Publications

*SCALE Lab Members **SCALE Undergraduates ***Grad Collaborators

2026

Kierepka, E.M., Keiter, D.A., Davis, A.J., Pepin, K.M., Patterson, J.R.*, Rhodes, O.E., Jr., Piaggio, A.J., and J.C. Beasley. 2026. Application of genetic capture-mark-recapture methods for invasive wild pigs. Wildlife Society Bulletin. In review.

Lafferty, D.J.R., Gillman, S.J., McKenney, E.A., Patterson, J.R.*, Chinn, S.M., Ishiniwa, H., Nanba, K., Hinton, T.G., Nemoto, Y., Okuda, K., and J.C. Beasley. 2026. Gut site and radiation dose shape wild boar gut microbiomes in the Fukushima difficult-to-return zone. Environmental International. In preparation.

Patterson, J.R.*, Periquet, S., Melton, M., PetersonWood, B., Portas, R., Aschenborn, O., Cloete, C., Peirson, LE., Lafferty, D.R.J., and J.C. Beasley. 2026. Revealing seasonal dietary niche overlap among sympatric large carnivores using DNA metabarcoding. Scientific Reports 16:13590. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-43423-w

Rooney, B….Patterson, J.R.*, et al. 2026. SNAPSHOT USA 2024: Year 6 of the coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States. Global Ecology and Biogeography 35(4):e70229. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70229

Patterson, J.R.*, Periquet, S., and J.C. Beasley. 2026. Shedding Light on the Dark: How artificial illumination affects mammal activity at waterholes in Sub-Saharan Africa. Conservation Science and Practice e70289. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.70289

Pierson, L.E., McKenney, E.A., Patterson, J.R.*, Beasley, J.C., Periquet, S., Cloete, C., Melton, M.H., PetersonWood, B., Portas, R., Aschenborn, O., and D.J.R. Lafferty. 2026. Differences in African carnivore gut bacterial diversity and composition associated with gastrointestinal parasites. Journal of Mammalogy. In review.

Patterson, J.R.*, Periquet, S., and J.C. Beasley. 2026. Heat overrides risk: temperature drives multi-species co-occurrence at arid waterholes. Proceedings B. In review.

Pierson, L.E., McKenney, E.A., Patterson, J.R.*, Beasley, J.C., Periquet, S., Cloete, C., Melton, M.H., PetersonWood, B., Portas, R., Aschenborn, O., and D.J.R. Lafferty. 2026. African carnivore gut bacterial diversity and composition are associated with sample condition but not storage technique. Animal Microbiome 8(59).

Heydinger, J., Patterson, J.R.*, Periquet, S., Cloete, C., and J.C. Beasley. 2026. A unified approach for quantifying the effects of moonlight on wildlife nocturnal activity, using African lions (Panthera leo) as a case study. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.

2025

Patterson, D.B.*, Negash, E.W., Uno, K.T., Malasek, T.**, Cerling, T.E., (In Press) The isotopic context of Paranthropus within the Eastern African Rift System. In: Constantino, P., Reed, K.E., Wood, B.A., (editors). Paranthropus, the forgotten lineage. Springer, Netherlands.

Beasley, J.C., Olson, Z.H., Newsome, T M., Patterson, J.R.*, and DeVault, T.L. 2025. The ecological role of vertebrate scavengers. In M. J. Somers & M. W. Hayward (Eds.), Rewilding (pp. 223–244). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003610885-14

Rooney, B….Patterson, J.R.*, et al. 2025. SNAPSHOT USA 2019-2023: The first five years of data from a coordinated camera trap survey of the United States. Global Ecology and Biogeography 34(1):e13941. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13941 

Patterson, J.R.*, Periquet, S., Melton, M.H., PetersonWood, B., Naha, D., Cloete, C., and J.C. Beasley. 2025. Effects of tourism on seasonal movements and fine-scale habitat selection of African lions and spotted hyenas in Etosha National Park, Namibia. Global Ecology and Conservation 61: e03681. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2025.e03681

2024

Patterson, J.R.*, Periquet, S., and J.C. Beasley. 2024. Effects of human presence on African mammal waterhole attendance and temporal activity patterns. Journal of Zoology (in review).

2023

Patterson, J.R., Szabo, N.*, and J.C. Beasley. 2023. Effects of urbanization on the efficiency and composition of vertebrate scavengers. Food Webs 37:e00317.

