Publications

2024

Shaffer, C.A., Yukuma, C., Suse, P., and Marawanaru, E. (In Review). A comparison of prey choice and hunting efficiency of Indigenous hunters in Guyana by technology and season. Biodiversity and Conservation. (Manuscript available upon request).

Milstein, M.S., Shaffer, C.A., Suse, P., Marawanaru, E., Shoni, R., Isaacs, B., Larsen, P., Travis, D.A., Terio, K.A., and Wolf, T. (In Press). The establishment of a hunter-based surveillance program to characterize primate health in Southern Guyana. American Journal of Primatology. (Manuscript available upon request) 

2022

Dolins, F., Shaffer, C.A., Hickey, J., Porter, L., and Nibbelink, N. (2022). Spatial Analysis in Field Primatology: Applying GIS at Varying Scales. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Estrada, A., Garber, P., Gouveia, S., Fernandez-Llamazares, A., Ascensão, F., Fuentes, A., Garnett, S., Shaffer, C. A., Bicca-Marques, J., Fa, J., Hockings, K., Shanee, S., Johnson, S., Shepard, G., Shanee, N., Golden, C., Cárdenas-Navarrete, A., Levey, D.,Boonratana, R., Dobrovolski, R., Chaudhary, A., Ratsimbazafy, J., Supriatna, J., Kone, I., & Volampeno, S. (2022). Global importance of Indigenous peoples, their lands, and knowledge systems for saving the world’s primates from extinction. Science Advances 8(32) DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abn29.

Shaffer, C.A., Milstein, M.S. (co-first authors), Lindsey, L., Wolf, T., Suse, P., Marawanaru, E., Kipp, E., Garwood, T., Travis, D., Terio, K., Larsen, P. (2022). Integrating Indigenous knowledge, ontology, and molecular barcoding to characterize spider monkey (Ateles paniscus) filariasis. International Journal of Primatology 43: 253-272.

Milstein, M.S., Shaffer, C.A., Suse, P., Marawanaru, A, Heinrich, D., Larsen, P., and Wolf, T. (2022). A mixed-methods approach to understanding domestic dogs and disease transmission risk in an indigenous reserve in Guyana, South America. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010469.

Shaffer, C. A. & Ormond, P. (2022). Sakis, bearded sakis, and uakaris: Platyrrhine seed predators. In Sussman, R. W., Hart, D., & Colquhoun, I. C. (Eds.), The Natural History of Primates: A Systematic Survey of Ecology and Behavior. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 209-227.

Ashmore, P. C., Hart, D., Shaffer, C. A. (2022). Macaques: Ecological plasticity in primates. In Sussman, R. W., Hart, D., & Colquhoun, I. C. (Eds.), The Natural History of Primates: A Systematic Survey of Ecology and Behavior. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 429-480.

2021

Shaffer, C.A. (2021). Quantifying primate resource dispersion with GIS: What is a patch? In Dolins, F., Shaffer, C.A., Hickey, J., Porter, L., and Nibbelink, N. (Eds.), Spatial Analysis in Field Primatology: Applying GIS at Varying Scales. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 152-179.

Shaffer, C.A. (2021). Section II Introduction: Applying GIS in small-scale space. In Dolins, F., Shaffer, C.A., Hickey, J., Porter, L., and Nibbelink, N. (Eds.), Spatial Analysis in Field Primatology: Applying GIS at Varying Scales. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 123-128.

Bernstein, L., Shaffer, C.A., Walz, E., Moore, S., Sparks, A., Stone, S., Roerick, T., Larsen, P., Wolf, T. (2021). Exploring risk for echinococcosis spillover in northern Minnesota tribal communities. Ecohealth 18: 169-181.

Riley, E.P., Shaffer, C.A., Trinidad, J.S., Morrow, K.S., Sagnotti, C., Carosi, M., and Ngakan, P.O. (2021). Roadside monkeys: Anthropogenic effects on moor macaque (Macaca maura) ranging behavior in Bantimurung Bulusaraung National Park, Sulawesi, Indonesia. Primates 62(3):477-489.

