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Dirk H. Van Vuren is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a specific concentration in ecology. Within this broader field, their subfields of study include ecology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, ecological modeling, nature and landscape conservation, and social psychology.

Their work encompasses a variety of topics related to wildlife and ecological dynamics. These main topics include wildlife ecology and conservation, animal ecology and behavior studies, species distribution and climate change, avian ecology and behavior, bat biology and ecology studies, animal behavior and reproduction, and ecology and vegetation dynamics studies.

Van Vuren has published extensively in several academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include the Journal of Mammalogy, Ecology and Evolution, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Ecology Letters, and Animal Behaviour.

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • "Individual life histories: neither slow nor fast, just diverse" (2023, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)
  • "Temporal correlations among demographic parameters are ubiquitous but highly variable across species" (2022, Ecology Letters)
  • "Current and lagged climate affects phenology across diverse taxonomic groups" (2023, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)
  • "Bridging animal personality with space use and resource use in a free-ranging population of an asocial ground squirrel" (2021, Animal Behaviour)
  • "Integrated evidence-based extent of occurrence for North American bison (Bison bison) since 1500 CE and before" (2022, Ecology)

Van Vuren collaborates regularly with several researchers. Frequent coauthors include Caitlin P. Wells, Jaclyn R. Aliperti, Daniel T. Blumstein, Ellen C. Bolas, and Laura Shaskey.

Best Publications

  • Detectability, philopatry, and the distribution of dispersal distances in vertebrates

    Walter D. Koenig;Dirk H. Van Vuren;Philip N. Hooge

  • Behavioral responses of bobcats and coyotes to habitat fragmentation and corridors in an urban environment

    Lourraine A. Tigas;Dirk H. Van Vuren;Raymond M. Sauvajot

  • The ecology and macroecology of mammalian home range area.

    Douglas A. Kelt;Dirk H. Van Vuren

  • Effects of urbanization on carnivore species distribution and richness

    Miguel A. Ordeñana;Kevin R. Crooks;Erin E. Boydston;Robert N. Fisher

  • Differential Costs of Locational and Social Dispersal and Their Consequences for Female Group-Living Primates

    Dirk Van Vuren;Lynne A. Isbell

  • Insular Endemic Plants Lack Defenses Against Herbivores

    Lizabeth Bowen;Dirk Van Vuren

  • Survival of dispersing and philopatric yellow-bellied marmots: what is the cost of dispersal?

    Dirk Van Vuren;Kenneth B. Armitage

  • Range expansion, population sizes, and management of wild pigs in California

    John D. Waithman;Richard A. Sweitzer;Richard A. Sweitzer;Dirk Van Vuren;John D. Drew

  • ENERGETIC CONSTRAINTS AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BODY SIZE AND HOME RANGE AREA IN MAMMALS

    Douglas A. Kelt;Dirk Van Vuren

  • Social Mating System and Sex-Biased Dispersal in Mammals and Birds: A Phylogenetic Analysis

    Karen E. Mabry;Erin L. Shelley;Katie E. Davis;Daniel T. Blumstein

  • Duration of snow cover and its influence on life-history variation in yellow-bellied marmots

    Dirk Van Vuren;Kenneth B. Armitage

  • Habitat Use and Migration Behavior of the California Tiger Salamander

    Ivette Loredo;Dirk Van Vuren;Michael L. Morrison

  • Gap‐Crossing Decisions by the Red Squirrel, a Forest‐Dependent Small Mammal

    Victoria J. Bakker;Dirk H. Van Vuren

  • A 32-year demography of yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris)

    Orlando A. Schwartz;Kenneth B. Armitage;Dirk Van Vuren

  • Some ecological effects of feral sheep on Santa Cruz Island, California, USA.

    Dirk Van Vuren;Bruce E. Coblentz

  • HABITAT ASSOCIATIONS OF SMALL MAMMALS AT TWO SPATIAL SCALES IN THE NORTHERN SIERRA NEVADA

    Stephanie A. Coppeto;Douglas A. Kelt;Dirk H. Van Vuren;James A. Wilson

  • Estimating sizes of wild pig populations in the North and Central Coast regions of California

    Richard A. Sweitzer;Richard A. Sweitzer;Dirk Van Vuren;Ian A. Gardner;Walter M. Boyce

  • Home range and parasite diversity in mammals

    Frédéric Bordes;Serge Morand;Douglas A. Kelt;Dirk H. Van Vuren

  • Wild Pigs as Predators in Oak Woodlands of California

    Jeffery T. Wilcox;Dirk H. Van Vuren

  • Ecology and Management of Terrestrial Vertebrate Invasive Species in the United States

    William C. Pitt;James C. Beasley;Gary W. Witmer

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas A. Kelt
Douglas A. Kelt University of California, Davis
Kevin R. Crooks
Kevin R. Crooks Colorado State University
Kenneth B. Armitage
Kenneth B. Armitage University of Kansas
Ian A. Gardner
Ian A. Gardner University of Prince Edward Island
Walter M. Boyce
Walter M. Boyce University of California, Davis
John M. Eadie
John M. Eadie University of California, Davis
Madan K. Oli
Madan K. Oli University of Florida
Bernie May
Bernie May University of California, Davis
Brandon M. Collins
Brandon M. Collins University of California, Berkeley
Lynne A. Isbell
Lynne A. Isbell University of California, Davis

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