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Scientific Publications

Scientific Publications


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PAPERS

Marsh, Charles J.,Yanina V. Sica,Connor J. Burgin,Wendy A. Dorman,Robert C. Anderson,Isabel del Toro Mijares,Jessica G. Vigneron,Vijay Barve,Victoria L. Dombrowik,Michelle Duong,Robert Guralnick,Julie A. Hart,J. Krish Maypole,Kira McCall,Ajay Ranipeta,Anna Schuerkmann,Michael A. Torselli,Thomas Lacher Jr,Russell A. Mittermeier,Anthony B. Rylands,Wes Sechrest,Don E. Wilson,Agustín M. Abba,Luis F. Aguirre,Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales,Diego Astúa,Andrew M. Baker,Gill Braulik,Janet K. Braun,Jorge Brito,Peter E. Busher,Santiago F. Burneo,M. Alejandra Camacho,Paolo Cavallini,Elisandra de Almeida Chiquito,Joseph A. Cook,Tamás Cserkész,Gábor Csorba,Erika Cuéllar Soto,Valeria da Cunha Tavares,Tim R. B. Davenport,Thomas Deméré,Christiane Denys,Christopher R. Dickman,Mark D. B. Eldridge,Eduardo Fernandez-Duque,Charles M. Francis,Greta Frankham,William L. Franklin,Thales Freitas,J. Anthony Friend,Elizabeth L. Gadsby,Guilherme S. T. Garbino,Philippe Gaubert,Norberto Giannini,Thomas Giarla,Jason S. Gilchrist,Jaime Gongora,Steven M. Goodman,Sharon Gursky-Doyen,Klaus Hackländer,Mark S. Hafner,Melissa Hawkins,Kristofer M. Helgen,Steven Heritage,Arlo Hinckley,Stefan Hintsche,Mary Holden,Kay E. Holekamp,Rodney L. Honeycutt,Brent A. Huffman,Tatyana Humle,Rainer Hutterer,Carlos Ibáñez Ulargui,Stephen M. Jackson,Jan Janecka,Mary Janecka,Paula Jenkins,Rimvydas Juškaitis,Javier Juste,Roland Kays,C. William Kilpatrick,Tigga Kingston,John L. Koprowski,Boris Kryštufek,Tyrone Lavery,Thomas E. Lee Jr,Yuri L. R. Leite,Roberto Leonan M. Novaes,Burton K. Lim,Andrey Lissovsky,Raquel López-Antoñanzas,Adrià López-Baucells,Colin D. MacLeod,Fiona G. Maisels,Michael A. Mares,Helene Marsh,Stefano Mattioli,Erik Meijaard,Ara Monadjem,F. Blake Morton,Grace Musser,Tilo Nadler,Ryan W. Norris,Agustina Ojeda,Nicté Ordóñez-Garza,Ulyses F. J. Pardiñas,Bruce D. Patterson,Ana Pavan,Michael Pennay,Calebe Pereira,Joyce Prado,Helder L. Queiroz,Matthew Richardson,Erin P. Riley,Stephen J. Rossiter,Daniel I. Rubenstein,Dennisse Ruelas,Jorge Salazar-Bravo,Stéphanie Schai-Braun,Cody J. Schank,Christoph Schwitzer,Lori K. Sheeran,Myron Shekelle,Georgy Shenbrot,Pipat Soisook,Sergio Solari,Richard Southgate,Mariella Superina,Andrew B. Taber,Maurício Talebi,Peter Taylor,Thong Vu Dinh,Nelson Ting,Diego G. Tirira,Susan Tsang,Samuel T. Turvey,Raul Valdez,Victor Van Cakenberghe,Geraldine Veron,Janette Wallis,Rod Wells,Danielle Whittaker,Elizabeth A. Williamson,George Wittemyer,John Woinarski,Dietmar Zinner,Nathan S. Upham,Walter Jetz. Expert range maps of global mammal distributions harmonised to three taxonomic authorities. Journal of Biogeography, https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14330.

Pettigrew, G.W., Di Vita, V., Pettigrew, M., Gilchrist, J.S. 2021. The diel activity pattern of mountain hare (Lepus timidus) on managed heather moorland in Scotland. Ecology and Evolution 11, 7106-7113 , https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7512.

