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  1. Anticipating futures: Understanding the fundamental importance of narratives through an integrative interdisciplinary approach

    Article • Futures, October 2025, Elsevier

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  2. Precision ecology for targeted conservation action

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, May 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  3. A comparison of statistical methods for deriving occupancy estimates from machine learning outputs

    Article • Scientific Reports, April 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  4. Vital rates of intermittent nonbreeders and returning breeders strongly influence population dynamics of Somateria mollissima (Common Eider)

    Article • Ornithology, January 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  5. Living in harmony with nature is achievable only as a non-ideal vision

    Article • Environmental Science & Policy, February 2024, Elsevier

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  6. High phytoplankton diversity in eutrophic states impedes lake recovery

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, August 2023, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  7. Neo‐tropical felid activity patterns in relation to potential prey and intraguild competitors in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, Mexico

    Article • Biotropica, July 2023, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  8. Conservation implications of a mismatch between data availability and demographic impact

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, July 2023, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  9. The drivers of plant community composition have shifted from external to internal processes over the past 20,000 years

    Article • Communications Earth & Environment, May 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  10. Understanding ‘it depends’ in ecology: a guide to hypothesising, visualising and interpreting statistical interactions

    Article • Biological Reviews, March 2023, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  11. Ecology of large felids and their prey in small reserves of the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico

    Article • Journal of Mammalogy, November 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  12. Improving quantitative synthesis to achieve generality in ecology

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, November 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  13. Knowledge of Wildlife, Hunting, and Human-felid Interactions in Maya Forest Communities of the Northern Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico

    Article • Human Ecology, October 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  14. Automated detection of gunshots in tropical forests using convolutional neural networks

    Article • Ecological Indicators, August 2022, Elsevier

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  15. Reconstruction of Ecological Transitions in a Temperate Shallow Lake of the Middle Yangtze River Basin in the Last Century

    Article • Water, April 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  16. Occupancy models reveal potential of conservation prioritization for Central American jaguars

    Article • Animal Conservation, March 2022, Wiley

    Dr. Aimara Planillo, Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  17. Stability of chironomid community structure during historic climatic and environmental change in subarctic Alaska

    Article • Limnology and Oceanography, January 2022, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  18. Vital rate estimates for the common eiderSomateria mollissima, a data‐rich exemplar of the seaduck tribe

    Article • Ecological Solutions and Evidence, October 2021, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  19. Broad‐scale patterns of geographic avoidance between species emerge in the absence of fine‐scale mechanisms of coexistence

    Article • Diversity and Distributions, July 2021, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  20. Late Quaternary chironomid community structure shaped by rate and magnitude of climate change

    Article • Journal of Quaternary Science, March 2021, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  21. Jaguar (Panthera onca) density and tenure in a critical biological corridor

    Article • Journal of Mammalogy, December 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  22. Metrics of structural change as indicators of chironomid community stability in high latitude lakes

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, December 2020, Elsevier

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  23. Interannual stability of phytoplankton community composition in the North-East Atlantic

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, November 2020, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  24. Implications of scale dependence for cross‐study syntheses of biodiversity differences

    Article • Ecology Letters, November 2020, Wiley

    Dr Alec Philip Christie, Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  25. Trophic resource partitioning drives fine‐scale coexistence in cryptic bat species

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, November 2020, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  26. Network-based metrics of resilience and ecological memory in lake ecosystems

    Article • October 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  27. Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul: managing threatened predators of endangered and declining prey species

    Article • PeerJ, October 2019, PeerJ

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  28. AudioMoth: A low-cost acoustic device for monitoring biodiversity and the environment

    Article • HardwareX, October 2019, Elsevier

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  29. Microbial epidemiology and carriage studies for the evaluation of vaccines

    Article • Journal of Medical Microbiology, October 2019, Society for General Microbiology

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  30. Network parameters quantify loss of assemblage structure in human‐impacted lake ecosystems

    Article • Global Change Biology, August 2019, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  31. Leveraging conservation action with open-source hardware

    Article • Conservation Letters, June 2019, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  32. Meta‐analysis of management effects on biodiversity in plantation and secondary forests of Japan

    Article • Conservation Science and Practice, March 2019, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  33. Meta‐analysis of management effects on biodiversity in plantation and secondary forests of Japan

