Daniel I. Rubenstein

Daniel I. Rubenstein is a Professor of biology and Chair of Princeton University’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He received his Ph.D. degree from Duke University in 1977 before receiving NSF-NATO and King’s College Junior Research Fellowships for postdoctoral studies at Cambridge University. He is an elected Fellow of the Animal Behavior Society as well as the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has received Princeton University’s President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching. Professor Rubenstein studies how environmental variation and individual differences shape social behavior, social structure, and the dynamics of populations. He has special interests in all species of wild horses, zebras, and asses, and has done field work on them throughout the world. He has recently extended his work to measuring the effects of environmental change, including the changes wrought by management and by global warming, on behavior.

Biography Updated on 31 July 2007

Personal Home Page

http://www.eeb.princeton.edu/FACULTY/Rubenstein/Rubenstein.html

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Social relationships and reproductive state influence leadership roles in movements of plains zebra, Equus burchellii
    Animal Behaviour, vol. 73, no. 5, pp. 825–831, 2007
  2. From the Cover: Herbivore-initiated interaction cascades and their modulation by productivity in an African savanna
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 104, no. 1, pp. 193–197, 2007
  3. Habitat use and movements of plains zebra (Equus burchelli) in response to predation danger from lions
    Behavioral Ecology, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 725–729, 2007
  4. Male harassment influences female movements and associations in Grevy's zebra (Equus grevyi)
    Behavioral Ecology, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 860–865, 2007
  5. The Impact of Increased Environmental Stochasticity Due to Climate Change on the Dynamics of Asiatic Wild Ass
    Conservation Biology, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 1402–1409, 2006
  6. Pleistocene Park: Does re-wilding North America represent sound conservation for the 21st century?
    Biological Conservation, vol. 132, no. 2, pp. 232–238, 2006
  7. Network metrics reveal differences in social organization between two fission–fusion species, Grevy’s zebra and onager
    Oecologia, vol. 151, no. 1, pp. 140–149, 2006
  8. Evolution, Systematics, and Phylogeography of Pleistocene Horses in the New World: A Molecular Perspective
    PLoS Biology, vol. 3, no. 8, p. e241, 2005
  9. Combining Strategies to Select Reserves in Fragmented Landscapes
    Conservation Biology, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 1121–1131, 2004
  10. Energy-efficient computing for wildlife tracking
    ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, vol. 36, no. 5, p. 96, 2002
  11. The Effect of Space-Use Patterns of Reintroduced Asiatic Wild Ass on Effective Population Size
    Conservation Biology, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 1852–1861, 2000
  12. The Dynamics of Herds: From Individuals to Aggregations
    Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol. 182, no. 1, pp. 85–98, 1996
  13. Population Dynamics of a Reintroduced Asiatic Wild Ass (Equus Hemionus) Herd
    Ecological Applications, vol. 5, no. 2, p. 327, 1995
  14. Horse signals: The sounds and scents of fury
    Evolutionary Ecology, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 254–260, 1992
  15. Sperm competition and variation in zebra mating behavior
    Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, vol. 26, no. 6, 1990
  16. Sperm competition in the water strider, Gerris remigis
    Animal Behaviour, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 631–636, 1989
  17. Parasites and Social Behavior of Island Feral Horses
    Oikos, vol. 55, no. 3, p. 312, 1989
  18. Alternative reproductive tactics in the spider Meta segmentata
    Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 229–237, 1987
  19. Tail size and female choice in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata)
    Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 253–255, 1985
  20. Kinship, Need, and the Distribution of Altruism
    American Naturalist, vol. 121, no. 6, p. 776, 1983
  21. Sexual Selection in Toads: The Roles of Female Choice and Male Body Size
    Evolution, vol. 32, no. 2, p. 264, 1978