Amanda Korstjens

Korstjens research works looks at how environment shapes the behaviour of animals. With Robin Dunbar and Julia Lehmann she researched how time budgeting, that is the proportion of time spent on activities such as foraging versus forming social bonds, is important for different types of mammals to adapt to different habitats.^[5] In later work she combined this knowledge with climate change scenarios to predict potential habitat loss for gorilla and chimpanzee populations^[6]

In 2015 she launched the LEAP project Landscape Ecology And Primatology linking up researchers focussing on how deforestation affects the stability of tropical ecosystems, the species living in them and the carbon stored.^[7]

In 2019 she wrote a book chapter The Effect of Climate Change on the Distribution of the Genera Colobus and Cercopithecus in the book Primate Research and Conservation in the Anthropocene edited by Alison Behie and published by Cambridge University Press.^[8]

• Bournemouth University profile
• Landscape Ecology and Primatology project website