Malasek, T.**, Barding, E., Bender, M.J., Bonham, A.***, Mead, A.J., Pilgrim, Z.*, Powers, P., Patterson, J.R., Patterson, D.B.*, Evaluating the fidelity of enamel isotopic data and environmental variation in paleoecological studies: a case study in wild, known-aged, modern white-tailed deer. Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Palaeogeography. 622:111587. 

2022

Patterson, J.R.*, DeVault, T.L., Beasley, J.C. 2022. Integrating scavenging ecology into contemporary wildlife conservation and management. Ecology and Evolution 12:e9122. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.9122

Patterson, D.B.*, Du, A., Faith, J.T., Rowan, J., Uno, K., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Braun, D.R., Wood, B.A., (In Press) Did vegetation change contribute to the extinction of Paranthropus boisei? Journal of Human Evolution.

Seminack, C.T., Thornburg, J.D., Mead, A.J., Mead, H.F., Hadden, C.S., Cherkinsky, A., Patterson, D.B.*, (2022) Multiproxy investigation of a fluvially reworked late-Pleistocene barrier-island terrace along the southeast United States Atlantic Coastal Plain at Clark Quarry. Quaternary Science Reviews 284:107496

2021

Patterson, J.R.*, Bender, M., Duckworth, C.**, Noble, E.**, Patterson, D.*, Pilgrim, Z.** (2021) The occurrence of Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola in northern Georgia wild and captive snake populations. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 57(3):643-647.

Faith, J.T., Du, A., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Davies, B., Patterson, D.B.*, Rowan, J., Wood, B.A. (2021) Rethinking the ecological drivers of hominin evolution. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 36:797-807.

Hammond, A.S., Mavuso, S., Biernat, M.***, Braun, D.R., Jinnah, Z., Kuo, S., Melaku, S., Wemanya, S.N., Ndiema, E., Patterson, D.B.*, Uno, K.T., Palcu, D., (2021) New hominin remains and revised context from the earliest Homo erectus locality in East Turkana, Kenya. Nature Communications 12:1-12.

2020

Noble, E.J.**, McManus, J.G.**, Mead, A.J., Mead, H, Seminack, C., Balco, W., Bennett, T.**, Crain, N.M.**, Duckworth, C.**, Malasek, T.**, Pearson, J.Z.**, Rhinehart, P.***, Ussery, M.E.** , Sun, Y., Patterson, J.R.*, Patterson, D.B.* (2020) Enamel isotopes reveal late Pleistocene ecosystem dynamics in southeastern North America. Quaternary Science Reviews. 236:106284.

Patterson, J.R.*, Bender, M.J., Duckworth, C.**, Noble, E.**, Patterson, D.B.*, (2020) The occurrence of ophidiomycosis in northern Georgia wild and captive snake populations. Journal of Wildlife Diseases. 57:643-647. 

Williamson, J.**, Bailey, A., Lougee, J., Patterson, D.B.*, Patterson, J.R.*, (2020) A preliminary investigation of the impact of forest management practices on microhabitat abiotic variables in the southern Appalachian Mountains. Georgia Journal of Science 78:13.

Wood, B.A., Patterson, D.B.* (2020) Paranthropus through the looking glass. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.117: 23202-23204.

2019

Braun, D. R., Aldeias, V., Archer, W.A., Arrowsmith, J.R., Baraki, N., Campisano, C.J., Deino, A.L., DiMaggio, E.N., Dupont-Nivet, G., Engda, B., Feary, D.A., Garello, D.I., Kerfelew, Z., McPherron, S.P., Patterson, D.B., Reeves, J.S., Thompson, J.C., Reed, K. E. (2019) The oldest Oldowan artifacts at >2.58 Ma from Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia, highlights Pliocene technological diversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 116:11712-11717

Cutts, R., Hlubik, S., Campbell, R., Muschinski, J., Akuku, P., Braun, D., Patterson, D.B., O’Brien, J., Garrison, E., Harris, J.W.K., (2019) Thermal-curved fragments: A method for identifying anthropogenic fire in the archaeological record. Journal of Archaeological Science. 106:10-22. 

