Publications – Blumstein Lab

Daniel T. Blumstein
Publication List

[last updated 18 Nov 24]

PDF versions of published writings are provided as reprints–one copy for your personal use.

Books

Blumstein, D.T. 1995. An ecotourist’s guide to Khunjerab National Park. World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan, Lahore.
Blumstein, D.T. and J.C. Daniel. 2007. Quantifying behavior the JWatcher Way. Sinauer Associates, Inc., Sunderland, MA.
Blumstein, D.T. and E. Fernández-Juricic. 2010. A primer of conservation behavior. Sinauer Associates, Inc., Sunderland, MA. www.sinauer.com Publisher’s blurb Book’s website
Saylan, C.S. and D.T. Blumstein. 2011. The failure of environmental education (and how we can fix it). University of California Press, Berkeley, CA. www.ucpress.edu Publisher’s blurb (and sample chapter)
Blumstein, D.T. 2011. Eating our way to civility: a dinner party guide. Marmotophile Publications, Los Angeles, CA. [e-pub available on Amazon and as an iBook; also see associated blog www.eatingourwaytocivility.blogspot.com]
Cooper, W.E. Jr. and D.T. Blumstein, eds. 2015. Escaping from predators: An integrative view of escape decisions. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. [Cambridge website] [buy on Amazon]
Blumstein, D.T., Geffroy, B., Samia, D.G.M., and E. Bessa, eds. 2017. Ecotourism’s promise and peril: A biological evaluation. Springer [Springer website] [buy on Amazon]
Blumstein, D.T. 2020. The nature of fear: Survival lessons from the wild. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. [Harvard website] [buy on Amazon]

Computer Programs

Blumstein, D.T., Evans, C.S. and J.C. Daniel. 2000. JWatcher 0.9. An introductory user’s guide. http://www.jwatcher.ucla.edu [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Daniel, J.C. and C.S. Evans. 2006. JWatcher 1.0. http://www.jwatcher.ucla.edu

Special Journal Issues

Kappeler, P.M., Barrett, L., Blumstein, D.T. and T.H. Clutton-Brock, eds. 2013. Theme issue: Flexibility and constraint in the evolution of mammalian social behaviour. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Series B 368. [link]
Kershenbaum, A. and D.T. Blumstein, eds. 2017. Special column: Communication, cooperation, and cognition in predators. Current Zoology 63(3). [link]

