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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Andrew W. Illius is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several intersecting fields with a focus on Environmental Science, Immunology and Microbiology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. The subfields of study include Virology, Agronomy and Crop Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Ecology, as well as Sociology and Political Science.

Illius's work covers a diverse range of topics. These include:

  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Transboundary Water Resource Management
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments

Their publication record includes papers in well-regarded scientific venues. Frequent publication venues for Illius are the Journal of Applied Ecology, PLoS ONE, and Preventive Veterinary Medicine.

Recent notable publications include:

  • Strategies for global rangeland stewardship: Assessment through the lens of the equilibrium-non-equilibrium debate, 2020, Journal of Applied Ecology
  • Epidemiology and control of maedi-visna virus: Curing the flock, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Maternal transmission of Small Ruminant Lentivirus has no epidemiological importance, 2024, Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Collaborations are an important component of Illius's research activity. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Nicholas J. Savill
  • David D. Briske
  • D. Layne Coppock
  • Samuel D. Fuhlendorf
  • Karianne Lievaart-Peterson

In 2006, Andrew W. Illius was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Best Publications

  • ON THE RELEVANCE OF NONEQUILIBRIUM CONCEPTS TO ARID AND SEMIARID GRAZING SYSTEMS

    A. W. Illius;T. G. O’Connor

  • The allometry of food intake in grazing ruminants

    A.W. Illius;I.J. Gordon

  • The Ecology and Management of Grazing Systems

    Iain Gordon;J. Hodgson;A.W. Illius

  • Modelling the nutritional ecology of ungulate herbivores: evolution of body size and competitive interactions

    A. W. Illius;I. J. Gordon

  • Resource heterogeneity and ungulate population dynamics

    A. W. Illius;T. G. O'Connor

  • Incisor arcade structure and diet selection in ruminants

    I.J. Gordon;A.W. Illius

  • Influences of feeding level and physical restriction on development of stereotypies in sows

    E. M C Terlouw;Alistair Lawrence;A. W. Illius

  • Prediction of intake and digestion in ruminants by a model of rumen kinetics integrating animal size and plant characteristics

    A. W. Illius;I. J. Gordon

  • Megaherbivores influence trophic guilds structure in African ungulate communities

    Hervé Fritz;Patrick Duncan;Iain J. Gordon;Andrew W. Illius

  • Stability and Instability in Ungulate Populations: An Empirical Analysis

    T. H. Clutton-Brock;A. W. Illius;K. Wilson;K. Wilson;B. T. Grenfell

  • Resource partitioning by ungulates on the Isle of Rhum.

    I. J. Gordon;A. W. Illius

  • The functional significance of the browser-grazer dichotomy in African ruminants.

    Iain J. Gordon;Andrew W. Illius

  • Vegetation modification and resource competition in grazing ungulates

    Martyn G. Murray;Andrew W. Illius

  • Costs of vigilance in foraging ungulates

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  • Repeated selection of morphometric traits in the Soay sheep on St Kilda

    J M Milner;S D Albon;Andrew Illius;Josephine Pemberton

  • The nutritional ecology of African ruminants: A reinterpretation

    Iain J. Gordon;Andrew W. Illius

  • Spatial and temporal variability modify density dependence in populations of large herbivores

    Guiming Wang;N. Thompson Hobbs;Randall B. Boone;Andrew W. Illius

  • The Ecology and Management of Grazing Systems

    J. Hodgson;A. W. Illius

  • Individual differences in behavioural responses of pigs exposed to non-social and social challenges

    Alistair Lawrence;E. M C Terlouw;Andrew Illius

  • DIET SELECTION IN GOATS: A TEST OF INTAKE-RATE MAXIMIZATION

    A. W. Illius;I. J. Gordon;D. A. Elston;J. D. Milne

  • Discrimination and patch choice by sheep grazing grass-clover swards

    A. W. Illius;D. A. Clark;J. Hodgson

Frequent Co-Authors

Iain J. Gordon
Iain J. Gordon James Hutton Institute
Alistair Lawrence
Alistair Lawrence Scotland's Rural College
Ilias Kyriazakis
Ilias Kyriazakis Queen's University Belfast
Bert J. Tolkamp
Bert J. Tolkamp Scotland's Rural College
John R. Speakman
John R. Speakman University of Aberdeen
Tim H. Clutton-Brock
Tim H. Clutton-Brock University of Cambridge
Steve D. Albon
Steve D. Albon James Hutton Institute
David A. Elston
David A. Elston James Hutton Institute
Timothy G. O’Connor
Timothy G. O’Connor University of the Witwatersrand
Kenneth Wilson
Kenneth Wilson Lancaster University

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