    Article • Conservation Science and Practice, March 2019, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  34. Deploying Acoustic Detection Algorithms on Low-Cost, Open-Source Acoustic Sensors for Environmental Monitoring

    Article • Sensors, January 2019, MDPI AG

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  35. Ecology of a versatile canid in the Neotropics: gray foxes (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) in Belize, Central America

    Article • Mammal Research, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  36. Do wildlife corridors link or extend habitat? Insights from elephant use of a Kenyan wildlife corridor

    Article • African Journal of Ecology, November 2018, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  37. Optimization of sensor deployment for acoustic detection and localization in terrestrial environments

    Article • Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, October 2018, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  38. Ecology and diversity in upper respiratory tract microbial population structures from a cross-sectional community swabbing study

    Article • Journal of Medical Microbiology, August 2018, Society for General Microbiology

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  39. Spatial and temporal interactions of free-ranging pacas (Cuniculus paca)

    Article • Mammal Research, January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  40. AudioMoth: Evaluation of a smart open acoustic device for monitoring biodiversity and the environment

    Article • Methods in Ecology and Evolution, January 2018, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  41. Correction for bias in meta-analysis of little-replicated studies

    Article • Methods in Ecology and Evolution, November 2017, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  42. Use of meta-analysis in forest biodiversity research: key challenges and considerations

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, September 2017, Elsevier

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  43. Using Adaptation Insurance to Incentivize Climate-change Mitigation

    Article • Ecological Economics, May 2017, Elsevier

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  44. Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine implementation in middle-income countries

    Article • Pneumonia, March 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  45. Epidemiological and ecological modelling reveal diversity in microbial population structures from a cross-sectional community swabbing study

    Article • January 2017, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  46. Ranging behavior and habitat selection of pacas (Cuniculus paca) in central Belize

    Article • Journal of Mammalogy, November 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  47. Early warning of critical transitions in biodiversity from compositional disorder

    Article • Ecology, November 2016, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  48. Erratum to: What can ecosystems learn? Expanding evolutionary ecology with learning theory

    Article • Biology Direct, June 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  49. Similar biodiversity of ectomycorrhizal fungi in set-aside plantations and ancient old-growth broadleaved forests

    Article • Biological Conservation, February 2016, Elsevier

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  50. The influence of simulated exploitation on P atella vulgata populations: protandric sex change is size‐dependent

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, January 2016, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  51. Drivers of the composition and diversity of carabid functional traits in UK coniferous plantations

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, January 2016, Elsevier

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  52. What can ecosystems learn? Expanding evolutionary ecology with learning theory

    Article • Biology Direct, December 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  53. Effects of simulated human exploitation of a key grazer, Patella vulgata, on rocky shore assemblages

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, August 2015, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  54. Ecosystems: The Rocky Road to Regime-Shift Indicators

    Article • Current Biology, August 2015, Elsevier

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  55. A meta-analysis of functional group responses to forest recovery outside of the tropics

    Article • Conservation Biology, June 2015, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  56. A spatially explicit agent-based model of the interactions between jaguar populations and their habitats

    Article • Ecological Modelling, June 2015, Elsevier

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  57. Broad-scale patterns of sex ratios in Patella spp.: a comparison of range edge and central range populations in the British Isles and Portugal

    Article • Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, April 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  58. Wild meat: a shared resource amongst people and predators

    Article • Oryx, November 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  59. Safe and just operating spaces for regional social-ecological systems

    Article • Global Environmental Change, September 2014, Elsevier

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster, Dr Megan Cole

  60. Impacts of Removing Badgers on Localised Counts of Hedgehogs

    Article • PLOS One, April 2014, PLOS

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  61. Erratum: ERRATUM: Competitive environments sustain costly altruism with negligible assortment of interactions

    Article • Scientific Reports, February 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  62. Competitive environments sustain costly altruism with negligible assortment of interactions

    Article • Scientific Reports, October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  63. Detecting regime shifts in artificial ecosystems

    Article • September 2013, The MIT Press

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  64. Multiple Life-History Stage Competition and its Effect on Coexistence

    Article • September 2013, The MIT Press

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  65. Prospective evaluation of designs for analysis of variance without knowledge of effect sizes

    Article • Environmental and Ecological Statistics, May 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  66. Manipulated into giving: when parasitism drives apparent or incidental altruism

