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Overview

Timothy G. O'Brien is affiliated with the Wildlife Conservation Society in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with particular emphasis on ecology and wildlife conservation.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Human-Animal Interaction Studies
  • Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
  • Business Law and Ethics
  • Sports, Gender, and Society

O'Brien has contributed frequently to the field of ecology, with subfields of study involving ecology, social psychology, ecological modeling, evolution behavior and systematics, and genetics.

Their publications have appeared in several venues, most often in:

  • College Athletics and the Law
  • Mammal Review
  • Conservation Science and Practice
  • Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation
  • Ecology

Notable recent papers authored by or involving O'Brien include:

  • "A disconnect between upslope shifts and climate change in an Afrotropical bird community" (2020), published in Conservation Science and Practice
  • "Spatial patterns of large African cats: a large-scale study on density, home range size, and home range overlap of lions Panthera leo and leopards Panthera pardus" (2023), published in Mammal Review
  • "On the scaling of activity in tropical forest mammals" (2020), published in Oikos
  • "Long-term effects of forest fire on habitat use by siamangs in Southern Sumatra" (2020), published in Animal Conservation
  • "Estimating animal density using the Space-to-Event model and bootstrap resampling with motion-triggered camera-trap data" (2023), published in Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation

O'Brien has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Margaret F. Kinnaird
  • Patrick A. Jansen
  • Oliver R. Wearn
  • Vilis O. Nams
  • Daniel M. Parker

Best Publications

  • Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests

    Jingjing Liang;Thomas W. Crowther;Nicolas Picard;Susan Wiser

  • Crouching tigers, hidden prey: Sumatran tiger and prey populations in a tropical forest landscape

    Timothy G. O'Brien;Margaret F. Kinnaird;Hariyo T. Wibisono

  • The use of photographic rates to estimate densities of tigers and other cryptic mammals

    Chris Carbone;S. Christie;K. Conforti;T. Coulson

  • Satellite remote sensing for applied ecologists: opportunities and challenges

    Nathalie Pettorelli;William F. Laurance;Timothy G. O'Brien;Martin Wegmann

  • Community structure and diversity of tropical forest mammals: data from a global camera trap network.

    Jorge A. Ahumada;Carlos E. F. Silva;Krisna Gajapersad;Chris Hallam

  • Deforestation Trends in a Tropical Landscape and Implications for Endangered Large Mammals

    Margaret F. Kinnaird;Eric W. Sanderson;T. Timothy G. O'brien;Hariyo T. Wibisono

  • Recommended guiding principles for reporting on camera trapping research

    P. D. Meek;G. Ballard;A. Claridge;A. Claridge;R. Kays;R. Kays

  • The Fate of Wild Tigers

    Eric Dinerstein;Colby Loucks;Eric Wikramanayake;Joshua Ginsberg

  • Life after logging: reconciling wildlife conservation and production forestry in Indonesian Borneo

    E. Meijaard;Douglas Sheil;Robert Nasi;D. Augeri

  • Behavior, diet, and movements of the Sulawesi crested black macaque (Macaca nigra)

    Timothy G. O'Brien;Margaret F. Kinnaird

  • Carbon storage in tropical forests correlates with taxonomic diversity and functional dominance on a global scale

    Kyle C. Cavanaugh;Kyle C. Cavanaugh;J. Stephen Gosnell;Samantha L. Davis;Jorge Ahumada

  • Ecological Effects of Wildfire on Lowland Rainforest in Sumatra

    Margaret F. Kinnaird;Timothy G. O’Brien

  • Standardized Assessment of Biodiversity Trends in Tropical Forest Protected Areas: The End Is Not in Sight

    Lydia Beaudrot;Jorge A. Ahumada;Timothy O'Brien;Patricia Alvarez-Loayza

  • What's so special about figs?

    Timothy G. O'Brien;Margaret F. Kinnaird;Ellen S. Dierenfeld;Nancy L. Conklin-Brittain

  • Abundance, Density and Relative Abundance: A Conceptual Framework

    Timothy G. O’Brien

  • The Wildlife Picture Index: monitoring top trophic levels

    T. G. O'Brien;J. E. M. Baillie;L. Krueger;M. Cuke;M. Cuke

  • Effects of Private-Land Use, Livestock Management, and Human Tolerance on Diversity, Distribution, and Abundance of Large African Mammals

    Margaret F. Kinnaird;Timothy G. O'brien

  • A picture is worth a thousand words: the application of camera trapping to the study of birds

    Timothy G. O'Brien;Margaret F. Kinnaird

  • Wildlife Insights: A Platform to Maximize the Potential of Camera Trap and Other Passive Sensor Wildlife Data for the Planet

    Jorge A Ahumada;Eric Fegraus;Tanya Birch;Nicole Flores

  • Population Fluctuation in Sulawesi Red-Knobbed Hornbills: Tracking Figs in Space and Time

    Margaret F. Kinnaird;Timothy G. O'Brien;Suer Suryadi

  • Ecotourism in the Tangkoko DuaSudara Nature Reserve: opening Pandora' box?

    Margaret F. Kinnaird;Timothy G. O'Brien

Frequent Co-Authors

Margaret F. Kinnaird
Margaret F. Kinnaird Wildlife Conservation Society
Patrick A. Jansen
Patrick A. Jansen Wageningen University & Research
Douglas Sheil
Douglas Sheil Wageningen University & Research
Francesco Rovero
Francesco Rovero University of Florence
Roland Kays
Roland Kays North Carolina State University
Eric W. Sanderson
Eric W. Sanderson Wildlife Conservation Society
Sandy J. Andelman
Sandy J. Andelman Conservation International
Peter Leimgruber
Peter Leimgruber Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Matthew Linkie
Matthew Linkie Wildlife Conservation Society

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