Journal Articles

Blumstein, D.T. 2025. Non-linear phenomena in marmot alarm calls: a mechanism encoding fear? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B. XX:YYYY.
Blumstein, D.T., Adler, K.A., and J. Uy. 2025. Costly calling: marmots who alarm call at higher rates are less likely to survive the summer and live shorter lives. Current Zoology XX:YY-ZZ. [published on-line in 2024] [pdf available]
Bolas, E.C., Pingatore, A., Mathur, M., Blumstein, D.T., Sikich, J.A., Smith, J., Benson, J., Riley, S.P.D., and R.V. Blakey. 2025. Human recreation influences activity of a large carnivore in an urban landscape. Biological Conservation XX:YY-ZZ. [published on-line in 2024] [pdf available]
Sanchez, M., Martin, J.G.A., and D.T. Blumstein. 2025. Climatic variation and risk assessment in a highly seasonal mammal. Current Zoology XX:YY-ZZ. [pdf available] [published on-line in 2024]
Scurka, M.A., Martin, J.G.A., and D.T. Blumstein. 2025. The heritability of fear: decomposing sources of variation in marmot flight initiation distance. Animal Behaviour XX:YY-ZZ.
Berger-Tal, O., Wong, B.B.M., Adams, C.A., Blumstein, D.T., Candolin, U., Gibson, M.J., Greggor, A.L., Lagisz, M., Macura, B., Price, C.J., Putman, B.J., Snijders, L., and S. Nakagawa. 2024. Leveraging AI to improve evidence synthesis in conservation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 39:548-557. [pdf available]
Bliard, L., Martin, J.S., Paniw, M., Blumstein, D.T., Martin, J.G.A., Pemberton, J.M., Nussey, D.H., Childs, D.Z, and A. Ozgul. 2024. Detecting context-dependence in the expression of life history tradeoffs. Journal of Animal Ecology XX:YY-ZZ. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Vu, N., Edic, M., Vo, L., and J.G.A. Martin. 2024. The sound of fear is heritable. Current Zoology XX:YY-ZZ. [pdf available]
Bowers, R., Burgos, N., Meshanko, R., Thaker, S., Yan, A., O’Fallon, S., and D.T. Blumstein. 2024. Does visual or mechanosensory disruption influence risk assessment in coral reef fishes: a preliminary study. Journal of Fish Biology XX:YY-ZZ. [pdf available]
Čapkun-Huot, C., Blumstein, D.T., Garant, D., Sol, D., and D. Réale. 2024. Towards a unified framework for studying behavioural tolerance to anthropogenic disturbance. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 39:446-455. [pdf available]
Degregori, S., Johnson, G.C., Barber, P.S., and D.T. Blumstein. 2024. Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes contribute to mass gain variation in female obligate hibernators. Journal of Mammalogy 105:2-12. [pdf available] [Cover] [Editor’s choice] [originally published on-line in 2023]
Franco, B., Kinne, C., Licciardello, S., Muir, H., Smith, H.J., O’Fallon, S., and D.T. Blumstein. 2024. Human activity selectively affects a dynamic defensive mutualism. Animal Behaviour 218:219-227. [pdf available]
Ho, V.C., Berman, A.H., Andrade, J., Kavanagh, D.J., La Branche, S., Philson, C.S., and D.T. Blumstein. 2024. Assessing immediate emotions in the Theory of Planned Behavior can substantially contribute to increases in pro-environmental behavior. Frontiers in Climate 6:1344899. [pdf available]
Leonard, A., Abalso, J., Adhola, T. Aguirre, W., Aizpurua, O., Ali, S., Andreone, F., Aubret, F., Avila-Palma, H.D., Alcantara, L.F.B., Beltran, J.F., Berg, R. Berg, T.B., Bertolino, S., Blumstein, D.T., Boldgiv, B., Borowski, Z., Boubli, J.P., Buchner, S., Cabido, C., Camacho, C., Chaparro, J.C., Charmantier, A., D’Elia, G., da Silva, L.P., Dalsgaard, B., de Franceschi, C. de la Cruz, F., de la Sancha, N., Denoel, M., Eisenhofer, R., Feiner, N., Fernandez, J.M., Figuerola, Jl, Fusani, L., Gangoso, L., Garcia-Roa, R., Gasperini, S., Gaun, N. Gilbert, M.T.P., Gomez-Mestre, Il, Graves, C.R., Groombridge, J., Hardouin, E.A., Hernandez, M. Herrera, L.G., Hodder, K., Hosner, P.A., Hurtado, N. Juste, J., Knowles, S.C.L., Kohl, K.D., Korine, C., Kornilev, Y.V., Kramer-Schadt, S., Lambin, X., Lattenkamp, E.Z., Lauritsen, Jl, Li, G., Lopez, C.M., Baucelles, A.L., Cohen, T.M., Manzo, E., Marteau, M., Martin, L.B., Bideguren, G.M., Mazzamutto, M.V., Monadjem, A., Nietlisbach, P., Øksnebjerg, D.B., Packer, J.G., Pepke, M.L., Peralta-Sanchez, M., Perdomo, A., de Lanuza, G.P.I., Pietroni, C., Poyet, M., Rahbek, C. Ramaraj, T., Caldas, Y.R., Razgour, Ol, Rebelo, H., Reif, J. Rimbach, R., Rocha, R., Rocha, R.G., Fernandez, C.R., Romeo, C.. Ruuskanen, S., Sakaluk, S.K., Santicchia, F., Sarraude, T., Søras, R., Spada, M., Steele, M.A., Stothart, M.R., Sunje, E., Sutton, A.O., Szulkin, M., Takahata, Y., Thompson, C.F., Thorup, K., Tomazetto, G., Torrent, L., Toshkova, N., Tranquillo, C., Turcios-Casco, M.A., Uller, T., van Riemsdijk, I., Velo-Anton, G., Verbeylen, G., Videvall, E., Voight, C.C., Wauters, L.A., Wellenreuther, M., Yanchukov, A., Alberdi, A. 2024. A global initiative for ecological and evolutionary hologenomics. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 39:616-620. [pdf available]
Maldonado-Chaparro, A., Philson, C.S., Zhang, X., and D.T. Blumstein. 2024. Social control is associated with increased reproductive skew in a wild mammal. Biology Letters 20:20240003. [pdf available] [cover]
Mikula, P., Bulla, M., Blumstein, D.T., Benedetti, Y., Floigl, K., Jokimäki, J., Kaisanlahti-Jokimäki, M.-L., Markó, G., Morelli, F., Møller, A.P., Siretckaia, A., Szakony, S., Weston, M.A., Zeid, F.A., Tryjanowski, P., Albrecht, T. 2024. Urban birds’ tolerance toward humans was largely unaffected by COVID-19 shutdown-induced variation in human presence. Communications Biology, 7:874. [pdf available]
Moseby, K.E., Blumstein, D.T., Letnic, M., and Van der Weyde, L.K., 2024. In situ predator exposure creates some persistent anti-predator behaviours: insights from a common environment experiment. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 78:93. [pdf available]
Ortiz-Ross, X., and Blumstein, D.T. 2024. Cumulative adversity and survival in the wild. Ecology Letters 27:e14485. [pdf available]
Ortiz-Ross, X.*, Taha, H.B.*, Press, E., Rhone, S., and D.T. Blumstein. 2024. METHODS: Validating an immunoassay to measure fecal glucocorticoid metabolites in yellow-bellied marmots. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A. 298:111738. [pdf available]
Overs, E., Stump, S., Severino, I., and D.T. Blumstein. 2023. A test of the species confidence in dusky damselfish. Current Zoology, 70:79-86. [pdf available] [published on-line in 2023]
Pfau, M., Degregori, S., Barber, P.H., Blumstein, D.T.*, and C.S. Philson*. 2024. Differences in gut microbes across age and sex linked to metabolism and microbial stability in a wild hibernating mammal. Ecology and Evolution 14:e70519. [pdf available]
Philson, C.S*., Bruebach, C.*, Bastian, T., barr, b., and D.T. Blumstein. 2024.Timing of seasonal events is correlated with social network position in a wild mammal. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 78:58. [pdf available]
Putman, B.J., Rensel, M., Schlinger, B.A., French, S., Blumstein, D.T., and G.B. Pauly. 2024. Comparing fear responses of two lizard species across habitats varying in human impact. Journal of Urban Ecology 10(1):juae002. [pdf available]
Sabo, A.N., Berger-Tal, O., Blumstein, D.T., Greggor, A.L., and J.P. Swaddle. 2024. Conservation practitioners’ and researchers’ needs for bridging the knowledge-action gap. Frontiers in Conservation Science 5:1415127. [pdf available]
Schneidman, S.A., Philson, C.S., and D.T. Blumstein. 2024. Extending the social cohesion hypothesis: Is group social structure associated with dispersal in yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventer)? Current Zoology XX:YY-ZZ. [pdf available] doi: 10.1083/cz/zoae002
Stepkovitch, B., Van der Weyde, L.K., Finlayson, G., Blumstein, D.T., Letnic, M., and K.E. Moseby. 2024. Reintroducing native predators improves anti-predator response in naïve prey. Animal Behaviour 214:11-25. [pdf available]
Szulanski, T., Philson, C.S., Uchida, K. and D.T. Blumstein. 2024. Social security: does social position influence flight initiation distance? Behavioral Ecology 35:1-9. [pdf available] [published on-line in 2023]
Uchida, K., Blumstein, D.T., and M. Soga. 2024. Managing wildlife tolerance to humans for ecosystem goods and services. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 39:248-257. [pdf available] [published on line in 2023]
Vardi, R., Soriano-Redondo, A., Gutiérrez, J.S., Dylewski, L., Jagiello, Z., Mikula, P. Berger-Tal, O., Blumstein, D.T., Jaric, I., and V. Sbragaglia. 2024. Leveraging social media and other online data to study animal behavior. PLoS Biology 22:e3002793. [pdf available]
Álvarez-Ruiz, L. Pausas, J.G., Blumstein, D.T., and B.J. Putman. 2023. Lizard responses to the sound of fire is modified by fire history. Animal Behaviour 196:91-102. [pdf available]
Amphaeris, J., Blumstein, D.T., Shannon, G., Tenbrink, T., and A. Kershenbaum. 2023. A multifaceted framework to establish the presence of meaning in non-human communication. Biological Reviews 98:1887-1909. [pdf available ]
Barbee, B.E., Lin, M.K.R., Min, I.A., Takenami, A.M., Philson, C.S., and D.T. Blumstein. 2023. Nutrient enrichment alters risk assessment in giant clams. Journal of Zoology 319:112-118. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Johnson, N.A., Katz, N.D., Kharpatin, S., Ortiz-Ross, X., Parra, E., and A. Reshke. 2023. Biological lessons for strategic resistance management. Evolutionary Applications 16:1861-1871. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Hayes, L.D., and N. Pinter-Wollman. 2023. Social consequences of rapid environmental change. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 38:337-345. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Sanchez, M., Philson, C.S., and L. Bliard. 2023. Is flight initiation distance associated with longer-term survival in yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventer)? Animal Behaviour 202:21-28. [pdf available]
Burghart, E., Mar, M., Rivera, S.G., Zepecki, C., and D.T. Blumstein. 2023. How does damselfish risk assessment vary with increased predator and shoal size? Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 561:151871. [pdf available]
Conquet, E., Ozgul, A., Blumstein, D.T., Armitage, K.B., Oli, M.K., Martin, J.G.A., Clutton-Brock, T.H., and M. Paniw. 2023. Demographic consequences of changes in environmental periodicity. Ecology 2023:e3894. [pdf available] [cover]
Cosca, C.M., Haggard, J.A., Kato, H.M., Sklavenitis, E.M., and D.T. Blumstein. 2023. Do environmental stimuli modify sensitive plant (Mimosa pudica L.) risk assessment? PLoS One 18:e0294971. [pdf available]
Diamant, E.S., MacGregor-Fors, I., Blumstein, D.T., and P.J. Yeh. 2023. Urban birds become less fearful following COVID-19 reopenings. Proceeding of the Royal Society Series B 290:20231338. [pdf available]
García-Navas, V., Feliu, N. and D.T. Blumstein. 2023. Changes in the acoustic structure of Australian bird communities along a habitat complexity gradient. Behavioral Ecology 34:930-940. [pdf available]
Haghani, A., Li, C.Z., Robeck, T.R, Zhang, J., Lu, A.T., Ablaeva, J., Acosta-Rodríguez, V.A., Adams, D.M., Alagaili, A.N., Almunia, J., Aloysius, A., Amor, N.M.S., Ardehali, R., Arneson, A., Baker, C.S., Banks, G., Belov, K.,, Bennett, N.C., Black, P., Blumstein, D.T., Bors, E.K., Breeze, C.E., Brooke, R.T., Brown, J.L., Carter, G., Caulton, A., Cavin, J.M., Chakrabarti, L., Chatzistamou, I., Chavez, A.S., Chen, H., Cheng, K., Chiavellini, P., Choi, O.-W., Clarke, S., Cook, J.A., Cooper, L.N., Cossette, M.-L., Day, J., DeYoung, J., Dirocco, S., Dold, C., Dunnum, J.L., Ehmke, E.E., Emmons, C.K., Emmrich, S., Erbay, E., Erlacher-Reid, C., Faulkes, C.G., Fei, Z., Ferguson, S.H., Finno, C.J., Flower, J.E., Gaillard, J.-M., Garde, E., Gerber, L., Gladyshev, V.N., Goya, R.G., Grant, M.J., Green, C.B., Hanson, M.B., Hart, D.W., Haulena, M., Herrick, K., Hogan, A.N., Hogg, C.J., Hore, T.A., Huang, T., Izisusa Belamonte, J.C., Jasinska, A.J., Jones, G., Jourdain, E., Kashpur, O., Katcher, H., Katsumata, E., Kaza, V., Kiaris, H., Kobor, M.S., Kordowizki, P., Koski, W.R., Krützen, M., Kwon, S.B., Larison, B., Lee, S.-G., Lehmann, M., Lemaître, J.-F., Levine, A.J., Li, X., Li, C., Lim, A.R., Lin D.T.S., Lindemann, D.M., Liphardt, S.W., Little, T.J., Macoretta, N., Maddox, D., Matkin, C.O., Mattison, J.A., McClure, M., Mergl, J., Meudt, J.J., Montano, G.A., Mozhui, K., Munshi-South, J., Murphy, W.J., Naderi, A., Nagy, M., Narayan, P., Nathanielsz, P.W., Nguyen, N.B., Niehrs, C., Nyamsuren, B., O’Brien, J.K., O’Tierney Ginn, P., Odom, D.T., Ophir, A.G., Osborn, S., Ostrander, E.A., Parsons, K.M., Paul, K.C., Pedersen, A.B., Pellegrini, M., Peters, K.J., Petersen, J.L., Pietersen, D.W., Pinho, G.M., Plassais, Jl., Poganik, J.R., Prado, N.A., Reddy, P., Rey, B., Ritz, B.R., Robbins, J., Rodriguez, M., Russell, J., Rydkina, E., Sailer, L.L., Salmon, A.B., Sanghavi, A., Schachtschneider, K.M., Schmitt, D., Schmitt, T., Schomacher, L., Schook, L.B., Sears, K.E., Seifert, A.W., Shafer, A.B.A., Shindyapina, A.V. Simmons, M., Singh, K., Sinha, I., Slone, J., Snell, R.G., Soltanmohammadi, E., Spangler, M.L., Spriggs, M., Staggs, L., Stedman, N., Steinman, K.J., Stewart, D.T., Sugrue, V.J., Szladovitz, B., Takahashi, J.S., Takasugi, M., Teeling, E.C., Thompson, M.J., Van Bonn, B., Vernes, S.C., Villar, D., Vinters, H.V., Vu, H., Wallingford, M.C., Wang, N., Wilkenson, G.S., Williams, R.W., Yan, Q., Yao, M., Young, B.G., Zhang, B., Zhang, Z., Zhao, Y., Zhao, P., Zhou, W., Zoller, J.A., Ernst, J., Seluanov, A., Gorbunova, V., Yang, X.W., Raj, K., and S. Horvath. 2023. DNA methylation networks underlying mammalian traits. Science 381, eabq5693. [pdf available] [commentary in Science by Mendoza 2023]
Lu, A.T., Fei, Z., Haghani, A., Robeck, T.R., Zoller, J.A., Li, C.Z., Lowe, R., Yan, Q., Zhang, J., Vu, H., Ablaeva, J., Acosta-Rodriguez, V.A., Adams, D.M., Almunia, J., Aloysius, A., Ardehali, R., Arneson, A., Baker, C.S., Banks, G., Belov, K., Bennett, N.C., Black, P., Blumstein, D.T., Bors, E.K., Breeze, C.E., Brooke, R.T., Brown, J.L., Carter, G.G., Caulton, A., Cavin, J.M., Chakrabarti, L., Chatzistamou, I., Chen, H., Cheng, K., Chiavellini, P., Choi, O.W.., Clarke, S.M., Cooper, L.N., Cossette, M.L., Day, J., DeYoung, J., DiRocco, S., Dold, C., Ehmke, E.E., Emmons, C.K., Emmrich, S., Erbay, E., Erlacher-Reid, C., Faulkes, C.G., Ferguson, S.H., Finno, C.J., Flower, J.E., Gaillard, J.M., Garde, E., Gerber, L., Gladyshev, V.N., Gorbunova, V., Goya, R.G., Grant, M.J., Green, C.B., Hales, E.N., Hanson, M.B., Hart, D.W., Haulena, M., Herrick, K., Hogan, A.N., Hogg, C.J., Hore, T.A., Huang, T., Izpiusa Belmonte, J.C., Jasinska, A.J., Jones, G., Jourdain, E., Kashpur, O., Katcher, H., Katsumata, E., Kaza, V., Kiaris, H., Kobor, M.S., Kordowitzki, P., Koski, W.R., Kruetzen, M., Kwon, S.B., Larison, B., Lee, S.G., Lehmann, M., Lemaitre, J.F., Levine, A.J., Li, C., Li, X., Lim, A.R., Lin, D.T.S., Lindemann, D.M., Little, T.J., Macorett, M., Maddox, D., Matkin, C.O., Mattison, J.A., McClure, M., Mergl, J., Meudt, J.J., Montano, G.A., Mozhui, K., Munshi-South, J., Naderi, A., Nagy, M., Narayan, P., Nathanielsz, P.W., Nguyen, N.B., Niehrs, C., O’Brien, J.K., O’Tierney Ginn, P., Odom, D.T., Ophir, A.G., Osborn, S., Ostrander, E.A., Parsons, K.M., Paul, K.C., Pellegrini, M., Peters, K.J., Pedersen, A.B., Petersen, J.L., Pietersen, D.W., Pinho, G.M., Plassais, J., Poganik, J.R., Prado, N.A., Reddy, P., Rey, B., Ritz, B.R., Robbins, J., Rodriguez, M., Russell, J., Rydkina, E., Sailer, L.L., Salmon, A.B., Sanghavi, A., Schachtschneider, K.M., Schmitt, D., Schmitt, T., Schomacher, L., Schook, L.B., Sears, K.E., Seifert, A.W., Seluanov, A., Shafer, A.B., Shanmuganayagam, D., Shindyapinia, A.V., Simmons, M., Singh, K., Sinha, I., Slone, J., Snell, R.G., Soltanmaohammadi, E., Spangler, M.L., Spriggs, M.C., Staggs, L., Stedman, N., Steinman, K.J., Stewart, D.T., Sugrue, V.J., Szladovits, B., Takahashi, J.S., Takasugi, M., Teeling, E.C., Thompson, M.J., Van Bonn, B., Vernes, S.C., Villar, D., Vinters, H.V., Wallingford, M.C., Wang, N., Wayne, R.K., Wilkinson, G.S., Williams, C.K., Williams, R.W., Yang, X.W., Yao, M., Young, B.G., Zhang, B., Zhang, Z., Zhao, P., Zhao, Y., Zhou, W., Zimmerman, J., Ernst, J. Raj, K., and S. Hovarth. 2023. Universal DNA methylation age across mammalian tissues. Nature Aging DOI: 10.1038/s43587-023-00462-6. [pdf available] [pdf available in Nature Aging] [correction]
Mikula, P., Tomášek, O., Romportl, D., Aikins, T.K., Avendaño, J.E., Braimoh-Azaki, B.D.A, Chaskda, A., Cresswell, W., Cunningham, S.J., Dale, S., Favoretto, G.R., Floyd, K.S., Glover, H., Grim, T., Henry, D.A.W., Holmern, T., Hromada, M., Iwajomo, S.B., Lilleyman, A., Magige, F.J., Martin, R.O., Maximiano, M.F.A., Nana, E.D., Ncube, E., Ndaimani, H., Nelson, E., van Niekerk, J.H., Pienaar, P., Piratelli, A.J., Pistorius, P., Radkovic, A., Reynolds, C., Røskaft, E., Shanungu, G.K., Siqueira, P.R., Tarakini, T., Tejeiro-Mahecha, N., Thompson, M.L., Wamiti, W., Wilson, M., Tye, D.R.C., Tye, N.D., Vehtari, A., Tryjanowski, P., Weston, M.A., Blumstein, D.T., and T. Albrecht. 2023. Bird tolerance to humans in open tropical ecosystems. Nature Communications 14:2146. [pdf available]
Moseby, K., Van der Weyde, L., Letnic, M., Blumstein, D.T., West, R., and H. Bannister. 2023. Addressing prey naivety in native mammals by accelerating selection for antipredator traits. Ecological Applications 2023:e2780. [pdf available]
Natterson-Horowitz, B., Aktipis, A., Fox, M., Gluckman, P.D., Low, F.M., Mace, R., Read, A., Turner, P.E., and D.T. Blumstein. 2023. The future of evolutionary medicine: sparking transformation in biomedical innovation and public health. Frontiers in Science 1:997136. [pdf available] [Lead Article with multiple commentaries and editorials]
Natterson-Horowitz, B., Moore, B.A., Reynolds, A., Espericueta, L., Head, J.M., Lam, D., Turner, R., Williams, D.M., and D.T. Blumstein. 2023. Cataracts across the tree of life: a roadmap for prevention and biomedical innovation. American Journal of Ophthalmology 249:167-173. [pdf available]
Overs, E., Stump, S., Severino, I., and D.T. Blumstein. 2023. A test of the species confidence in dusky damselfish. Current Zoology, XX:YY-ZZ. [pdf available]
Parsons, M.H., Stryjek, R., Bebas, P., Fendt, M., Blumstein, D.T., Kiyokawa, Y., Chrzanowski, M., Munshi-South, J. 2023. Why are predator cues in the field not more evocative? A ‘real world’ assay elicits subtle, but meaningful, responses by wild rodents to predator scents. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10:0154568. [pdf available]
Parsons, M.H., Stryjek, R., Fendt, M., Bebas, P. Kiyokawa, Y., Munshi-South, J. and D.T. Blumstein. 2023. Making a case for the free exploratory paradigm: animal welfare-friendly assays that enhance heterozygosity and ecological validity. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 17:1228478. [pdf available]
Pfau, M., Degregori, S., Johnson, G., Tennenbaum, S.R., Barber, P.H., Philson, C.S., and D.T. Blumstein. 2023. The social microbiome: gut microbiome diversity and abundance are negatively associated with sociality in a wild mammal. Royal Society Open Science 10: 231305. [pdf available]
Philson, C.S., and D.T. Blumstein. 2023. Emergent social structure is typically not associated with survival in a facultatively social mammal. Biology Letters 19:20220511. [pdf available]
Philson, C.S., and D.T. Blumstein. 2023. Group social structure has limited impact on reproductive success in a wild mammal. Behavioral Ecology 34:89-98. [pdf available]
Prather, R.M., Dalton, R.M., barr, b., Blumstein, D.T., Boggs, C.L., Brody, A.K., Inouye, D.W., Irwin, R.E., Martin, J.G.A., Smith, R.J., Van Vuren, D.H., Wells, C.P., Whiteman, H.H., Inouye, B.D., and N. Underwood. 2023. Current and lagged climate affects phenology across diverse taxonomic groups. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B 290:2022181. [pdf available]
Sbragaglia, V., Arlinghaus, R., Blumstein, D.T., Diogo, H., Giglio, V.J., Gordoa, A., Januchowski-Hartley, F.A., Laporta, M., Lindfield, S.J., Lloret, J., Mann, B., McPhee, D. Nunes, J.A.C.C., Pita, P., Rangel, M., Rhoades, O.K., Venerus, L.A., and S. Villasante. Accepted with revisions. A global review of marine recreational spearfishing. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries DOI: 10.1007/s11160-023-09790-7. [pdf available]
St Lawrence, S., Blumstein, D.T. and J.G.A. Martin. 2023. The timing of reproduction is responding plastically, not genetically, to climate change in yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventer). Ecology and Evolution 13:e10780. [pdf available]
Uchida, K., Burkle, A.A., and D.T. Blumstein. 2023. Take only pictures, leave only… Cameras influence marmots vigilance but not perceptions of risk. Journal of Zoology 319:143-151. [pdf available]
Uetrecht, M.R., Bermudez, A., Novoa, D., Reithel, J., Rodriguez, V., Smith, R., Sprott, S., Tingley, M.W., and D.T. Blumstein. 2023. Differential response of three large mammal species to human recreation in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, USA. Frontiers in Conservation Science 4:1234157. [pdf]
Van de Walle, J.; Fay, R., Gaillard, J.-M. Pelletier, F., Hamel, S, Gamelon, M., Barbraud, C., Blanchet, F.G., Blumstein, D.T., Charmantier, A., Delord, K., Larue, B., Martin, J.G.A., Mills, J., Milot, E., Mayer, F., Rotella, J., Sæther, B.-E., Teplitsky, C., van de Pol, M., Van Vuren, D., Visser, M., Wells, C., Yarrall, J., and S. Jenouvrier. 2023. Individual life histories: Neither slow nor fast, just diverse. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B 290: 20230511. [pdf available]
Van der Weyde, Blumstein, D.T., Letnic, M., Tuft, K., Ryan-Schofield, N., and K. Moseby. 2023. Can native predators be used as a stepping stone to reduce prey naivety to novel predators? Behavioral Ecology 34:63-75. [pdf available]
van Dooren, T., Price, C.J., Banks, C.J., Berger-Tal, O., Chrulew, M., Johnson, J., Lajeunesse, G., Lynch, K.E., McArthur, C., Parker, F.C.G., Oakey, M., St. Clair, C.C., Widin, S., Wong, B.B.M., and D.T. Blumstein. 2023. The ethics of intervening in animal behaviour for conservation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 38:822-830. [pdf available] [Winner: Atlas award for World Animal Day]
Williams, D.M., Beckert, S., Martin, J.G.A., and D.T. Blumstein. 2023. Agonistic and affiliative social relationships are associated with marmot docility but not boldness. Animal Behaviour 199:103-122. [pdf available]
Zenth, F., Maldonado-Chaparro, A.A., Solis, A., Gee, S., and D.T. Blumstein. 2023. The (surprising) importance of males in a matrilineal society: behavioural insights from a topological knockout study. Animal Behaviour 201:63-72. [pdf available]

