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67
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18177
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1590
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31

Overview

David Lusseau is affiliated with the Technical University of Denmark in Denmark. Their research is focused primarily within the field of Environmental Science, with extensive work in Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Physiology, Developmental Biology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's main topics of work cover various aspects of marine and ecological studies, including:

  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Identification and Quantification in Food

David Lusseau has contributed to multiple publications across a variety of venues, notably:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Wageningen University and Researchcenter Publications (Wageningen University & Research)
  • The Journals of Gerontology Series A
  • International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)
  • Archimer (Ifremer)

Their recent papers include:

  • "Influence of environmental factors and parity on milk yield dynamics in barn-housed dairy cattle," 2021, Journal of Dairy Science
  • "Dolphins and Boats: When Is a Disturbance, Disturbing?" 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "Bleak prospects and targeted actions for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals," 2023, Science Bulletin
  • "Marine Protected Areas provide more cultural ecosystem services than other adjacent coastal areas," 2021, One Earth
  • "Geographic distribution, abundance, diet, and body size of invasive pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) in the Norwegian and Barents Seas, and in Norwegian rivers," 2022, ICES Journal of Marine Science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with David Lusseau include Steven Mackinson, Florian Berg, Afra Egan, Richard D.M. Nash, and Cecilie Kvamme.

Best Publications

  • The bottlenose dolphin community of Doubtful Sound features a large proportion of long-lasting associations

    David Lusseau;David Lusseau;Karsten Schneider;Oliver J. Boisseau;Patti Haase

  • The emergent properties of a dolphin social network.

    David Lusseau

  • Identifying the role that animals play in their social networks.

    David Lusseau;M. E. J. Newman

  • Estimating relative energetic costs of human disturbance to killer whales (Orcinus orca)

    Rob Williams;David Lusseau;Philip S. Hammond

  • Effects of Tour Boats on the Behavior of Bottlenose Dolphins: Using Markov Chains to Model Anthropogenic Impacts

    David Lusseau

  • Cetaceans Have Complex Brains for Complex Cognition

    Lori Marino;Richard C Connor;R. Ewan Fordyce;Louis M Herman

  • Quantifying the influence of sociality on population structure in bottlenose dolphins.

    David Lusseau;Ben Wilson;Philip S. Hammond;Kate Grellier;Kate Grellier

  • Animal social networks: an introduction

    Jens Krause;David Lusseau;Richard James

  • The Hidden Cost of Tourism: Detecting Long-term Effects of Tourism Using Behavioral Information

    David Lusseau

  • Vessel traffic disrupts the foraging behavior of southern resident killer whales Orcinus orca

    David Lusseau;David E. Bain;Rob Williams;Jodi C. Smith

  • Managing the impacts of dolphin-based tourism through the definition of critical habitats: the case of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops spp.) in Doubtful Sound, New Zealand

    D. Lusseau;J.E.S. Higham

  • Residency pattern of bottlenose dolphins Tursiops spp. in Milford Sound, New Zealand, is related to boat traffic

    David Lusseau

  • Male and female bottlenose dolphins Tursiops spp. have different strategies to avoid interactions with tour boats in Doubtful Sound, New Zealand

    David Lusseau

  • Underestimating the damage: interpreting cetacean carcass recoveries in the context of the Deepwater Horizon/BP incident

    Rob Williams;Shane Gero;Lars Bejder;John Calambokidis

  • Understanding the population consequences of disturbance.

    Enrico Pirotta;Enrico Pirotta;Cormac G. Booth;Daniel P. Costa;Erica Fleishman;Erica Fleishman

  • Collective decision-making and fission–fusion dynamics: a conceptual framework

    Cédric Sueur;Andrew King;Larissa L. Conradt;Gerald G. Kerth

  • Quantifying the effect of boat disturbance on bottlenose dolphin foraging activity

    Enrico Pirotta;Nathan D. Merchant;Nathan D. Merchant;Paul M. Thompson;Tim R. Barton

  • Income-based variation in Sustainable Development Goal interaction networks

    David Lusseau;Francesca Mancini

  • A killer whale social network is vulnerable to targeted removals

    Rob Williams;David Lusseau

  • Taking sociality seriously: the structure of multi-dimensional social networks as a source of information for individuals

    Louise Barrett;Louise Barrett;S. Peter Henzi;S. Peter Henzi;David Lusseau

  • Cyclicity in the structure of female baboon social networks

    S. P. Henzi;S. P. Henzi;D. Lusseau;T. Weingrill;T. Weingrill;C. P. van Schaik

  • Using short-term measures of behaviour to estimate long-term fitness of southern elephant seals

    Leslie F. New;James S. Clark;Daniel P. Costa;E. Fleishman;E. Fleishman

  • Incorporating uncertainty into the study of animal social networks

    David Lusseau;Hal Whitehead;Shane Gero

Frequent Co-Authors

John R. Speakman
John R. Speakman University of Aberdeen
Paul M. Thompson
Paul M. Thompson University of Southern California
Luonan Chen
Luonan Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Lars Bejder
Lars Bejder University of Hawaii at Manoa
Daniel E. L. Promislow
Daniel E. L. Promislow University of Washington
Jing-Dong J. Han
Jing-Dong J. Han Peking University
Rob Williams
Rob Williams Oceans Initiative
Louise Barrett
Louise Barrett University of Lethbridge
James Higham
James Higham University of Otago
S. Peter Henzi
S. Peter Henzi University of Lethbridge

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