Alain Houle Ph.D. Academic Address Alain Houle, Post-doctoral Fellow Peabody Museum Department of Anthropology Harvard University 11 Divinity Ave. Cambridge MA 02138 E-mail:houle@fas.harvard.edu

Education

• Ph.D. 2004 Universite du Quebec a Montreal
• M.Sc. 1990 Université de Montréal
• B.Sc. 1986 Université de Montréal

Teaching Experience

• Lecturer: Primate Socio-Ecology (graduate seminar). Dpt. Anthropology, Harvard University.
• Lecturer: Primate Socio Behavior. Dpt. Anthropology, Harvard University.
• Lecturer: Animal Behavior, Primate Ecology. ITEC.
• Lecturer: Animal Ecology. Dpt. Biological Sciences, UQÀM.
• Lecturer: Organisms and Environment. Dpt. Biological Sciences, UQÀM.
• Lecturer: General Ecology. Dpt. Biological Sciences, UQÀM.
• Teaching Assistantship: Animal Ecology. Dpt. Biol. Sciences, UQÀM.

Research Interests

Chimpanzee Behavioral Ecology, Nutrition, Community Ecology, Coexistence Mechanisms, Evolution of Intelligence. Species of interest: primates, dolphins, elephants.

Recent Publications

• Houle, A., W. L. Vickery, and C.A. Chapman (submitted). Within-tree variation in fruit primary productivity among 18 tree species in Kibale National Park, Uganda. Int. J. Primatol.
• Houle, A., W. L. Vickery, and C.A. Chapman (In Press). Testing mechanisms of coexistence among two species of frugivorous primates. J. Anim. Ecol.
• Houle, A., C.A. Chapman, and W. L. Vickery (2004). Tree climbing strategies for primate ecological studies. International Journal of Primatology, 25(1): 237-260.
• Llorente, M., J. Sabater Pi and A. Houle (2003). Possible association between Galago thomasi and Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii nest sites in the Kibale National Park, Uganda. Folia Primatologica, 74(2): 80-84.
• Houle, A. (1999). The origin of platyrrhines: An evaluation of the Antarctic scenario and the floating island model. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 109(4): 541-559.
• Houle, A. (1998). Floating islands: a mode of long-distance dispersal for small and medium-sized terrestrial vertebrates. Diversity and Distributions, 4(5-6): 201-216.
• Houle, A. (1997). The role of phylogeny and behavioral competition in the evolution of coexistence among primates. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 75: 827-846.