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Marion L. East

Marion L. East

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Ecology and Evolution

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44
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7025
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5102
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267

Overview

Marion L. East is affiliated with the Leibniz Association in Germany and has contributed to research primarily within environmental science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans several interrelated fields of study including ecology, genetics, social psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, and molecular biology.

The main topics of their research include wildlife ecology and conservation, primate behavior and ecology, wildlife-road interactions and conservation, human-animal interaction studies, zoonotic diseases and public health, gut microbiota and health, and animal behavior and welfare studies.

East has published extensively in the following venues:

  • Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Communications Biology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Molecular Ecology

Frequently collaborating co-authors include:

  • Heribert Hofer
  • Sarah Benhaiem
  • Sonja Metzger
  • Morgane Gicquel
  • Gábor Á. Czirják

Recent publications reflect the diversity and depth of East's research:

  • "Early-life adversity predicts performance and fitness in a wild social carnivore" (2022, Journal of Animal Ecology)
  • "The virus-host interface: Molecular interactions of Alphacoronavirus-1 variants from wild and domestic hosts with mammalian aminopeptidase N" (2021, Molecular Ecology)
  • "Long-term reproductive costs of snare injuries in a keystone terrestrial by-catch species" (2022, Animal Conservation)
  • "Climate change does not decouple interactions between a central-place-foraging predator and its migratory prey" (2022, Ecosphere)
  • "Three decades of wildlife-vehicle collisions in a protected area: Main roads and long-distance commuting trips to migratory prey increase spotted hyena roadkills in the Serengeti" (2023, Biological Conservation)

Best Publications

  • Bushmeat hunting by communities adjacent to the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania: the importance of livestock ownership and alternative sources of protein and income

    Martin Loibooki;Heribert Hofer;Kenneth L.I. Campbell;Marion L. East

  • Noninvasive Fecal Monitoring of Glucocorticoids in Spotted Hyenas,Crocuta crocuta ☆

    Wolfgang Goymann;Erich Möstl;Thomas J. Van't Hof;Marion L. East;Marion L. East

  • The erect "penis" is a flag of submission in a female-dominated society: Greetings in the Serengeti spotted hyaenas

    Marion L. East;Heribert Hofer;Wolfgang Wickler

  • The commuting system of Serengeti spotted hyaenas: how a predator copes with migratory prey. I. Social organization

    Heribert Hofer;Marion L. East

  • Male spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) queue for status in social groups dominated by females

    Marion L. East;Heribert Hofer

  • Biological Conservation and Stress

    Heribert Hofer;Marion L. East

  • Social, state-dependent and environmental modulation of faecal corticosteroid levels in free-ranging female spotted hyenas.

    Wolfgang Goymann;Marion L. East;Bettina Wachter;Oliver P. Höner

  • Behavioral processes and costs of co-existence in female spotted hyenas: a life history perspective

    Heribert Hofer;Heribert Hofer;Marion L. East;Marion L. East

  • Regular exposure to rabies virus and lack of symptomatic disease in Serengeti spotted hyenas

    Marion L. East;Heribert Hofer;James H. Cox;Ulrich Wulle

  • The response of spotted hyaenas to long‐term changes in prey populations: functional response and interspecific kleptoparasitism

    Oliver P. Höner;Oliver P. Höner;Bettina Wachter;Bettina Wachter;Marion L. East;Heribert Hofer

  • Genetic characterization of canine distemper virus in Serengeti carnivores

    Margaret A Carpenter;Max J.G. Appel;Melody E Roelke-Parker;Linda Munson

  • Sexual conflicts in spotted hyenas: male and female mating tactics and their reproductive outcome with respect to age, social status and tenure

    Marion L East;Terry Burke;Kerstin Wilhelm;Carolyn Greig

  • Loud calling in a female-dominated mammalian society: II. Behavioural contexts and functions of whooping of spotted hyaenas, Crocuta crocuta

    Marion L. East;Heribert Hofer

  • Demography, Extinction and Intervention in a Small Population: the Case of the Serengeti Wild Dogs

    Roger Burrows;Heribert Hofer;Marion L. East

  • The commuting system of Serengeti spotted hyaenas: how a predator copes with migratory prey. III. Attendance and maternal care

    Heribert Hofer;Marion L. East

  • The commuting system of Serengeti spotted hyaenas: how a predator copes with migratory prey. II. Intrusion pressure and commuters' space use

    Heribert Hofer;Marion L. East

  • Does anal gland scent signal identity in the spotted hyaena

    Nicole Burgener;Nicole Burgener;Martin Dehnhard;Heribert Hofer;Marion L. East

  • The impact of game meat hunting on target and non-target species in the Serengeti

    Heribert Hofer;Kenneth L. I. Campbell;Marion L. East;Sally A. Huish

  • Female mate-choice drives the evolution of male-biased dispersal in a social mammal

    O. P. Höner;B. Wachter;M. L. East;W. J. Streich

  • The effect of prey abundance and foraging tactics on the population dynamics of a social, territorial carnivore, the spotted hyena

    Oliver P. Höner;Bettina Wachter;Marion L. East;Victor A. Runyoro

  • Within-litter sibling aggression in spotted hyaenas: effect of maternal nursing, sex and age.

    Waltraud Golla;Heribert Hofer;Marion L. East

  • Functions of birth dens in spotted hyaenas (Crocuta crocuta)

    Marion East;Heribert Hofer;Agnes Turk

Frequent Co-Authors

Heribert Hofer
Heribert Hofer Leibniz Association
Martin Dehnhard
Martin Dehnhard Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Nikolaus Osterrieder
Nikolaus Osterrieder Freie Universität Berlin
Stephanie Kramer-Schadt
Stephanie Kramer-Schadt Leibniz Association
Wolfgang Goymann
Wolfgang Goymann Max Planck Society
Terry Burke
Terry Burke University of Sheffield
Gábor Á. Czirják
Gábor Á. Czirják Leibniz Association
Olivier Gimenez
Olivier Gimenez Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Erich Möstl
Erich Möstl University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
David Costantini
David Costantini French National Museum of Natural History

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