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100
Citations
38106
World Ranking
277
National Ranking
112

Overview

Daniel T. Blumstein is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a strong focus on animal behavior and ecological studies.

The primary fields of study for Blumstein include Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these broader areas, their work concentrates on several subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Social Psychology, Global and Planetary Change, and Developmental Biology.

Blumstein's research topics cover a diverse range including:

  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Bat Biology and Ecology Studies

Their recent peer-reviewed papers demonstrate active engagement with contemporary scientific issues and methodologies. Notable publications include:

  • "Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future," 2021, Frontiers in Conservation Science
  • "Universal DNA methylation age across mammalian tissues," 2023, Nature Aging
  • "Universal DNA methylation age across mammalian tissues," 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Urban Biodiversity and the Importance of Scale," 2020, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "DNA methylation networks underlying mammalian traits," 2023, Science

Blumstein collaborates frequently with a range of co-authors, including Julien G. A. Martin, Conner S. Philson, Dana M. Williams, Kenta Uchida, and Oded Berger-Tal. These collaborations reflect a network of researchers contributing to related topics in ecology and conservation science.

Their work appears recurrently in several scientific journals, underscoring an ongoing relationship with certain academic venues. The most frequent outlets for Blumstein's publications include:

  • Animal Behaviour
  • Frontiers in Conservation Science
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Current Zoology
  • Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Best Publications

  • Fitness consequences of personality: a meta-analysis

    Brian R. Smith;Daniel T. Blumstein

  • Fear in animals: a meta-analysis and review of risk assessment

    Theodore Stankowich;Daniel T Blumstein

  • Social network analysis of animal behaviour : a promising tool for the study of sociality

    Tina Wey;Daniel T. Blumstein;Weiwei Shen;Ferenc Jordán

  • Coupled dynamics of body mass and population growth in response to environmental change

    Arpat Ozgul;Dylan Z. Childs;Madan K. Oli;Kenneth B. Armitage

  • Acoustic monitoring in terrestrial environments using microphone arrays: applications, technological considerations and prospectus

    Daniel T. Blumstein;Daniel J. Mennill;Patrick Clemins;Lewis Girod

  • Relaxed selection in the wild

    David C. Lahti;Norman A. Johnson;Beverly C. Ajie;Sarah P. Otto

  • Training Captive‐Bred or Translocated Animals to Avoid Predators

    Andrea S. Griffin;Andrea S. Griffin;Daniel T. Blumstein;Daniel T. Blumstein;Christopher S. Evans

  • Developing an evolutionary ecology of fear : how life history and natural history traits affect disturbance tolerance in birds

    Daniel T. Blumstein

  • Flight-initiation distance in birds is dependent on intruder starting distance

    Daniel T. Blumstein

  • Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future

    Corey J. A. Bradshaw;Corey J. A. Bradshaw;Paul R. Ehrlich;Andrew Beattie;Gerardo Ceballos

  • Anthropogenic noise affects risk assessment and attention: the distracted prey hypothesis

    Alvin Aaden Yim-Hol Chan;Paulina Giraldo-Perez;Sonja Smith;Daniel T. Blumstein

  • Habituation and sensitization: new thoughts about old ideas

    Daniel T. Blumstein

  • The evolution of error: error management, cognitive constraints, and adaptive decision-making biases

    Dominic D.P. Johnson;Daniel T. Blumstein;James H. Fowler;Martie G. Haselton

  • Inter-specific variation in avian responses to human disturbance

    Daniel T. Blumstein;Esteban Fernández-Juricic;Patrick A. Zollner;Susan C. Garity

  • Increased tolerance to humans among disturbed wildlife

    Diogo S. M. Samia;Shinichi Nakagawa;Fausto Nomura;Thiago F. Rangel

  • The loss of anti-predator behaviour following isolation on islands

    Daniel T Blumstein;Janice C Daniel

  • Conservation translocations: a review of common difficulties and promising directions

    Oded Berger-Tal;D. T. Blumstein;Ronald R. Swaisgood

  • How Nature-Based Tourism Might Increase Prey Vulnerability to Predators

    Benjamin Geffroy;Benjamin Geffroy;Diogo S.M. Samia;Eduardo Bessa;Daniel T. Blumstein

  • Testing a key assumption of wildlife buffer zones: is flight initiation distance a species-specific trait?

    Daniel T. Blumstein;Laura L. Anthony;Robert Harcourt;Geoff Ross

  • Acoustic sequences in non-human animals: a tutorial review and prospectus.

    Arik Kershenbaum;Arik Kershenbaum;Daniel T. Blumstein;Marie A. Roch;Çağlar Akçay

  • Alarm calling in yellow-bellied marmots: I. The meaning of situationally variable alarm calls

    Daniel T. Blumstein;Kenneth B. Armitage

  • The Multipredator Hypothesis and the Evolutionary Persistence of Antipredator Behavior

    Daniel T. Blumstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Julien Martin
Julien Martin United States Geological Survey
Kenneth B. Armitage
Kenneth B. Armitage University of Kansas
Arpat Ozgul
Arpat Ozgul University of Zurich
Mike Letnic
Mike Letnic University of New South Wales
Katherine E. Moseby
Katherine E. Moseby University of New South Wales
Madan K. Oli
Madan K. Oli University of Florida
Esteban Fernández-Juricic
Esteban Fernández-Juricic Purdue University West Lafayette
Anders Pape Møller
Anders Pape Møller University of Paris-Saclay
William E. Cooper
William E. Cooper Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne

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