Blakey, R.V., Sikich, J.A., Blumstein, D.T., and S.P.D. Riley. 2022. Mountain lions avoid burned areas and increase risky behavior after wildfire in a fragmented urban landscape. Current Biology 32:1-7. [pdf available] [cover]
Cooper, D.S., Shultz, A.J., Sekercioglu, C.H., Osborn, F.M., and D.T. Blumstein. 2022. Community science data suggest the most common raptors (Accipitridae) in urban centres are smaller, habitat-generalist species. Ibis 164:771-784. [pdf available]
Giglio, V.J., Blumstein, D.T., Motta, F.S., and Pereira-Filho, G.H. 2022. Diver presence increases egg predation on a nesting damselfish. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 549:151694. [pdf available]
Hongjamrassilp, W., and D.T. Blumstein. 2021. Humans influence shrimp movement: A conservation behavior case study with “Shrimp Watching” ecotourism. Current Zoology 68:169-176. [first published on-line in 2021] [pdf available]
Hongjamrassilp, W., Zhang, R., Natterson-Horowitz, B., and D.T. Blumstein. 2022. Glaucoma through animal’s eyes: insights from the evolution of intraocular pressure in mammals and birds. Animals 12:2027. [pdf available]
Kong, A.Y., Man, L., Suan, K.A., and D.T. Blumstein. 2022. Blue-tailed skinks have predation-dependent threat discrimination. Ethology 128:591-601. [pdf available]
Linhart, P., Issa, M.M., Stowell, D., and D.T. Blumstein. 2022. The potential for acoustic identification in mammals. Mammalian Biology https://doi.org/10.1007/s42991-021-00222-2 [pdf available]
Mikula, P., Bulla, M., Blumstein, D.T., Benedetti, Y., Floigl, K., Jokimäki, J., Kaisanlahti-Jokimäki, M.-L., Markó, G., Morelli, F., Møller, A.P., Siretckaia, A., Szakony, S., Weston, M.A., Zeid, F.A., Tryjanowski, P., Albrecht, T. 2022. Urban birds’ flight responses were unaffected by the COVID-19 shutdowns. bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.07.15.500232v1. [pdf available]
Morelli, F., Benedetti, Y., and D.T. Blumstein. 2022. Resident birds are more behaviourally plastic than migrants. Scientific Reports 12:5743. [pdf available]
Morelli, F., Mikula, P., Blumstein, D.T., Diáz, M., Markó, G., Jokimäki, J., Kaisanlahti-Jokimäki, M.-L., Floigl, K., Zeid, F.A., Siretckaia, A., and Y. Benedetti. 2022. Flight initiation distance and refuge in urban birds. Science of the Total Environment 842:156939. [pdf available]
Nojoumi, M., Clevenger, A.P., Blumstein, D.T. and E.S. Abelson. 2022. Vehicular traffic effects on elk and white-tailed deer behavior near wildlife. PLoS One 17:e0269587. [pdf available]
Philson, C.S., Todorov, S.M., and D.T. Blumstein. 2022. Marmot mass gain rates relate to their group’s social structure. Behavioral Ecology 33:115-125. [published on-line in 2021] [cover] [pdf available]
Pinho, G.M., Martin, J.G.A., Farrell, C., Haghani, A., Zoller, J.A., Zhang, J., Snir, S., Pellegrini, M., Wayne, R.K., Blumstein, D.T., and S. Hovarth. 2022. Hibernation slows epigenetic ageing in yellow-bellied marmots. Nature Ecology and Evolution 6:418-426. [cover] [pdf available] [see Anderson & Tung Perspective https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01683-5]
Sebastianelli, M., Blumstein, D.T., and A.N.G. Kirschel. 2022. Higher pitched bird song towards the coast supports a role for selection in ocean noise avoidance. Bioacoustics 31:41-58. [published on-line in 2021] [pdf available]
Stansell, H.M., Blumstein, D.T. Yeh, P.J., and P. Nonacs. 2022. Individual variation in tolerance of human activity by urban dark-eyed juncos (Junco hyemalis). The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 134:43-51. [pdf available]
St. Lawrence, S., Dumas, M.N., Petelle, M., Blumstein, D.T., and J.G.A. Martin. 2022. Sex-specific reproductive strategies in wild yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventer): senescence and genetic variance in annual reproductive success differ between the sexes. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 76:84. [pdf available]
Tijerino, C., Blumstein, D.T., Kraberger, S., and A. Varsani. 2022. Microvirus genomes identified in the fecal samples of yellow-bellied marmots. Microbiology Resource Announcements 11(2):e01218-21. [pdf available]
Uchida, K., Ng, Rachel, Vydro, S.A., Smith, J.E., and D.T. Blumstein. 2022. The benefits of being dominant: health correlates of male social rank and age in a marmot. Current Zoology 68:19-26. [pdf available] [published on-line in 2021]
Wrensford, K., Gutierrez, J., Cooper, W.E., Jr., and D.T. Blumstein. 2022. Empirical studies of escape behavior find mixed support for the race for life model. Current Zoology 68:305-313. [pdf available] [published on-line in 2021]

