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57
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15879
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2662
National Ranking
943

Overview

Robert M. Pringle is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant number of publications in ecology and related subfields.

The main fields of study covered by their work include:

  • Environmental Science

Within this broad domain, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as:

  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Global and Planetary Change

Their research touches on a range of topics, with their most frequent areas of study including:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior

Robert M. Pringle has published numerous papers, with recent notable works including:

  • "Impacts of large herbivores on terrestrial ecosystems" (2023), published in Current Biology
  • "Dynamic landscapes of fear: understanding spatiotemporal risk" (2022), published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "Resolving Food-Web Structure" (2020), published in Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics
  • "Ivory poaching and the rapid evolution of tusklessness in African elephants" (2021), published in Science
  • "Trophic rewilding revives biotic resistance to shrub invasion" (2020), published in Nature Ecology & Evolution

The venues where Robert M. Pringle frequently publishes include:

  • Current Biology
  • Ecological Monographs
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Journal of Ecology

Collaborations have been a significant aspect of Robert M. Pringle's research, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Tyler R. Kartzinel
  • Matthew C. Hutchinson
  • Jacob R. Goheen
  • Ryan A. Long
  • Arjun B. Potter

Best Publications

  • Accelerated modern human-induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction

    Gerardo Ceballos;Paul R. Ehrlich;Anthony D. Barnosky;Andrés García

  • DNA metabarcoding illuminates dietary niche partitioning by African large herbivores

    Tyler R. Kartzinel;Patricia A. Chen;Tyler C. Coverdale;David L. Erickson

  • Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness

    Lauchlan H. Fraser;Jason Pither;Anke Jentsch;Marcelo Sternberg

  • When agendas collide: human welfare and biological conservation

    Kai M.A. Chan;Robert Mitchell Pringle;Jai Ranganathan;Carol L. Boggs

  • Breakdown of an ant-plant mutualism follows the loss of large herbivores from an African savanna.

    Todd M. Palmer;Maureen L. Stanton;Truman P. Young;Jacob R. Goheen

  • Where does biodiversity go from here? A grim business-as-usual forecast and a hopeful portfolio of partial solutions

    Paul R. Ehrlich;Robert Mitchell Pringle

  • Upgrading protected areas to conserve wild biodiversity

    Robert Mitchell Pringle

  • Spatial pattern enhances ecosystem functioning in an African savanna

    Robert Mitchell Pringle;Daniel F. Doak;Alison K. Brody;Rudy Jocqué

  • Termite mounds can increase the robustness of dryland ecosystems to climatic change

    Juan A. Bonachela;Robert M. Pringle;Efrat Sheffer;Tyler C. Coverdale

  • Synergy of multiple partners, including freeloaders, increases host fitness in a multispecies mutualism.

    Todd M. Palmer;Daniel F. Doak;Maureen L. Stanton;Judith L. Bronstein

  • Herbivore-initiated interaction cascades and their modulation by productivity in an African savanna.

    Robert M. Pringle;Truman P. Young;Daniel I. Rubenstein;Douglas J. McCauley

  • Saving the World's Terrestrial Megafauna

    William J Ripple;Guillaume Chapron;José Vicente López-Bao;Sarah M. Durant

  • ELEPHANTS AS AGENTS OF HABITAT CREATION FOR SMALL VERTEBRATES AT THE PATCH SCALE

    Robert M. Pringle

  • Covariation of diet and gut microbiome in African megafauna.

    Tyler R. Kartzinel;Julianna C. Hsing;Paul M. Musili;Bianca R. P. Brown

  • Large carnivores make savanna tree communities less thorny

    Adam T. Ford;Jacob R. Goheen;Tobias O. Otieno;Laura Bidner

  • Warfare and wildlife declines in Africa’s protected areas

    Joshua H. Daskin;Robert M. Pringle

  • CANOPY STRUCTURE, MICROCLIMATE, AND HABITAT SELECTION BY A NOCTURNAL SNAKE, HOPLOCEPHALUS BUNGAROIDES

    Robert M. Pringle;Jonathan K. Webb;Richard Shine

  • The Origins of the Nile Perch in Lake Victoria

    Robert Mitchell Pringle;Robert Mitchell Pringle

  • A theoretical foundation for multi-scale regular vegetation patterns

    Corina E. Tarnita;Juan A. Bonachela;Efrat Sheffer;Jennifer A. Guyton

  • Dynamic landscapes of fear: understanding spatiotemporal risk.

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  • Data from: A theoretical foundation for multi-scale regular vegetation patterns

    Corina E. Tarnita;Juan A. Bonachela;Efrat Sheffer;Jennifer A. Guyton

Frequent Co-Authors

Todd M. Palmer
Todd M. Palmer University of Florida
Jacob R. Goheen
Jacob R. Goheen University of Wyoming
Hillary S. Young
Hillary S. Young University of California, Santa Barbara
Truman P. Young
Truman P. Young University of California, Davis
Kristofer M. Helgen
Kristofer M. Helgen Australian Museum
Douglas J. McCauley
Douglas J. McCauley University of California, Santa Barbara
Rodolfo Dirzo
Rodolfo Dirzo Stanford University
Daniel F. Doak
Daniel F. Doak University of Colorado Boulder
J. Bastow Wilson
J. Bastow Wilson University of Otago
James F. Cahill
James F. Cahill University of Alberta

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