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D-Index
68
Citations
14344
World Ranking
1554
National Ranking
195

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Xavier Lambin is affiliated with the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a significant number of publications in Ecology and related subfields. Lambin's work spans areas such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, Sociology and Political Science, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's scholarly output includes notable recent papers such as:

  • Fishing for mammals: Landscape-level monitoring of terrestrial and semi-aquatic communities using eDNA from riverine systems, 2020, Journal of Applied Ecology
  • A proposed unified framework to describe the management of biological invasions, 2020, Biological Invasions
  • The role of species charisma in biological invasions, 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • The effect of climate change on avian offspring production: A global meta-analysis, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Management Policies for Invasive Alien Species: Addressing the Impacts Rather than the Species, 2020, BioScience

Lambin frequently collaborates with a core group of researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Chris Sutherland
  • Kenny Kortland
  • Pablo García-Díaz
  • Sandra Telfer
  • Bárbara Langdon

The scientist publishes regularly in several venues. Frequently appearing journals and publication platforms include:

  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Journal of Applied Ecology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Integrative Zoology

Xavier Lambin's research covers multiple topics related to ecology and environmental science, notably:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
  • Forest Management and Policy

In recognition of their professional contributions, Lambin was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Identification of 100 fundamental ecological questions

    William J. Sutherland;Robert P. Freckleton;H. Charles J. Godfray;Steven R. Beissinger

  • Spatial population dynamics: analyzing patterns and processes of population synchrony

    Ottar N. Bjørnstad;Rolf A. Ims;Xavier Lambin

  • Species interactions in a parasite community drive infection risk in a wildlife population

    Sandra Telfer;Xavier Lambin;Richard Birtles;Pablo Martín Beldomenico

  • Analysis of aggregation, a worked example: numbers of ticks on red grouse chicks

    D. A. Elston;R. Moss;T. Boulinier;C. Arrowsmith

  • Europe-wide dampening of population cycles in keystone herbivores

    Thomas Cornulier;Nigel G. Yoccoz;Vincent Bretagnolle;Jon E. Brommer

  • Dispersal, intraspecific competition, kin competition, and kin facilitation: A review of the empirical evidence

    Xavier Lambin;J. Aars;Stuart B Piertney

  • Cyclic dynamics in field vole populations and generalist predation

    Xavier Lambin;Steve J. Petty;James L. Mackinnon

  • Boom‐bust dynamics in biological invasions: towards an improved application of the concept

    David L. Strayer;David L. Strayer;Carla M. D'Antonio;Franz Essl;Mike S. Fowler

  • Vole population cycles in northern and southern Europe: is there a need for different explanations for single pattern?

    Xavier Lambin;Vincent Bretagnolle;Nigel G. Yoccoz

  • Natal Philopatry, Competition for Resources, and Inbreeding Avoidance in Townsend's Voles (Microtus Townsendii)

    Xavier Lambin

  • Turning back the tide of American mink invasion at an unprecedented scale through community participation and adaptive management.

    Rosalind Bryce;Matthew K. Oliver;Llinos Davies;Helen Gray

  • Spatial asynchrony and periodic travelling waves in cyclic populations of field voles

    Xavier Lambin;David A. Elston;Steve J. Petty;James L. MacKinnon

  • Red deer Cervus elephus vigilance behaviour differs with habitat and type of human disturbance

    Sevvandi Jayakody;Angela M. Sibbald;Iain J. Gordon;Xavier Lambin

  • Parasite interactions in natural populations: insights from longitudinal data.

    S. Telfer;R. Birtles;M. Bennett;X. Lambin

  • Relative importance of Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes trianguliceps as vectors for Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Babesia microti in field vole (Microtus agrestis) populations.

    K. J. Bown;X. Lambin;G. R. Telford;N. H. Ogden

  • The impact of weasel predation on cyclic field-vole survival: the specialist predator hypothesis contradicted

    Isla Margaret Graham;Xavier Lambin

  • Host–pathogen time series data in wildlife support a transmission function between density and frequency dependence

    Matthew J. Smith;Sandra Elizabeth Telfer;Eva R. Kallio;Sarah Burthe

  • Life-history traits of voles in a fluctuating population respond to the immediate environment

    Torbjørn Ergon;Xavier Lambin;Nils Chr. Stenseth

  • Delineating Anaplasma phagocytophilum ecotypes in coexisting, discrete enzootic cycles.

    Kevin J. Bown;Xavier Lambin;Nicholas H. Ogden;Michael Begon

  • Fishing for mammals: Landscape‐level monitoring of terrestrial and semi‐aquatic communities using eDNA from riverine systems

    Naiara Guimarães Sales;Maisie B. McKenzie;Joseph Drake;Lynsey R. Harper

  • The influence of philosophical perspectives in integrative research : a conservation case study in the Cairngorms National Park

    Anna C. Evely;Ioan Raymond Albert Fazey;Michelle Pinard;Xavier Lambin

  • Can Changes in Female Relatedness Influence Microtine Population-dynamics

    Xavier Lambin;Charles J. Krebs

Frequent Co-Authors

François Mougeot
François Mougeot Spanish National Research Council
Michael Begon
Michael Begon University of Liverpool
Stuart B. Piertney
Stuart B. Piertney University of Aberdeen
Beatriz Arroyo
Beatriz Arroyo Spanish National Research Council
David A. Elston
David A. Elston James Hutton Institute
Richard J. Birtles
Richard J. Birtles University of Salford
Robert A. Moss
Robert A. Moss Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Malcolm J. Bennett
Malcolm J. Bennett University of Nottingham
Charles J. Krebs
Charles J. Krebs University of British Columbia
K. J. Bown
K. J. Bown University of Salford

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