odour to brown lemurs, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, vol. 69 no. 11 (November, 2015), pp. 1855-1865, Springer Nature
  29. Brown, K; Valenta, K; Fisman, D; Simor, A; Daneman, N, Hospital ward antibiotic prescribing and the risks of Clostridium difficile infection., Jama Internal Medicine, vol. 175 no. 4 (April, 2015), pp. 626-633
  30. Valenta, K; Brown, KA; Melin, AD; Monckton, SK; Styler, SA; Jackson, DA; Chapman, CA, It's Not Easy Being Blue: Are There Olfactory and Visual Trade-Offs in Plant Signalling?, Plos One, vol. 10 no. 6 (January, 2015), pp. e0131725
  31. Valenta, K; Steffens, TS; Rafaliarison, RR; Chapman, CA; Lehman, SM, Seed Banks in Savanna, Forest Fragments, and Continuous Forest Edges Differ in a Tropical Dry Forest in Madagascar, Biotropica, vol. 47 no. 4 (January, 2015), pp. 435-440, WILEY
  32. Valenta, K; Burke, RJ; Styler, SA; Jackson, DA; Melin, AD; Lehman, SM, Colour and odour drive fruit selection and seed dispersal by mouse lemurs., Scientific Reports, vol. 3 (January, 2013), pp. 2424
  33. Valenta, K; Fedigan, LM, Spatial patterns of seed dispersal by white-faced capuchins in Costa Rica: Evaluating distant-dependent seed mortality, Biotropica, vol. 42 no. 2 (March, 2010), pp. 223-228, WILEY
  34. Valenta, K; Fedigan, LM, Effects of gut passage, feces, and seed handling on latency and rate of germination in seeds consumed by capuchins (Cebus capucinus)., American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 138 no. 4 (April, 2009), pp. 486-492
  35. Valenta, K; Fedigan, LM, How much is a lot? Seed dispersal by white-faced capuchins and implications for disperser-based studies of seed dispersal systems., Primates; Journal of Primatology, vol. 49 no. 3 (July, 2008), pp. 169-175