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41
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5627
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5914
National Ranking
2006

Overview

Claudio Campagna is affiliated with the Wildlife Conservation Society in the United States. Their research focuses on environmental science, with significant work spanning ecology, nature and landscape conservation, philosophy, sociology and political science, and oceanography.

The scientist's main topics of study include marine animal studies overview, environmental philosophy and ethics, philosophical ethics and theory, religion, ecology, and ethics, influenza virus research studies, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, and geographies of human-animal interactions.

Campagna has authored several recent papers addressing various aspects of marine biology and influenza virus research. These papers include:

  • Catastrophic mortality of southern elephant seals caused by H5N1 avian influenza, 2023, Marine Mammal Science
  • Epidemiological data of an influenza A/H5N1 outbreak in elephant seals in Argentina indicates mammal-to-mammal transmission, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Massive outbreak of Influenza A H5N1 in elephant seals at Península Valdés, Argentina: increased evidence for mammal-to-mammal transmission, 2024, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Kelp forests at the end of the earth: 45 years later, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Flash and grab: deep-diving southern elephant seals trigger anti-predator flashes in bioluminescent prey, 2020, Journal of Experimental Biology

In addition to journal articles, Campagna has published books with Springer International Publishing, including Ethology and Behavioral Ecology of Otariids and the Odobenid (2021) and Speaking of Forms of Life (2023).

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Marine Mammal Science
  • Nature Communications
  • PLoS ONE
  • Journal of Experimental Biology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Campagna collaborates often with a group of co-authors, including Daniel Guevara, Julieta Campagna, Valeria Falabella, Marcela Uhart, and Ralph Eric Thijl Vanstreels.

Best Publications

  • Translating Marine Animal Tracking Data into Conservation Policy and Management

    Graeme C. Hays;Helen Bailey;Steven J. Bograd;W. Don Bowen

  • Elephant Seal Genetic Variation and the Use of Simulation Models to Investigate Historical Population Bottlenecks

    A. R. Hoelzel;J. Halley;S. J. O'Brien;C. Campagna

  • Global threats to pinnipeds

    Kit M. Kovacs;Alex Aguilar;David Aurioles;Vladimir Burkanov

  • All at sea with animal tracks; methodological and analytical solutions for the resolution of movement

    Rory P. Wilson;Nikolai Liebsch;Ian M. Davies;Flavio Quintana

  • Reproductive Behaviour of Southern Sea Lions

    Claudio Campagna;Burney J. Le Boeuf

  • Movements and location at sea of South American sea lions (Otaria flavescens)

    Claudio Campagna;Rodolpho Werner;William Karesh;María Rosa Marín

  • Impact of a population bottleneck on symmetry and genetic diversity in the northern elephant seal

    A. R. Hoelzel;R. C. Fleischer;R. C. Fleischer;C. Campagna;B. J. Le Boeuf

  • Alpha-male paternity in elephant seals

    A. Rus Hoelzel;Burney J. Le Boeuf;Joanne Reiter;Claudio Campagna

  • Convergent evolution in locomotory patterns of flying and swimming animals

    Adrian C. Gleiss;Salvador J. Jorgensen;Nikolai Liebsch;Juan E. Sala

  • Sex-specific foraging strategies and resource partitioning in the southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina).

    Rebecca Lewis;Tamsin C O'Connell;Tamsin C O'Connell;Mirtha Lewis;Claudio Campagna;Claudio Campagna

  • Southern elephant seal trajectories, fronts and eddies in the Brazil/Malvinas Confluence

    Claudio Campagna;Claudio Campagna;Alberto R. Piola;Maria Rosa Marin;Mirtha Lewis

  • THE BREEDING CYCLE OF THE SOUTHERN SEA LION, OTARIA BYRONIA

    Claudio Campagna

  • Group breeding in sea lions: pups survive better in colonies

    Claudio Campagna;Claudio Bisioli;Flavio Quintana;Fabian Perez

  • Revisiting the ontogenetic shift paradigm: The case of juvenile green turtles in the SW Atlantic

    Victoria González Carman;Victoria González Carman;Valeria Falabella;Sara Maxwell;Sara Maxwell;Diego Albareda

  • Post-Breeding Distribution and Diving Behavior of Adult Male Southern Elephant Seals from Patagonia

    Claudio Campagna;Michael A. Fedak;Bernie J. McConnell

  • Group Raids: a Mating Strategy of Male Southern Sea Lions

    Burney J. Le Boeuf;Claudio Campagna;Humberto L. Cappozzo

  • A jellyfish diet for the herbivorous green turtle Chelonia mydas in the temperate SW Atlantic

    Victoria González Carman;Florencia Botto;Esteban Nicolás Gaitán;Diego Albareda

  • Young green turtles, Chelonia mydas, exposed to plastic in a frontal area of the SW Atlantic

    Victoria González Carman;Victoria González Carman;E. Marcelo Acha;Sara M. Maxwell;Diego Albareda

  • BREEDING BIOLOGY OF SOUTHERN ELEPHANT SEALS IN PATAGONIA

    C. Campagna;M. Lewis;R. Baldi

  • Gulf of Mexico Oil Blowout Increases Risks to Globally Threatened Species

    Claudio Campagna;Claudio Campagna;Frederick T. Short;Frederick T. Short;Beth A. Polidoro;Beth A. Polidoro;Roger McManus;Roger McManus

  • Diving behaviour and foraging location of female southern elephant seals from Patagonia

    C. Campagna;C. Campagna;B. J. Le Boeuf;S. B. Blackwell;D. E. Crocker

Frequent Co-Authors

Flavio Quintana
Flavio Quintana National Scientific and Technical Research Council
Alberto R. Piola
Alberto R. Piola University of Buenos Aires
Sara M. Maxwell
Sara M. Maxwell University of Washington
Clive R. McMahon
Clive R. McMahon University of Tasmania
Rory P. Wilson
Rory P. Wilson Swansea University
Burney J. Le Boeuf
Burney J. Le Boeuf University of California, Santa Cruz
Mark A. Hindell
Mark A. Hindell University of Tasmania
A. Rus Hoelzel
A. Rus Hoelzel Durham University
Marthán N Bester
Marthán N Bester University of Pretoria
David W. Sims
David W. Sims University of Southampton

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