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Ecology and Evolution

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69
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18357
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1437
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185

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Marsh Award for Ecology, British Ecological Society

Overview

Rosie Woodroffe is affiliated with the Zoological Society of London in the United Kingdom and has an extensive publication record focusing on environmental science, immunology, and microbiology. Their research spans several interconnected fields, primarily ecology, genetics, virology, agronomy and crop science, and ecological modeling.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, including:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Rabies epidemiology and control
  • Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Human-Animal Interaction Studies
  • Microbial infections and disease research
  • Virology and Viral Diseases

Recent academic papers demonstrate the breadth of their work within these themes. Publications include:

  • "Rabies virus-neutralising antibodies in healthy, unvaccinated individuals: What do they mean for rabies epidemiology?" (2020), published in PLoS neglected tropical diseases
  • "What wild dogs want: habitat selection differs across life stages and orders of selection in a wide-ranging carnivore" (2020), published in BMC Zoology
  • "Volunteer based approach to dog vaccination campaigns to eliminate human rabies: Lessons from Laikipia County, Kenya" (2020), published in PLoS neglected tropical diseases
  • "Successive use of shared space by badgers and cattle: implications for Mycobacterium bovis transmission" (2021), published in Journal of Zoology
  • "High temperatures and human pressures interact to influence mortality in an African carnivore" (2021), published in Ecology and Evolution

Frequent collaborators include Christl A. Donnelly, Daniella Rabaiotti, Cally Ham, Sarah M. Durant, and Rosemary J. Groom.

Publication venues reflect their research focus and include:

  • PLoS neglected tropical diseases
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Rosie Woodroffe's contributions have been recognized with the Marsh Award for Ecology from the British Ecological Society in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Edge Effects and the Extinction of Populations Inside Protected Areas

    Rosie Woodroffe;Joshua R. Ginsberg

  • People and Wildlife, Conflict or Co-existence?

    Rosie Woodroffe;Simon Thirgood;Alan Rabinowitz

  • Predators and people: using human densities to interpret declines of large carnivores

    Rosie Woodroffe

  • People and Wildlife: List of contributors

    Rosie Woodroffe;Simon Thirgood;Alan Rabinowitz

  • Limiting Depredation by African Carnivores: the Role of Livestock Husbandry

    Mordecai O. Ogada;Rosie Woodroffe;Nicholas O. Oguge;Laurence G. Frank

  • Positive and negative effects of widespread badger culling on tuberculosis in cattle

    Christl A Donnelly;Rosie Woodroffe;D R Cox;F John Bourne

  • Impact of localized badger culling on tuberculosis incidence in British cattle

    Christl A. Donnelly;Rosie Woodroffe;D. R. Cox;John Bourne

  • People and Wildlife: The impact of human–wildlife conflict on human lives and livelihoods

    Simon Thirgood;Rosie Woodroffe;Alan Rabinowitz

  • Lethal control of African lions (Panthera leo): local and regional population impacts

    Rosie Woodroffe;Laurence G. Frank

  • Wildlife Viewing Preferences of Visitors to Protected Areas in South Africa: Implications for the Role of Ecotourism in Conservation

    Peter A. Lindsey;R. Alexander;M.G.L. Mills;S. Romañach

  • Managing disease threats to wild mammals

    Rosie Woodroffe

  • Saving the World's Terrestrial Megafauna

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

  • Mother's little helpers: Patterns of male care in mammals

    Rosie Woodroffe;Amanda Vincent

  • Livestock predation by endangered African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) in northern Kenya

    Rosie Woodroffe;Peter Lindsey;Stephanie Romañach;Andrew Stein

  • Large carnivores make savanna tree communities less thorny

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

  • Livestock husbandry as a tool for carnivore conservation in Africa’s community rangelands: a case–control study

    Rosie Woodroffe;Laurence G. Frank;Peter A. Lindsey;Symon M. K. ole Ranah

  • The role of pathogens in biological conservation

    S. Cleaveland;G. R. Hess;A. Dobson;M. K. Laurenson

  • Dispersal and philopatry in the European badger, Meles meles

    Rosie Woodroffe;D. W. Macdonald;J. da Silva

  • Den site can determine shape and size of badger territories: implications for group-living

    C. Patrick Doncaster;Rosie Woodroffe

  • Effects of culling on badger meles meles spatial organization: implications for the control of bovine tuberculosis

    Rosie Woodroffe;Christl A. Donnelly;D. R. Cox;F. John Bourne

  • The Black-Tailed Prairie Dog: Social Life of a Burrowing Mammal

    Rosie Woodroffe;John L. Hoogland

Frequent Co-Authors

Christl A. Donnelly
Christl A. Donnelly University of Oxford
George Gettinby
George Gettinby University of Strathclyde
David R. Cox
David R. Cox University of Oxford
Sarah M. Durant
Sarah M. Durant Zoological Society of London
Chris L. Cheeseman
Chris L. Cheeseman Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs
Laurence G. Frank
Laurence G. Frank University of California, Berkeley
David W. Macdonald
David W. Macdonald University of Oxford
Richard S. Clifton-Hadley
Richard S. Clifton-Hadley Animal and Plant Health Agency
Peter A. Lindsey
Peter A. Lindsey Griffith University
Iain Douglas-Hamilton
Iain Douglas-Hamilton Save the Elephants

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