Research Interests

Behavioural, population and evolutionary ecology of mammals, human impacts on biodiversity

I have completed the marine mammal phase of my research career and am returning to past studies of rodent populations. I hope to complete analyses of accumulated data and publish the results of these studies over the next few years.

Selected publications

• Anderson, P. K. 2003 Wireless telecommunications and night flying birds: We may be sacrificing millions of migrants for convenience, entertainment and profit. Biodiversity 4(1):10-17.
• Anderson, P. K. 2002. Habitat, Niche, and Evolution of Sirenian Mating Systems. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 9 (1): 55-98
• Anderson, P. K. and D. P. Domning 2002. Steller's Sea Cow. pp. 1178-1181 in Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals. W. F. Perrin, B. Wursig and J. G. lM. Thiewissen (eds.). Academic Pres, San Diego. 1414 pp.
• Anderson, P. K. 2001. Marine mammals in the next one hundred years: twilight for a Pleistocene megafauna? Journal of Mammalogy 82:623-629.
• Masini, R.J., Anderson, P.K. and McComb, A.J. (2001). A Halodule-dominated community in a subtropical embayment: physical environment, productivity, biomass and impact of dugong grazing. Aquatic Botany 71: 179-197.
• Anderson, P.K. (2001). Dugong. In: The New Encyclopedia of Mammals. Ed. D. Macdonald. Oxford University Press.
• Anderson, P. K. and R. M. B. Barclay (1995) Acoustic signals of dugongs: physical characteristics and behavioral correlates. Journal of Mammalogy 76:1226-1237.
• Anderson, P. K. 1995. Competition, predation, and the evolution and extinction of Steller's sea cow, Hydrodamalis gigas. Marine Mammal Science 11:391-394.
• Anderson, P. K. 1997. Shark Bay dugongs in summer, I. Lek mating. Behaviour. 134:443-462.
• Anderson, P. K. 1998. Shark Bay dugongs (Dugong dugon) in summer. II. :Foragers in a Halodule-dominated community. Mammalia 62:409-425.