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44
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7953
World Ranking
5052
National Ranking
545

Overview

Nils Bunnefeld is affiliated with the University of Stirling in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The research topics covered by Bunnefeld emphasize Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, and Forest Management and Policy.

Recent publications by Bunnefeld include:

  • Rapid assessment of avian species richness and abundance using acoustic indices (2020, Ecological Indicators)
  • Long-term collapse in fruit availability threatens Central African forest megafauna (2020, Science)
  • The positive experience of encountering wolves in the wild (2020, Conservation Science and Practice)
  • Understanding and overcoming obstacles in adaptive management (2022, Trends in Ecology & Evolution)
  • Reconciling livestock production and wild herbivore conservation: challenges and opportunities (2021, Trends in Ecology & Evolution)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bunnefeld include:

  • A. Bradley Duthie
  • Jeroen Minderman
  • Jeremy J. Cusack
  • Isabel L. Jones
  • O. Sarobidy Rakotonarivo

Bunnefeld has published multiple articles in prominent venues such as Conservation Science and Practice, Ecology and Society, People and Nature, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, and Conservation Biology.

  • Conservation Science and Practice
  • Ecology and Society
  • People and Nature
  • Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Conservation Biology

Best Publications

  • The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI): unforeseen successes in animal ecology

    Nathalie Pettorelli;Sadie Ryan;Thomas Mueller;Nils Bunnefeld

  • A model-driven approach to quantify migration patterns: individual, regional and yearly differences.

    Nils Bunnefeld;Luca Börger;Bram van Moorter;Christer M. Rolandsen

  • New horizons for managing the environment: A review of coupled social-ecological systems modeling

    M Schlüter;Rrj McAllister;R Arlinghaus;N Bunnefeld

  • Management strategy evaluation: a powerful tool for conservation?

    Nils Bunnefeld;Eriko Hoshino;Eriko Hoshino;Eleanor J. Milner-Gulland

  • From migration to nomadism: movement variability in a northern ungulate across its latitudinal range

    Navinder J. Singh;Lucas Borger;Holger Dettki;Nils Bunnefeld

  • Guidelines for the use of acoustic indices in environmental research

    Tom Bradfer-Lawrence;Nick Gardner;Lynsey Bunnefeld;Nils Bunnefeld

  • Cross-boundary collaboration: key to the conservation puzzle

    Salit Kark;Ayesha I T Tulloch;Ascelin Gordon;Tessa Mazor

  • Difference in spatiotemporal patterns of wildlife road-crossings and wildlife-vehicle collisions

    Wiebke Neumann;Göran Ericsson;Holger Dettki;Nils Bunnefeld;Nils Bunnefeld

  • Don't forget to look down - collaborative approaches to predator conservation

    Steve M. Redpath;John D. C. Linnell;Marco Festa-Bianchet;Luigi Boitani

  • A novel approach to assessing the prevalence and drivers of illegal bushmeat hunting in the serengeti.

    Ana Nuno;Nils Bunnefeld;Loiruck C Naiman;Eleanor J Milner-Gulland

  • Island, archipelago and taxon effects: mixed models as a means of dealing with the imperfect design of nature's experiments

    Nils Bunnefeld;Albert B. Phillimore

  • Rapid assessment of avian species richness and abundance using acoustic indices.

    Tom Bradfer-Lawrence;Nils Bunnefeld;Nick Gardner;Stephen G Willis

  • Understanding scales of movement: animals ride waves and ripples of environmental change.

    Bram van Moorter;Nils Bunnefeld;Nils Bunnefeld;Manuela Panzacchi;Christer M Rolandsen

  • Express your personality or go along with the group: what determines the behaviour of shoaling perch?

    Carin Magnhagen;Nils Bunnefeld

  • Risk taking by Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) in a human‐dominated landscape: effects of sex and reproductive status

    N Bunnefeld;J.D C Linnell;J Odden;van Marijtje Duijn

  • Are neonicotinoid insecticides driving declines of widespread butterflies

    Andre S. Gilburn;Nils Bunnefeld;John McVean Wilson;Marc S. Botham

  • Conservation conflicts: Behavioural threats, frames, and intervention recommendations

    Zachary Baynham-Herd;Stephen Redpath;Nils Bunnefeld;Thomas Molony

  • Long-term collapse in fruit availability threatens Central African forest megafauna.

    Emma R Bush;Emma R Bush;Robin C Whytock;Laila Bahaa-el-din;Stéphanie Bourgeois

  • Attitudes towards returning wolves (Canis lupus) in Germany: exposure, information sources and trust matter

    Ugo Arbieu;Marion Mehring;Nils Bunnefeld;Petra Kaczensky

  • Being smart about SMART environmental targets

    Sean L Maxwell;Eleanor J Milner-Gulland;Julia P G Jones;Andrew T Knight

  • Fishing Farmers: Fishing, Livelihood Diversification and Poverty in Rural Laos

    Sarah M. Martin;Kai Lorenzen;Nils Bunnefeld;Nils Bunnefeld

Frequent Co-Authors

E. J. Milner-Gulland
E. J. Milner-Gulland University of Oxford
Katharine Abernethy
Katharine Abernethy University of Stirling
Emily Nicholson
Emily Nicholson Deakin University
Caroline E. G. Tutin
Caroline E. G. Tutin University of Stirling
Ayesha I. T. Tulloch
Ayesha I. T. Tulloch University of Sydney
Kirsty J. Park
Kirsty J. Park University of Stirling
Lee J. T. White
Lee J. T. White University of Stirling
Göran Ericsson
Göran Ericsson Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Kai Lorenzen
Kai Lorenzen University of Florida
Julia L. Blanchard
Julia L. Blanchard University of Tasmania

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