About Rebecca Bliege Bird
I am an ecological anthropologist interested in the socioecology of subsistence in small scale societies. I pursue such topics as the gender division of labor, cooperation, costly signaling, indigenous conservation, human involvement in food webs, fire ecology, and indigenous community ecology. I draw on theory, models, and methods from behavioral ecology and landscape and community ecology to answer questions about how local social contexts influence economic decision-making and how such decisions feed back to shape ecological communities.