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Michael Clinchy

Michael Clinchy

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
32
Citations
6198
World Ranking
8002
National Ranking
495

Overview

Michael Clinchy is a researcher affiliated with the University of Victoria in Canada, specializing in Environmental Science with a focus on Ecology. Their scholarly work emphasizes several subfields including Ecology, Social Psychology, Small Animals, Developmental Biology, and Genetics.

Their research addresses a broad range of topics centered mainly on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, along with Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies. Other notable topics in their work include Primate Behavior and Ecology, Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior, Human-Animal Interaction Studies, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, and Avian Ecology and Behavior.

Clinchy's publication record features several recent papers in recognized scientific venues. These include:

  • Ecology and Neurobiology of Fear in Free-Living Wildlife (2020) published in Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics
  • Prey tells, large herbivores fear the human 'super predator' (2022) published in Oecologia
  • Fear of predators in free-living wildlife reduces population growth over generations (2022) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Playbacks of predator vocalizations reduce crop damage by ungulates (2022) published in Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
  • Fear of the human "super predator" pervades the South African savanna (2023) published in Current Biology

Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Oecologia
  • Current Biology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Collaborative research has been conducted extensively with certain coauthors, including:

  • Liana Zanette
  • Dries P. J. Kuijper
  • Robert A. McCleery
  • L. Mike Conner
  • Marek C. Allen

Best Publications

  • Perceived Predation Risk Reduces the Number of Offspring Songbirds Produce per Year

    Liana Y. Zanette;Aija F. White;Marek C. Allen;Michael Clinchy

  • Predator‐induced stress and the ecology of fear

    Michael Clinchy;Michael J. Sheriff;Liana Y. Zanette

  • Fear of large carnivores causes a trophic cascade.

    Justin P. Suraci;Michael Clinchy;Lawrence M. Dill;Devin Roberts

  • Fear of humans as apex predators has landscape-scale impacts from mountain lions to mice.

    Justin P. Suraci;Michael Clinchy;Liana Y. Zanette;Christopher C. Wilmers

  • Balancing food and predator pressure induces chronic stress in songbirds

    Michael Clinchy;Liana Zanette;Rudy Boonstra;John C. Wingfield

  • Fear of the human 'super predator' reduces feeding time in large carnivores.

    Justine A. Smith;Justin P. Suraci;Justin P. Suraci;Michael Clinchy;Ayana Crawford

  • Fear of the human “super predator” far exceeds the fear of large carnivores in a model mesocarnivore

    Michael Clinchy;Liana Y. Zanette;Devin Roberts;Justin P. Suraci

  • Indirect predator effects on clutch size and the cost of egg production

    Marc Travers;Marc Travers;Michael Clinchy;Liana Zanette;Rudy Boonstra

  • Do stable isotopes reflect nutritional stress? Results from a laboratory experiment on song sparrows.

    Bethany Kempster;Liana Zanette;Fred J. Longstaffe;Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton

  • The Payoffs to Producing and Scrounging: What Happens when Patches are Divisible?

    Luc-Alain Giraldeau;Jerry A. Hogan;Michael J. Clinchy

  • Synergistic effects of food and predators on annual reproductive success in song sparrows

    Liana Zanette;James N. M. Smith;Harry van Oort;Michael Clinchy

  • Food availability affects diurnal nest predation and adult antipredator behaviour in song sparrows, Melospiza melodia

    Anne Duncan Rastogi;Liana Zanette;Michael Clinchy

  • Ecology of fear

    Liana Y. Zanette;Michael Clinchy

  • Pattern does not equal process: what does patch occupancy really tell us about metapopulation dynamics?

    Michael Clinchy;Daniel T. Haydon;Andrew T. Smith

  • Food and predators affect egg production in song sparrows.

    Liana Zanette;Michael Clinchy;James N. M. Smith

  • The Neurological Ecology of Fear: Insights Neuroscientists and Ecologists Have to Offer one Another

    Michael Clinchy;Jay Schulkin;Liana Y. Zanette;Michael J. Sheriff

  • Combined food and predator effects on songbird nest survival and annual reproductive success: results from a bi-factorial experiment.

    Liana Zanette;Michael Clinchy;James N. M. Smith

  • Adjustment of offspring sex ratios in relation to the availability of resources for philopatric offspring in the common brushtail possum

    Christopher N. Johnson;Michael Clinchy;Andrea C. Taylor;Charles J. Krebs

  • Multiple measures elucidate glucocorticoid responses to environmental variation in predation threat

    Michael Clinchy;Liana Zanette;Thierry Charlier;Amy E Newman

  • Ecology and Neurobiology of Fear in Free-Living Wildlife

    Liana Y. Zanette;Michael Clinchy

  • Body size, age and paternity in common brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula).

    Michael Clinchy;Andrea C Taylor;Liana Y Zanette;Charles J Krebs

Frequent Co-Authors

Liana Zanette
Liana Zanette University of Western Ontario
James N. M. Smith
James N. M. Smith University of British Columbia
Rudy Boonstra
Rudy Boonstra University of Toronto
Christopher C. Wilmers
Christopher C. Wilmers University of California, Santa Cruz
Marty L. Leonard
Marty L. Leonard Dalhousie University
John C. Wingfield
John C. Wingfield University of California, Davis
Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton
Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton University of Western Ontario
Bart Kempenaers
Bart Kempenaers Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Daniel T. Haydon
Daniel T. Haydon University of Glasgow
Mihai Valcu
Mihai Valcu Max Planck Society

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