Bannister, H.L., Letnic, M., Blumstein, D.T. and K.E. Moseby. 2021. Individual traits influence survival of a reintroduced marsupial only at low predator densities. Animal Conservation 24:904-913. [pdf available]
Beauchamp, G., Li, Z., Yu, C., Bednekoff, P., and D.T. Blumstein. 2021. A meta-analysis of the group-size effect on vigilance in mammals. Behavioral Ecology 32:919-925. [pdf available]
Bradshaw, C.J.A., Ehrlich, P.R., Beattie, A., Ceballos, G., Crist, E., Diamond, J., Dirzo, R., Ehrlich, A.E., Harte, J., Harte, M.E., Pyke, G., Raven, P.H., Ripple, W.J., Saltre, F., Turnbull, C., Wackernagel, M., and D.T. Blumstein. 2021. Underestimating the challenges of avoiding a ghastly future. Frontiers in Conservation Science 1:615419. [pdf available]
Cheh, A., Fadaee, N., Kalhori, P., Williams, D.M., Nunes, J.A.C.C., and D.T. Blumstein. 2021. Love thy prickly neighbor? Sea urchin density affects risk assessment in damselfish. Coral Reefs 40:21-25. [pdf available]
Chock, R.Y, Clucas, B., Peterson, E.K., Blackwell, B.F., Blumstein, D.T., Church, K., Fernández-Juricic, E., Gariel Francescoli, G., Greggor, A. Kemp, P., Pinho, G., Sanzenbacher, P.M., Schulte, B.A., and P. Toni. 2021. Evaluating potential effects of solar power facilities on wildlife from an animal behavior perspective. Conservation Science and Practice 2021:e319. [pdf available] [published on-line in 2020]
Condon, T., Hakim, A., Moran, A.B.Z., and D.T. Blumstein. 2021. The effect of mobbing vocalizations on risk perception in common mynas (Acridotheres tristis). Journal of Ethology 39:89-96. [published on-line in 2020] [pdf available]
Cooper, D.S., Yeh, P.J., and D.T. Blumstein. 2021. Tolerance and avoidance of urban cover in a southern California suburban raptor community over five decades. Urban Ecosystems 24:291-300. [published on-line in 2020]
Dixon-MacCallum, G.P., Rich, J.L., Lloyd, N. Blumstein, D.T., and A. Moehrenschalger. 2021. Loss of predator discrimination by critically endangered Vancouver Island marmots within five generations of breeding for release. Frontiers in Conservation Science 2:718562. [pdf available]
Elmer, L.K., Madlinger, C.L., Blumstein, D.T., Elvidge, C.K., Fernández-Juricic, E., Horodysky, A.Z., Johnson, N.S., McGuire, L.P., Swaisgood, R.R., and S.J. Cooke. 2021. Exploiting common senses: sensory ecology meets wildlife conservation and management. Conservation Physiology 9(1):coab002. [pdf available]
Evans, A.W., Williams, D.M., and D.T. Blumstein. 2021. Producer-scrounger relationships in yellow-bellied marmots. Animal Behaviour 172:1-7. [pdf available]
Greggor, A.L., Berger-Tal, O., Swaisgood, R.R., Cooke, S.J., DeVault, T.L., Fernández-Juricic, E., Gienapp, A., Hall, S., Hostetter, C., Owen, M.A., Rankin, S., Ruppert, K.A., Swaddle, J.P., and D.T. Blumstein. 2021. Using change models to envision better applications of animal behavior research in conservation management and beyond. Frontiers in Conservation Science 1:653056. [pdf available]
Hayes, H.G., Hollander, E.N.R., Vydro, S.A., Williams, D.M., and D.T. Blumstein. 2021. Cautious clams? Energetic state modifies risk assessment in giant clams. Journal of Zoology 313:208-215. [published on-line in 2020] [pdf available]
Hongjamrassilp, W., Maiphrom, W., and D.T. Blumstein. 2021. Why do shrimps leave the water? Mechanisms and functions of parading behaviour in freshwater shrimps. Journal of Zoology 313:87-98. [cover photo] [published on-line in 2020] [pdf available]
Hongjamrassilp, W., Traiyasut, P., and D.T. Blumstein. 2021. “Shrimp Watching” ecotourism in Thailand: toward sustainable management policy. Frontiers in Conservation Science 1:624239. [pdf available]
Jebb, A.H.M., Blumstein, D.T., Bize, P., and J.G.A. Martin. 2021. Bigger is not always better: viability selection on body mass varies across life stages in a hibernating mammal. Ecology and Evolution 11:3435-3445. [pdf available]
Kelligrew, C., Tian, S., Weiss, M., Williams, D.M., and D.T. Blumstein. 2021. The effect of white noise on behavioral and flight responses of blue-tailed skinks. Current Zoology 67:125-126. [pdf available] [published on-line in 2020]
Khalifeh, A., Blumstein, D.T., Fontenele, R.S. Schmidlin, K., Richet, C., Kraberger, S., and A. Varsani. 2021. Diverse cressdnaviruses and an anellovirus identified in the fecal samples of yellow-bellied marmots. Virology 554:89-96. [pdf available]
Kroeger, S.B., Blumstein, D.T., and J.G.A. Martin. 2021. How social behaviour and life-history traits change with age in the year prior to death in female yellow-bellied marmots. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 376:20190745. [pdf available]
Morgan, A., Monclús, R., Nelson, J., Foli, E., Chunwang, L., and D.T. Blumstein. 2021. How do humans impact yellow-bellied marmots? An integrative analysis. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 245:105495. [pdf available]
Niesner, C.A., Blakey, R.V., Blumstein, D.T., and E.S. Abelson. 2021. Wildlife afforances of urban infrastructure: a framework to understand human-wildlife space use. Frontiers in Conservation Science 2:774137. [pdf available]
Nimmo, D.G., Carthey, A.J.R., Jolly, C.J., and D.T. Blumstein. 2021. Welcome to the Pyrocene: animal survival in the age of megafire. Global Change Biology 27:5684-5693. [pdf available] [commentary by Keith 2021 in GCB]
Sadoul, B., Blumstein, D.T., Alfonso, S. and B. Geffroy. 2021. Human protection drives the emergence of a new coping style in animals. PLoS Biology 19:e3001186. [pdf available]
Sura, S.A., Molina, N.E., Blumstein, D.T., and P. Fong. 2021. Selective consumption of macroalgal species by herbivorous fishes suggests reduced functional complementarity on a fringing reef in Moorea, French Polynesia. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 536:151508. [pdf available]
Tidwell, K.S., Carrothers, B.A., Blumstein, D.T., and Z.A. Schakner. 2021. Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) response to non-lethal hazing at Bonneville Dam. Frontiers in Conservation Science 2:760866. [pdf available]
Uchida, K., Blakey, R.V., Burger, J.R., Cooper, D.S., Niesner, C.A., and D.T. Blumstein. 2021. Urban biodiversity and the importance of scale. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 36:123-131. [published on-line in 2020] [pdf available]
Uchida, K., and D.T. Blumstein. 2021. Habituation or sensitization? Long-term responses of yellow-bellied marmots to human disturbance. Behavioral Ecology 32:668-678. [pdf available]
Weston, M., Radkovic, A., Kirao, L., Guay, P., Van Dongen, W., Mlaki, P., Blumstein, D.T., and M. Symonds. 2021. Differences in flight-initiation distances between African and Australian birds. Animal Behaviour 179:235-245. [pdf available]
Williams, D.M., Wu, C., and D.T. Blumstein. 2021. Social position indirectly influences the traits yellow-bellied marmots use to solve problems. Animal Cognition 24:829-842. [pdf available]