Wolf, T.M., Deere, J., Milstein, M.S., Shaffer, C.A., and Travis, D.A. (2021). Monkey health is team sport. In Jones-Engel, L., and Knauf, S. (Eds.), Neglected Diseases of Monkeys: From the Monkey Human Interface to One Health. London: Springer Nature. pp. 19-40.

Wolf, T.M., Deere, J., Lonsdorf, E.V., Collins, D.A., Gillespie, T.R., Terio, K., Murray, C.M., Mjungu, D., Kamenya, S., Mwacha, D., Raphael, J., Lipende, I., Bakuza, J., Gilagiza, B., Milstein, M.S., Shaffer, C.A., Wilson, M.L., Detwiler, K.M., and Travis, D.A. (2021). Forming, storming, and norming your way into one health: The Gombe case study. In Jones- Engel, L., and Knauf, S. (Eds.), Neglected Diseases of Monkeys: From the Monkey Human Interface to One Health. London: Springer Nature. pp. 373-382.

2020

Milstein, M.S., Shaffer, C.A., Gillespie, T.R., Terio, K.A., Wolf, T.M., and Travis, D. (2020). An ethnographic approach to assessing zoonotic disease risk from bushmeat in an indigenous reserve in Guyana. Ecohealth 17(4):424-436. 

2019

Shaffer, C.A., Milstein, M. S., Suse, P., Marawanaru, E., Yukuma, C. (2019). Co- managment of primate hunting in Amazonian indigenous reserves: A case study from Guyana. In Behie, A.M., Teichroeb, J.A., and Malone, N. (Eds.), Primate Research and Conservation in the Anthropocene. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 74-79.

Shaffer, C.A., Wright, B.A., and Wright, K. (2019). Primate community structure at three flooded forest sites in Guyana. In Barnett, A.A., Matsuda I. and Katarzyna, N. (Eds.), Primates in Flooded Habitats: Ecology and Conservation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 226-235.

Boyle, S.A., Alho, C., Chism, J., Defler, T., Di Fiore, A.D., Fernandez-Duque, E., Palacios, E., Santos, R., Shaffer, C.A., Urbani, B., Wallace, R. Wright, B., Wright, K.,Barnett, A.A. (2019). Conservation of primates and their flooded habitats in the neotropics. In Barnett, A. A., Matsuda I., and Katarzyna, N. (Eds.), Primates in Flooded Habitats: Ecology and Conservation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 359-374.

2018

Shaffer, C.A., Milstein, M. S., Yukuma, C., Marawanaru, E., Suse, P., Wolf, T., Travis, D. A. (2018). Integrating ethnography and hunting sustainability modeling for primate conservation in an Indigenous reserve in Guyana. International Journal of Primatology 39: 945-968.

Shaffer, C.A., Yukuma, C., Marawanaru, E., and Suse, P. (2018). Assessing the sustainability of Waiwai subsistence hunting in Guyana by comparison of static indices and spatially explicit, biodemographic models. Animal Conservation 21: 148-158.

Travis, D.A., Alpern, J.D., Convertino, M., Craft, M., Gillespie, T., Kennedy, S., Robertson, C., Shaffer, C.A., and Stauffer, W. (2018). Biodiversity and health. In Herrmann, J.A., and Johnson-Walker, Y. (Eds.), Beyond One Health: from Recognition to Results. New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 153-176.

2017

Shaffer, C.A., Milstein, M.S., Yukuma, C., Marawanaru, E., and Suse, P. (2017). Sustainability and comanagement of subsistence hunting in an Indigenous reserve in Guyana. Conservation Biology 31: 119-1131.

Flachs, A., Stone, G.D., Shaffer, C.A. (2017). GIS as tool for spatial modeling in Warangal seed fad patterns. Human Ecology 45: 143–159.

Shaffer, C.A., Marawanaru, E., Yukuma, C. (2017). An ethnoprimatological approach to assessing the sustainability of primate subsistence hunting of indigenous Waiwai in the Konashen Community Owned Conservation Concession, Guyana. In Dore, K. M., Riley, E.P., and Fuentes, A. (Eds.), Ethnoprimatology: A Practical Guide to Research on the Human- Nonhuman Primate Interface. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 232-250. 

Shaffer, C.A. (2017). The Pitheciinae. In Fuentes, A., et al. (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Primatology. New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 979-981.

