List of works by Blaire Van Valkenburgh

"Mucosal maps" of the canine nasal cavity: Micro-computed tomography and histology

scientific article published on 22 September 2020

Aquatic adaptations in the nose of carnivorans: evidence from the turbinates

scientific article (publication date: March 2011)

Beyond the sniffer: frontal sinuses in Carnivora

scientific article

Biomechanical consequences of rapid evolution in the polar bear lineage

scientific article (publication date: 5 November 2010)

Carnivore Dental Adaptations and Diet: A Study of Trophic Diversity within Guilds

scholarly article published 1989

Carnivores

scientific article

Changes in dental wear and breakage in arctic foxes (<i>Vulpes lagopus</i>) across space and time: evidence for anthropogenic food subsidies?

scientific article published in 2022

Coiling and maturation of a high-performance fibre in hagfish slime gland thread cells

scientific article

Collapse of the world's largest herbivores

scientific article

Comparative Morphology and Histology of the Nasal Fossa in Four Mammals: Gray Squirrel, Bobcat, Coyote, and White-Tailed Deer

scientific article published on 18 April 2016

Conserving the World's Megafauna and Biodiversity: The Fierce Urgency of Now

Cope's rule, hypercarnivory, and extinction in North American canids

scientific article

Craniodental adaptations for digging in extinct burrowing beavers

Darwin's Fox: A Distinct Endangered Species in a Vanishing Habitat

article

Deja vu: the evolution of feeding morphologies in the Carnivora

scientific article published on 22 May 2007

Development of bite strength and feeding behaviour in juvenile spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta)

article

Dietary specialization is linked to reduced species durations in North American fossil canids.

scientific article published on 25 April 2018

Dinosaurian and mammalian predators compared

Dire wolves were the last of an ancient New World canid lineage

scientific article

Distinct Predatory Behaviors in Scimitar- and Dirk-Toothed Sabertooth Cats

Domesticating olfaction: Dog breeds, including scent hounds, have reduced cribriform plate morphology relative to wolves

scientific article published on 17 November 2020

Ecomorphological indicators of feeding behaviour in the bears (Carnivora: Ursidae)

article by Tyson Sacco & Blaire Van Valkenburgh published May 2004 in Journal of Zoology

Forelimb indicators of prey-size preference in the Felidae

scientific article published in June 2009

Genome-wide Evidence Reveals that African and Eurasian Golden Jackals Are Distinct Species

scientific article

Incidence of Tooth Breakage Among Large, Predatory Mammals

article published in 1988

Iterative evolution of large-bodied hypercarnivory in canids benefits species but not clades

scientific article published on 21 August 2020

Linking Top-down Forces to the Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinctions

scientific article published in 2010

Long in the tooth: evolution of sabertooth cat cranial shape

article by Graham J. Slater & Blaire Van Valkenburgh published 2008 in Paleobiology

MAJOR PATTERNS IN THE HISTORY OF CARNIVOROUS MAMMALS

scientific article

Megafaunal extinctions and the disappearance of a specialized wolf ecomorph

scientific article

Molecular systematics of the Hyaenidae: relationships of a relictual lineage resolved by a molecular supermatrix

scientific article

Olfaction at depth: Cribriform plate size declines with dive depth and duration in aquatic arctoid carnivorans

scientific article published on 23 June 2020

Olfaction written in bone: cribriform plate size parallels olfactory receptor gene repertoires in Mammalia.

scientific article published in March 2018

Parallels between playbacks and Pleistocene tar seeps suggest sociality in an extinct sabretooth cat, Smilodon

scientific article

Prey Preferences of the Jaguar Panthera onca Reflect the Post-Pleistocene Demise of Large Prey

article

Problems with inferring a lack of competition between Rancho La Brea dire wolves and sabertooth cats based on dental enamel

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Quantifying the cribriform plate: influences of allometry, function, and phylogeny in Carnivora

scientific article published on November 2014

Radiographs reveal exceptional forelimb strength in the sabertooth cat, Smilodon fatalis

scientific article

Reconstruction and morphometric analysis of the nasal airway of the white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) and implications regarding respiratory and olfactory airflow

scientific article

Repeated loss of frontal sinuses in arctoid carnivorans

scientific article

Respiratory and olfactory turbinal size in canid and arctoid carnivorans

scientific article (publication date: December 2012)

Saving the World's Terrestrial Megafauna.

scientific article

Sexual dimorphism, social behavior, and intrasexual competition in large Pleistocene carnivorans

article

Shape Divergence Associated with Size Convergence in Sympatric East African Jackals

article

Skeletal indicators of locomotor adaptations in living and extinct rodents

scientific article published in November 2008

Skeletal trauma reflects hunting behaviour in extinct sabre-tooth cats and dire wolves

scientific article published in 2017

Sociality in Rancho La Brea Smilodon: arguments favour ‘evidence’ over ‘coincidence’.

scientific article

Teaching Dynamics to Biology Undergraduates: the UCLA Experience

scientific article published on 12 February 2022

Temporal variation in tooth fracture among Rancho La Brea dire wolves

Testing hypotheses of differential mammalian extinctions subsequent to the Great American biotic interchange

scientific article published in 1997

The Influence of Sniffing on Airflow and Odorant Deposition in the Canine Nasal Cavity

scientific article published in October 2017

The Plio-Pleistocene cheetah-like catMiracinonyx inexpectatusof North America

The dog-human connection

scientific article published on 24 October 2020

The impact of extreme skull morphology in domestic dogs on cribriform plate shape

scientific article published on 30 September 2020

The impact of large terrestrial carnivores on Pleistocene ecosystems

scientific article

The influence of nasal airflow on respiratory and olfactory epithelial distribution in felids

scientific article published on 04 April 2016

Tooth fracture frequency in gray wolves reflects prey availability

scientific article published on 24 September 2019

Tour of a labyrinth: exploring the vertebrate nose

scientific article

Trophic diversity in past and present guilds of large predatory mammals

scientific article published in 1988

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