Dr.
My current field of interest is ungulate ecology and landscape management. I am interested in answering urgent questions regarding browsing damages caused by wild ungulates in Southern Sweden and how they influence the landscape.
I will use nutritional ecology as a tool to understand food choices and to manipulate the animals' behaviour so that vulnerable pine- and broadleaved forests are allowed to regenerate.
 
I finalized my PhD research in July 2008. The candidacy was based at the Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra. My research project involved reduced-impact logging (RIL) and spider monkey (Ateles chamek)nutritional ecology and conservation in Bolivia.
The project, for which the field work took place in a certified forestry concession, assessed the importance of timber tree species to spider monkeys in terms of diet and ecology, and the capacity of RIL to maintain a suitable habitat for seed dispersers such as spider monkeys. During this research I developed a special interest in the analysis of complex multidimensional nutritional data, e.g. by using the Geometric Framework for nutrition. After the thesis was finalized, I worked as a post-doc at the Fenner School for three months until the birth of my second baby. This post-doc involved writing publications about sustainable resource use in managed forests.

I conducted my BSc in Ecology and Conservation Biology through Uppsala University, Sweden (1994-2000). My MSc project assessed orangutan population density, forest structure and fruit availability in hand-logged and unlogged peat swamp forests in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. I have also gained research experience participating in projects in different parts of the world, e.g: population biology of sea-turtles, Great Barrier Reef, Australia; behavioral ecology of barnacle geese on Gotland, Sweden; river otter population survey, Sweden; botanical research in Brunei Darussalaam; landscape ecology research on peccaries and jaguars in Madidi National Park, Bolivia. The latter project was organized by Wildlife Conservation Society, and during this time I co-discovered a species of titi-monkey previously unknown to science. I was also part of the WCS team that raised US$650 000 for Madidi National Park by auctioning the naming rights of this new species (Callicebus aureipalatii).

Teaching
I worked as a senior tutor for multiple courses in ecology, evolution and conservation, at James Cook University, Australia, during 2000-2002. During the spring of 2010 I featured as a guest lecturer at two cources at the Southern Swedish Forest Research Center: “Broadleaves: Ecology, Nature Conservation, Silviculture” and “Chemical Defences”.

Selected Scientific Publications
Peer-reviewed articles in international journals
1. Felton, AM, et al. 2010.The role timber tree species play in the nutritional ecology of
spider monkeys (Ateles chamek). Forest Ecol. Man. 259(8):1642-1649
2. Felton, A., Fischer, J., Lindenmayer, D.B., Montague-Drake, R., Lowe, W.R., Saunders, D., Felton, A.M. et al. 2009. Climate change, conservation and management: An assessment of the peer-reviewed scientific journal literature. Biodiv. & Cons., 18:2243-2253.
3. Felton, AM, et al. 2009. Nutritional ecology of spider monkeys in (Ateles chamek) in lowland Bolivia: how macro-nutrient balancing influences food choices. Int. J. of Primat. 30: 675-696.
4. Felton, AM, et al. 2009 Protein content of diets dictates the daily energy intake of a
free-ranging primate. Behav. Ecol. 20: 685-690.
5. Felton, AM, et al. 2009 Nutritional ecology of wild primates. Funct. Ecol. 23:70-78.
6. Felton, AM, et al. 2008 Diet and feeding ecology of the Peruvian spider monkey (Ateles chamek) in a Bolivian forest: the importance of Ficus as a staple food resource. Int. J. of Prim., 29:379-403.
7. Felton, A, Wood, J, Felton, AM, et al. 2008 Bird community responses to reduced-impact logging in a certified forestry concession in lowland Bolivia, Biol. Con., 141:545-555.
8. Felton, A, Wood, J, Felton, AM, et al. 2008 A comparison of bird communities in the
anthropogenic and natural-tree fall gaps of a reduced-impact logged forest in Bolivia, Bird Cons. Int., 18:129-143.
9. Felton, A, Felton, AM, et al. 2008 The display of a reddish hermit (Phaethornis ruber) in a lowland rainforest, Bolivia. Wilson J. Orn., 120(1):201-204.
10. Lindenmayer, DB, Fischer, J, Felton, A, Montague, R, Manning, AD, Simberloff, D, Youngentob, K, Saunders, D, Wilson, D, Felton, AM, et al. 2007 The complementarity of single-species and ecosystem-oriented research in conservation research, Oikos, 116(7):1220-1226.
11. Felton, A, Felton, AM, et al. 2007. Birds surveyed in the harvested and unharvested areas of a reduced-impact logged forestry concession, located in the lowland forests of Bolivia, Check List 3(1):43-50
12. Felton, A, Felton, AM, et al. 2006. Vegetation structure, phenology, and regeneration in the natural and anthropogenic tree-fall gaps of a reduced-impact logged Bolivian forest. For. Ecol. Man., 235: 186-193.
13. Felton, A, Felton, AM, et al. 2006. Identification, behavioral observations, and notes on the distribution of the Titi monkeys Callicebus modestus and C. olallae. Prim. Cons., 20: 41-46.
14. Wallace, RB, Gomez, H, Felton, AM, et al. 2006. On a new species of Titi monkey from Bolivia. Prim. Cons. 20: 29-39.
15. Felton, A, Alford, RA, Felton, AM, et al. 2006. Multiple mate choice criteria and the
importance of age for male mating success in the microhylid frog, Cophixalus ornatus. Beh. Ecol. & Soc. 59(6): 786-795.
16. Felton, AM, et al. 2003. Orangutan Pongo p. pygmaeus population density, forest structure and fruit availability in hand-logged and unlogged peat swamp forests in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Biol. Cons. 114(1): 91-101.

Book chapters
1. Shimooka, Y., Campbell, C.J., Di Fiore, A., Felton, AM, et al., 2008. Demography and group composition of Ateles. In: Spider monkeys: behavior, ecology and evolution of the genus Ateles. Ed. Campbell, C.J. Cambridge University Press. Pp: 329-348.

Selected Popular Science Publications
Popular media
• 2009. International media coverage associated with my paper published in Behavioral Ecology. E.g: BBC World News, Science News, The Melbourne Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, SBS Australia and more
• 2007. Interview regarding my primate research in the Swedish documentary Expedition Linné, by M. Klum & F. Rydén
• 2005. International media coverage associated with my co-discovery of the Titi-monkey Callicebus aureipalatii. E.g: BBC News magazine, Science, CBS U.S. 60 Minutes, CNN, The New Yorker, The New York Times and more
• 2004. Article about my field research on Bolivian spider monkeys, by K. Evans: “The great monkey chase”, Wildlife Conservation Magazine
• 2004. Article about my orangutan study: “Even hand-logging can threaten orangutans”, Conservation in Press, 5(1):7-8