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Peter S. Ungar Data-verified
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Federal Grant PI
High Impact
Distinguished Professor
faculty
66 h-index
343 pubs
13,574 cited
Research Areas
Biography and Research Information
OverviewAI-generated summary
Peter S. Ungar's research investigates the diet and feeding behaviors of animals, including early hominins and modern species, utilizing dental microwear analysis as a primary methodology. His work explores how food properties, environmental factors, and evolutionary pressures shape dental morphology and wear patterns.
Ungar has published extensively on topics related to paleodontology, primate feeding ecology, and paleoenvironmental reconstructions. His research includes studies on the incisor microwear of Arctic rodents as a proxy for microhabitat preference and dental evidence for diet variation in Arctic foxes. He also examines simulated non-carious cervical lesions using tridimensional digital scanning. His federally funded research, supported by NSF, focuses on the interactions of natural and social systems with climate change, globalization, and infrastructure development in the Arctic, where he serves as Principal Investigator.
His scholarship metrics include an h-index of 66, 342 total publications, and 13,487 total citations, designating him as a highly cited researcher. Ungar leads a research group at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and collaborates with several colleagues within the institution, including Gerardo Celis, Leah K Fehringer, Alexandria S. Peterson, and Dylan Jacob Elkington-Stauss.
Metrics
- h-index: 66
- Publications: 343
- Citations: 13,574
Selected Publications
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Land cover, plant functional type, and forage quality in the reindeer herding district of Sattasniemi, Finland (2026)
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Dental microwear textures of reindeer data from northern herding districts in Finnish Lapland, 1993-1994. (2025)
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Dental microwear from the Harappan sites of Juna Khatiya and Rakhigarhi, India (2025)
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Forbs in Viking lands: the effect of disturbing dominant graminoids on recruitment in tundra grasslands (2025)
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Dental Microwear and Diets of Late Miocene Primates From Rudabánya, Hungary (2025)
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Comparing Dental Microwear in the Populations at an Iron Age (c. 4010 BP) and Early Historic (c. 2600 BP) Site in South India (2025)
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Small rodent disturbance impact on Arctic graminoid forage quality (2025)
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Dental microwear of bovids from the Pliocene-Pleistocene transition in the lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia (2025)
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Dental microwear and diet of the latest Miocene ape in southern China (Lufengpithecus lufengensis) (2025)
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Dental microwear of Neogene cercopithecoids from the Turkana Basin, Kenya (2025)
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Forbs in Viking lands: The effect of disturbing dominant graminoids on forb recruitment in tundra grasslands (2024)
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On the use of dental microwear texture analysis to determine aetiology and assess wear of dental tissues for clinical evaluation (2024)
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Small rodent disturbance impact on Arctic graminoid forage quality. (2024)
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MIOCENE LANDSCAPE RECONSTRUCTION AND FAUNAL EVOLUTION IN KENYA’S TURKANA BASIN: A REPORT FROM THE TURKANA MIOCENE PROJECT (2024)
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Paleodiet reconstruction of Procapra przewalskii from the Qinghai Lake Basin during the Early and Middle Holocene (2024)
Federal Grants 1 $633,969 total
Collaboration Network
Top Collaborators
Gerardo Celis
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
9 shared publications
In database
- A Convergence Science Approach to Understanding the Changing Arctic
- A versatile, semi-automated image analysis workflow for time-lapse camera trap image classification
- A versatile semiautomated image analysis workflow for time-lapsed camera trap image classification
- Small rodent disturbance impact on Arctic graminoid forage quality.
- Forbs in Viking lands: The effect of disturbing dominant graminoids on forb recruitment in tundra grasslands
Showing 5 of 9 shared publications
Dorothée Ehrich
Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate (NO)
8 shared publications
- Dental evidence for variation in diet over time and space in the Arctic fox, Vulpes lagopus
- A Convergence Science Approach to Understanding the Changing Arctic
- A versatile, semi-automated image analysis workflow for time-lapse camera trap image classification
- A versatile semiautomated image analysis workflow for time-lapsed camera trap image classification
- Small rodent disturbance impact on Arctic graminoid forage quality.
Showing 5 of 8 shared publications
Anderson T. Hara
Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (US)
7 shared publications
- Objective assessment of simulated non-carious cervical lesion by tridimensional digital scanning
- Three-Dimensional Surface Texture Characterization of In Situ Simulated Erosive Tooth Wear
- Tooth Age Impact on Dental Erosion Susceptibility and Treatment Efficacy
- Relationships between Dental Topography, Gross Wear, and Bang and Ramm/Liversidge and Molleson Age Estimates for a Sample of Human Premolar Teeth
- Exploratory Analysis of Objective Outcome Measures for the Clinical Assessment of Erosive Tooth Wear
Showing 5 of 7 shared publications
Aleksandr Sokolov
Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology (RU)
6 shared publications
- Incisor microwear of Arctic rodents as a proxy for microhabitat preference
- Dental evidence for variation in diet over time and space in the Arctic fox, Vulpes lagopus
- A Convergence Science Approach to Understanding the Changing Arctic
- A versatile, semi-automated image analysis workflow for time-lapse camera trap image classification
- Changes in dental wear and breakage in arctic foxes (<i>Vulpes lagopus</i>) across space and time: evidence for anthropogenic food subsidies?
