Ben Hirsch
- ben.hirsch@jcu.edu.au
- Adjunct Senior Lecturer
- Zoology & Ecology
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Biography
I am interested in the intersection of animal behavior and ecology: how does ecology affect the behavior of animals and how can the behavior of animals affect their ecosystems? To this end, I’ve studied a variety of mammal species such as: ring-tailed and white-nosed coatis, beach mice, agoutis, raccoons, and capuchin monkeys. My work has focused on social behavior, predator-prey interactions, seed dispersal, urban ecology, movement ecology, and disease ecology. My current research seeks to understand basic and applied behavioral ecology questions in the Queensland wet tropics region.
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Kelly, Catherine L.; Gordon, Iain G.; Schwarzkopf, Lin; Pintor, Anna; Pople, Anthony; Hirsch, Ben T. (2023) 'Invasive wild deer exhibit environmental niche shifts in Australia: Where to from here?'. Ecology and Evolution, 13 (7). [DOI]
Hirsch, Ben T. (2023) 'Novel observations of cleaning interactions between eastern grey kangaroos and three Australian bird species'. Food Webs, 37 . [DOI]
Kays, Roland; Hirsch, Ben; Caillaud, Damien; Mares, Rafael; Alavi, Shauhin; Havmøller, Rasmus Worsøe; Crofoot, Margaret (2023) 'Multi-scale movement syndromes for comparative analyses of animal movement patterns'. Movement Ecology, 11 . [DOI]
Harel, Roi; Alavi, Shauhin; Ashbury, Alison M.; Aurisano, Jillian; Berger-Wolf, Tanya; Davis, Grace H.; Hirsch, Ben T.; Kalbitzer, Urs; Kays, Roland; Mclean, Kevin; Núñez, Chase L.; Vining, Alexander; Walton, Zea; Havmøller, Rasmus Worsøe; Crofoot, Margaret C. (2022) 'Life in 2.5D: Animal Movement in the Trees'. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10 . [DOI]
Alavi, Shauhin; Vining, Alexander Q.; Caillaud, Damien; Hirsch, Ben T.; Havmøller, Rasmus Worsøe; Havmøller, Linnea W.; Kays, Roland; Crofoot, Margaret C. (2022) 'A Quantitative Framework for Identifying Patterns of Route-Use in Animal Movement Data'. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9 . [DOI]
Predicted alteration of vertebrate communities in response to climate-induced elevational shifts
2022
de la Fuente, Alejandro; Krockenberger, Andrew; Hirsch, Ben; Cernusak, Lucas; Williams, Stephen E. (2022) 'Predicted alteration of vertebrate communities in response to climate-induced elevational shifts'. Diversity and Distributions, 28 (6):1180-1190. [DOI]
Fleming, Christen H.; Deznabi, Iman; Alavi, Shauhin; Crofoot, Margaret C.; Hirsch, Ben T.; Medici, E. Patricia; Noonan, Michael J.; Kays, Roland; Fagan, William F.; Sheldon, Daniel; Calabrese, Justin M. (2022) 'Population-level inference for home-range areas'. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 13 (5):1027-1041. [DOI]
Kelly, Catherine L.; Schwarzkopf, Lin; Gordon, Iain J.; Pople, Anthony; Kelly, David L.; Hirsch, Ben T. (2022) 'Dancing to a different tune: changing reproductive seasonality in an introduced chital deer population'. Oecologia, 200 :285-294. [DOI]
Bruce, Tom; Williams, Stephen E.; Amin, Rajan; L'Hotellier, Felicity; Hirsch, Ben T. (2022) 'Laying low: Rugged lowland rainforest preferred by feral cats in the Australian Wet Tropics'. Ecology and Evolution, 12 (7). [DOI]
