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Anna K. Behrensmeyer publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anna K. Behrensmeyer sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

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Anna K. Behrensmeyer D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anna K. Behrensmeyer sits on this spectrum.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2014 - William S. Cooper Award, The Ecological Society of America Floral and environmental gradients on a Late Cretaceous landscape. Ecological Monographs 82:23-47.
  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Anna K. Behrensmeyer is affiliated with the National Museum of Natural History in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Earth and Planetary Sciences and Social Sciences, with significant contributions in subfields such as Anthropology, Paleontology, Ecology, Archeology, and Social Psychology.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology

Behrensmeyer has published extensively, with frequent contributions to several scientific venues, such as:

  • Journal of Human Evolution
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Nature Communications

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Increased ecological resource variability during a critical transition in hominin evolution" (2020), published in Science Advances
  • "Rethinking the ecological drivers of hominin evolution" (2021), published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "Investigating Biotic Interactions in Deep Time" (2020), published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "The upper limb of Paranthropus boisei from Ileret, Kenya" (2020), published in Journal of Human Evolution
  • "Reconstructing the Environmental Context of Human Origins in Eastern Africa Through Scientific Drilling" (2022), published in Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Richard Potts
  • R. Bernhart Owen
  • J. Tyler Faith
  • Amelia Villaseñor
  • Alan L. Deino

Anna K. Behrensmeyer has been recognized with several awards, including membership in the National Academy of Sciences since 2020. Additional distinctions are:

  • William S. Cooper Award from The Ecological Society of America in 2014 for work on floral and environmental gradients on a Late Cretaceous landscape
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2011
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Best Publications

  • Taphonomic and ecologic information from bone weathering

    Anna K. Behrensmeyer

  • The taphonomy and paleoecology of Plio-Pleistocene vertebrate assemblages east of Lake Rudolf, Kenya

    Anna K. Behrensmeyer

  • Systematic Butchery by Plio/Pleistocene Hominids at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

    Henry T. Bunn;Ellen M. Kroll;Stanley H. Ambrose;Anna K. Behrensmeyer

  • Taphonomy and paleobiology

    Anna K. Behrensmeyer;Susan M. Kidwell;Robert A. Gastaldo

  • Faunal and environmental change in the late Miocene Siwaliks of northern Pakistan

    John C. Barry;Michèle E. Morgan;Lawrence J. Flynn;David Pilbeam

  • Terrestrial Ecosystems Through Time: Evolutionary Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants and Animals

    Norton G. Miller;Anna K. Behrensmeyer;John D. Damuth;William A. DiMichele

  • Terrestrial Vertebrate Accumulations

    Anna K. Behrensmeyer

  • Taphonomy's contributions to paleobiology

    Anna K. Behrensmeyer;Susan M. Kidwell

  • Mineralogical and compositional changes in bones exposed on soil surfaces in Amboseli National Park, Kenya: diagenetic mechanisms and the role of sediment pore fluids

    Clive N.G Trueman;Anna K Behrensmeyer;Noreen Tuross;Steve Weiner

  • Time resolution in fluvial vertebrate assemblages

    Anna K. Behrensmeyer

  • Terrestrial Ecosystems Through Time

    David Bartley;A.K. Behrensmeyer;J.D. Damuth;W.A. DiMichele

  • The expansion of grassland ecosystems in Africa in relation to mammalian evolution and the origin of the genus Homo

    Anna K. Behrensmeyer

  • Fossils in the Making: Vertebrate Taphonomy and Paleoecology

    Anna K. Behrensmeyer;Andrew P. Hill

  • Vertebrate preservation in fluvial channels

    Anna K. Behrensmeyer

  • Long-distance stone transport and pigment use in the earliest Middle Stone Age

    Alison S. Brooks;Alison S. Brooks;John E. Yellen;John E. Yellen;Richard Potts;Anna K. Behrensmeyer

  • Taphonomy and paleoecology of the dinosaur beds of the Jurassic Morrison Formation

    Peter Dodson;A. K. Behrensmeyer;Robert T. Bakker;John S. McIntosh

  • Faunal change, environmental variability and late Pliocene hominin evolution.

    René Bobe;Anna K. Behrensmeyer;Ralph E. Chapman

  • Late Pliocene faunal turnover in the Turkana Basin, Kenya and Ethiopia

    Anna K. Behrensmeyer;Nancy E. Todd;Richard Potts;Geraldine E. McBrinn

  • Early Hominin Foot Morphology Based on 1.5-Million-Year-Old Footprints from Ileret, Kenya

    Matthew R. Bennett;John W.K. Harris;Brian G. Richmond;Brian G. Richmond;David R. Braun

  • Isotopic Tracking of Change in Diet and Habitat Use in African Elephants

    Paul L. Koch;Jennifer Heisinger;Cynthia Moss;Richard W. Carlson

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Potts
Richard Potts National Museum of Natural History
Alan L. Deino
Alan L. Deino Berkeley Geochronology Center
J. Tyler Faith
J. Tyler Faith University of Utah
S. Kathleen Lyons
S. Kathleen Lyons University of Nebraska–Lincoln
David R. Braun
David R. Braun George Washington University
Conrad C. Labandeira
Conrad C. Labandeira Smithsonian Institution
Gary R. Graves
Gary R. Graves National Museum of Natural History
Robin W. Renaut
Robin W. Renaut University of Saskatchewan
Scott L. Wing
Scott L. Wing National Museum of Natural History
Jussi T. Eronen
Jussi T. Eronen University of Helsinki

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