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, March 2013, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  67. Evaluating ecosystem processes in willow short rotation coppice bioenergy plantations

    Article • GCB Bioenergy, February 2013, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  68. Over-representation of bird prey in pellets of South Polar Skuas

    Article • Journal of Ornithology, April 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  69. Patchiness in resource distribution mitigates habitat loss: insights from high-shore grazers

    Article • Ecosphere, May 2011, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  70. Jaguar and puma activity patterns in relation to their main prey

    Article • Mammalian Biology, May 2011, Elsevier

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  71. Potential benefits of commercial willow Short Rotation Coppice (SRC) for farm-scale plant and invertebrate communities in the agri-environment

    Article • Biomass and Bioenergy, January 2011, Elsevier

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  72. An agent-based model of jaguar movement through conservation corridors

    Article • January 2011, The MIT Press

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  73. Scrape-marking behavior of jaguars (Panthera onca) and pumas (Puma concolor)

    Article • Journal of Mammalogy, October 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  74. Habitat Use by Sympatric Jaguars and Pumas Across a Gradient of Human Disturbance in Belize

    Article • Biotropica, May 2010, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  75. Heterogeneous capture rates in low density populations and consequences for capture-recapture analysis of camera-trap data

    Article • Population Ecology, April 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  76. Past and present grazing boosts the photo-autotrophic biomass of biofilms

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, February 2010, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  77. Sample-size effects on diet analysis from scats of jaguars and pumas

    Article • Mammalia, January 2010, De Gruyter

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  78. Food habits of sympatric jaguars and pumas across a gradient of human disturbance

    Article • Journal of Zoology, December 2009, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  79. Ecological Equivalence: A Realistic Assumption for Niche Theory as a Testable Alternative to Neutral Theory

    Article • PLOS One, October 2009, PLOS

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  80. Responses of small mammals to Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) odour

    Article • Journal of Zoology, August 2009, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  81. Differential Use of Trails by Forest Mammals and the Implications for Camera-Trap Studies: A Case Study from Belize

    Article • Biotropica, August 2009, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  82. Spatial and Temporal Interactions of Sympatric Jaguars (Panthera onca) and Pumas(Puma concolor)in a Neotropical Forest

    Article • Journal of Mammalogy, June 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  83. Impact of egg harvesting on breeding success of black-headed gulls, Larus ridibundus

    Article • Acta Oecologica, January 2009, Elsevier

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  84. Distinguishing Between Interference and Exploitation Competition for Shelter in a Mobile Fish Population

    Article • Environmental Modeling & Assessment, August 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  85. Healthy wrinkles for population dynamics: unevenly spread resources can support more users

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, July 2008, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  86. Non-linear density dependence in time series is not evidence of non-logistic growth

    Article • Theoretical Population Biology, June 2008, Elsevier

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  87. Invasion dynamics of an introduced squirrel in Argentina

    Article • Ecography, April 2008, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  88. Evaluating least-cost model predictions with empirical dispersal data: A case-study using radiotracking data of hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus)

    Article • Ecological Modelling, December 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Carlo Rondinini, Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  89. Structural Equation Modeling and Natural Systems

    Article • Fish and Fisheries, December 2007, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  90. Density Dependence Triggers Runaway Selection of Reduced Senescence

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, January 2007, PLOS

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  91. Analysis of Variance and Covariance

    Article • January 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  92. Abundance of hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus) in relation to the density and distribution of badgers (Meles meles)

    Article • Journal of Zoology, July 2006, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  93. Mechanisms of density dependence in stream fish: exploitation competition for food reduces growth of adult European bullheads (Cottus gobio)

    Article • Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, March 2006, Canadian Science Publishing

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  94. Comment on "On the Regulation of Populations of Mammals, Birds, Fish, and Insects" III

    Article • Science, February 2006, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  95. Size-dependent microhabitat use and intraspecific competition in Cottus gobio

    Article • Journal of Fish Biology, August 2005, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  96. Model of microtine cycles caused by lethal toxins in non-preferred food plants

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, June 2005, Elsevier

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  97. Resource competition between genetically varied and genetically uniform populations of Daphnia pulex (Leydig): does sexual reproduction confer a short-term ecological advantage?

