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8880
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4044
National Ranking
1409

Overview

Luke T. B. Hunter is affiliated with the Wildlife Conservation Society in the United States. Their work primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a particular focus on subfields including Ecology, Genetics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Small Animals, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The main research topics addressed by Luke T. B. Hunter cover Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Ecology and biodiversity studies, Genetic diversity and population structure, Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

Among their recent publications are:

  • "Unsustainable anthropogenic mortality disrupts natal dispersal and promotes inbreeding in leopards" (2020) published in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Threat analysis for more effective lion conservation" (2020) published in Oryx
  • "Genomic analyses show extremely perilous conservation status of African and Asiatic cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus)" (2022) published in Molecular Ecology
  • "Home range variation in leopards living across the human density gradient" (2021) published in Journal of Mammalogy
  • "Savanna fire management can generate enough carbon revenue to help restore Africa's rangelands and fill protected area funding gaps" (2021) published in One Earth

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Luke T. B. Hunter include:

  • Guy A. Balme (10 co-authored works)
  • David W. Macdonald (9 co-authored works)
  • Peter A. Lindsey (8 co-authored works)
  • Andrew J. Loveridge (8 co-authored works)
  • Lisanne S. Petracca (6 co-authored works)

Luke T. B. Hunter has published frequently in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) with 4 publications
  • Journal of Mammalogy with 2 publications
  • Frontiers in Conservation Science with 2 publications
  • Conservation Science and Practice with 2 publications
  • Communications Earth & Environment with 2 publications

Best Publications

  • Bringing the Tiger Back from the Brink—The Six Percent Solution

    Joe Walston;John G. Robinson;Elizabeth L Bennett;Urs Breitenmoser

  • Conserving large carnivores: dollars and fence

    C. Packer;A. Loveridge;S. Canney;Timothy Caro

  • Vigilance Behaviour in African Ungulates: The Role of Predation Pressure

    L. T. B. Hunter;J. D. Skinner

  • Lion (Panthera leo) populations are declining rapidly across Africa, except in intensively managed areas

    Hans Bauer;Guillaume Chapron;Kristin Nowell;Philipp Henschel

  • Edge effects and the impact of non-protected areas in carnivore conservation: leopards in the Phinda–Mkhuze Complex, South Africa

    G. A. Balme;G. A. Balme;R. Slotow;L. T. B. Hunter

  • Feeding habitat selection by hunting leopards Panthera pardus in a woodland savanna: prey catchability versus abundance

    Guy Balme;Luke Hunter;Rob Slotow

  • Evaluating Methods for Counting Cryptic Carnivores

    Guy A. Balme;Luke T. B. Hunter;Rob Slotow

  • Sport hunting, predator control and conservation of large carnivores

    Craig Packer;Margaret Kosmala;Hilary S. Cooley;Henry Brink

  • Saving the World's Terrestrial Megafauna

    William J Ripple;Guillaume Chapron;José Vicente López-Bao;Sarah M. Durant

  • Global priorities for national carnivore conservation under land use change

    Enrico Di Minin;Enrico Di Minin;Rob Slotow;Rob Slotow;Luke T. B. Hunter;Luke T. B. Hunter;Federico Montesino Pouzols;Federico Montesino Pouzols

  • The global decline of cheetah Acinonyx jubatus and what it means for conservation.

    Sarah M. Durant;Sarah M. Durant;Sarah M. Durant;Nicholas Mitchell;Nicholas Mitchell;Rosemary Groom;Rosemary Groom;Nathalie Pettorelli;Nathalie Pettorelli

  • Impact of conservation interventions on the dynamics and persistence of a persecuted leopard (Panthera pardus) population

    Guy A. Balme;Guy A. Balme;Rob Slotow;Luke T.B. Hunter

  • The lion in West Africa is critically endangered.

    Philipp Henschel;Lauren Coad;Cole Burton;Beatrice Chataigner

  • Leopard prey choice in the Congo Basin rainforest suggests exploitative competition with human bushmeat hunters

    Philipp Henschel;Luke T B Hunter;Lauren M Coad;Katharine Abernethy

  • The performance of African protected areas for lions and their prey

    P.A. Lindsey;P.A. Lindsey;L.S. Petracca;L.S. Petracca;P.J. Funston;H. Bauer

  • Carnivores of the world

    Luke Hunter;Priscilla Barrett

  • More than $1 billion needed annually to secure Africa’s protected areas with lions

    Peter Andrew Lindsey;Peter Andrew Lindsey;Peter Andrew Lindsey;Jennifer R.B. Miller;Jennifer R.B. Miller;Lisanne S. Petracca;Lisanne S. Petracca;Lauren Coad

  • Restoring lions Panthera leo to northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa : short-term biological and technical success but equivocal long-term conservation

    L.T.B. Hunter;K. Pretorius;L. C. Carlisle;M. Rickelton

  • Reproductive success of female leopards Panthera pardus: the importance of top-down processes

    Guy A. Balme;Andrew Batchelor;Natasha de Woronin Britz;Greg Seymour

  • Phylogeography, genetic structure and population divergence time of cheetahs in Africa and Asia: evidence for long‐term geographic isolates

    P. Charruau;C. Fernandes;P. Orozco-Terwengel;Jochen Peters

Frequent Co-Authors

Guy A. Balme
Guy A. Balme Panthera Corporation
Rob Slotow
Rob Slotow University of KwaZulu-Natal
David W. Macdonald
David W. Macdonald University of Oxford
Peter A. Lindsey
Peter A. Lindsey Griffith University
Hugh S. Robinson
Hugh S. Robinson University of Montana
Paul J. Johnson
Paul J. Johnson University of Oxford
Paul J. Funston
Paul J. Funston Panthera Corporation
Amy Dickman
Amy Dickman University of Oxford
Hans Bauer
Hans Bauer University of Oxford
Andrew J. Loveridge
Andrew J. Loveridge University of Oxford

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