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Christopher Turbill

Christopher Turbill

D-Index & Metrics

Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
25
Citations
2645
World Ranking
2949
National Ranking
153

Christopher Turbill publication distribution in Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christopher Turbill sits on this spectrum.

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29 publications 442+

This scientist: 56 publications — 3rd percentile

3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 442 publications or more.

Christopher Turbill D-index placement in Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Animal Science and Veterinary scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christopher Turbill sits on this spectrum.

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20 D-Index 77+

This scientist: 25 D-Index — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 77 D-Index or more.

Overview

Christopher Turbill is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on agricultural and biological sciences, with a significant emphasis on environmental science. They have published extensively in subfields including ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, developmental biology, animal science and zoology, and ecological modeling.

The scientist's main areas of study incorporate bat biology and ecology, marine animal studies, physiological and biochemical adaptations, animal vocal communication and behavior, effects of environmental stressors on livestock, species distribution and climate change, and viral infections and vectors.

Christopher Turbill has contributed to multiple articles in various scientific journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • Ghost bats exhibit informative daily and seasonal temporal patterns in the production of social vocalisations (2021), published in Australian Journal of Zoology
  • Variety is the spice of life: Flying-foxes exploit a variety of native and exotic food plants in an urban landscape mosaic (2022), published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Survivable hypothermia or torpor in a wild-living rat: rare insights broaden our understanding of endothermic physiology (2021), published in Journal of Comparative Physiology B
  • Australia's 2019-20 mega-fires are associated with lower occupancy of a rainforest-dependent bat (2022), published in Animal Conservation
  • Hibernation and daily torpor in Australian and New Zealand bats: does the climate zone matter? (2020), published in Australian Journal of Zoology

The most frequent venues for their publications are the Australian Journal of Zoology, Journal of Thermal Biology, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Journal of Comparative Physiology B, and Animal Conservation.

Among their frequent collaborators, Christopher Turbill has worked extensively with colleagues including Justin A. Welbergen, Bradley Law, Jessica Meade, Wayne Boardman, and Melissa J. Walker. These collaborations have produced multiple joint publications, indicating a collaborative research approach.

Best Publications

  • Hibernation is associated with increased survival and the evolution of slow life histories among mammals

    Christopher Turbill;Claudia Bieber;Thomas Ruf

  • Hibernation and daily torpor minimize mammalian extinctions.

    Fritz Geiser;Christopher Turbill

  • Do Patterns of Torpor Differ between Free-ranging and Captive Mammals and Birds?

    Fritz Geiser;Joanne C. Holloway;Gerhard Körtner;Tracy A. Maddocks

  • Hibernation by tree-roosting bats.

    Christopher Turbill;Fritz Geiser

  • Regulation of heart rate and rumen temperature in red deer: effects of season and food intake

    Christopher Turbill;Thomas Ruf;Thomas Mang;Walter Arnold

  • Natural use of heterothermy by a small, tree-roosting bat during summer.

    Christopher Turbill;Gerhard Körtner;Fritz Geiser

  • Summer torpor in a free-ranging bat from subtropical Australia

    Christopher Turbill;Bradley S. Law;Fritz Geiser

  • Winter activity of Australian tree-roosting bats: influence of temperature and climatic patterns

    Christopher Turbill

  • Seasonal variation in telomere length of a hibernating rodent.

    Christopher Turbill;Thomas Ruf;Steve Smith;Claudia Bieber

  • Late-born intermittently fasted juvenile garden dormice use torpor to grow and fatten prior to hibernation: consequences for ageing processes.

    Sylvain Giroud;Sandrine Zahn;Sandrine Zahn;François Criscuolo;François Criscuolo;Isabelle Chery;Isabelle Chery

  • Daily torpor is associated with telomere length change over winter in Djungarian hamsters

    Christopher Turbill;Steve Smith;Caroline Deimel;Thomas Ruf

  • Hibernation by a free-ranging subtropical bat (Nyctophilus bifax)

    Clare Y. Stawski;Christopher Turbill;Christopher Turbill;Fritz Geiser

  • Torpor and thermal energetics in a tiny Australian vespertilionid, the little forest bat (Vespadelus vulturnus)

    Craig K. R. Willis;Christopher Turbill;Fritz Geiser

  • Thermal physiology of pregnant and lactating female and male long-eared bats, Nyctophilus geoffroyi and N. gouldi

    Christopher Turbill;Fritz Geiser

  • Roosting and thermoregulatory behaviour of male Gould’s long-eared bats, Nyctophilus gouldi: energetic benefits of thermally unstable tree roosts

    Christopher Turbill

  • High survival during hibernation affects onset and timing of reproduction.

    Claudia Bieber;Rimvydas Juškaitis;Christopher Turbill;Thomas Ruf

  • THERMOREGULATORY BEHAVIOR OF TREE-ROOSTING CHOCOLATE WATTLED BATS (CHALINOLOBUS MORIO) DURING SUMMER AND WINTER

    Christopher Turbill

  • Timing of the daily temperature cycle affects the critical arousal temperature and energy expenditure of lesser long-eared bats

    Christopher Turbill;Gerhard Körtner;Fritz Geiser

  • Torpor reduces predation risk by compensating for the energetic cost of antipredator foraging behaviours.

    Christopher Turbill;Lisa Stojanovski

  • Survival, Aging, and Life-History Tactics in Mammalian Hibernators

    Thomas Ruf;Claudia Bieber;Christopher Turbill;Christopher Turbill

  • Senescence Is More Important in the Natural Lives of Long- Than Short-Lived Mammals

    Christopher Turbill;Thomas Ruf

Frequent Co-Authors

Fritz Geiser
Fritz Geiser University of New England
Gerhard Körtner
Gerhard Körtner University of New England
R. Mark Brigham
R. Mark Brigham University of Regina
Craig K. R. Willis
Craig K. R. Willis University of Winnipeg
Bradley Law
Bradley Law New South Wales Department of Primary Industries
Daniel H. Nussey
Daniel H. Nussey University of Edinburgh
Simon Verhulst
Simon Verhulst University of Groningen
Daniel Lunney
Daniel Lunney University of Sydney
Dustin J. Penn
Dustin J. Penn University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Duncan Martin Baird
Duncan Martin Baird Cardiff University

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