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Overview

Rebecca Bliege Bird is a researcher affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States, specializing in environmental science with a focus on global and planetary change, ecology, and sociopolitical aspects of environmental studies. Their work encompasses various subfields including nature and landscape conservation and ecological modeling.

The scientist has extensively contributed to areas such as fire effects on ecosystems, wildlife ecology and conservation, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, rangeland and wildlife management, species distribution and climate change, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, and archaeology and ancient environmental studies.

The publication record includes multiple papers in notable academic journals. Selected recent papers are:

  • Fire mosaics and habitat choice in nomadic foragers, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • What do you mean, 'megafire'?, 2022, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Revitalized Karuk and Yurok cultural burning to enhance California hazelnut for basketweaving in northwestern California, USA, 2021, Fire Ecology
  • The life history of human foraging: Cross-cultural and individual variation, 2020, Science Advances

Frequently coauthoring with other researchers, Rebecca Bliege Bird's common collaborators include:

  • Douglas W. Bird
  • Dale G. Nimmo
  • Grant D. Linley
  • Chris J. Jolly
  • Tim S. Doherty

The main venues for their publications have included:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • American Journal of Human Biology

Best Publications

  • Signaling Theory, Strategic Interaction, and Symbolic Capital.

    Rebecca Bliege Bird;Eric Alden Smith

  • People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years

    Erle C. Ellis;Nicolas Gauthier;Kees Klein Goldewijk;Rebecca Bliege Bird

  • Turtle hunting and tombstone opening: public generosity as costly signaling

    Eric Alden Smith;Rebecca L.Bliege Bird

  • Showing off, handicap signaling, and the evolution of men's work

    Kristen Hawkes;Rebecca Bliege Bird

  • The hunting handicap: costly signaling in human foraging strategies

    Rebecca Bliege Bird;Eric Alden Smith;Douglas W. Bird

  • The “fire stick farming” hypothesis: Australian Aboriginal foraging strategies, biodiversity, and anthropogenic fire mosaics

    R. Bliege Bird;D. W. Bird;B. F. Codding;C. H. Parker

  • Cooperation and conflict: The behavioral ecology of the sexual division of labor

    Rebecca Bird

  • Delayed Reciprocity and Tolerated Theft: The Behavioral Ecology of Food-Sharing Strategies

    Rebecca L. Bliege Bird;Douglas W. Bird

  • The benefits of costly signaling: Meriam turtle hunters

    Eric Alden Smith;Rebecca Bliege Bird;Douglas W. Bird

  • The Ethnoarchaeology of Juvenile Foragers: Shellfishing Strategies among Meriam Children

    Douglas W. Bird;Rebecca Bliege Bird

  • Hunting and Nuclear Families: Some Lessons from the Hadza about Men's Work

    K. Hawkes;J. F. O'connell;N. G. Blurton Jones;Duran Bell

  • Contemporary Shellfish Gathering Strategies among the Meriam of the Torres Strait Islands, Australia: Testing Predictions of a Central Place Foraging Model

    Douglas W. Bird;Rebecca L. Bliege Bird

  • Aboriginal Burning Regimes and Hunting Strategies in Australia’s Western Desert

    Douglas W. Bird;Rebecca Bliege Bird;Christopher H. Parker

  • Risk and reciprocity in Meriam food sharing

    Rebecca Bliege Bird;Douglas W Bird;Eric Alden Smith;Geoffrey C Kushnick

  • Seasonality in Primates

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  • Why women hunt: risk and contemporary foraging in a Western Desert aboriginal community.

    Rebecca Bliege Bird;Douglas W. Bird

  • Constraints of knowing or constraints of growing? : Fishing and collecting by the children of mer.

    Rebecca Bliege Bird;Douglas W. Bird

  • In pursuit of mobile prey: Martu hunting strategies and archaeofaunal interpretation

    Douglas W. Bird;Rebecca Bliege Bird;Brian F. Codding

  • Aboriginal hunting buffers climate-driven fire-size variability in Australia’s spinifex grasslands

    Rebecca Bliege Bird;Brian F. Codding;Peter G. Kauhanen;Douglas W. Bird

  • Prosocial signaling and cooperation among Martu hunters

    Rebecca Bliege Bird;Eleanor A. Power

  • Variability in the organization and size of hunter-gatherer groups: Foragers do not live in small-scale societies

    Douglas W. Bird;Rebecca Bliege Bird;Brian F. Codding;David W. Zeanah

  • Animal movements in fire-prone landscapes

    Dale G. Nimmo;Sarah Avitabile;Sam C. Banks;Rebecca Bliege Bird

  • Niche construction and Dreaming logic: aboriginal patch mosaic burning and varanid lizards (Varanus gouldii) in Australia

    Rebecca Bliege Bird;Nyalangka Tayor;Brian F. Codding;Douglas W. Bird

  • Provisioning offspring and others: risk- energy trade-offs and gender differences in hunter-gatherer foraging strategies

    Brian F. Codding;Rebecca Bliege Bird;Douglas W. Bird

  • Martu Children’s Hunting Strategies in the Western Desert, Australia

    Douglas W. Bird;Rebecca Bliege Bird

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas W. Bird
Douglas W. Bird Pennsylvania State University
Eric Alden Smith
Eric Alden Smith University of Washington
Dale G. Nimmo
Dale G. Nimmo Charles Sturt University
Douglas W. Yu
Douglas W. Yu University of East Anglia
Richard McElreath
Richard McElreath Max Planck Society
Victoria Reyes-García
Victoria Reyes-García Autonomous University of Barcelona
Catherine L. Parr
Catherine L. Parr University of Liverpool
Nicole Boivin
Nicole Boivin Max Planck Society
Michael Gurven
Michael Gurven University of California, Santa Barbara
Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares
Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares Autonomous University of Barcelona

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