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44
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6728
World Ranking
5120
National Ranking
338

Overview

Adam T. Ford is primarily affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research contributions span environmental science, with a particular focus on ecology and related subfields. The main fields of study encompass environmental science, with a significant emphasis on ecology, ecological modeling, global and planetary change, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and genetics.

The scientist's work addresses several major topics within wildlife ecology and conservation, including wildlife-road interactions and conservation, species distribution and climate change, rangeland and wildlife management, indigenous studies and ecology, marine animal studies, and animal ecology and behavior studies.

Recent publications by Adam T. Ford demonstrate active engagement in contemporary research themes. Selected papers include:

  • "Human-wildlife coexistence in a changing world" (2020) published in Conservation Biology
  • "The ecology of human-carnivore coexistence" (2020) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Effects of body size on estimation of mammalian area requirements" (2020) published in Conservation Biology
  • "Understanding and avoiding misplaced efforts in conservation" (2021) published in FACETS
  • "Towns and trails drive carnivore movement behaviour, resource selection, and connectivity" (2022) published in Movement Ecology

Adam T. Ford frequently collaborates with several researchers in the field, including Clayton T. Lamb, Jacob R. Goheen, Robert Serrouya, Mark Hebblewhite, and Michael Noonan.

The scientist's work is often published in venues relevant to ecological and conservation sciences. Frequent publication venues include Ecological Applications, Conservation Science and Practice, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), FACETS, and Ecological Solutions and Evidence.

Best Publications

  • Moving in the Anthropocene : global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements

    Marlee A. Tucker;Katrin Böhning-Gaese;William F. Fagan;John M. Fryxell

  • Is habitat fragmentation bad for biodiversity

    Lenore Fahrig;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Joseph R. Bennett;Véronique Boucher-Lalonde

  • Human-wildlife coexistence in a changing world.

    Hannes J. König;Christian Kiffner;Stephanie Kramer-Schadt;Stephanie Kramer-Schadt;Christine Fürst

  • Large carnivores make savanna tree communities less thorny

    Adam T. Ford;Jacob R. Goheen;Tobias O. Otieno;Laura Bidner

  • A comprehensive analysis of autocorrelation and bias in home range estimation

    Michael J. Noonan;Michael J. Noonan;Marlee A. Tucker;Christen H. Fleming;Christen H. Fleming;Thomas S. Akre

  • Tracking the Conservation Promise of Movement Ecology

    Kevin C. Fraser;Kimberley T. A. Davies;Christina M. Davy;Christina M. Davy;Adam T. Ford

  • The ecology of human–carnivore coexistence

    Clayton T. Lamb;Clayton T. Lamb;Adam T. Ford;Bruce N. McLellan;Michael F. Proctor

  • Trophic Cascades by Large Carnivores: A Case for Strong Inference and Mechanism.

    Adam T. Ford;Jacob R. Goheen

  • Comparison of Methods of Monitoring Wildlife Crossing-Structures on Highways

    Adam T. Ford;Anthony P. Clevenger;Andrew Bennett

  • Behavioral Responses of Northern Leopard Frogs (Rana pipiens) to Roads and Traffic: Implications for Population Persistence

    Julie Bouchard;Adam T. Ford;Felix E. Eigenbrod;Lenore Fahrig

  • Anthropogenic effects on activity patterns of wildlife at crossing structures

    Mirjam Barrueto;Adam T. Ford;Anthony P. Clevenger

  • Diet and body size of North American mammal road mortalities

    Adam T. Ford;Lenore Fahrig

  • Can we save large carnivores without losing large carnivore science

    Benjamin L. Allen;Lee R. Allen;Henrik Andrén;Guy Ballard

  • Towns and trails drive carnivore movement behaviour, resource selection, and connectivity

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  • A Comparison of Data Sets Varying in Spatial Accuracy Used to Predict the Occurrence of Wildlife-Vehicle Collisions

    Karl E Gunson;Anthony P Clevenger;Adam T Ford;John A Bissonette

  • Movement Patterns of Eastern Chipmunks (Tamias striatus) Near Roads

    Adam T. Ford;Lenore Fahrig

  • Conservation lessons from large-mammal manipulations in East African savannas: the KLEE, UHURU, and GLADE experiments.

    Jacob R. Goheen;David J. Augustine;Kari E. Veblen;Duncan M. Kimuyu

  • Indigenous‐led conservation: Pathways to recovery for the nearly extirpated Klinse‐Za mountain caribou

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  • Effects of body size on estimation of mammalian area requirements

    Michael J. Noonan;Michael J. Noonan;Christen H. Fleming;Christen H. Fleming;Marlee A. Tucker;Marlee A. Tucker;Roland Kays;Roland Kays

  • Understanding and avoiding misplaced efforts in conservation

    Adam T. Ford;Abdullahi H. Ali;Sheila R. Colla;Steven J. Cooke

  • Low functional redundancy among mammalian browsers in regulating an encroaching shrub (Solanum campylacanthum) in African savannah

    Robert M. Pringle;Jacob R. Goheen;Todd M. Palmer;Grace K. Charles

  • Aeroconservation for the Fragmented Skies

    Christina M. Davy;Adam T. Ford;Kevin C. Fraser

  • Research, part of a Special Feature on Effects of Roads and Traffic on Wildlife Populations and Landscape Function Behavioral Responses of Northern Leopard Frogs (Rana pipiens) to Roads and Traffic: Implications for Population Persistence

    Julie Bouchard;Adam T. Ford;Felix E. Eigenbrod;Lenore Fahrig

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacob R. Goheen
Jacob R. Goheen University of Wyoming
Anthony P. Clevenger
Anthony P. Clevenger Montana State University
Justin M. Calabrese
Justin M. Calabrese University of Maryland, College Park
Matthew J. Kauffman
Matthew J. Kauffman University of Wyoming
Thomas Mueller
Thomas Mueller Goethe University Frankfurt
Roland Kays
Roland Kays North Carolina State University
Robert M. Pringle
Robert M. Pringle Princeton University
Todd M. Palmer
Todd M. Palmer University of Florida
Steven J. Cooke
Steven J. Cooke Carleton University
Lenore Fahrig
Lenore Fahrig Carleton University

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