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Amelia Villaseñor
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Assistant Professor
13 h-index
33 pubs
793 cited
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Biography and Research Information
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Amelia Villaseñor's research investigates ecological changes and community reorganization throughout the late Quaternary, with a particular focus on the influence of human impacts and megafaunal extinctions. Her work examines how shifts in species composition have affected ecological space and macroecological patterns.
Villaseñor's publications include studies on Holocene community assembly, the impact of end-Pleistocene megafauna extinction on mammal communities, and the accelerating role of humans in mammalian macroecological patterns. She also explores frameworks for evaluating climate, dispersal limitation, and biotic interactions using fossil pollen data, and the ecological fidelity of functional traits in modern bone assemblages. Her research interests extend to understanding biotic interactions in deep time and the experiences of women in biological anthropology.
Metrics
- h-index: 13
- Publications: 33
- Citations: 793
Positions
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Assistant Professor 2019–presentUniversity of Arkansas Department of Anthropology ORCID
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Asoociate ProfessorUniversity of Arkansas Anthropology ORCID
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Postdoctoral Fellow 2017–2018University of New Mexico Biology ORCID
Selected Publications
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Early Oldowan technology thrived during Pliocene environmental change in the Turkana Basin, Kenya (2025)
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‘Earth system engineers’ and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time (2025)
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Hominin Technology Flourished amid Pliocene Environmental Variance in the Turkana Basin (2024)
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Sex-biased sampling may influence Homo naledi tooth size variation (2024)
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The Zambia Rift Valley research project: Exploring human evolution at the crossroads of Africa (2023)
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Pliocene hominins from East Turkana were associated with mesic environments in a semiarid basin (2023)
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Late Pleistocene megafauna extinction leads to missing pieces of ecological space in a North American mammal community (2022)
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A solution to the challenges of interdisciplinary aggregation and use of specimen-level trait data (2022)
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Late quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas (2022)
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Investigating Biotic Interactions in Deep Time (2020)
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Body mass‐related changes in mammal community assembly patterns during the late Quaternary of North America (2020)
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Middle Pliocene hominin distribution patterns in Eastern Africa (2020)
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Reorganization of surviving mammal communities after the end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinction (2019)
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THE MISSING PIECE I: CONSEQUENCES OF TERMINAL PLEISTOCENE MEGAFAUNAL EXTINCTION ON THE ISOTOPIC AND BODY SIZE NICHE OF LARGE HERBIVORE COMMUNITIES IN TEXAS (2019)
Collaboration Network
Top Collaborators
Anna K. Behrensmeyer
National Museum of Natural History (US)
7 shared publications
- Reorganization of surviving mammal communities after the end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinction
- Investigating Biotic Interactions in Deep Time
- Late quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas
- Middle Pliocene hominin distribution patterns in Eastern Africa
- Body mass‐related changes in mammal community assembly patterns during the late Quaternary of North America
Showing 5 of 7 shared publications
S. Kathleen Lyons
University of Nebraska–Lincoln (US)
6 shared publications
- Reorganization of surviving mammal communities after the end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinction
- Late Pleistocene megafauna extinction leads to missing pieces of ecological space in a North American mammal community
- Investigating Biotic Interactions in Deep Time
- Late quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas
- Body mass‐related changes in mammal community assembly patterns during the late Quaternary of North America
Showing 5 of 6 shared publications
René Bobe
University of Oxford (GB)
5 shared publications
- Reorganization of surviving mammal communities after the end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinction
- Middle Pliocene hominin distribution patterns in Eastern Africa
- Pliocene hominins from East Turkana were associated with mesic environments in a semiarid basin
- Early Oldowan technology thrived during Pliocene environmental change in the Turkana Basin, Kenya
- Hominin Technology Flourished amid Pliocene Environmental Variance in the Turkana Basin
Nicholas J. Gotelli
University of Vermont (US)
5 shared publications
- Reorganization of surviving mammal communities after the end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinction
- Investigating Biotic Interactions in Deep Time
- Late quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas
- Body mass‐related changes in mammal community assembly patterns during the late Quaternary of North America
- ‘Earth system engineers’ and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time
Anikó B. Tóth
UNSW Sydney (AU)
4 shared publications
- Reorganization of surviving mammal communities after the end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinction
- Investigating Biotic Interactions in Deep Time
- Late quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas
- Body mass‐related changes in mammal community assembly patterns during the late Quaternary of North America
W. Andrew Barr
George Washington University (US)
4 shared publications
- Reorganization of surviving mammal communities after the end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinction
- Investigating Biotic Interactions in Deep Time
- Late quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas
- Body mass‐related changes in mammal community assembly patterns during the late Quaternary of North America
Andrew Du
Colorado State University (US)
4 shared publications
- Reorganization of surviving mammal communities after the end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinction
- Investigating Biotic Interactions in Deep Time
- Late quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas
- Body mass‐related changes in mammal community assembly patterns during the late Quaternary of North America
Jussi T. Eronen
University of Helsinki (FI)
4 shared publications
- Reorganization of surviving mammal communities after the end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinction
- Investigating Biotic Interactions in Deep Time
- Late quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas
- Body mass‐related changes in mammal community assembly patterns during the late Quaternary of North America
Danielle Fraser
National Museum of Natural History (US)
4 shared publications
- Reorganization of surviving mammal communities after the end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinction
- Investigating Biotic Interactions in Deep Time
- Late quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas
- Body mass‐related changes in mammal community assembly patterns during the late Quaternary of North America
Advait M. Jukar
Smithsonian Institution (US)
4 shared publications
- Reorganization of surviving mammal communities after the end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinction
- Investigating Biotic Interactions in Deep Time
- Late quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas
- Body mass‐related changes in mammal community assembly patterns during the late Quaternary of North America
Joshua H. Miller
University of Cincinnati (US)
4 shared publications
- Reorganization of surviving mammal communities after the end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinction
- Investigating Biotic Interactions in Deep Time
- Late quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas
- Body mass‐related changes in mammal community assembly patterns during the late Quaternary of North America
Silvia Pineda‐Munoz
Indiana University Bloomington (US)
4 shared publications
- Reorganization of surviving mammal communities after the end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinction
- Investigating Biotic Interactions in Deep Time
- Late quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas
- Body mass‐related changes in mammal community assembly patterns during the late Quaternary of North America
Laura C. Soul
Smithsonian Institution (US)
4 shared publications
- Reorganization of surviving mammal communities after the end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinction
- Investigating Biotic Interactions in Deep Time
- Late quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas
- Body mass‐related changes in mammal community assembly patterns during the late Quaternary of North America
Meghan A. Balk
Smithsonian Institution (US)
4 shared publications
- Investigating Biotic Interactions in Deep Time
- Late quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas
- A solution to the challenges of interdisciplinary aggregation and use of specimen-level trait data
- Body mass‐related changes in mammal community assembly patterns during the late Quaternary of North America
Cindy V. Looy
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (US)
4 shared publications
- Investigating Biotic Interactions in Deep Time
- Late quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas
- Body mass‐related changes in mammal community assembly patterns during the late Quaternary of North America
- ‘Earth system engineers’ and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time
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