Tichon, J., Gilchrist, J.S. Rotem, G., Ward, P., Spiegel, O. 2020. Social interactions in striped hyena inferred from camera trap data: is it more social than previously thought? Current Zoology, zoaa003, https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoaa003.

Vitikainen E.I.K., Marshall, H.H., Thompson, F.J., Sanderson, J.L., Bell, M.B.V., Gilchrist, J.S., Hodge, S.J., Nichols, H.J., Cant, M.A. 2017. Biased escorts: offspring sex, not relatedness explains alloparental care patterns in a cooperative breeder. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284 20162384; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.2384.

Thompson, F.J., Cant, M.A., Marshall, H.H., Vitikainen E.I.K., Sanderson, J.L., Nichols, H.J., Gilchrist, J.S., Bell, M.B.V., Young, A.J., Hodge, S.J., Johnstone, R.A. 2017. Explaining negative kin discrimination in a cooperative mammal society. PNAS 114 (20) 5207-5212; doi:10.1073/pnas.1612235114.

Gilchrist JS, Stuart C, Stuart M, Do Linh San E. 2016. A conservation assessment of Mungos mungo. In Child MF, Roxburgh L, Do Linh San E, Raimondo D, Davies-Mostert HT, editors. The Red List of Mammals of South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho. South African National Biodiversity Institute and Endangered Wildlife Trust, South Africa.

Gilchrist, J.S. & Do Linh San, E. 2016. Mungos mungo. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T41621A45208886. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T41621A45208886.en.

Vitikainen E.I.K., Cant, M.A., Sanderson, J.L., Mitchell, C., Nichols, H.J., Marshall, H.H., Thompson, F.J., Gilchrist, J.S., Hodge, S.J., Johnstone, R.A., Blount, J.D. 2016. Evidence of Oxidative Shielding of Offspring in a Wild Mammal. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2016.00058

Thompson, F.J., Marshall, H.H., Sanderson, J.L., Vitikainen E.I.K., Nichols, H.J., Gilchrist, J.S., Young, A.J., Hodge, S.J., Cant, M.A. 2016. Reproductive competition triggers mass eviction in cooperative banded mongooses. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 20152607. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.2607

Jahn, P. Harper, G.A. Gilchrist, J. 2013. Home range sharing in family units of great spotted kiwi (Apteryx haastii) at Nelson Lakes National Park. Notornis 60 (3): 201-209.

Bell, M.B.V., Nichols, H.J., Gilchrist J.S., Cant, M.A., Hodge, S.J. 2012. The Cost of Dominance: Attempting to Suppress Subordinate Breeding Reduces Dominant Female Fitness in Banded Mongooses. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 279, 619-624. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2011.1093

Cant, M.A., Hodge, S.J., Bell, M.B.V., Gilchrist J.S., Nichols, H.J. 2010. Reproductive control via eviction in banded mongooses: acts not threats. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 277, 2219-2226. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2009.2097

Pemberton, J. W. & Gilchrist, J.S. 2009. Foraging behavior and diet preferences of a released population of giant tortoises in the Seychelles. Chelonian Conservation and Biology, 8, 57-65.

Gilchrist, J.S. Eberle, M., Kappeler, P.M. 2008. Cooperation and alloparental care in the Grey Mouse Lemur (Microcebus murinus): the costs and benefits of babysitting and beyond. Primate Eye, 96, 133. Abstract No. 351.

Gilchrist, J.S. 2008. Aggressive monopolization of mobile carers by young of a cooperative breeder. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 275, 2491-2498. doi:10.1098/rspb.2008.05971

Gilchrist, J.S., Otali, E. & Mwanguhya, F. 2008. Caregivers recognize and bias response towards individual young in a cooperative breeding mammal, the banded mongoose. Journal of Zoology. 275, 41-46. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2007.00405.x

Gilchrist, J.S. 2007. Cooperative behaviour in cooperative breeders: Costs, benefits, and communal breeding. Behavioural Processes. 76, 100-105. DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2006.12.013

Gilchrist, J.S. & Russell, A.F. 2007. Who cares? Individual contributions to pup care by breeders v’s nonbreeders in the cooperatively breeding banded mongoose (Mungos mungo). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 61, 1053-1060. DOI: 10.1007/s00265-006-0338-2

