Bastian, Meredith
Former Staff of National Zoological Park
Bastian, Meredith
Former Staff of National Zoological Park
* Innovative/cultural behavior of wild orangutans
* Diet variation/traditions in wild orangutans
* SE Asian botanical diversity
* Orangutan nesting behavior
* Welfare of zoo-housed great apes
* Paternal behavior in non-human primates
Positions
- Curator of Primates, National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute 2014 -
- Curator of Primates and Small Mammals, Philadelphia Zoo 2012 - 2014
- Curator of Primates, Philadelphia Zoo 2010 - 2012
Geographic Focus
- Indonesia Country
- south-eastern Asia Transnational Region
Background And Education
Education And Training
- Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology & Anatomy, Duke University , PhD dissertation: 2001 - 2008
Awards And Honors
- Philadelphia Zoo Milestone Award , conferred by Philadelphia Zoo, 2012
- Philadelphia Zoo Milestone Award , conferred by Philadelphia Zoo, 2011
Research And Grants
Investigator On
- National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant 2004 - 2007
- Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Grant 2005 - 2006
- 2004-2005 L.S.B. Leakey Foundation General Research Grant 2004 - 2005
- Aleanne Webb Dissertation Research Grant 2004 - 2005
- American Society of Primatologists General Small Grant 2004 - 2005
- David Bohnett Cognitive Fellow awarded by David Bohnett Foundation
- David Bohnett Cognitive Research Fellowship at the Smithsonian National Zoo awarded by David Bohnett Foundation
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Hordijk, Iris, Bialic‐Murphy, Lalasia, Lauber, Thomas, Routh, Devin, Poorter, Lourens, Rivers, Malin C., ter Steege, Hans, Liang, Jingjing, Reich, Peter B., de‐Miguel, Sergio, Nabuurs, Gert‐Jan, Gamarra, Javier G. P., Chen, Han Y. H., Zhou, Mo, Wiser, Susan K., Pretzsch, Hans, Paquette, Alain, Picard, Nicolas, Hérault, Bruno, Bastin, Jean‐Francois, Alberti, Giorgio, Abegg, Meinrad, Adou Yao, Yves C., Almeyda Zambrano, Angelica M., Alvarado, Braulio V. et al. 2024. "Dominance and rarity in tree communities across the globe: Patterns, predictors and threats." Global Ecology and Biogeography, https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13889. 2024
- Mo, Lidong, Crowther, Thomas W., Maynard, Daniel S., van den Hoogen, Johan, Ma, Haozhi, Bialic-Murphy, Lalasia, Liang, Jingjing, de-Miguel, Sergio, Nabuurs, Gert-Jan, Reich, Peter B., Phillips, Oliver L., Abegg, Meinrad, Adou Yao, Yves C., Alberti, Giorgio, Almeyda Zambrano, Angelica M., Alvarado, Braulio Vilchez, Alvarez-Dávila, Esteban, Alvarez-Loayza, Patricia, Alves, Luciana F., Amaral, Iêda, Ammer, Christian, Antón-Fernández, Clara, Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro, Arroyo, Luzmila, Avitabile, Valerio et al. 2024. "The global distribution and drivers of wood density and their impact on forest carbon stocks." Nature Ecology & Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02564-9. 2024
- Mo, Lidong, Zohner, Constantin M., Reich, Peter B., Liang, Jingjing, de Miguel, Sergio, Nabuurs, Gert-Jan, Renner, Susanne S., van den Hoogen, Johan, Araza, Arnan, Herold, Martin, Mirzagholi, Leila, Ma, Haozhi, Averill, Colin, Phillips, Oliver L., Gamarra, Javier G. P., Hordijk, Iris, Routh, Devin, Abegg, Meinrad, Adou Yao, Yves C., Alberti, Giorgio, Almeyda Zambrano, Angelica M., Alvarado, Braulio Vilchez, Alvarez-Dávila, Esteban, Alvarez-Loayza, Patricia, Alves, Luciana F. et al. 2023. "Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential." Nature, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06723-z. 2023
- Delavaux, Camille S., Crowther, Thomas W., Zohner, Constantin M., Robmann, Niamh M., Lauber, Thomas, van den Hoogen, Johan, Kuebbing, Sara, Liang, Jingjing, de-Miguel, Sergio, Nabuurs, Gert-Jan, Reich, Peter B., Abegg, Meinrad, Adou Yao, Yves C., Alberti, Giorgio, Almeyda Zambrano, Angelica M., Alvarado, Braulio Vilchez, Alvarez-Davila, Esteban, Alvarez-Loayza, Patricia, Alves, Luciana F., Ammer, Christian, Anton-Fernandez, Clara, Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro, Arroyo, Luzmila, Avitabile, Valerio, Aymard, Gerardo A. et al. 2023. "Native diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions." Nature, 621, (7980) 773–781. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06440-7. 2023
- Ma, Haozhi, Crowther, Thomas W., Mo, Lidong, Maynard, Daniel S., Renner, Susanne S., van den Hoogen, Johan, Zou, Yibiao, Liang, Jingjing, de-Miguel, Sergio, Nabuurs, Gert-Jan, Reich, Peter B., Niinemets, Ülo, Abegg, Meinrad, Adou Yao, Yves C., Alberti, Giorgio, Almeyda Zambrano, Angelica M., Alvarado, Braulio Vilchez, Alvarez-Dávila, Esteban, Alvarez-Loayza, Patricia, Alves, Luciana F., Ammer, Christian, Antón-Fernández, Clara, Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro, Arroyo, Luzmila, Avitabile, Valerio et al. 2023. "The global biogeography of tree leaf form and habit." Nature Plants, 9 1795–1809. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-023-01543-5. 2023