Andrade, M., and D.T. Blumstein. 2020. Anti-predator behavior along elevational and latitudinal gradients in dark-eyed juncos. Current Zoology 66:239-245. [published on-line in 2019] [pdf available]
Berger-Tal, O., Blumstein, D.T., and R.R. Swaisgood. 2020. Conservation translocations: a review of common difficulties and promising directions. Animal Conservation 23:121-131. [published on-line in 2019] [pdf available]
Carthey, A.J.R., Blumstein, D.T., Gallagher, R.V., Tetu, S.G., and M.R. Gillings. 2020. Conserving the holobiont. Functional Ecology 34:764-776. [published on-line in 2019] [pdf available]
Cooper, D.S., Schultz, A.J., and D.T. Blumstein. 2020. Temporally separated data sets reveal similar traits of birds persisting in a United States megacity. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8:251. [pdf available]
Cords, L., Blumstein, D.T., Armitage, K.B., CaraDonna, P.J., Childs, D.Z., Gerber, B.D., Martin, J.G.A., Oli, M.K., and A. Ozgul. 2020. Contrasting effects of climate change on seasonal survival of a hibernating mammal. Proceedings of the National Academy of the United States 117:18119-18126. [pdf available] [see PNAS Commentary]
Doyle, R., Kim, J., Pe, A., and D.T. Blumstein. 2020. Are giant clams (Tridacna maxima) distractable? A multi-modal study. Peer J 8:e10050. [pdf available]
Edic, M.N., Martin, J.G.A., and D.T. Blumstein. 2020. Heritable variation in the timing of emergence from hibernation. Evolutionary Ecology 35:763-776. [pdf available]
Fendt, M., Parsons, M.H., Apfelbach, R., Carthey, A.J.R., Dickman, C.R., Endres, T., Frank, A.S.K., Heinz, D.E., Jones, M.E., Kiyokawa, Y., Kreutzmann, J.C., Roelofs, K., Schneider, M., Sulger, J., Wotjak, C.T., and D.T. Blumstein. 2020. Context and trade-offs characterize real-world threat detection systems: a review and comprehensive framework to improve research practice and resolve the translational crisis. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 115:25-33. [pdf available]
Geffroy, B., Alfonso, S., Sadoul, B. and D.T. Blumstein. 2020. A world for reactive phenotypes. Frontiers in Conservation Science 1:61919. [pdf available]
Geffroy, B., Sadoul, B., Putman, B.J., Berger-Tal, O., Garamszegi, L.Z., Møller, A.P., and D.T. Blumstein. 2020. Evolutionary dynamics in the Antrhopocene: Life history and intensity of human contact shape antipredator responses. PLoS Biology doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000818 [pdf available]
Giglio, V.J., Nunnes, J.A.C.C., Ferreira, C.E.L., and D.T. Blumstein. 2020. Client reef fish tolerate closer human approaches while being cleaned. Journal of Zoology 312:205-210. [pdf available]
Greggor, A.L., Berger-Tal, O., and D.T. Blumstein. 2020. The rules of attraction: the necessary role of animal cognition in explaining conservation failures and successes. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 51:483-503. [pdf available]
Hale, R., Blumstein, D.T., MacNally, R., and S.E. Swearer. 2020. Harnessing knowledge of animal behavior to improve habitat restoration outcomes. Ecosphere 11(4):e03104. [pdf available]
Heissenberger, S., Pinho, G.M., Martin, J.G.M., and D.T. Blumstein. 2020. Age and location influence the costs of compensatory and accelerated growth in a hibernating mammal. Behavioral Ecology 31:826-833. [pdf available]
Kroeger, S.B., Blumstein, D.T., Armitage, K.B., Reid, J.M., and J.G.A. Martin. 2020. Older mothers produce more successful daughters. Proceedings of the National Academy of the United States 117:4809-4814. [pdf available] [journal cover]
Luttbeg, B., Ferrari, M.C.O., Blumstein, D.T., and D.P. Chivers. 2020. Safety cues can give prey more valuable information than danger cues. American Naturalist 195:636-648. [published on-line in 2019] [pdf available]
Lynch, K.E., and D.T. Blumstein. 2020. Effective conservation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 35:857-860. [pdf available]
Montero, A.P., Williams, D.M., Martin, J.G.A., and D.T. Blumstein. 2020. More social female yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventer) have enhanced summer survival. Animal Behaviour 160:113-119. [pdf available]
Munoz, N.E., and D.T. Blumstein. 2020. Optimal multisensory integration. Behavioral Ecology 31:184-193. [published on-line in 2019] [pdf available]
Nash, A.L., Jebb, A.H.M., and D.T. Blumstein. 2020. Is the propensity to emit alarm calls associated with health status? Current Zoology 66:607-614. [pdf available]
Paniw, M., Childs, D., Armitage, K.B., Blumstein, D.T., Martin, J., Oli, M., and A. Ozgul. 2020. Seasonal effects of environmental change on yellow-bellied marmot population dynamics. Ecology Letters 23:588-597. [pdf available]
Putman, B.J., Pauly, G.B., and D.T. Blumstein. 2020. Urban invaders are not bold risk-takers: a study of three invasive lizards in Southern California. Current Zoology 66:657-665. [pdf available]
Steindler, L.A., Blumstein, D.T., West, R., Moseby, K.E., and M. Letnic. 2020. Exposure to a novel predator induces visual predator recognition by naïve prey. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 74:102. [pdf available]
Williams, D.M., Nguyen, P.-T., Chan, K., Krohn, M., and D.T. Blumstein. 2020. High human disturbance decreases individual variability in skink escape behavior. Current Zoology 66:63-70. [published on-line in 2019] [pdf available]