Gilchrist, J.S. 2006. Female eviction, abortion, and infanticide in banded mongooses (Mungos mungo): implications for social control of reproduction and synchronized parturition. Behavioral Ecology, 17: 664-669. DOI: 10.1093/beheco/ark012

Gilchrist, J.S. 2006. Reproductive success in a low skew, communal breeding mammal: the banded mongoose, Mungos mungo. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 60: 854-863. DOI: 10.1007/s00265-006-0229-6

Otali, E. & Gilchrist, J.S. 2006. Why chimpanzee mothers are less gregarious than males: the infant-safety hypothesis. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 59, 561-570. DOI: 10.1007/s00265-005-0081-0

Gilchrist, J.S., Otali, E. & Mwanguhya, F. 2004. Why breed communally? Factors affecting fecundity in a communal breeding mammal: the banded mongoose (Mungos mungo). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 57, 119-131. DOI: 10.1007/s00265-004-0837-y

Gilchrist, J.S. 2004.Pup escorting in the communal breeding banded mongoose: behavior, benefits and maintenance. Behavioral Ecology, 15, 952-960. DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arh071

Otali, E. & Gilchrist, J.S. 2004. The effects of refuse feeding on body condition, reproduction and survival of banded mongooses. Journal of Mammalogy, 85, 491-497.

Gilchrist, J.S. & Otali, E. 2002. The effects of refuse-feeding on home-range use, group size, and intergroup encounters in the banded mongoose. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 80, 1795-1802.

Kruuk, L.E.B., Gilchrist, J.S. & Barton, N.H. 1999. Hybrid dysfunction in firebellied toads (Bombina). Evolution, 53, 1611-1616.

Kruuk, L.E.B. & Gilchrist, J.S. 1997. Mechanisms maintaining species differentiation: Predator- mediated selection in a Bombina hybrid zone. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 264, 105-110.

Nurnberger, B., Barton, N., MacCallum, C., Gilchrist, J. & Appleby, M. 1995. Natural selection on quantitative traits in the Bombina hybrid zone. Evolution, 49, 1224-1238.

Email me direct @ j.gilchrist@napier.ac.uk to request copy of any scientific papers not available above.

ENCYCLOPAEDIA

Cant, M.A. & Gilchrist, J.S. 2013. Mungos mungo. In: The Mammals of Africa. Vol. 5. Carnivores, Pangolins, Rhinos and Equids. (ed. by Kingdon J.S. and Hoffmann, M.) Bloomsbury Publishing: London.

Gilchrist, J.S., Jennings, A.P., Veron, G., Cavallini, P. 2009. The Herpestidae. In: The Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Volume 1 Carnivores. Eds: Wilson, D.E. & Mittermeier R.A. Lynx Edicions. Barcelona.

MAGAZINE

Gilchrist, J.S. To Trade or Not to Trade (in Rhino Horn)? Biosphere Magazine. December 2015.

Gilchrist, J.S. A Family Affair (Mouse lemur feature article). BBC Knowledge Magazine. July 2010.

Gilchrist, J.S. When the Sun Goes Down (Camera trap feature article). Africa Geographic Magazine. October 2008.

Gilchrist, J.S. Small is Beautiful (Mouse lemur feature article). BBC Wildlife Magazine. July 2008.

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REPORTS

Gilchrist JS, Stuart C, Stuart M, Do Linh San E. 2016. A conservation assessment of Mungos mungo. In Child MF, Roxburgh L, Do Linh San E, Raimondo D, Davies-Mostert HT, editors. The Red List of Mammals of South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho. South African National Biodiversity Institute and Endangered Wildlife Trust, South Africa.

Gilchrist, J.S. & Do Linh San, E. 2016. Mungos mungo. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T41621A45208886.

Gilchrist, J., Otali, E., Mwanguhya, F., Kyabulima, S. 2003. Review of waste disposal on Mweya Peninsula: Recommendations for management. Banded Mongoose Research Project Report for Uganda Wildlife Authority.

Gilchrist, J., Otali, E., Mwanguhya, F., Kyabulima, S. 2002. Effects of refuse on wild animals on Mweya Peninsula: Recommendations for all Protected Areas. Banded Mongoose Research Project Report for Uganda Wildlife Authority.

THESIS

Gilchrist, J.S. 2001. Reproduction and pup care in the communal breeding banded mongoose. PhD thesis. University of Cambridge.