Shaffer, C.A. (2017). GPS/GIS. In Fuentes, A., et al. (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Primatology. New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 477-483.

2016

Shaffer, C.A., Barnett, A.A., Gergory, T., Melo, F.R., Moreira, L., Alvim, T.H.G., Moura, V.S., Filó, A., Cardoso, T., Port-Carvalho, M., Santos, R.R., Boyle, S.A. (2016). Mixed species associations in cuxíus (genus Chiropotes). American Journal of Primatology 78: 583-597.

Goldstein, S. and Shaffer, C.A. (2016). Experimental and archaeological investigations of geometric microlith function among Mid-to-Late Holocene herders in southwestern Kenya. Journal of Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 1-22.

Boyle, S.A., Thompson, C.L., DeLuycker, A., Alvarez, S.J., Alvim, T.H.G., Aquino, R., Bezerra, B.M., Boubli, J.P., Bowler, M., Caselli, C.B., Chagas, R.R.D., Ferrari, S.F., Fontes, I.P., Gregory, T., Haugaasen, T., Heiduck, S., Hores, R., Lehman, S., Melo, F.R., Moreira, L.S., Moura, V.S., Nagy- Reis, M.B., Norconk, M.A., Palacios, E., Palminteri, S., Peres, C.A., Pinto, L.P., Port-Carvalho, Rodriguez, A., M., Santos, R.R., Setz, E.Z.F.,

Shaffer, C.A., Silva, F.E., Silva, R.F.S., Souza-Alves, J.P., Trevelin, L.C., Veiga, L.M., Vieira, T.M., DuBose, M.E., Barnett, A.A. (2016). The geography of choice: patterns in fruit consumption by the pitheciids Cacajao, Callicebus, Chiropotes, and Pithecia. American Journal of Primatology 78: 493-506.

2014

Shaffer, C.A. (2014). Spatial foraging in free-ranging bearded sakis: Lévy Walkers or traveling salesmen? American Journal of Primatology 72: 472- 484.

Wright, P.J. and Shaffer, C.A. (2014). Crop selection: Perspectives from the lower Missouri river valley. Midwest Archaeological Conference Inc. Occasional Papers. No. 1: 73-96.

2013

Shaffer, C.A. (2013). GIS analysis of patch use and group cohesiveness of bearded sakis (Chiropotes sagulatus) in the Upper Essequibo Conservation Concession, Guyana. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 150: 235–246. 

Shaffer, C.A. (2013). Feeding ecology of bearded sakis (Chiropotes sagulatus) in Guyana. American Journal of Primatology 75: 568-580.

Shaffer, C.A. (2013). Ecological correlates of ranging behavior of northern bearded sakis (Chiropotes sagulatus) in a continuous forest in Guyana. International Journal of Primatology 34: 515-532.

Shaffer, C.A. (2013). Activity patterns, intergroup encounters, and male affiliation in free-ranging bearded sakis (Chiropotes sagulatus). International Journal of Primatology 34: 1190-1208.

2012

Barnett, A.A., Boyle, S.A., Norconk, M.M., Alvim, T.H.G., Bowler, M., Chism, J., Di Fiore, A., Fernandez-Duque, E., Guimarães, A.C.P., Harrison-Levine, A., Haugaasen, T., Lehman, S., MacKinnon, K.C., Melo, F.R., Moreira, L.S., Moura, V.S., Palminteri, S., Pinto, L.P., Port-Carvalho, M., Santos, R.R., Setz, E.Z.F., Shaffer, C.A., de Silva, L.R., da Silva, S.B., Thompson, C.L., Veiga, L.M., Vieira, T.M., Walker-Pacheco, S.E., Spironello, W.R., MacLarnon, A., and Ferrari, S.F. (2012). Terrestrial Behavior in Pitheciins (Cacajao, Chiropotes, and Pithecia). American Journal of Primatology 74: 1106-1127.

2011

Sussman, R.W., Shaffer, C.A., and Guidi, L. (2011). Macaca fascicularis in Mauritius: Implications for macaque–human interactions and for future research on long-tailed macaques. In Fuentes, A., Gumert, M.D., and Jones-Engel, L. (Eds.), Ecology and Management of Long-Tailed Macaques and their Interface with Humans. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 207-235.