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Christina D. Buesching

Christina D. Buesching

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
44
Citations
5224
World Ranking
5179
National Ranking
561

Overview

Christina D. Buesching is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a strong focus on Ecology and its related subfields.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics within wildlife and animal studies. Key areas include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology, Primate Behavior and Ecology, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, and Species Distribution and Climate Change.

Frequent publication venues for their research include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Harvard Dataverse, Scientific Reports, Global Change Biology, and Zoology.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Christina D. Buesching are:

  • "Animal sales from Wuhan wet markets immediately prior to the COVID-19 pandemic", 2021, Scientific Reports
  • "A fat chance of survival: Body condition provides life-history dependent buffering of environmental change in a wild mammal population", 2021, Climate Change Ecology
  • "What lies beneath? Population dynamics conceal pace-of-life and sex ratio variation, with implications for resilience to environmental change", 2020, Global Change Biology
  • "Spatio-temporal partitioning facilitates mesocarnivore sympatry in the Stara Planina Mountains, Bulgaria", 2020, Zoology
  • "Estimation of environmental, genetic and parental age at conception effects on telomere length in a wild mammal", 2020, Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Christina D. Buesching frequently collaborates with a group of co-authors, including:

  • Chris Newman
  • David W. Macdonald
  • Julius G. Bright Ross
  • Ming-shan Tsai
  • Zhao-Min Zhou

Their research output demonstrates an interdisciplinary approach that integrates ecological, behavioral, and epidemiological perspectives on animal populations and environmental interactions. The scientist's work on life-history traits, population dynamics, and environmental resilience contributes to understanding species adaptation to changing environments.

Best Publications

  • Validating mammal monitoring methods and assessing the performance of volunteers in wildlife conservation—“Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodies ?”

    Chris Newman;Christina D. Buesching;David W. Macdonald

  • Fear of the human “super predator” far exceeds the fear of large carnivores in a model mesocarnivore

    Michael Clinchy;Liana Y. Zanette;Devin Roberts;Justin P. Suraci

  • Animal sales from Wuhan wet markets immediately prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Xiao Xiao;Xiao Xiao;Chris Newman;Christina D. Buesching;David W. Macdonald

  • Biogeographical variation in the diet of Holarctic martens (genus Martes, Mammalia: Carnivora: Mustelidae): adaptive foraging in generalists

    You-Bing Zhou;You-Bing Zhou;Chris Newman;Wen-Ting Xu;Christina D. Buesching

  • Balancing the benefits of ecotourism and development: The effects of visitor trail-use on mammals in a Protected Area in rapidly developing China

    Youbing Zhou;Youbing Zhou;Christina D. Buesching;Chris Newman;Yayoi Kaneko

  • Gas-chromatographic analyses of the subcaudal gland secretion of the European badger (Meles meles) part I: chemical differences related to individual parameters.

    C. D. Buesching;J. S. Waterhouse;D. W. Macdonald

  • The distribution of Eurasian badger, Meles meles, setts in a high‐density area: field observations contradict the sett dispersion hypothesis

    D. W. Macdonald;C. Newman;J. Dean;C. D. Buesching

  • Citizen science and nature conservation

    Jonathan Silvertown;Christina D. Buesching;Susan K. Jacobson;Tony Rebelo

  • Multimodal Oestrus Advertisement in a Small Nocturnal Prosimian, Microcebus murinus

    C.D. Buesching;M. Heistermann;J.K. Hodges;E. Zimmermann

  • Encounters between two sympatric carnivores: red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) and European badgers (Meles meles)

    D. W. Macdonald;C. D. Buesching;P. Stopka;J. Henderson

  • MALE-BIASED MOVEMENT IN A HIGH-DENSITY POPULATION OF THE EURASIAN BADGER (MELES MELES)

    David W. Macdonald;Christopher Newman;Christina D. Buesching;Paul J. Johnson

  • Individual variation in early-life telomere length and survival in a wild mammal

    Sil H J van Lieshout;Sil H J van Lieshout;Amanda Bretman;Chris Newman;Christina D Buesching

  • The Social Function of Allo-marking in the European Badger (Meles meles)

    C. D. Buesching;P. Stopka;D. W. Macdonald

  • Reasons for arboreality in wood mice Apodemus sylvaticus and Bank voles Myodes glareolus

    Christina D. Buesching;Christopher Newman;Rachael Twell;David W. Macdonald

  • AN ANALYSIS OF EURASIAN BADGER (MELES MELES) POPULATION DYNAMICS: IMPLICATIONS FOR REGULATORY MECHANISMS

    David W. Macdonald;Christopher Newman;Pierre M. Nouvellet;Christina D. Buesching

  • Negative density-dependent parasitism in a group-living carnivore.

    Gregory F Albery;Chris Newman;Julius Bright Ross;David W MacDonald

  • Are badgers ‘Under The Weather’? Direct and indirect impacts of climate variation on European badger (Meles meles) population dynamics

    David W. Macdonald;Christopher Newman;Christina D. Buesching;Pierre Nouvellet;Pierre Nouvellet

  • A fat chance of survival: Body condition provides life-history dependent buffering of environmental change in a wild mammal population

    Julius G. Bright Ross;Chris Newman;Christina D. Buesching;Erin Connolly

  • Gas-chromatographic analyses of the subcaudal gland secretion of the European badger (Meles meles) part II: time-related variation in the individual-specific composition.

    C. D. Buesching;J. S. Waterhouse;D. W. Macdonald

  • Variations in colour and volume of the subcaudal gland secretion of badgers (Meles meles) in relation to sex, season and individual-specific parameters

    Christina D. Buesching;C. Newman;D.W. Macdonald

  • The function of facial masks in "midguild" carnivores

    C. Newman;C. D. Buesching;J. O. Wolff

  • Coordinated Latrine Use by European Badgers, Meles meles: Potential Consequences for Territory Defense

    Kerry Kilshaw;Christopher Newman;Christina Buesching;James Bunyan

  • A new Magneto-Inductive tracking technique to uncover subterranean activity: what do animals do underground?

    Michael J. Noonan;Andrew Markham;Chris Newman;Niki Trigoni

Frequent Co-Authors

David W. Macdonald
David W. Macdonald University of Oxford
Chris Newman
Chris Newman University of Oxford
Terry Burke
Terry Burke University of Sheffield
Zongqiang Xie
Zongqiang Xie Chinese Academy of Sciences
Amanda Bretman
Amanda Bretman University of Leeds
Andrew Markham
Andrew Markham University of Oxford
Michael Heistermann
Michael Heistermann German Primate Center
Frank Rosell
Frank Rosell University of South-Eastern Norway
Niki Trigoni
Niki Trigoni University of Oxford
Richard J. Delahay
Richard J. Delahay Animal and Plant Health Agency

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