Showing 5 of 6 shared publications
Natalia Sokolova
Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology (RU)
6 shared publications
- Incisor microwear of Arctic rodents as a proxy for microhabitat preference
- Dental evidence for variation in diet over time and space in the Arctic fox, Vulpes lagopus
- A Convergence Science Approach to Understanding the Changing Arctic
- A versatile, semi-automated image analysis workflow for time-lapse camera trap image classification
- Changes in dental wear and breakage in arctic foxes (<i>Vulpes lagopus</i>) across space and time: evidence for anthropogenic food subsidies?
Showing 5 of 6 shared publications
Mary Heskel
Macalester College (US)
6 shared publications
- A Convergence Science Approach to Understanding the Changing Arctic
- Small rodent disturbance impact on Arctic graminoid forage quality.
- Forbs in Viking lands: The effect of disturbing dominant graminoids on forb recruitment in tundra grasslands
- Small rodent disturbance impact on Arctic graminoid forage quality
- Forbs in Viking lands: the effect of disturbing dominant graminoids on recruitment in tundra grasslands
Showing 5 of 6 shared publications
George J. Eckert
Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (US)
5 shared publications
- Objective assessment of simulated non-carious cervical lesion by tridimensional digital scanning
- Three-Dimensional Surface Texture Characterization of In Situ Simulated Erosive Tooth Wear
- Tooth Age Impact on Dental Erosion Susceptibility and Treatment Efficacy
- Exploratory Analysis of Objective Outcome Measures for the Clinical Assessment of Erosive Tooth Wear
- Objective characterization of dental occlusal and fissure morphologies: Method development and exploratory analysis
Ivan Fufachev
Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology (RU)
5 shared publications
- Dental evidence for variation in diet over time and space in the Arctic fox, Vulpes lagopus
- A Convergence Science Approach to Understanding the Changing Arctic
- A versatile, semi-automated image analysis workflow for time-lapse camera trap image classification
- Changes in dental wear and breakage in arctic foxes (<i>Vulpes lagopus</i>) across space and time: evidence for anthropogenic food subsidies?
- A versatile semiautomated image analysis workflow for time-lapsed camera trap image classification
Olivier Gilg
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
5 shared publications
- Incisor microwear of Arctic rodents as a proxy for microhabitat preference
- Dental evidence for variation in diet over time and space in the Arctic fox, Vulpes lagopus
- A Convergence Science Approach to Understanding the Changing Arctic
- A versatile, semi-automated image analysis workflow for time-lapse camera trap image classification
- A versatile semiautomated image analysis workflow for time-lapsed camera trap image classification
Matt Sponheimer
5 shared publications
- Problems with Paranthropus
- A Convergence Science Approach to Understanding the Changing Arctic
- Small rodent disturbance impact on Arctic graminoid forage quality.
- Small rodent disturbance impact on Arctic graminoid forage quality
- Dinner with Lucy: what does Paranthropus boisei bring to the table?
Frank Lippert
4 shared publications
- Three-Dimensional Surface Texture Characterization of In Situ Simulated Erosive Tooth Wear
- Tooth Age Impact on Dental Erosion Susceptibility and Treatment Efficacy
- Exploratory Analysis of Objective Outcome Measures for the Clinical Assessment of Erosive Tooth Wear
- Supplementary Material for: Tooth Age Impact on Dental Erosion Susceptibility and Treatment Efficacy
Mark F. Teaford
Touro University California (US)
4 shared publications
- Grit your teeth and chew your food: Implications of food material properties and abrasives for rates of dental microwear formation in laboratory Sapajus apella (Primates)
- Changing perspectives on early hominin diets
- Dental microwear of Neogene cercopithecoids from the Turkana Basin, Kenya
- Stubby versus stabby: A preliminary analysis of canine microwear in primates: Implication for inferring ingestive behaviors
Oliver Paine
4 shared publications
- Problems with Paranthropus
- Small rodent disturbance impact on Arctic graminoid forage quality.
- Small rodent disturbance impact on Arctic graminoid forage quality
- Dinner with Lucy: what does Paranthropus boisei bring to the table?
Kari Anne Bråthen
Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate (NO)
4 shared publications
- Small rodent disturbance impact on Arctic graminoid forage quality.
- Forbs in Viking lands: The effect of disturbing dominant graminoids on forb recruitment in tundra grasslands
- Small rodent disturbance impact on Arctic graminoid forage quality
- Forbs in Viking lands: the effect of disturbing dominant graminoids on recruitment in tundra grasslands
Eeva M. Soininen
Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate (NO)
4 shared publications
- Small rodent disturbance impact on Arctic graminoid forage quality.
- Forbs in Viking lands: The effect of disturbing dominant graminoids on forb recruitment in tundra grasslands
- Small rodent disturbance impact on Arctic graminoid forage quality
- Forbs in Viking lands: the effect of disturbing dominant graminoids on recruitment in tundra grasslands
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