Members
Research Collaborator
DAVID SPRAGUE
INSTITUTION
Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
ACADEMIC FIELD & RESEARCH
- Primate life history
- Environmental history of primate distribution
- Environmental history from the satoyama to the Anthropocene
- Geospatial information analysis using geographic information systems (GIS)
RESEARCH FIELD (FIELD SITE, LOCATION OF RESEARCH)
- Yakushima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan
- Japanese archipelago
- Agricultural and forestry environments around the world
MAIN PUBLICATIONS/PAPERS
- Sprague D. “Mortality: Understanding its meanings in life history and ecology.” Extremity: The Evolution of Human Sociality. Kawai K. (Ed.) Kyoto University Press, pp. 103-128, 2020. (Japanese)
- Sprague D. Primates as economic resources. The International Encyclopedia of Primatology, Wiley, 2017.
- Sprague D. “Chapter 1 History of human activities.” Human Activities and Ecosystems. The Ecological Society of Japan., Morita K., Ikeda H. (Eds.) Kyoritsu Shuppan, 2015. (Japanese)
- Sprague D. Land-use configuration under traditional agriculture in the Kanto Plain, Japan: a historical GIS analysis. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 27: 68-91, 2013.
- Sprague D., Iwasaki N. “Did a habitat bottleneck exist in the recent history of Japanese macaques?” The Japanese Macaques. Nakagawa N., Nakamichi M., Sugiura H. (Eds.) Springer, pp. 345-357, 2010.
- Sprague D. Life Histories of Monkeys and Humans: The Biology of Life Planning. Kyoto University Press, 2004. (Japanese)
- Sprague D. “Monkeys in the backyard: encroaching wildlife and rural communities in Japan.” Primates Face to Face: Human and Non-Human Primate Interconnections and Conservation. Fuentes A., Wolfe LD (Ed.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 254 -272, 2002.
COMMENTS
Live life patiently
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