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Overview

Monique Borgerhoff Mulder is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within environmental science and social sciences, with a focus on interdisciplinary approaches to sustainability, conservation, and socio-ecological systems.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Social Sciences

Within these broader categories, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder has contributed extensively to the following subfields:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Ecology
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Social Psychology

The core topics reflecting their research interests and outputs encompass:

  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
  • Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies

Monique Borgerhoff Mulder has authored publications in well-regarded scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Conservation Science and Practice
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Nature Sustainability
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Navigating cross-cultural research: methodological and ethical considerations" (2020) in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Savannas are vital but overlooked carbon sinks" (2022) in Science
  • "The multinomial index: a robust measure of reproductive skew" (2020) in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Integrating evolutionary theory and social-ecological systems research to address the sustainability challenges of the Anthropocene" (2023) in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Forest income and livelihoods on Pemba: A quantitative ethnography" (2022) in World Development

The scientist often collaborates with several frequent co-authors, which include:

  • Jeffrey Andrews
  • Matt Clark
  • Tim Caro
  • Vicken Hillis
  • Richard McElreath

Best Publications

  • Intergenerational wealth transmission and the dynamics of inequality in small-scale societies.

    Monique Borgerhoff Mulder;Samuel Bowles;Tom Hertz;Adrian Bell

  • Conservation: Linking Ecology, Economics, and Culture

    Monique Borgerhoff Mulder;Peter Coppolillo

  • The demographic transition: are we any closer to an evolutionary explanation?

    Monique Borgerhoff Mulder

  • Bateman's principles and human sex roles

    Gillian R. Brown;Kevin N. Laland;Monique Borgerhoff Mulder

  • How national context, project design, and local community characteristics influence success in community-based conservation projects

    Jeremy S. Brooks;Kerry A. Waylen;Monique Borgerhoff Mulder

  • Controversies in the evolutionary social sciences: a guide for the perplexed.

    Eric A. Smith;Monique Borgerhoff Mulder;Kim Hill

  • Assessing community-based conservation projects: A systematic review and multilevel analysis of attitudinal, behavioral, ecological, and economic outcomes

    Jeremy Brooks;Kerry Ann Waylen;Monique Borgerhoff Mulder

  • Kipsigis Women's Preferences for Wealthy Men: Evidence for Female Choice in Mammals?

    Monique Borgerhoff Mulder

  • Testing hypotheses for the success of different conservation strategies

    Jeremy S. Brooks;Margaret A. Franzen;Christopher M. Holmes;Christopher M. Holmes;Mark N. Grote

  • Human reproductive behaviour : a Darwinian perspective

    Laura L. Betzig;Monique Borgerhoff Mulder;Paul Turke

  • Lions and Warriors: Social factors underlying declining African lion populations and the effect of incentive-based management in Kenya

    Leela Hazzah;Monique Borgerhoff Mulder;Laurence Frank;Laurence Frank

  • Human behavioral ecology - necessary but not sufficient for the evolutionary analysis of human behavior

    Monique Borgerhoff Mulder

  • Brothers and sisters : How sibling interactions affect optimal parental allocations.

    Monique Borgerhoff Mulder

  • Ecological, economic and social perspectives on cocoa production worldwide

    Margaret Franzen;Monique Borgerhoff Mulder

  • On Cultural and Reproductive Success: Kipsigis Evidence

    Monique Borgerhoff Mulder

  • Wealth transmission and inequality among hunter-gatherers.

    Eric Alden Smith;Kim Hill;Frank W. Marlowe;David Nolin

  • The Emergence and Persistence of Inequality in Premodern Societies: Introduction to the Special Section

    Samuel Bowles;Samuel Bowles;Eric Alden Smith;Monique Borgerhoff Mulder

  • Optimizing offspring: the quantity–quality tradeoff in agropastoral Kipsigis

    Monique Borgerhoff Mulder

  • Are East African Pastoralists Truly Conservationists

    Lore M. Ruttan;Monique Borgerhoff Mulder

  • Cultural macroevolution and the transmission of traits

    Monique Borgerhoff Mulder;Charles L. Nunn;Mary C. Towner

  • Human ecology: A theoretical essay: by Amos H. Hawley, University of Chicago Press, 1986. $26.00/£20.75 hbk, $9.95£7.95 pbk (viii + 168 pages) ISBN 0 226 31984 9

    Monique Borgerhoff Mulder

  • The red queen: Sex and the evolution of human nature: by Matt Ridley Viking, 1993. £17.99 hbk (viii + 404 pages) ISBN 0670 843571

    Monique Borgerhoff Mulder

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Alden Smith
Eric Alden Smith University of Washington
Michael Gurven
Michael Gurven University of California, Santa Barbara
Richard McElreath
Richard McElreath Max Planck Society
Frank W. Marlowe
Frank W. Marlowe University of Cambridge
Rebecca Sear
Rebecca Sear London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Hillard Kaplan
Hillard Kaplan Chapman University
Christopher von Rueden
Christopher von Rueden University of Richmond
Bobbi S. Low
Bobbi S. Low University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Barry S. Hewlett
Barry S. Hewlett Washington State University Vancouver
Daniel Nettle
Daniel Nettle Newcastle University

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