Armenta, T.C., Cole, S.W., Geshwind D.H., Blumstein, D.T., and R.K. Wayne. 2019. Gene expression shifts in yellow-bellied marmots prior to natal dispersal. Behavioral Ecology 30:267-277. (published online in 2018) [pdf available] EDITOR’S CHOICE
Armenta, T.C., Cole, S.W., Wayne, R.K., and D.T. Blumstein. 2019. Adaptive gene regulation in wild mammals exposed to high predator abundance. Animal Behaviour 152:53-61. [pdf available]
Berger-Tal, O., Greggor, A.L. Macura, B., Adams, C.A., Blumenthal, A., Bouskila, A., Candolin, U., Doran, C., Fernández-Juricic, E., Gotanda, K.M., Price, C., Putman, B.J., Segoli, M., Snijders, L., Wong, B.B.M., and D.T. Blumstein. 2019. Systematic reviews and maps as tools for applying behavioral ecology to management and policy. Behavioral Ecology 30:1-8. [pdf available] [published on-line in 2018]
Bessa, E., Blumstein, D.T., Samia, D.S.M., and B. Geffroy. 2019. Pets at ecotourism destinations: cute mascot or Trojan horse? Current Issues in Tourism 22:1523-1525. [published on-line in 2018] [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2019. What chasing birds can teach us about predation risk effects: past insights and future directions. Journal of Ornithology 160:587-592. [pdf available].
Blumstein, D.T., Letnic, M., and K.E. Moseby. 2019. In situ predator conditioning of naïve prey prior to reintroduction. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 374:20180058. [pdf reprints]
Černý, D., Lee, K. Medal, J., and D.T. Blumstein. 2019. Applying Lanchester’s laws to the interspecific competition of coral reef fish. Behavioral Ecology 30:426-433. [pdf available] [published online in 2018]
Chan, Y., Lo, S., Quan, A., and D.T. Blumstein. 2019. Ontogenetic shifts in perceptions of safety along structural complexity gradients in a territorial damselfish. Current Zoology 65:183-188. [pdf available] [published online in 2018]
Dehaudt, B., Nguyen, M., Vadlamundi, A., and D.T. Blumstein. 2019. Giant clams discriminate threats along a risk gradient and display varying habituation rates to different stimuli. Ethology 125:392-398. [pdf available]
Fuong, H., and D.T. Blumstein. 2019. Social security: less socially connected marmots produce noisier alarm calls. Animal Behaviour 154:131-136. Corrigendum published in 2020 as: Animal Behaviour 160:171-177. [Corrected pdf available]
Greggor, A.L., Blumstein, D.T., Wong, B.B.M., and O. Berger-Tal. 2019. Using animal behavior in conservation management: a series of systematic reviews and maps. Environmental Evidence 8(Suppl 1):23. [pdf available]
Hale, R., Mac Nally, R., Blumstein, D.T., and S.E. Swearer. 2019. Evaluating where and how habitat restoration is undertaken for animals. Restoration Ecology 27:775-781. [pdf available]
Linhart, P., Osiejuk, T., Budka, M., Šálek, M., Špinka, M., Policht, R., Syrová, M., and D.T. Blumstein. 2019. Measuring individual identity information in animal signals: overview and performance of available identity metrics. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 10:1558-1570. [pdf available]
Moseby KE, Letnic M, Blumstein DT, West R. 2019. Understanding predator densities for successful co-existence of alien predators and threatened prey. Austral Ecology 44:409-419. [pdf available] (published on-line in 2018)
Neco, L.C., Abelson, E., Brown, A., Natterson-Horowitz, B., and D.T. Blumstein. 2019. The evolution of self-medication behaviour in mammals. Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society 128:373-378. [pdf available]
Nouri, K., and D.T. Blumstein. 2019. Parasites are associated with noisy alarm calls. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7:28. [pdf available]
Nunes, J.A.C.C., Blumstein, D.T., Giglio, V.J., Barros, F., and J.P. Quimbayo. 2019. Reef fish antipredator behavior in remote islands does not reflect patterns seen in coastal areas. Ethology, Ecology and Evolution doi: 10.1080/03949370.2019.1636141. [pdf available]
Petelle, M.B., Martin, J.G.A., and D.T. Blumstein. 2019. Mixed support for state maintaining risky personality traits in yellow-bellied marmots. Animal Behaviour 150:177-188. [pdf available]
Pinho, G.M., Ross, X.O., Reese, A., and D.T. Blumstein. 2019. Correlates of maternal glucocorticoid levels in a socially flexible rodent. Hormones and Behavior 116:104577. [pdf available]
Putman, B.J., and D.T. Blumstein. 2019. What is the effectiveness of using conspecific or heterospecific acoustic playbacks for the attraction of animals for wildlife management? A systematic review protocol. Environmental Evidence 8:6. [pdf available]
Putman, B.J., Gasca, M., Blumstein, D.T., and G.B. Pauly. 2019. Downsizing for downtown: Limb lengths, toe lengths, and scale counts decrease with urbanization in western fence lizards (Sceloporus occidentalis). Urban Ecosystems 22:1071-1081. [pdf available]
Quadros, A.L.S., Barros, F., Blumstein, D.T., Meira, V.H., Nunes, J.A.C.C. 2019. Structural complexity but not territory size influences flight initiation distance in a damselefish. Marine Biology 166:65. [pdf available]
Robertson, B.A. and D.T. Blumstein. 2019. How to disarm an evolutionary trap. Conservation Science and Practice 2019:e116. [pdf available]
Ross, A.K., Letnic, M., Blumstein, D.T., and K.E. Moseby. 2019. Reversing the effects of evolutionary prey naiveté through controlled predator exposure. Journal of Applied Ecology 56:1761-1769. [pdf available]
Samia, D.S.M., Bessa, E., Blumstein, D.T., Nunes, J.A.C.C., Azzurro, E., Morroni, L. Sbragaglia, V., Januchowski-Hartley, F.A., and B. Geffroy. 2019. A meta-analysis of fish behavioural reaction to underwater human presence. Fish and Fisheries 20:817-829. [pdf available]
Schakner, Z., Purdy, C., and D.T. Blumstein. 2019. Contrasting attitudes and perceptions of California sea lions by recreational anglers and the media. Marine Policy 109:103710. [pdf available]
West, R., Blumstein, D.T., Letnic, M., and K.E. Moseby. 2019. Searching for an effective pre-release screening tool for translocation: can trap temperament predict behaviour and survival in the wild? Biodiversity and Conservation 28:229-243. [pdf available] [published on-line in 2018]
Wey, T.W., Jordán, F., and D.T. Blumstein. 2019. Transitivity and structural balance in marmot social networks. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 73:18. [pdf available]
Yan, K.M., Pinto, S.P., Vartany, C., and D.T. Blumstein. 2019. Shift down, look up: a test of the nonlinearity and fear hypothesis in a non-vocal skink. Ethology 125:153-158. [pdf available]

Blumstein, D.T., Diaz, A., and L. Yin. 2018. Marmots do not consistently use their left eye to respond to an approaching threat but those that did fled sooner. Current Zoology 64:727-731. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Williams, D.M., Lim, A.N., Kroeger, S., and J.G.A. Martin. 2018. Strong social relationships are associated with decreased longevity in a facultatively social mammal. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285:20171934. [pdf available]
Boydston, E.E., Abelson, E.S., Kazanjian, A., and D.T. Blumstein. 2018. Canid vs. canid: insights into coyote-dog encounters from social media. Human-Wildlife Interactions 12:233-242. [pdf available]
Carthey, A.J.R., and D.T. Blumstein 2018. Predicting predator recognition in a changing world. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 33:106-115. [pdf available] [published on-line in 2017]
Carthey, A.J.R., Gillings, M.R., and D.T. Blumstein 2018. The extended genotype: microbially-mediated olfactory communication. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 33:885-894. [pdf available]
Kroeger, S.B., Blumstein, D.T., Armitage, K.B., Reid, J.M., and J.G.A. Martin. 2018. Age, state, environment and season dependence of senescence in body mass. Ecology and Evolution 8:2050-2061. [pdf available]
Kroeger, S.B., Blumstein, D.T., Armitage, K.B., Reid, J.M., and J.G.A. Martin. 2018. Cumulative reproductive costs on current reproduction in a wild polytocous mammal. Ecology and Evolution 8:11543-11553. [pdf available]
Mady, R.P., and D.T. Blumstein. 2018. Social security: are socially connected individuals less vigilant? Animal Behaviour 134:79-85. [pdf available] [published on-line in 2017]
Maldonado-Chaparro, A.A., Blumstein, D.T., Armitage, K.B., and D.Z. Childs. 2018. Transient LTRE analysis reveals the demographic and trait-mediated processes that buffer population growth. Ecology Letters 21:1693-1703. [pdf available]
Mobbs, D., Trimmer, P.C., Blumstein, D.T., and P. Dayan. 2018. Foraging for foundations in decision neuroscience: insights from ethology. Nature Reviews Neuroscience DOI: 10.1038/s41583-018-0010-7. [pdf available]
Moseby, K.E., Blumstein, D.T., Letnic, M., and R. West. 2018. Choice or opportunity: are post-release social groups influenced by familiarity or reintroduction protocols? Oryx XX:YY-ZZ. [pdf available]
Moseby, K.E., Letnic, M., Blumstein, D.T., and R. West. 2018. Designer prey: Can controlled predation accelerate selection for anti-predator traits in naïve populations? Biological Conservation 217:213-221. [pdf available]
Nunes, J.A.C.C., Costa, Y., Blumstein, D.T., Leduc, A.O.H.C., Dorea, A.C., Benevides, L.J., Sampaio, C.L.S., and F. Barros. 2018. Global trends on reef fishes’ ecology of fear: flight initiation distance for conservation. Marine Environmental Research 136:153-157. [pdf available]
Parsons, M.H., Apfelbach, R., Banks, P.B., Cameron, E. Dickman, C.R., Frank, A.S.K., Jones, M.E., McLean, S., McGregor, I.S., Müller-Schwarze, D., Sparrow, E.E., and D.T. Blumstein. 2018. Biologically meaningful scents: a framework for understanding predator-prey research across disciplines. Biological Reviews 93:98-114. [pdf available] [published on-line in 2017]
Rasheed, A.A., Hambley, K., Chan, G., de la Rosa, C.A., Larison, B., and D.T. Blumstein. 2018. Persistence of antipredator behavior in an island population of California quail. Ethology 124:155-160. [pdf available] [published on-line in 2017]
Saxon-Mills, E.S., Moseby, K., Blumstein, D.T., and M. Letnic. 2018. Prey naïveté and the anti-predator responses of a vulnerable marsupial prey to known and novel predators. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 72:151. [pdf available]
Steindler, L., Blumstein, D.T., West, R., Moseby, K.E., and M. Letnic. 2018. Predator discrimination by ontogenetically naïve prey scales with duration of shared evolutionary history. Animal Behaviour 137:133-139. [pdf available]
West, R., Letnic, M., Blumstein, D.T., and K.E. Moseby. 2018. In situ predator exposure improves anti-predator responses in a threatened mammal. Journal of Applied Ecology 55:147-156. [pdf available]

