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Margaret F. Kinnaird is affiliated with the Wildlife Conservation Society in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields related to environmental science and medicine, with a focus on ecology and public health.

Their main fields of study include Environmental Science and Medicine, with subfields in Ecology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Agronomy and Crop Science.

Margaret F. Kinnaird's research covers a range of interconnected topics such as zoonotic diseases and public health, wildlife ecology and conservation, animal disease management and epidemiology, viral infections and vectors, conservation, biodiversity, and resource management, rangeland management and livestock ecology, and land use and ecosystem services.

Some of their recent publications are:

  • Ecology and economics for pandemic prevention, 2020, Science
  • The costs and benefits of primary prevention of zoonotic pandemics, 2022, Science Advances
  • Drivers and causes of zoonotic diseases: an overview, 2021, PARKS
  • Scaling up area-based conservation to implement the Global Biodiversity Framework's 30x30 target: The role of Nature's Strongholds, 2024, PLoS Biology
  • Spatial patterns of large African cats: a large-scale study on density, home range size, and home range overlap of lions Panthera leo and leopards Panthera pardus, 2023, Mammal Review

Margaret F. Kinnaird has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Mariana M. Vale, Timothy G. O'Brien, Andrew P. Dobson, Stuart L. Pimm, and Lee Hannah.

Their work has been published in journals such as Science, Science Advances, PARKS, PLoS Biology, and Mammal Review.

Best Publications

  • Crouching tigers, hidden prey: Sumatran tiger and prey populations in a tropical forest landscape

    Timothy G. O'Brien;Margaret F. Kinnaird;Hariyo T. Wibisono

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

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

  • CTFS-ForestGEO: A worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

    Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Stuart J. Davies;Stuart J. Davies;Amy C. Bennett;Erika B. Gonzalez-Akre

  • Ecology and economics for pandemic prevention.

    Andrew P. Dobson;Stuart L. Pimm;Lee Hannah;Les Kaufman

  • Deforestation Trends in a Tropical Landscape and Implications for Endangered Large Mammals

    Margaret F. Kinnaird;Eric W. Sanderson;T. Timothy G. O'brien;Hariyo T. Wibisono

  • Effects of vulture declines on facultative scavengers and potential implications for mammalian disease transmission.

    D. L. Ogada;M. E. Torchin;M. F. Kinnaird;V. O. Ezenwa

  • Behavior, diet, and movements of the Sulawesi crested black macaque (Macaca nigra)

    Timothy G. O'Brien;Margaret F. Kinnaird

  • Ecological Effects of Wildfire on Lowland Rainforest in Sumatra

    Margaret F. Kinnaird;Timothy G. O’Brien

  • What's so special about figs?

    Timothy G. O'Brien;Margaret F. Kinnaird;Ellen S. Dierenfeld;Nancy L. Conklin-Brittain

  • Effects of Private-Land Use, Livestock Management, and Human Tolerance on Diversity, Distribution, and Abundance of Large African Mammals

    Margaret F. Kinnaird;Timothy G. O'brien

  • A picture is worth a thousand words: the application of camera trapping to the study of birds

    Timothy G. O'Brien;Margaret F. Kinnaird

  • Wildlife Insights: A Platform to Maximize the Potential of Camera Trap and Other Passive Sensor Wildlife Data for the Planet

    Jorge A Ahumada;Eric Fegraus;Tanya Birch;Nicole Flores

  • Distribution, status, and conservation needs of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) in Lampung Province, Sumatra, Indonesia

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  • Population Fluctuation in Sulawesi Red-Knobbed Hornbills: Tracking Figs in Space and Time

    Margaret F. Kinnaird;Timothy G. O'Brien;Suer Suryadi

  • Ecotourism in the Tangkoko DuaSudara Nature Reserve: opening Pandora' box?

    Margaret F. Kinnaird;Timothy G. O'Brien

  • Caffeine and Conservation

    Timothy G. O'Brien;Margaret F. Kinnaird

  • Predicting the geographical distributions of the macaque hosts and mosquito vectors of Plasmodium knowlesi malaria in forested and non-forested areas

    Catherine L. Moyes;Freya M. Shearer;Zhi Huang;Antoinette Wiebe

  • Fire, demography and the persistence of siamang (Symphalangus syndactylus: Hylobatidae) in a Sumatran rainforest

    Timothy G. O'Brien;Margaret F. Kinnaird;Anton Nurcahyo;Maya Prasetyaningrum

  • The Social Repertoire of Sulawesi Macaques

    B. Thierry;E. L. Bynum;S. Baker;M. F. Kinnaird

  • Variable resource defense by the Tana River crested mangabey

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  • Abundance and Distribution of Sympatric Gibbons in a Threatened Sumatran Rain Forest

    Timothy G. O'Brien;Margaret F. Kinnaird;Anton Nurcahyo;Mohamed Iqbal

  • Territoriality in Lemur Catta Groups during the Birth Season at Berenty, Madagascar

    Alison Jolly;Hantanirina R. Rasamimanana;Margaret F. Kinnaird;Timothy G. O’Brien

  • Population densities of Sulawesi crested black macaques (Macaca nigra) on Bacan and Sulawesi, Indonesia: Effects of habitat disturbance and hunting

    Barry Rosenbaum;Timothy G. O'Brien;Margaret Kinnaird;Jatna Supriatna

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy G. O'Brien
Timothy G. O'Brien Wildlife Conservation Society
Sharon L. Deem
Sharon L. Deem University of Missouri–St. Louis
Eben N. Broadbent
Eben N. Broadbent University of Florida
Stephen P. Hubbell
Stephen P. Hubbell University of California, Los Angeles
Matthew Linkie
Matthew Linkie Wildlife Conservation Society
Eric M. Fèvre
Eric M. Fèvre University of Liverpool
Nathalie Butt
Nathalie Butt University of Queensland
David Kenfack
David Kenfack Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Gregory S. Gilbert
Gregory S. Gilbert University of California, Santa Cruz
William J. McShea
William J. McShea Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

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