Leahy, Lily; Scheffers, Brett R.; Andersen, Alan N.; Hirsch, Ben T.; Williams, Stephen E. (2021) 'Vertical niche and elevation range size in tropical ants: implications for climate resilience'. Diversity and Distributions, 27 (3):485-496. [DOI]
de la Fuente, Alejandro; Hirsch, Ben T.; Cernusak, Lucas A.; Williams, Stephen E. (2021) 'Predicting species abundance by implementing the ecological niche theory'. Ecography, 44 (11):1723-1730. [DOI]
Havmøller, Linnea W.; Loftus, J. Carter; Havmøller, Rasmus W.; Alavi, Shauhin E.; Caillaud, Damien; Grote, Mark N.; Hirsch, Ben T.; Tórrez-Herrera, Lucia L.; Kays, Roland; Crofoot, Margaret C. (2021) 'Arboreal monkeys facilitate foraging of terrestrial frugivores'. Biotropica, 53 (6):1685-1697. [DOI]
Kelly, Catherine L.; Schwarzkopf, Lin; Gordon, Iain J.; Hirsch, Ben (2021) 'Population growth lags in introduced species'. Ecology and Evolution, 11 (9):4577-4587. [DOI]
Noonan, Michael J.; Martinez-Garcia, Ricardo; Davis, Grace H.; Crofoot, Margaret C.; Kays, Roland; Hirsch, Ben T.; Caillaud, Damien; Payne, Eric; Sih, Andrew; Sinn, David L.; Spiegel, Orr; Fagan, William F.; Fleming, Christen H.; Calabrese, Justin M. (2021) 'Estimating encounter location distributions from animal tracking data'. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12 (7):1158-1173. [DOI]
Noonan, Michael J.; Fleming, Christen H.; Tucker, Marlee A.; Kays, Roland; Harrison, Autumn-Lynn; Crofoot, Margaret C.; Abrahms, Briana; Alberts, Susan C.; Ali, Abdullahi H.; Altmann, Jeanne; Antunes, Pamela Castro; Attias, Nina; Belant, Jerrold L.; Beyer, Dean E.; Bidner, Laura R.; Blaum, Niels; Boone, Randall B.; Caillaud, Damien; de Paula, Rogerio Cunha; de la Torre, J. Antonio; Dekker, Jasja; DePerno, Christopher S.; Farhadinia, Mohammad; Fennessy, Julian; Fichtel, Claudia; Fischer, Christina; Ford, Adam; Goheen, Jacob R.; Havmøller, Rasmus W.; Hirsch, Ben T.; Hurtado, Cindy; Isbell, Lynne A.; Janssen, René; Jeltsch, Florian; Kaczensky, Petra; Kaneko, Yayoi; Kappeler, Peter; Katna, Anjan; Kauffman, Matthew; Koch, Flavia; Kulkarni, Abhijeet; LaPoint, Scott; Leimgruber, Peter; MacDonald, David; Markham, A. Catherine; McMahon, Laura; Mertes, Katherine; Moorman, Christopher E.; Morato, Ronaldo G.; Moßbrucker, Alexander M.; Mourão, Guilherme; O'Connor, David; Oliveira-Santos, Luiz Gustavo R.; Pastorini, Jennifer; Patterson, Bruce D.; Rachlow, Janet; Ranglack, Dustin H.; Reid, Neil; Scantlebury, David M.; Scott, Dawn M.; Selva, Nuria; Sergiel, Agnieszka; Songer, Melissa; Songsasen, Nucharin; Stabach, Jared A.; Stacy-Dawes, Jenna; Swingen, Morgan B.; Thompson, Jeffrey J.; Ullmann, Wiebke; Vanak, Abi Tamim; Thaker, Maria; Wilson, John W.; Yamazaki, Koji; Yarnell, Richard W.; Zieba, Filip; Zwijacz-Kozica, Tomasz; Fagan, William F.; Mueller, Thomas; Calabrese, Justin M. (2020) 'Effects of body size on estimation of mammalian area requirements'. Conservation Biology, 34 (4):1017-1028. [DOI]
Hirsch, Ben T.; Malpass, Erica; Di Blanco, Yamil E. (2020) 'Interindividual spacing affects the finder’s share in ring-tailed coatis (Nasua nasua)'. Behavioral Ecology, 31 (1):232-238. [DOI]
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