O’Brien, K.P., Patterson, D.B., Biernat, M.D., Braun, D.R., Cerling, T.E., McGrosky, A., Faith, J.T., (2019) Ungulate turnover in the Koobi Fora Formation: Spatial and temporal variation in the Early Pleistocene. Journal of African Earth Sciences. 161:103658

Noble, E.J., McManus, J.G., Mead, A.J., Mead, H., Seminack, C., Balco, W., Bennett, T., Crain, N. M., Duckworth, C., Malasek, T., Pearson, J.Z., Rhinehart, P., Ussery, M. E. , Sun, Y., Patterson, J.R., Patterson, D.B. (2019) Enamel isotopes reveal late Pleistocene ecosystem dynamics in southeastern North America. Quaternary Science Reviews.

Patterson, D.B., Braun, D.R., Allen, K., Barr, A.W., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Biernat, M., Lehmann, S.B., Maddox, T., Manthi, F.K., Merritt, S.R., Morris, S.E., O’Brien, K., Reeves, J.S., Wood, B.A., Bobe, R., (2019) Comparative isotopic evidence from East Turkana suggests a dietary shift between early Homo and Homo erectus. Nature Ecology and Evolution. doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0916-0.

2018

Bender, M., Willamson, J., Patterson, J.R., Pseudacris feriarum (Upland Chorus Frog). Herpetological Review 49(2):283.

Forrest, F.L., Stynder, D.D., Bishop, L.C., Levin, N.E., Lehmann, S.B., Patterson, D.B., Matthews, T., Braun, D.R., (2018) Zooarchaeological analysis of newly excavated Middle Pleistocene deposits from Elandsfontein, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 17:19-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.10.034

Williamson, J., Patterson, J.R., Bender, M. (2018) Ambystoma maculatum (Spotted Salamander). Herpetological Review 49(2):280.

2017

Patterson, D.B., Braun, D.R., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Lehmann, S.B., Merritt, S.R., Reeves, J.S., Wood, B.A., Bobe, R., (In Press) Landscape scale heterogeneity in the East Turkana ecosystem during the Okote Member (1.56-1.38 Ma). Journal of Human Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.06.007

Patterson, D.B., Braun, D.R., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Merritt, S., Zliobaite, I., Reeves, J.S., Wood, B.A., Fortelius, M., Bobe, R., (2017) Ecosystem evolution and hominin paleobiology at East Turkana, northern Kenya between 2.0 and 1.4 Ma. Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Palaeogeography. 481:1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.05.001

2016

Faith, J.T., Patterson, D.B., Blegen, N., O’Neil, C.J., Marean, C.W., Peppe, D.J., Tryon, C.A. (2016) Size variation in Tachyoryctes splendens (Mammalia, Spalacidae) and its implications for late Quaternary temperature change in equatorial East Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews 140:39-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.03.017

Fortelius, M., Zliobaite, Kaya, F., Bibi, F., Bobe, R., Leakey, L., Leakey, M., Patterson, D.B., Rannikko, J., Werdelin, L. (2016) An ecometric analysis of the fossil mammal record of the Turkana Basin. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Biology 371:20150232. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0232

Lehmann, S.B., Braun, D.R., Dennis, K.J., Patterson, D.B., Stynder, D.D., Bishop, L.C., Forrest, F., Levin, N.E. (In Review) Environmental change in South Africa during the Pliocene and Pleistocene. Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Palaeogeography. 457:396-408. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.04.042

Lyons, S.K., Amatangelo, K.L., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Bercovici, A., Blois, J.L., Davis, M., DiMichele, W.A., Du, A., Eronen, J.T., Faith, J.T., Graves, G.R., Judd, N., Labandeira, C., Looy, C., McGill, B., Miller, J.H., Patterson, D.B., Pineda-Munoz, S., Potts, R., Riddle, B., Terry, R., Tóth, A., Ulrich, W., Villasenor, A., Wing, S., Anderson, H., Anderson, J, Waller, D., Gotelli, N.J. (2016) Holocene shifts in the assembly of plant and animal communities implicate human impacts. Nature 529:80-83. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature16447

Patterson, D.B., Lehmann, S.B., Matthews, T., Levin, N.E., Stynder, D., Braun, D.R. (In Press) Stable isotope ecology of dune mole-rats (Bathyergus suillus) from Elandsfontein, South Africa: implications for C4 vegetation and hominin paleobiology in the Cape Floral Region. Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Palaeogeography. 457:409-421. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.04.044