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, April 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr David J Innes, Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  98. Outcomes of reciprocal invasions between genetically diverse and genetically uniform populations of Daphnia obtusa (Kurz)

    Article • Oecologia, April 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr David J Innes, Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  99. Stomatal conductance and not stomatal density determines the long-term reduction in leaf transpiration of poplar in elevated CO2

    Article • Oecologia, April 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  100. Density Dependence Triggers Runaway Selection of Reduced Senescence

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, January 2005, PLOS

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  101. Population models of sperm-dependent parthenogenesis

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, August 2004, Elsevier

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  102. The accumulation of deleterious mutations within the frozen niche variation hypothesis

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, February 2004, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  103. Population consequences of mutual attraction between settling and adult barnacles

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, November 2003, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  104. Population structure of coypus (Myocastor coypus) in their region of origin and comparison with introduced populations

    Article • Journal of Zoology, November 2003, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  105. Evolution of indefinite generation lengths

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, October 2003, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  106. Consequences for predators of rescue and Allee effects on prey

    Article • Ecological Modelling, April 2003, Elsevier

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  107. Dynamics of regional coexistence for more or less equal competitors

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, January 2003, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  108. Roads as barriers to movement for hedgehogs

    Article • Functional Ecology, August 2002, Wiley

    Dr Carlo Rondinini, Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  109. A Lotka–Volterra Model of Coexistence between a Sexual Population and Multiple Asexual Clones

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, August 2002, Elsevier

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  110. What determines territory configurations of badgers?

    Article • Oikos, June 2001, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  111. Field test for environmental correlates of dispersal in hedgehogsErinaceus europaeus

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, January 2001, Wiley

    Dr Paul C D Johnson, Dr Carlo Rondinini, Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  112. Field test for environmental correlates of dispersal in hedgehogs Erinaceus europaeus

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, January 2001, Wiley

    Dr Carlo Rondinini, Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  113. Healthy wrinkles for population dynamics: unevenly spread resources can support more users

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, January 2001, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  114. Five new polymorphic microsatellite loci in the European hedgehogErinaceus europaeus

    Article • Molecular Ecology, November 2000, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  115. Erratum: The ecological cost of sex

    Article • Nature, May 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  116. Extension of ideal free resource use to breeding populations and metapopulations

    Article • Oikos, April 2000, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  117. Erratum: The ecological cost of sex

    Article • Nature, March 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  118. A useful phenomenological difference between exploitation and interference in the distribution of ideal free predators

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, July 1999, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  119. Lethal Toxins in Non-preferred Foods: How Plant Chemical Defences Can Drive Microtine Cycles

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, July 1999, Elsevier

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  120. Density dependence in resource exploitation: empirical test of Levins' metapopulation model

    Article • Ecology Letters, January 1999, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  121. Balanced Dispersal Between Spatially Varying Local Populations: An Alternative To The Source‐Sink Model

    Article • The American Naturalist, October 1997, University of Chicago Press

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  122. Responses of foraging hedgehogs to badger odour

    Article • Animal Behaviour, April 1997, Elsevier

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  123. Physiological Response of the European Hedgehog to Predator and Nonpredator Odour

    Article • Physiology & Behavior, December 1996, Elsevier

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  124. Hedgehogs

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, January 1995, JSTOR

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  125. The Mink

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, April 1994, JSTOR

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  126. Ranging behaviour and activity patterns of two sympatric peccaries, Catagonus wagneri and Tayassu tajacu, in the Paraguayan Chaco

    Article • Mammalia, January 1994, De Gruyter

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  127. The wider countryside-principles underlying the responses of mammals to heterogeneous environments

    Article • Mammal Review, September 1993, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  128. Optimum group size for defending heterogenous distributions of resources: A model applied to red foxes, Vulpes vulpes, in Oxford city

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, November 1992, Elsevier

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  129. Non-parametric estimates of interaction from radio-tracking data

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, April 1990, Elsevier

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  130. Response by coypus to catastrophic events of cold and flooding

    Article • Ecography, April 1990, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  131. Annual cycle of a coypu(myocastor coypus)population: male and female strategies

    Article • Journal of Zoology, February 1989, Wiley

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster

  132. The Spatial Distribution of Ants' Nests on Ramsey Island, South Wales

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, February 1981, JSTOR

    Professor C. Patrick Doncaster