Since 2012, I have been a part of the Santa Rosa primate research project, first as a graduate student then a research technician and now as a data management advisor. The project was established in 1983 by Dr. Linda Fedigan in the tropical dry forest of Área de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica, in what is now a UNESCO world heritage site. Today, the project is co-directed by Dr. Fedigan along with Dr. Katharine Jack and Dr. Amanda Melin, and is one of the longest continuously running wildlife research programs in the world.
Broadly, my research focused on two key themes: 1) how the monkeys react to environmental change, and what resources they exploit to do so, and 2) how infants, and ultimately populations, are affected by extreme environmental and social periods.
PUBLICATIONS
2023
DePasquale A, Hogan JD, Villalobos-Suarez C, Mah MA, Martin J-C, Fedigan LM, Rothman JM and AD Melin. 2023. Does color vision type drive dietary and nutritional niche differentiation in wild capuchins (Cebus imitator)? [In Review]
2022
Brasington L, Kulick D, Hogan JD, Fedigan LM and KM Jack. The impact of alpha male replacements on reproductive seasonality and synchrony in white-faced capuchins (Cebus imitator). American Journal of Biological Anthropology 179(1): 60-72. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24579
DePasquale A, Hogan JD, Guadamuz Araya C, Dominy NJ and Melin AD (2022) Aeroscapes and the sensory ecology of olfaction in a tropical dry forest. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10:849281. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.849281
Pavelka M, Hartwell K, JD Hogan, Notman H. Birth seasonality in Ateles geoffroyi in Belize. International Primatological Society Congress XXVIII [Conference presentation].
2021
Fedigan LM, Hogan JD, Campos FA, Kalbitzer U and KM Jack. Costs of male infanticide for female capuchins: When does an adaptive male reproductive strategy become costly for females and detrimental to population viability? American Journal of Physical Anthropology 24354. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24354
2020
Campos FA, Kalbitzer U, Melin AD, Hogan JD, Cheves SE, Murillo-Chacon E, Guadamuz A, Myers MS, Schaffner CM, Jack KM, Aureli F and LM Fedigan. Differential impact of severe drought on infant mortality in two sympatric neotropical primates. Royal Society Open Science 7(4):200302. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.200302
Melin AD, Hogan JD, Campos FA, Wikberg E, King-Bailey G, Webb S, Kalbitzer U, Asensio N, Murillo-Chacon Evin, Cheves Hernandez S, Gaudamuz Chavarria A, Schaffner CM, Kawamura S, Aureli F, Fedigan LM, and KM Jack. Primate life history, social dynamics, ecology, and conservation: Contributions from long‐term research in Área de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica Biotropica 52(6):1041-1064. DOI: 10.1111/btp.12867
2019
Bergstrom ML, Hogan JD, Melin AD, and LM Fedigan. The nutritional importance of invertebrates to female Cebus capucinus imitator in a highly seasonal tropical dry forest. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 170(2):207-216. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.23913
Hogan JD, Jack KM, Campos FA, Kalbitzer U and LM Fedigan. Group versus population level demographics: an analysis of comparability using long term data on wild white-faced capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus imitator). American Journal of Primatology 81(7):e23027. DOI: 10.1002/ajp.23027
Hogan JD, Fedigan LM, Hiramatsu C and AD Melin. Seeing the flowers for the trees: trichromacy provides food detection advantages for white-faced capuchins. American Association of Physical Anthropologists 88th Meeting [Invited Poster].
Fedigan LM, Hogan JD, Campos FA, Kalbitzer U and KM Jack. Female reproductive costs of male infanticide: when does an adaptive male strategy become maladaptive for females and for population viability? Internation Symposium of Integrative Zoology 11th Edition [Invited Poster].
2018
Hogan JD, Fedigan LM, Hiramatsu C, Kawamura S and AD Melin. 2018. Trichromatic perception of flower colour improves resource detection among New World monkeys. Nature Scientific Reports 8(1):1-7. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-28997-4
Hogan JD and AD Melin. Intra- and interannual variation in the fruit diet of wild capuchins: impact of plant phenology. In: Kalbitzer U., Jack K. (eds) Primate life histories, sex roles, and adaptability. Developments in primatology: progress and prospects. Springer, Cham. pp. 193-213. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-98285-4_10
Jack KM, Campos FA, Hogan JD, and Kalbitzer U. The impact of drought on white-faced capuchins in Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica: A comparison of population-wide and group-based demographics. American Association of Physical Anthropologists 87th meeting [Conference poster].
2016
Hogan JD, Melin AD, Mosdossy KN and LM Fedigan. Seasonal importance of flowers to Costa Rican capuchins (Cebus capucinus imitator): implications for plant and primate. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 161(4):591-602. DOI:10.1002/ajpa.23059
2014
Campos FA, Bergstrom ML, Childers A, Hogan JD, Jack KM, Melin AD, Mosdossy KN, Myers MS, Parr NA, Sargeant E, Schoof VAM and LM Fedigan. Drivers of home range characteristics across spatiotemporal scales in a Neotropical primate, Cebus capucinus. Animal Behaviour 91:93-109. DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.03.007
Hogan JD, Melin AD and LM Fedigan. The effect of fruit and flower availability on flower foraging in white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus) in sector Santa Rosa, Costa Rica. 37th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Primatologists [Conference presentation].
Hogan JD, Melin AD and LM Fedigan. Flowers as fallback foods for white-faced capuchin
monkeys. 42nd Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Physical Anthropologists [Conference presentation].
