Laurie Godfrey

Laurie Godfrey

University of Massachusetts Amherst

H-index: 53

North America-United States

About Laurie Godfrey

Laurie Godfrey, With an exceptional h-index of 53 and a recent h-index of 23 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of Massachusetts Amherst, specializes in the field of Fossil lemurs, Madagascar flora and fauna, primate evolution....

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

In memoriam: William Lee Jungers, Jr.

Zonal control on Holocene precipitation in northwestern Madagascar based on a stalagmite from Anjohibe

Hydroclimate variability in the Madagascar and Southeast African summer monsoons at the Mid-to Late-Holocene transition

Tropical Indian Ocean basin hydroclimate at the Mid-to Late-Holocene transition and the double drying hypothesis

Zonal Indian Ocean Variability Drives Millennial‐Scale Precipitation Changes in Northern Madagascar

A speleothem record of hydroclimate variability in northwestern Madagascar during the mid-late Holocene

What can hippopotamus isotopes tell us about past distributions of C4 grassy biomes on Madagascar?

William L. Jungers, a gentle giant in Madagascar

Laurie Godfrey Information

University

Position

MA USA

Citations(all)

8725

Citations(since 2020)

2330

Cited By

7220

hIndex(all)

53

hIndex(since 2020)

23

i10Index(all)

138

i10Index(since 2020)

68

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University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Laurie Godfrey Skills & Research Interests

Fossil lemurs

Madagascar flora and fauna

primate evolution...

Top articles of Laurie Godfrey

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Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

In memoriam: William Lee Jungers, Jr.

Journal of Human Evolution

Laurie R Godfrey

Liza J Shapiro

Christine E Wall

Roshna E Wunderlich

2024/4/1

Zonal control on Holocene precipitation in northwestern Madagascar based on a stalagmite from Anjohibe

Scientific Reports

Robin R Dawson

Stephen J Burns

Benjamin H Tiger

David McGee

Peterson Faina

...

2024/3/6

Hydroclimate variability in the Madagascar and Southeast African summer monsoons at the Mid-to Late-Holocene transition

Nick Scroxton

Stephen J Burns

David McGee

Laurie R Godfrey

Lovasoa Ranivoharimanana

...

2023/1/15

Tropical Indian Ocean basin hydroclimate at the Mid-to Late-Holocene transition and the double drying hypothesis

Nick Scroxton

Stephen J Burns

David McGee

Laurie R Godfrey

Lovasoa Ranivoharimanana

...

2023/1/15

Zonal Indian Ocean Variability Drives Millennial‐Scale Precipitation Changes in Northern Madagascar

Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Benjamin H Tiger

Stephen Burns

Robin R Dawson

Nick Scroxton

Laurie R Godfrey

...

2023/11

A speleothem record of hydroclimate variability in northwestern Madagascar during the mid-late Holocene

The Holocene

Berry L Williams

Stephen J Burns

Nick Scroxton

Laurie R Godfrey

Benjamin H Tiger

...

2023

What can hippopotamus isotopes tell us about past distributions of C4 grassy biomes on Madagascar?

Plants, People, Planet

Brooke Erin Crowley

Laurie Rohde Godfrey

Karen Elizabeth Samonds

2023/11

William L. Jungers, a gentle giant in Madagascar

Laurie R Godfrey

David A Burney

2023/8

Potential evolutionary body size reduction in a Malagasy primate (Propithecus verreauxi) in response to human size‐selective hunting pressure

American Journal of Biological Anthropology

Alexis P Sullivan

Laurie R Godfrey

Richard R Lawler

Heritiana Randrianatoandro

Laurie Eccles

...

2022/7

Diademed sifakas (Propithecus diadema) in intact and degraded forest habitat at Tsinjoarivo, Madagascar, show high reproductive success and no evidence that dental senescence …

Folia Primatologica

Katie S Heffernan

Karen E Samonds

Laurie R Godfrey

Jean-Luc Raharison

Jean Freddy Ranaivoarisoa

...

2022/3/1

Southern Hemisphere controls on ITCZ variability in southwest Madagascar over the past 117,000 years

Stephen J Burns

David McGee

Nick Scroxton

Christopher W Kinsley

Laurie R Godfrey

...

2022/1/15

New insights into the relationship between human ecological pressure and the vertebrate extinctions

The New Natural History of Madagascar

LR Godfrey

KG Douglass

SM Goodman

2022/11/15

15 Lemur Hunting in Madagascar’s Present and Past

World Archaeoprimatology: Interconnections of Humans and Nonhuman Primates in the Past

Natalie Vasey

Laurie R Godfrey

2022/8/18

The stories people tell, and how they can contribute to our understanding of megafaunal decline and extinction in Madagascar

Malagasy nature

Eva S Nomenjanahary

Benjamin Z Freed

Luke J Dollar

Jeannot Randrianasy

Laurie R Godfrey

2021/12

Evolutionary and phylogenetic insights from a nuclear genome sequence of the extinct, giant, “subfossil” koala lemur Megaladapis edwardsi

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Stephanie Marciniak

Mehreen R Mughal

Laurie R Godfrey

Richard J Bankoff

Heritiana Randrianatoandro

...

2021/6/29

Paleoecological evidence for late Holocene aridification from the Taolambiby subfossil site of southwestern Madagascar

Malagasy nature

Francine M Ramarolahy

David A Burney

Laurie R Godfrey

2021/12

Seeing the forest for the trees—and the grasses: revisiting the evidence for grazer-maintained grasslands in Madagascar's Central Highlands

Proceedings of the Royal Society B

Brooke E Crowley

Laurie R Godfrey

James P Hansford

Karen E Samonds

2021/5/12

Comparing the paleoclimates of northwestern and southwestern Madagascar during the late Holocene: Implications for the role of climate in megafaunal extinction.

par. nsf. gov

Nick Scroxton

Brooke E Crowley

Faina Peterson

Stephen J Burns

Laurie R Godfrey

...

2021

Unlocking the Secrets Held by Organic Carbon Deposited within Speleothems: A Test Case in Northwestern Madagascar

AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts

Robin Dawson

Isla Castaneda

Stephen Burns

Jeffrey Salacup

Nick Scroxton

...

2021/12

The growth and development of Pachylemur, a large-bodied lemurid

Malagasy nature

Noromamy J Rahantaharivao

LR Godfrey

GT Schwartz

Stephen King

Lovasoa Ranivoharimanana

2021/12

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