Blumstein, D.T., Fuong, H., and E. Palmer. 2017. Social security: social relationship strength and connectedness influence how marmots respond to alarm calls. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 71:145. (Erratum https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-019-2780-y) [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Rangchi, T.N., Briggs, T., De Andrade, F.S., and B. Natterson-Horowitz. 2017. A systematic review of carrion eaters’ adaptations to avoid sickness. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 53:577-581. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Whitaker, J., Kennen, J., and G.A. Bryant. 2017. Do birds differentiate between white noise and deterministic chaos? Ethology 123:966-973. [pdf reprints]
Johnson, G.C., Karasjah, M.T., Mayo, K., Armenta, T.C., and D.T. Blumstein. 2017. The bigger they are the better they taste: size predicts predation risk and anti-predator behaviour in giant clams. Journal of Zoology 301:102-107. [published on-line in 2016] [cover article] [pdf available]
Kershenbaum, A. and D.T. Blumstein. 2017. Introduction to special column: Communication, cooperation, and cognition in predators. Current Zoology 63:295-299. [pdf available]
Maldonado-Chaparro, A.A., Read, D.W., and D.T. Blumstein. 2017. Can individual variation in phenotypic plasticity enhance population viability? Ecological Modeling 352:19-30. [pdf available]
Martin, J.G.A., Pirotta, E., Petelle, M., and D.T. Blumstein. 2017. Genetic basis of between-individual and within-individual variance of docility. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 30:796-805. [pdf available]
Owen, M.A., Swaisgood, R.R., and D.T. Blumstein. 2017. Contextual influences on animal decision-making: significance for behavior-based wildlife conservation and management. Integrative Zoology 12:32-48. [pdf available] [published on-line in 2016]
Petelle, M.B., Dang, B.N., and D.T. Blumstein. 2017. The effect of maternal glucocorticoid levels on juvenile docility in yellow-bellied marmots. Hormones and Behavior 89:86-91. [cover article] [pdf available]
Pezner, A.K., Lim, A.R., Kang, J.J., Armenta, T.C., and D.T. Blumstein. 2017. Hiding behavior in Christmas tree worms on different time scales. Behavioral Ecology 28:154-163. [pdf available] [published on-line in 2016]
Putman, B.J., Drury, J.P., Blumstein, D.T., and G.B. Pauly. 2017. Fear no colors? Observer clothing influences lizard escape behavior. PLoS One 12(8):e0182146. [pdf available]
Reed-Guy, S. Gehris, C., Shi, M., and D.T. Blumstein. 2017. Sensitive plant hiding time depends on individual and state. Peer J 5:e3598. [pdf available]
Samia, D.S.M., Blumstein, D.T., Díaz, M., Grim, T., Ibáñez-Álamo, J.D., Jokimäki, J., Kätte, K., Markó, G., Tryjanowski, P., and A.P. Møller. 2017. Rural-urban differences in escape behavior of European birds across a latitudinal gradient. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution doi: 10.3389/fevo.2017.00066 [pdf available]
Schakner, Z.A., Götz, T., Janik, V.M., and D.T. Blumstein. 2017. Can fear conditioning repel California sea lions from fishing activities? Animal Conservation 20:425-432. [pdf available]
Schakner, Z.A., Petelle, M.B., Tennis, M.J., Van Der Leeuw, B.K., Stansell, R.T., and D.T. Blumstein. 2017. Social associations between California Sea lions influence the use of a novel foraging ground. Royal Society Open Science 4:160820. [pdf available]
Shragai, T., Ping, X., Arakaki, C. Garlick, D., Blumstein, D.T. and A.P. Blaisdell. 2017. Hermit crab response to a visual threat is sensitive to looming cues. Peer J 5:e4058. [pdf available]
Smith, J.E., Petelle, M.B., Jerome, E.L., Cristofari, H., and D.T. Blumstein. 2017. Oxytocin experiments shed light on mechanisms shaping prosocial and antisocial behaviors in non-human mammals. Integrative and Comparative Biology 57:619-630. [pdf available]
Snijders, L., Blumstein, D.T., Stanley, C.R., and D.W. Franks. 2017. Animal social network theory can help wildlife conservation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 32:567-577. [pdf available]
Yang, W.J., Maldonado-Chaparro, A., and D.T. Blumstein. 2017. A cost of being amicable in a hibernating marmot. Behavioral Ecology 28:11-19. [pdf available] [published on-line in 2016]

Atkins, R., Blumstein, D.T., Moseby, K., West, R., Hyatt, M., and M. Letnic. 2016. Deep evolutionary experience explains mammalian responses to predators. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 70:1755-1763. [pdf available]
Berger-Tal, O., Blumstein, D.T., Carroll, S., Fischer, R.N., Mesnick, S.L., Owen, M.A., Saltz, D., St. Claire, C.C., Swaisgood, R.R. 2016. A systematic survey of the integration of behavior into wildlife conservation and management. Conservation Biology 30:744-753. [pdf available] [published on-line in 2015]
Blumstein, D.T. 2016. Habituation and sensitisation: new thoughts about old ideas. Animal Behaviour 120:255-262. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Keeley, K.N., and J.E. Smith. 2016. Fitness and hormonal correlates of social and ecological stressors of female yellow-bellied marmots. Animal Behaviour 112:1-11. [pdf available] [published on-line in 2015]
Blumstein, D.T., Samia, D.S.M., and W.E. Cooper, Jr. 2016. Escape behavior: dynamic decisions and a growing consensus. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 12:24-29. [pdf available]
Chmura, H.E., Wey, T.W., and D.T. Blumstein. 2016. Assessing the sensitivity of foraging and vigilance to internal state and environmental variables in yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 70:1901-1910. [pdf available]
García-Navas, V., and D.T. Blumstein. 2016. The effect of body size and habitat on the evolution of alarm vocalizations in rodents. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 118:745-751. [pdf available]
Greggor, A.L., Berger-Tal, O., Blumstein, D.T., Angeloni, L., Bessa-Gomes, C., Blackwell, B.F., St. Clair, C.C., Crooks, K., de Silva, S., Fernández-Juricic, E., Goldenberg, S.Z., Mesnick, S.L., Owen, M., Price, C.J., Saltz, D., Schell, C.J., Suarez, A.V., Swaisgood, R.R., Winchell, C.S., and W.J. Sutherland. 2016. Research priorities from animal behaviour for maximizing conservation progress. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 31:953-964. [pdf available]
Guay, P.-J., van Dongen, W.F.D., Robinson, R.W., Blumstein, D.T., and M.A. Weston. 2016. AvianBuffer: an interactive tool for characterising and managing wildlife fear responses. Ambio 45:841-851. [pdf available]
Jones, M.E., Apfelbach, R., Banks, P.B., Cameron, E., Dickman, C.R., Frank, A., McLean, S., McGregor, I.S., Müller-Schwarze, D., Parsons, M.H., Sparrow, E., and D.T. Blumstein. 2016. A nose for death: integrating trophic and informational networks for conservation and management. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 26 October 2016. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2016.00124. [pdf available]
Kerschenbaum, A., Blumstein, D.T., Roch, M., et al. 2016. Acoustic sequences in non-human animals: a tutorial review and prospectus. Biological Reviews 91:13-52. [pdf available] [published on-line in 2015
Li, Z., Courchamp, F., and D.T. Blumstein. 2016. Pigeons home faster through polluted air. Scientific Reports 5:18989. [pdf available]
Lim, A.N., De La Guerra, J.A., and D.T. Blumstein. 2016. Sea anemones modify their hiding time based on their commensal damselfish. Royal Society Open Science 3:160169. [pdf available]
Livezey, K., Fernández-Juricic, E.F., and D.T. Blumstein. 2016. Database of bird flight initiation distances to assist in estimating human disturbance effects and delineating buffer areas. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 7:181-191. [pdf available]
Livezey, K.B., and D.T. Blumstein. 2016. “Shortest-distance” method is more accurate than conventional method in estimating flight initiation distances for close, perched birds. Journal of Ornithology 157: 923-925. [pdf available]
Møller, A.P., Samia, D.S.M., Weston, M.A., Guay, P.-J., and D.T. Blumstein. 2016. Flight-initiation distances in relation to sexual dichromatism and body size in birds from three continents. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 117:823-831. [pdf available] [published on-line in 2015]
Owen, M.A., Swaisgood, R.R., Zhou, X., and D.T. Blumstein. 2016. Signalling behaviour is influenced by transient social context in a spontaneously ovulating mammal. Animal Behaviour 111:157-165. [pdf available]
Samia, D.S.M., Blumstein, D.T., Stankowich, T., and W.E. Cooper, Jr. 2016. Fifty years of chasing lizards: new insights advance optimal escape theory. Biological Reviews 91:349-366. [pdf available] [publisehd on-line in 2015]
Schakner, Z.A., Buhnerkempe, M.G., Tennis, M.J., Stansell, R.J., van der Leeuw, B.K., Lloyd-Smith, J.O., and D.T. Blumstein. 2016. Epidemological models to control the spread of information in marine mammals. Proceedings B 283:20162037. [pdf available]
Sparrow, E.E., Parsons, M.H., and D.T. Blumstein. 2016. Novel use for a predator scent: Preliminary data suggests wombats avoid recolonising collapsed burrows following dingo scent application. Australian Journal of Zoology 64:192-197. [pdf available]
Tran, D.S.C., Langel, K.A., Thomas, M.J., and D.T. Blumstein. 2016. Spearfishing induced behavioral changes of an un-harvested species inside and outside a marine protected area. Current Zoology 62:39-44. [pdf available] [published on-line in 2015]

