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40
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7824
World Ranking
6035
National Ranking
2054

Overview

Matthew Linkie is affiliated with the Wildlife Conservation Society in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Psychology, with a particular focus on Ecology and Social Psychology as notable subfields. This combination frames their contributions at the intersection of natural environment studies and behavioral sciences.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics including:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
  • Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
  • Human-Animal Interaction Studies
  • Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Matthew Linkie include:

  • Noviar Andayani
  • David W. Macdonald
  • Sheherazade Sheherazade
  • Muhammad Irfansyah Lubis
  • Matthew J. Struebig

The scientist has contributed to multiple publication venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Conservation Letters
  • PLoS ONE
  • Animal Conservation
  • Oryx
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Recent papers by Matthew Linkie include:

  • "African Swine Fever threatens Southeast Asia's 11 endemic wild pig species," 2020, Conservation Letters
  • "Unraveling the complexity of human-tiger conflicts in the Leuser Ecosystem, Sumatra," 2020, Animal Conservation
  • "Felids, forest and farmland: identifying high priority conservation areas in Sumatra," 2020, Landscape Ecology
  • "Range-wide trends in tiger conservation landscapes, 2001 - 2020," 2023, Frontiers in Conservation Science
  • "Using occupancy-based camera-trap surveys to assess the Critically Endangered primate Macaca nigra across its range in North Sulawesi, Indonesia," 2020, Oryx

These publications indicate a strong engagement with conservation challenges related to wildlife in Southeast Asia, focusing on species protection, habitat conservation, and the complexities of human-wildlife conflict.

Best Publications

  • Estimating overlap of daily activity patterns from camera trap data

    Martin S. Ridout;Matthew Linkie

  • Assessing tiger–prey interactions in Sumatran rainforests

    Matthew Linkie;Matthew Linkie;Martin S. Ridout

  • Modification of forests by people means only 40% of remaining forests have high ecosystem integrity

    H.S. Grantham;A. Duncan;T. Evans;K.R. Jones

  • Evaluating whether protected areas reduce tropical deforestation in Sumatra

    David L. A. Gaveau;David L. A. Gaveau;Justin Epting;Owen D. Lyne;Matthew Linkie

  • Patterns and perceptions of wildlife crop raiding in and around Kerinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra

    Matthew Linkie;Yoan Dinata;A. Nofrianto;Nigel Leader-Williams

  • Assessing the viability of tiger subpopulations in a fragmented landscape

    Matthew Linkie;Guillaume Chapron;Deborah J. Martyr;Jeremy Holden

  • Predicting the patterns, perceptions and causes of human-carnivore conflict in and around Machiara National Park, Pakistan

    Naeem Iftikhar Dar;Riaz Aziz Minhas;Qamar Zaman;Matthew Linkie

  • When to stop managing or surveying cryptic threatened species

    Iadine Chadès;Eve McDonald-Madden;Michael A. McCarthy;Brendan Wintle

  • Estimating occupancy of a data deficient mammalian species living in tropical rainforests: Sun bears in the Kerinci Seblat region, Sumatra

    Matthew Linkie;Yoan Dinata;Agung Nugroho;Iding Achmad Haidir

  • Making conservation research more relevant for conservation practitioners

    William F. Laurance;Harko Koster;Monique Grooten;Anthony B. Anderson

  • Local attitudes and perceptions toward crop-raiding by orangutans (Pongo abelii) and other nonhuman primates in northern Sumatra, Indonesia

    Gail Campbell-Smith;Hubert V.P. Simanjorang;Nigel Leader-Williams;Matthew Linkie;Matthew Linkie

  • Mapping and predicting deforestation patterns in the lowlands of Sumatra

    Matthew Linkie;Robert J. Smith;Nigel Leader-Williams

  • Three decades of deforestation in southwest Sumatra: effects of coffee prices, law enforcement and rural poverty

    David L.A. Gaveau;David L.A. Gaveau;Matthew Linkie;Suyadi;Patrice Levang

  • Raiders of the Lost Bark: Orangutan Foraging Strategies in a Degraded Landscape

    Gail Campbell-Smith;Miran Campbell-Smith;Ian Singleton;Matthew Linkie;Matthew Linkie

  • 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

  • Habitat destruction and poaching threaten the Sumatran tiger in Kerinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra

    Matthew Linkie;Deborah J. Martyr;Jeremy Holden;Achmad Yanuar

  • Apes in space: saving an imperilled orangutan population in Sumatra.

    Gail Campbell-Smith;Miran Campbell-Smith;Ian Singleton;Matthew Linkie;Matthew Linkie

  • Addressing human-tiger conflict using socio-ecological information on tolerance and risk

    Matthew J. Struebig;Matthew Linkie;Matthew Linkie;Nicolas J. Deere;Deborah J. Martyr

  • Evaluating Biodiversity Conservation around a Large Sumatran Protected Area

    Matthew Linkie;Robert J. Smith;Yu Zhu;Deborah J. Martyr

  • EDITOR'S CHOICE: Safeguarding Sumatran tigers: evaluating effectiveness of law enforcement patrols and local informant networks

    Matthew Linkie;Matthew Linkie;Deborah J. Martyr;Abishek Harihar;Abishek Harihar;Dian Risdianto

  • Anthropogenic modification of forests means only 40% of remaining forests have high ecosystem integrity

    H. S. Grantham;A. Duncan;T. D. Evans;K. R. Jones

Frequent Co-Authors

Nigel Leader-Williams
Nigel Leader-Williams University of Cambridge
David W. Macdonald
David W. Macdonald University of Oxford
Hugh P. Possingham
Hugh P. Possingham University of Queensland
Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita
Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita University of Melbourne
Robert J. Smith
Robert J. Smith University of Kent
William F. Laurance
William F. Laurance James Cook University
John G. Robinson
John G. Robinson Wildlife Conservation Society
Andrew J. Hansen
Andrew J. Hansen Montana State University
Byron J. T. Morgan
Byron J. T. Morgan University of Kent

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