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Robert B. Weladji

Robert B. Weladji

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
31
Citations
4133
World Ranking
8220
National Ranking
512

Overview

Robert B. Weladji is a researcher affiliated with Concordia University in Canada, specializing in environmental science with a particular focus on ecology. Their work encompasses a broad range of subfields including ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, global and planetary change, small animals, and social psychology.

Their research topics reflect an emphasis on wildlife ecology and conservation, animal behavior and welfare studies, ecology and biodiversity studies, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, animal vocal communication and behavior, primate behavior and ecology, as well as rangeland management and livestock ecology.

Weladji has contributed to several scientific publications across multiple venues. Frequent publication venues include Tropical Conservation Science, Ethology Ecology & Evolution, Acta Oecologica, the Journal of Wildlife Management, and Zoo Biology.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Zoo soundscape: Daily variation of low-to-high-frequency sounds, 2020, published in Zoo Biology
  • Biodiversity and carbon sequestration potential in two types of tropical rainforest, Cameroon, 2020, published in Acta Oecologica
  • Methods to mitigate human-wildlife conflicts involving common mesopredators: a meta-analysis, 2023, published in Journal of Wildlife Management
  • Fruit Availability Influences Forest Elephant Habitat Use in a Human Dominated Landscape, Campo-Ma'an, Southern Cameroon, 2022, published in Tropical Conservation Science
  • Response of reindeer mating time to climatic variability, 2020, published in BMC Ecology

Their frequently collaborating coauthors include Øystein Holand, Jouko Kumpula, Louis Zapfack, Louis Lazure, and Melanie Chichi Nyako.

Best Publications

  • Conflict between people and protected areas within the Bénoué Wildlife Conservation Area, North Cameroon

    Robert B. Weladji;Martin N. Tchamba

  • The relative role of winter and spring conditions: linking climate and landscape-scale plant phenology to alpine reindeer body mass.

    Nathalie Pettorelli;Robert B Weladji;Øystein Holand;Atle Mysterud

  • Effects of anthropogenic fire history on savanna vegetation in northeastern Namibia

    Asser Sheuyange;Gufu Oba;Robert B. Weladji

  • An assessment of restoration of biodiversity in degraded high mountain grazing lands in northern Ethiopia

    D. T. Asefa;G. Oba;R. B. Weladji;J. E. Colman

  • Stakeholder attitudes towards wildlife policy and the Bénoué Wildlife Conservation Area, North Cameroon

    Robert B. Weladji;Stein R. Moe;Pål Vedeld

  • Heterogeneity in individual quality overrides costs of reproduction in female reindeer

    Robert B. Weladji;Anne Loison;Jean-Michel Gaillard;Øystein Holand

  • Global climate change and reindeer: effects of winter weather on the autumn weight and growth of calves

    Robert B. Weladji;Øystein Holand

  • Use of climatic data to assess the effect of insect harassment on the autumn weight of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) calves

    Robert B. Weladji;Øystein Holand;Trygve Almøy

  • Good reindeer mothers live longer and become better in raising offspring

    Robert B Weladji;Jean-Michel Gaillard;Nigel G Yoccoz;Øystein Holand

  • Use of indigenous ecological knowledge of the Maasai pastoralists for assessing rangeland biodiversity in Tanzania

    Arnold L. Mapinduzi;Gufu Oba;Robert B. Weladji;Jonathan E. Colman

  • Feedback effects of chronic browsing on life-history traits of a large herbivore

    M. Anouk Simard;Steeve D. Côté;Robert B. Weladji;Jean Huot

  • Constraints to projecting the effects of climate change on mammals

    D. Berteaux;M. M. Humphries;C. J. Krebs;M. Lima

  • Variation in Calf Body Mass in Migratory Caribou: The Role of Habitat, Climate, and Movements

    Serge Couturier;Steeve D. Côté;Robert D. Otto;Robert B. Weladji

  • Comparative response of Rangifer tarandus and other northern ungulates to climatic variability

    Robert B. Weladji;David R. Klein;Øystein Holand;Atle Mysterud

  • Social rank in female reindeer ( Rangifer tarandus ): effects of body mass, antler size and age

    Ø Holand;H. Gjøstein;A. Losvar;J. Kumpula

  • Age-related reproductive effort in reindeer ( Rangifer tarandus ): evidence of senescence

    Robert B. Weladji;Atle Mysterud;Øystein Holand;Dag Lenvik

  • Age-specific changes in different components of reproductive output in female reindeer: terminal allocation or senescence?

    Robert B. Weladji;Øystein Holand;Jean-Michel Gaillard;Nigel G. Yoccoz

  • The role of area enclosures and fallow age in the restoration of plant diversity in northern Ethiopia

    Muluberhan Hailu Abebe;Gufu Oba;Ayana Angassa;Robert B. Weladji

  • Effects of levels of human exposure on flight initiation distance and distance to refuge in foraging eastern gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis)

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  • Adaptive adjustment of offspring sex ratio and maternal reproductive effort in an iteroparous mammal.

    Øystein Holand;Atle Mysterud;Knut H Røed;Tim Coulson

  • Chimpanzee diet and habitat selection in the Budongo Forest Reserve, Uganda

    Mnason Tweheyo;Kåre A. Lye;Robert B. Weladji

Frequent Co-Authors

Øystein Holand
Øystein Holand Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Atle Mysterud
Atle Mysterud University of Oslo
Gufu Oba
Gufu Oba Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Nils Chr. Stenseth
Nils Chr. Stenseth University of Oslo
Nigel G. Yoccoz
Nigel G. Yoccoz University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Jean-Michel Gaillard
Jean-Michel Gaillard Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Steeve D. Côté
Steeve D. Côté Université Laval
Nathalie Pettorelli
Nathalie Pettorelli Zoological Society of London
Anne Loison
Anne Loison Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Stein R. Moe
Stein R. Moe Norwegian University of Life Sciences

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