- Bastian, Meredith L., Glendinning, David R., Brown, Janine L., Boisseau, Nicole P., and Edwards, Katie L. 2020. "Effects of a recurring late-night event on the behavior and welfare of a population of zoo-housed gorillas." Zoo biology, 39, (4) 217–229. https://doi.org/10.1002/zoo.21553. 2020
- Examining the Use of Auditory Signals as “Attention-Getters” in Zoo-Housed Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) and Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus and Hybrid). International Journal of Primatology. 1-14. 2019
- Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus and Hybrid) and Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) Modify Their Visual, but Not Auditory, Communicative Behaviors, Depending on the Attentional State of a Human Experimenter. International Journal of Primatology. 40:244-262. 2019
- Slik, J. W. Ferry, Franklin, Janet, Arroyo-Rodriguez, Victor, Field, Richard, Aguilar, Salomon, Aguirre, Nikolay, Ahumada, Jorge, Aiba, Shin-ichiro, Alves, Luciana F., Anitha, K., Avella, Andres, Mora, Francisco, Aymard C, Gerardo A., Baez, Selene, Balvanera, Patricia, Bastian, Meredith L., Bastin, Jean-Francois, Bellingham, Peter J., van den Berg, Eduardo, Bispo, Polyanna da Conceicao, Boeckx, Pascal, Boehning-Gaese, Katrin, Bongers, Frans, Boyle, Brad, Brambach, Fabian et al. 2018. "Correction for Slik et al., Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115, (13) E3067. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1803346115. 2018
- Bastian, Meredith L., Glendinning, David R., Reddy, Alexandra J., Herrelko, Elizabeth S., Brown, Melba, Renner, Elizabeth, and Thompson, Laurie. 2018. "Nest location preferences in zoo-housed orangutans." Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 207 123–128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2018.06.009. 2018
- Slik, J. W. Ferry, Franklin, Janet, Arroyo-Rodriguez, Victor, Field, Richard, Aguilar, Salomon, Aguirre, Nikolay, Ahumada, Jorge, Aiba, Shin-ichiro, Alves, Luciana F., Anitha, K., Avella, Andres, Mora, Francisco, Aymard C, Gerardo A., Baez, Selene, Balvanera, Patricia, Bastian, Meredith L., Bastin, Jean-Francois, Bellingham, Peter J., van den Berg, Eduardo, Bispo, Polyanna da Conceicao, Boeckx, Pascal, Boehning-Gaese, Katrin, Bongers, Frans, Boyle, Brad, Brambach, Fabian et al. 2018. "Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115, (8) 1837–1842. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1714977115. 2018
- Slik, J. W. Ferry, Arroyo-Rodríguez, Víctor, Aiba, Shin-ichiro, Alvarez-Loayza, Patricia, Alves, Luciana F., Ashton, Peter, Balvanera, Patricia, Bastian, Meredith L., Bellingham, Peter J., van den Berg, Eduardo, Bernacci, Luis, Bispo, Polyanna da Conceição, Blanc, Lilian, Böhning-Gaese, Katrin, Boeckx, Pascal, Bongers, Frans, Boyle, Brad, Bradford, Matt, Brearley, Francis Q., Hockemba, Mireille Breuer-Ndoundou, Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh, Matos, Darley Calderado Leal, Castillo-Santiago, Miguel, Catharino, Eduardo L. M., Chai, Shauna-Lee et al. 2015. "An estimate of the number of tropical tree species." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112, (24) 7472–7477. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1423147112. 2015
- Maximum ingested food size in captive anthropoids. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 158:92-104. 2015
- Murphy, James B., Stromberg, Erin, Rosenthal, Elliott, and Bastian, Meredith. 2014. "Orangutans and gorillas just do not like snakes." Herpetological Review, 45, (4) 723–728. 2014
- Large trees drive forest aboveground biomass variation in moist lowland forests across the tropics. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 22:1261-1271. 2013
- Large trees drive forest aboveground biomass variation in moist lowland forests across the tropics. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 22:1261-1271. 2013
- Call cultures in orang-utans?. Plos One. 7:e36180. 2012
- Innovative behaviors in wild Bornean orangutans revealed by targeted population comparison. Behaviour. 149:275-297. 2012
- Soils on exposed Sunda Shelf shaped biogeographic patterns in the equatorial forests of Southeast Asia (2011). PNAS 108(30):12343-12347. 2011
- Diet traditions in wild orangutans. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 143:175-187. 2010
- Mechanisms underlying the recent origin and population structure of Bornean orangutans (Pongo spp.). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107:21376-21381. 2010
- Gastro-intestinal parasites of captive, semi-captive and free-ranging orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) in Central- and East-Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. Parasitology. 137:123-135. 2009
- Life history costs of increased brain size: a comparative test using data from long-term studies of primates in the wild. Journal of Human Evolution. 54:568-590. 2008
- Animal innovation defined and operationalized. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30:1-45. 2007
- Paternal behavior in Propithecus verreauxi coquereli. International Journal of Primatology. 28:305-313. 2007
