Lisa G. Rapaport

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Phone: 864 656-2328
FAX: 864 656-0435
Email: lrapapo@clemson.edu

My research interests fall within the broad categories of behavioral ecology and conservation biology. Most recently, I have been studying infant development and parental care in a species in which all adult group members help to care for the young. I am also developing a program to more fully integrate my study species' (the golden lion tamarin) ecological requirements with community-level economic incentives for a stable and successful model of forest reserve management in southeastern Brazil.

Rapaport, L.G. 2006. Parental Behaviour: Babbling bird teachers? Current Biology 16(17): in press.
Rapaport, L.G. & Ruiz-Miranda, C.R. 2006. Ontogeny of provisioning in two populations of wild golden lion tamarins, Leontopithecus rosalia. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology (Online First: 13 June, 2006)
Rapaport, L.G. 2006. Provisioning in wild golden lion tamarins: benefits to omnivorous young. Behavioral Ecology 17(2):212-221.
Tardif, S.D., Santos, C.V., Baker, A.J., van Elsacker, L., Feistner, A.T.C., Kleiman, D.G., Ruiz-Miranda, C.R., Moura, A.C. de A., Passos, F. C., Price, E.C., Rapaport, L.G., & de Vleeschouwer, K. 2002. Infant care in lion tamarins. In: D.G. Kleiman & A.B. Rylands (eds.), Lion Tamarins: Biology and Conservation, pp. 213-232. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Rapaport, L.G. & Ruiz-Miranda, C.R. 2002. Tutoring in wild golden lion tamarins. International Journal of Primatology 23(5): 1063-1070.
Rapaport, L. 2001. Food transfer among adult lion tamarins: mutualism, reciprocity or one-sided relationships? International Journal of Primatology 22(4): 611-629.