Tryon, C.A., Faith, J.T., Peppe, D.J., Beverly, E.J., Blegen, N., Blumenthal, S., Chritz, K., Driese, S., Patterson, D.B. (2016) The Pleistocene prehistory of the Lake Victoria Basin. Quaternary International. 404:100-114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.11.073

2015

Faith, J.T., Tryon, C.A., Peppe, D.J., Beverly, E.J., Blegen, N., Blumenthal, S., Chritz, K., Driese, S.G., Patterson, D.B. (2015) Paleoenvironmental context of the Middle Stone Age record from Karungu, Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya, and its implications for human and faunal dispersals in East Africa. Journal of Human Evolution 83:28-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.03.004

Tryon, C.A., Crevecoeur, I., Faith, J.T., Ekshtain, R., Nivens, J., Patterson, D.B., Mbua, E., Spoor, F. (2015) Late Pleistocene age and archaeological context for the hominin calvaria from GvJm-22 (Lukenya Hill, Kenya). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112:2682-2687. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1417909112

2014

Blois, J., Goetelli, N.J., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Faith, J.T., Lyons, S.K., Williams, J.W., Amantangelo, K.L., Bercovici, A., Du, A., Eronen, J.T., Graves, G., Jud, N., Labandiera, C., Looy, C.V., McGill, B., Patterson, D.B., Potts, R., Riddle, B., Terry, R., Toth, A., Villasenor, A., Wing, S. (2014) A framework for evaluating the influence of climate, dispersal limitation, and biotic interactions using fossil pollen associations across the late Quaternary. Ecography 37:1095-1008. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.00779

Miller, J.H., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Du, A., Lyons, S.K., Patterson, D.B., Toth, A., Villasenor, A., Kanga, E., Reed, D. (2014) Ecological fidelity of functional traits based on species presence-absence in a modern mammalian bone assemblage (Amboseli, Kenya). Paleobiology 40:560-583. https://doi.org/10.1666/13062

Patterson, D.B., Faith, T., Bobe, R., Wood, B. (2014) Regional diversity patterns in African bovids, hyaenids, and felids during the past 3 million years: the role of taphonomic bias and implications for the evolution of Paranthropus. Quaternary Science Reviews 96:9-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.11.011

Tryon, C.A., Faith, J.T., Peppe, D.J., Keegan, W.F., Keegan, K.N., Jenkins, K.H., Nightingale, S., Patterson, D.B., Van Platinga, A., Driese, S., Johnson, C.R. (2014) Sites on the landscape: Paleoenvironmental context of late Pleistocene archaeological sites from the Lake Victoria Basin, equatorial East Africa. Quaternary International 331:20-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.05.038

2012

Parmley, D., Rackett Bahn (Patterson), J., 2012. Late Pleistocene Lizards from Fowlkes Cave, Culberson County, Texas. Southwestern Naturalist 57(4):435-441. https://doi.org/10.1894/0038-4909-57.4.435

Patterson, D.B., Mead, A.J., Bahn, R.A. (2012) New skeletal remains of Mammuthus columbi from Glynn County, Georgia with notes on their historical and paleoecological significance. Southeastern Naturalist 11(2):163-172. (cover article). https://doi.org/10.1656/058.011.0201

2009

Mead, A.J., Patterson, D.B. (2009) Skeletal lesions in a population of Virginia opossums (Didelphis virginiana) from Baldwin County, Georgia. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 45(2):325-332. https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-45.2.325.

Patterson, D.B., Mead, A.J. (2009) Sexual dimorphism within the canine dimensions of the Virginia opossum, Didelphis virginiana, from Baldwin County, Georgia. Georgia Journal of Science 67(1):21-22.

2008

Patterson. D.B., Mead, A.J. (2008) Osteological variation within the Baldwin County, Georgia, population of Didelphis virginiana. Southeastern Naturalist 7(1): 125-134. https://doi.org/10.1656/1528-7092(2008)7[125:OVWTBC]2.0.CO;2

2007

Rackett, J.L., Wall, W.P., and Barman, E.H. (2007) Mature larvae of Hydroporus signatus Sharp (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) as Substrates for Peritrichida.  Georgia Journal of Science 64:193-195.