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146
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World Ranking
35
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6

David W. Macdonald publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David W. Macdonald sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 1,330 publications — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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David W. Macdonald D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David W. Macdonald sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 146 D-Index — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2008 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

David W. Macdonald is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a total of 503 publications in this field. Key subfields of study include Ecology, Ecological Modeling, Genetics, Social Psychology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their work covers several specialized topics, including:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
  • Human-Animal Interaction Studies
  • Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies

David W. Macdonald has published frequently in several scientific journals. The venues with the highest number of their publications are:

  • Biological Conservation (19 publications)
  • Global Ecology and Conservation (13 publications)
  • Scientific Reports (10 publications)
  • Oryx (10 publications)
  • Animals (10 publications)

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Samuel A. Cushman
  • Andrew J. Loveridge
  • Żaneta Kaszta
  • Chris Newman
  • Christina D. Buesching

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by David W. Macdonald are:

  • Animal sales from Wuhan wet markets immediately prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Levels of conflict over wildlife: Understanding and addressing the right problem, 2020, Conservation Science and Practice
  • Using very-high-resolution satellite imagery and deep learning to detect and count African elephants in heterogeneous landscapes, 2020, Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation
  • Effects of body size on estimation of mammalian area requirements, 2020, Conservation Biology
  • Assessing the performance of index calibration survey methods to monitor populations of wide-ranging low-density carnivores, 2020, Ecology and Evolution

David W. Macdonald was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Agricultural abandonment in mountain areas of Europe: Environmental consequences and policy response

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  • The ecology of carnivore social behaviour

    David W. Macdonald

  • The importance of correcting for sampling bias in MaxEnt species distribution models

    Stephanie Kramer-Schadt;Jürgen Niedballa;John D. Pilgrim;Boris Schröder;Boris Schröder

  • The Encyclopedia of Mammals

    David W. Macdonald

  • Collapse of the world's largest herbivores.

    William J Ripple;Thomas M Newsome;Thomas M Newsome;Christopher Wolf;Rodolfo Dirzo

  • Does organic farming reduce environmental impacts?--a meta-analysis of European research.

    H.L. Tuomisto;I.D. Hodge;P. Riordan;D.W. Macdonald

  • Fatal attraction in rats infected with Toxoplasma gondii.

    M. Berdoy;J. P. Webster;D. W. Macdonald

  • From wild animals to domestic pets, an evolutionary view of domestication

    Carlos A. Driscoll;David W. Macdonald;Stephen J. O'Brien

  • The Near Eastern Origin of Cat Domestication

    Carlos A. Driscoll;Marilyn Menotti-Raymond;Alfred L. Roca;Karsten Hupe

  • Energetic constraints on the diet of terrestrial carnivores

    Carbone C;Mace Gm;Roberts Sc;Macdonald Dw

  • The use of photographic rates to estimate densities of tigers and other cryptic mammals

    Chris Carbone;S. Christie;K. Conforti;T. Coulson

  • A review of the interactions between free-roaming domestic dogs and wildlife

    Joelene Hughes;David W. Macdonald

  • One Hundred Questions of Importance to the Conservation of Global Biological Diversity

    W.J. Sutherland;W.M. Adams;R.B. Aronson;R. Aveling

  • Bushmeat hunting and extinction risk to the world's mammals

    William J. Ripple;Katharine Abernethy;Matthew G. Betts;Guillaume Chapron

  • The identification of 100 ecological questions of high policy relevance in the UK

    William J. Sutherland;Susan Armstrong-Brown;Paul R. Armsworth;Brereton Tom

  • Biology and conservation of wild felids

    David W. Macdonald;Andrew J. Loveridge

  • Behavioral adjustments of African herbivores to predation risk by lions: Spatiotemporal variations influence habitat use

    Marion Valeix;A.J. Loveridge;Simon Chamaillé-Jammes;Z. Davidson

  • A review of financial instruments to pay for predator conservation and encourage human-carnivore coexistence.

    Amy J. Dickman;Ewan A. Macdonald;David W. Macdonald

  • Canids : foxes, wolves, jackals and dogs : status survey and conservation action plan

    Michael Hoffmann;David W. Macdonald;Claudio Sillero-Zubiri

  • A comparison and critique of different scat‐analysis methods for determining carnivore diet

    Unn Klare;Jan F. Kamler;David W. Macdonald

  • Social odours in mammals

    Richard E. Brown;David W. Macdonald

  • Benefits of organic farming to biodiversity vary among taxa.

    R.J Fuller;L.R Norton;R.E Feber;P.J Johnson

  • Global trade in exotic pets 2006-2012.

    Emma R. Bush;Emma R. Bush;Sandra E. Baker;David W. Macdonald

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul J. Johnson
Paul J. Johnson University of Oxford
Chris Newman
Chris Newman University of Oxford
Christina D. Buesching
Christina D. Buesching University of Oxford
Andrew J. Loveridge
Andrew J. Loveridge University of Oxford
Marion Valeix
Marion Valeix Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Amy Dickman
Amy Dickman University of Oxford
Luke T. B. Hunter
Luke T. B. Hunter Wildlife Conservation Society
Claudio Sillero-Zubiri
Claudio Sillero-Zubiri University of Oxford
Jan F. Kamler
Jan F. Kamler University of Oxford
Susan M. Cheyne
Susan M. Cheyne Oxford Brookes University

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