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Overview

Susan M. Cheyne is affiliated with Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental science and psychology, with a notable emphasis on ecology and social psychology as subfields of study.

Their work covers a range of topics including:

  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Amphibian and Reptile Biology
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health
  • Geographies of human-animal interactions

Susan M. Cheyne has contributed to research published in several recognized venues. These frequent publication venues include:

  • Folia Primatologica
  • American Journal of Primatology
  • Biodiversity and Conservation
  • People and Nature
  • BioScience

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Cheyne are:

  • "Conservation and the social sciences: Beyond critique and co-optation. A case study from orangutan conservation," 2020, People and Nature
  • "A Severe Lack of Evidence Limits Effective Conservation of the World's Primates," 2020, BioScience
  • "Challenges and perspectives on tackling illegal or unsustainable wildlife trade," 2021, Biological Conservation
  • "The potential and practice of arboreal camera trapping," 2021, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Implications of large-scale infrastructure development for biodiversity in Indonesian Borneo," 2022, The Science of The Total Environment

The scientist collaborates frequently with several researchers. Notable frequent co-authors include:

  • David W. Macdonald (7 publications)
  • Joanna M. Setchell (5 publications)
  • Jito Sugardjito (5 publications)
  • Andrew J. Hearn (5 publications)
  • Żaneta Kaszta (5 publications)

The primary fields of study associated with Susan M. Cheyne are environmental science, with 56 publications, and psychology, with 26 publications. Within these, the subfields of ecology (30 publications) and social psychology (26 publications) represent significant concentrations of their work. Other notable subfields include global and planetary change, ecological modeling, and developmental biology.

Best Publications

  • The importance of correcting for sampling bias in MaxEnt species distribution models

    Stephanie Kramer-Schadt;Jürgen Niedballa;John D. Pilgrim;Boris Schröder;Boris Schröder

  • Primates in peril: the significance of Brazil, Madagascar, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo for global primate conservation

    Alejandro Estrada;Paul A. Garber;Russell A. Mittermeier;Serge Wich

  • Modelling the species distribution of flat-headed cats (Prionailurus planiceps), an endangered South-East Asian small felid.

    Andreas Wilting;Anna Cord;Anna Cord;Andrew J. Hearn;Deike Hesse

  • Targeted Conservation to Safeguard a Biodiversity Hotspot from Climate and Land-Cover Change

    Matthew J. Struebig;Matthew J. Struebig;Andreas Wilting;David L.A. Gaveau;Erik Meijaard

  • Tropical forest and peatland conservation in Indonesia: Challenges and directions

    Mark E. Harrison;Juliarta Bramansa Ottay;Laura J. D’Arcy;Susan M. Cheyne

  • Denial of long-term issues with agriculture on tropical peatlands will have devastating consequences

    Lahiru S. Wijedasa;Jyrki Jauhiainen;Mari Könönen;Maija Lampela

  • Coming down from the trees: Is terrestrial activity in Bornean orangutans natural or disturbance driven?

    Marc Ancrenaz;Rahel Sollmann;Erik Meijaard;Andrew J. Hearn

  • Density and population estimate of gibbons (Hylobates albibarbis) in the Sabangau catchment, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.

    Susan M. Cheyne;Susan M. Cheyne;Claire J. H. Thompson;Abigail C. Phillips;Robyn M. C. Hill

  • Wild felid diversity and activity patterns in Sabangau peat-swamp forest, Indonesian Borneo

    Susan M. Cheyne;David W. Macdonald

  • Conservation and the social sciences: Beyond critique and co-optation. A case study from orangutan conservation

    Liana Chua;Mark E. Harrison;Hannah Fair;Sol Milne

  • Vegetation correlates of gibbon density in the peat-swamp forest of the Sabangau catchment, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.

    Marie Hamard;Susan M. Cheyne;Vincent Nijman

  • A Severe Lack of Evidence Limits Effective Conservation of the World's Primates.

    Jessica Junker;Silviu O Petrovan;Victor Arroyo-RodrÍguez;Ramesh Boonratana

  • Wildlife reintroduction: considerations of habitat quality at the release site.

    Susan M Cheyne

  • Challenges and perspectives on tackling illegal or unsustainable wildlife trade

    Caroline S. Fukushima;Patricia Tricorache;Adam Toomes;Oliver C. Stringham

  • Gibbon Locomotion Research in the Field: Problems, Possibilities, and Benefits for Conservation

    Susan M. Cheyne

  • Behavioural Ecology of Gibbons (Hylobates albibarbis) in a Degraded Peat-Swamp Forest

    Susan M. Cheyne;Susan M. Cheyne

  • Sleeping Site Selection by Agile Gibbons: The Influence of Tree Stability, Fruit Availability and Predation Risk

    Susan M. Cheyne;Andrea Höing;John Rinear;Lori K. Sheeran

  • Population mapping of gibbons in Kalimantan, Indonesia: correlates of gibbon density and vegetation across the species’ range

    Susan M. Cheyne;Lauren J. Gilhooly;Marie C. Hamard;Andrea Höing

  • The potential and practice of arboreal camera trapping

    Jennifer F. Moore;Kylie Soanes;Diego Balbuena;Christopher Beirne

  • Home-Range Use and Activity Patterns of the Red Langur (Presbytis rubicunda) in Sabangau Tropical Peat-Swamp Forest, Central Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo

    David A. Ehlers Smith;Yvette C. Ehlers Smith;Susan M. Cheyne

  • Denial of long-term issues with agriculture on tropical peatlands will have devastating consequences

    Lahiru S. Wijedasa;Jyrki Jauhiainen;Mari Könönen;Maija Lampela

  • Wild felid diversity and activity patterns in Sabangau peat-swamp forest, Indonesian Borneo Susan M. Cheyneand David W. Macdonald

    Susan M. Cheyne;David W. Macdonald

Frequent Co-Authors

David W. Macdonald
David W. Macdonald University of Oxford
Serge A. Wich
Serge A. Wich Liverpool John Moores University
Andreas Wilting
Andreas Wilting Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Andrew J. Marshall
Andrew J. Marshall University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Erik Meijaard
Erik Meijaard University of Queensland
Stephanie Kramer-Schadt
Stephanie Kramer-Schadt Leibniz Association
Elizabeth A. Williamson
Elizabeth A. Williamson London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Jerrold L. Belant
Jerrold L. Belant SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Vincent Nijman
Vincent Nijman Oxford Brookes University
Jedediah F. Brodie
Jedediah F. Brodie University of Montana

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