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Stephen Blake is affiliated with Saint Louis University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and related subfields.

Their research spans a diverse range of topics, with notable emphasis on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Turtle Biology and Conservation, and Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation. Additional areas of interest include Species Distribution and Climate Change, Primate Behavior and Ecology, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, and Land Use and Ecosystem Services.

Stephen Blake has authored multiple papers in prominent scientific journals. Significant recent publications include:

  • Biological Earth observation with animal sensors, 2022, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Human footprint and protected areas shape elephant range across Africa, 2021, Current Biology
  • Megaherbivores modify forest structure and increase carbon stocks through multiple pathways, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Mammals show faster recovery from capture and tagging in human-disturbed landscapes, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Body size, sex and high philopatry influence the use of agricultural land by Galapagos giant tortoises, 2021, Oryx

Stephen Blake frequently collaborates with a network of coauthors, including Sharon L. Deem, Freddy Cabrera, Guillaume Bastille-Rousseau, Ainoa Nieto-Claudin, and James P. Gibbs.

Their research has been published across several specialized venues, with multiple papers appearing in Urban Ecosystems and Ecology and Evolution journals. Other publication venues include Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Current Biology, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

    William F. Laurance;William F. Laurance;D. Carolina Useche;Julio Rendeiro;Margareta Kalka

  • Moving in the Anthropocene : global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements

    Marlee A. Tucker;Katrin Böhning-Gaese;William F. Fagan;John M. Fryxell

  • Megagardeners of the forest - the role of elephants in seed dispersal

    Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz;Stephen Blake

  • Devastating decline of forest elephants in Central Africa

    Fiona Maisels;Fiona Maisels;Samantha Strindberg;Stephen Blake;George Wittemyer;George Wittemyer

  • Roadless wilderness area determines forest elephant movements in the Congo Basin.

    Stephen Blake;Sharon L. Deem;Samantha Strindberg;Fiona Maisels

  • Forest Elephant Crisis in the Congo Basin

    Stephen Blake;Samantha Strindberg;Patrick Boudjan;Calixte Makombo

  • Sinking the Flagship: the Case of Forest Elephants in Asia and Africa

    Stephen Blake;Simon Hedges

  • Forest Elephants: Tree Planters of the Congo

    Stephen Blake;Sharon Lynn Deem;Sharon Lynn Deem;Eric Mossimbo;Fiona Maisels

  • Recent decline in suitable environmental conditions for African great apes

    Jessica Junker;Stephen Blake;Christophe Boesch;Geneviève Campbell

  • Coral assemblages and physico-chemical characteristics of the Whitsunday Islands : evidence of recent community changes

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  • Protected Areas in Tropical Africa: Assessing Threats and Conservation Activities

    Sandra Tranquilli;Michael Abedi-Lartey;Katharine Abernethy;Fidèle Amsini

  • Megafauna extinction, tree species range reduction, and carbon storage in Amazonian forests

    Christopher E. Doughty;Adam Wolf;Naia Morueta-Holme;Naia Morueta-Holme;Peter M. Jørgensen

  • Guns, germs, and trees determine density and distribution of gorillas and chimpanzees in Western Equatorial Africa

    Samantha Strindberg;Fiona Maisels;Fiona Maisels;Elizabeth A. Williamson;Stephen Blake;Stephen Blake

  • Seed dispersal by Galapagos tortoises

    Stephen Blake;Martin Wikelski;Fredy Cabrera;Anne Guezou

  • Forest buffalo prefer clearings to closed-canopy forest in the primary forest of northern Congo

    Stephen Blake

  • Poaching empties critical Central African wilderness of forest elephants

    John R. Poulsen;Sally E. Koerner;Sally E. Koerner;Sarah Moore;Vincent P. Medjibe

  • GPS telemetry of forest elephants in Central Africa : results of a preliminary study

    Stephen Blake;I. Douglas-Hamilton;W. B. Karesh

  • Developing fencing policies for dryland ecosystems

    Sarah M. Durant;Sarah M. Durant;Matthew S. Becker;Scott Creel;Sultana Bashir

  • Swamp gorillas in northern Congo

    Stephen Blake;Elizabeth Rogers;J. Michael Fay;Marcel Ngangoué

  • Conserving large populations of lions – the argument for fences has holes

    S. Creel;M. S. Becker;S. M. Durant;S. M. Durant;J. M'Soka

  • Suite of simple metrics reveals common movement syndromes across vertebrate taxa

    Briana Abrahms;Briana Abrahms;Briana Abrahms;Dana P. Seidel;Eric Dougherty;Elliott L. Hazen;Elliott L. Hazen

  • Vegetation dynamics drive segregation by body size in Galapagos tortoises migrating across altitudinal gradients

    Stephen Blake;Charles B. Yackulic;Fredy Cabrera;Washington Tapia

Frequent Co-Authors

Fiona Maisels
Fiona Maisels Wildlife Conservation Society
Charles B. Yackulic
Charles B. Yackulic United States Geological Survey
Iain Douglas-Hamilton
Iain Douglas-Hamilton Save the Elephants
George Wittemyer
George Wittemyer Colorado State University
Martin Wikelski
Martin Wikelski Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Sharon L. Deem
Sharon L. Deem University of Missouri–St. Louis
James P. Gibbs
James P. Gibbs SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Marcos Longo
Marcos Longo Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Christophe Boesch
Christophe Boesch Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Elizabeth A. Williamson
Elizabeth A. Williamson London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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