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Michael A. Weston

Michael A. Weston

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
44
Citations
6711
World Ranking
5121
National Ranking
419

Overview

Michael A. Weston is affiliated with Deakin University in Australia and has made substantial contributions to the field of Environmental Science, with a primary focus on Ecology. Their research spans several key subfields, including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Developmental Biology, and Social Psychology.

Their work addresses diverse topics encompassing Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Avian ecology and behavior, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior, Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

Weston's publication record includes papers in various scientific journals, with notable frequent venues such as Ibis, The Science of The Total Environment, Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, Animal Behaviour, and Global Ecology and Conservation. These journals reflect the breadth of their research interests and focus areas.

Among recent papers, the following are prominent:

  • Escape responses of terrestrial and aquatic birds to drones: Towards a code of practice to minimize disturbance (2020, Journal of Applied Ecology)
  • Bird tolerance to humans in open tropical ecosystems (2023, Nature Communications)
  • Widespread exposure of powerful owls to second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides in Australia spans an urban to agricultural and forest landscape (2022, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Exploring cultural differences in wildlife value orientations using student samples in seven nations (2022, Biodiversity and Conservation)
  • Successful breeding predicts divorce in plovers (2020, Scientific Reports)

Weston has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, indicating a network supporting various research projects and areas of interest. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Anthony R. Rendall
  • Kristal N. Kostoglou
  • Grainne S. Maguire
  • Wouter F. D. van Dongen
  • Peter Dann

Best Publications

  • A review of flight-initiation distances and their application to managing disturbance to Australian birds

    M. A Weston;Emily M McLeod;D. T Blumstein;Patrick-Jean Guay

  • Climate change and its impact on Australia's avifauna

    Lynda E. Chambers;Lesley Hughes;Michael A. Weston

  • Towards ecologically meaningful and socially acceptable buffers: Response distances of shorebirds in Victoria, Australia, to human disturbance

    Hayley K. Glover;Michael A. Weston;Grainne S. Maguire;Kelly K. Miller

  • Human threats to sandy beaches: a meta-analysis of ghost crabs illustrates global anthropogenic impacts

    Thomas A. Schlacher;Serena Lucrezi;Rod M. Connolly;Charles H. Peterson

  • Successful breeding predicts divorce in plovers

    Naerhulan Halimubieke;Krisztina Kupan;Jose O. Valdebenito;Vojtech Kubelka

  • Continental-scale decreases in shorebird populations in Australia

    Robert S. Clemens;Danny I. Rogers;Birgita D. Hansen;Ken Gosbell

  • Being beside the seaside : Beach use and preferences among coastal residents of south-eastern Australia

    Grainne S. Maguire;Grainne S. Maguire;Kelly K. Miller;Michael A. Weston;Kirsten Young

  • Conflict between Genetic and Phenotypic Differentiation: The Evolutionary History of a ‘Lost and Rediscovered’ Shorebird

    Frank Erwin Rheindt;Tamás Székely;Scott V. Edwards;Patricia L. M. Lee

  • Buses, Cars, Bicycles and Walkers The Influence of the Type of Human Transport on the Flight Responses of Waterbirds

    Emily M. McLeod;Patrick-Jean Guay;Alice J. Taysom;Randall W. Robinson

  • Managing a breeding population of the Hooded Plover Thinornis rubricollis in a high-use recreational environment

    Bernice Dowling;Michael A. Weston

  • Birds and beaches, dogs and leashes: dog owners' sense of obligation to leash dogs on beaches in Victoria, Australia.

    Kathryn J. H. Williams;Michael A. Weston;Stacey Henry;Grainne S. Maguire

  • Urbanisation alters processing of marine carrion on sandy beaches

    Chantal Huijbers;Chantal Huijbers;Thomas A. Schlacher;Dave S. Schoeman;Michael A. Weston

  • Responses of Incubating Hooded Plovers (Thinornis rubricollis) to Disturbance

    Michael A. Weston;Mark A. Elgar

  • Metrics to assess ecological condition, change, and impacts in sandy beach ecosystems

    Thomas A. Schlacher;David S. Schoeman;Alan R. Jones;Jenifer E. Dugan

  • Biological, ecological, conservation and legal information for all species and subspecies of Australian bird

    Stephen T. Garnett;Daisy E. Duursma;Glenn Ehmke;Patrick Jean Guay

  • Human recreation alters behaviour profiles of non-breeding birds on open-coast sandy shores

    Thomas A. Schlacher;Tara Nielsen;Michael A. Weston

  • Disturbance to brood-rearing Hooded Plover Thinornis rubricollis : responses and consequences

    Michael A. Weston;Mark A. Elgar

  • Variation at the DRD4 locus is associated with wariness and local site selection in urban black swans

    Wouter F.D. van Dongen;Wouter F.D. van Dongen;Randall W. Robinson;Michael A. Weston;Raoul A. Mulder

  • Unauthorised human use of an urban coastal wetland sanctuary: Current and future patterns

    Mark J. Antos;Glenn C. Ehmke;Christopher L. Tzaros;Michael A. Weston

  • A review of terrestrial bird atlases of the world and their application

    Andrew M. Dunn;Michael A. Weston

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas A. Schlacher
Thomas A. Schlacher University of the Sunshine Coast
Peter Dann
Peter Dann Monash University
Rod M. Connolly
Rod M. Connolly Griffith University
Andrew D. Olds
Andrew D. Olds University of the Sunshine Coast
David S. Schoeman
David S. Schoeman University of the Sunshine Coast
Charles H. Peterson
Charles H. Peterson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Stephen T. Garnett
Stephen T. Garnett Charles Darwin University
Tamás Székely
Tamás Székely University of Bath
Daniel T. Blumstein
Daniel T. Blumstein University of California, Los Angeles
Mark A. Elgar
Mark A. Elgar University of Melbourne

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