Blumstein, D.T., and O. Berger-Tal. 2015. Understanding sensory mechanisms to develop effective conservation and management tools. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 6:13-18. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Buckner, J., Shah, S., Patel, S., Alfaro, M.E., and B. Natterson-Horowitz. 2015. The evolution of capture myopathy in hooved mammals: a model for human stress cardiomyopathy? Evolution, Medicine and Public Health 2015:195-203. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Flores, G., and N.E. Munoz. 2015. Does locomotor ability influence flight initiation distance in yellow-bellied marmots? Ethology 121:434-441. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. Levy, K., Mayer, E. and J. Harte. 2015. Gastrointestinal dysbiosis. Evolution, Medicine and Public Health 2014: 163. [pdf available] [published on-line in 2014]
Cooper, W.E. Jr., Samia, D.S.M., and D.T. Blumstein. 2015. FEAR, spontaneity, and artefact in economic escape theory: a review and prospectus. Advances in the Study of Behavior 47:147-179. [pdf available]
Fuong, H., Maldonado-Chaparro, A., and D.T. Blumstein. 2015. Are social attributes associated with alarm calling propensity? Behavioral Ecology 26: 587-592. [pdf available]
Geffroy, B., Samia, D.S.M., Bessa, E., and D.T. Blumstein. 2015. How nature-based tourism might increase prey vulnerability to predators. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 30:755-765. [pdf available]
Green, L, Blumstein, D.T. and P. Fong. 2015. Macroalgal mats in a eutrophic estuary obscure visual foraging cues and increase variability in prey availability for some shorebirds. Estuaries and Coasts 38: 917-926. [pdf reprints] [published on-line in 2014]
Hensley, N.M., Drury, J.P., Garland, T. Jr., and D.T. Blumstein. 2015. Vivid birds do not initiate flight sooner despite their potential conspicuousness. Current Zoology 61:773-780. [pdf available] [Supplementary Material]
Hubbard, L., King, W., Vu, A., and D.T. Blumstein. 2015. Heterospecific non-alarm vocalizations influence risk assessment and antipredator behavior in common mynas. Behavioral Ecology 26:632-638. [pdf available]
Maldonado-Chaparro, A., Hubbard, L., and D.T. Blumstein. 2015. Group size affects social relationships in yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris). Behavioral Ecology 26:909-915. [pdf available]
Maldonado-Chaparro, A., Martin, J.G.A., Armitage, K.B., Oli, M.K., and D.T. Blumstein. 2015. Environmentally induced phenotypic variation in wild yellow-bellied marmots. Journal of Mammalogy 96:269-278. [pdf available]
Mills, J.A. Teplitsky, C. et al. 2015. Archiving primary data: solutions for long-term studies. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 30:581-589. [pdf available]
Monclús, R., Anderson, A.M., and D.T. Blumstein. 2015. Do yellow-bellied marmots perceive enhanced predation risk when they are farther from safety?: An experimental study. Ethology 121:831-839. [pdf available]
Moseby, K.E., Blumstein, D.T., and M. Letnic. 2015. Harnessing natural selection to tackle the problem of prey naiveté. Evolutionary Applications 9:334-343. [pdf available]
Munoz, N.E., Brandstetter, G., Esgro, L., Greene, W., and D.T. Blumstein. 2015. Asymmetric eavesdropping between common mynas and red-vented bulbuls. Behavioral Ecology 26: 689-696. [pdf available] [published on-line in 2014]
Petelle, M.B., Martin, J.G.A., and D.T. Blumstein. 2015. Heritability and genetic correlations of personality traits in a wild population of yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28:1840-1848. [pdf available]
Samia, D.S.M., and D.T. Blumstein. 2015. Birds flush early and avoid the rush: an interspecific study. PLoS ONE 10:e0119906. [pdf available]
Samia, D.S.M., Møller, A.P., and D.T. Blumstein. 2015. Brain size as a driver of avian escape strategy. Scientific Reports 5:11913. [pdf available]
Samia, D.S.M., Møller, A.P., Blumstein, D.T., Stankowich, T., and W.E. Cooper, Jr. 2015. Sex differences in lizard escape decisions vary with latitude, but not sexual dimorphism. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 282:20150050. [pdf available]
Samia, D.S.M., Nakagawa, S., Nomura, F., Rangel, T.F., and D.T. Blumstein. 2015. Increased tolerance to humans among disturbed wildlife. Nature Communications 6:8877. [pdf available]
Taborsky, M., Hofmann, H.A., Beery, A.K., Blumstein, D.T., Hayes, L.D., Lacey, E.A., Martins, E.P., Phelps, S.M., Solomon, N.G., and D.R. Rubenstein. 2015. Taxon matters: promoting integrative studies of social behavior. Trends in Neuroscience 38:189-191. [pdf available]
Wey, T.W., Lin, L., Patton, M.L., and D.T. Blumstein. 2015. Stress hormone metabolites predict overwinter survival in yellow-bellied marmots. Acta Ethologica 18: 181-185. [pdf available]

Blesdoe, E.K. and D.T. Blumstein. 2014. What is the sound of fear? Behavioral responses of white-crownded sparrows Zonotrichia leucophrys to synthesized nonlinear acoustic phenomena. Current Zoology 60: 534-541. [pdf available] [published on-line in 2013]
Cooke, S.J., Blumstein, D.T., Buchholz, R., Caro, T., Fernandéz-Juricic, E., Frankln, C.E., Metcalfe, J., O’Connor, C.M., St. Clair, C.C., Sutherland, W.J., and M. Wikelski. 2014. Physiology, behaviour and conservation. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 87: 1- 14. [pdf available] [published on-line in 2013]
Cooper, W.E., Jr. and D.T. Blumstein. 2014. Novel effects of monitoring predators on costs of fleeing and not fleeing explain flushing early in economic escape theory. Behavioral Ecology 25: 44-52. [pdf available] [published on-line in 2013]
Fouqueray, T.D., Blumstein, D.T., Monclús, R., and J.G.A. Martin. 2014. Maternal effects on anogenital distance in a wild marmot population. PLoS-ONE 9(3): e92718. [pdf available]
Fuong, H., Keeley, K.N., Bulut, Y., and D.T. Blumstein. 2014. Heterospecific alarm call eavesdropping in non-vocal, white-bellied copper-striped skins (Emoia cyanura). Animal Behaviour 95:129-135. [pdf available]
Hettena, A., Munoz, N. and D.T. Blumstein. 2014. Prey responses to predator’s sounds: a review and empirical study. Ethology 120: 427-452. [pdf available]
Hofmann, H.A., Beery, A.K., Blumstein, D.T., Couzin, I.D., Earley, R.L., Hayes, L.D., Hurd, P.L., Lacey, E.A., Phelps, S.M., Solomon, N.G., Taborsky, M., Young, L.J., and D.R. Rubenstein. 2014. An evolutionary framework for studying mechanisms of social behaviour. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 29: 581-589. [pdf available]
Martin, J.G.A., Petelle, M.B., and D.T. Blumstein. 2014. Environmental, social, morphological and behavioural constraints on opportunistic multiple paternity. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 68: 1531-1538. [pdf available]
McGowan, M.M., Patel, P.D., Stroh, J.D., and D.T. Blumstein. 2014. The effect of human presence and human activity on risk assessment and flight initiation distance in skinks. Ethology 120: 1-9. [pdf available]
Møller, A.P. Samia, D.S.M., Weston, M.A., Guay, P.-J., and D.T. Blumstein. 2014. American exceptionalism: population trends and flight initiation distances in birds from three continents. PLoS-ONE 9(9): e107883. [pdf available]
Monclús, R., Pang, B., and D.T. Blumstein. 2014. Yellow-bellied marmots do not compensate for a late start: the role of maternal investment in shaping life-history trajectories. Evolutionary Ecology 28: 721-733. [pdf available]
Monclús, R., von Holst, D., Blumstein, D.T. and H.G. Rödel. 2014. Long-term effects of litter sex ratio on female reproduction in two iteroparous mammals. Functional Ecology 28: 954-962. [pdf available]
Petelle, M.B. and D.T. Blumstein. 2014. A critical evaluation of subjective ratings: unacquainted observers can reliably assess personality. Current Zoology 60: 162-169. [pdf available] [published on-line in 2013]
Price, M.V., Strombom, H., and D.T. Blumstein. 2014. Human activity affects the perception of risk by mule deer. Current Zoology 60: 693-699. [pdf available] Cover Shot
Samia, D.S.M., and D.T. Blumstein. 2014. Phi index: A new metric to test the flush early and avoid the rush hypothesis. PLoS-One 9: e113134. [pdf available]
Waser, N.M., Price, M.V., Blumstein, D.T., Arozqueta, S.R., Castro-Escobar, B.D., Pickens, R., and A. Pistoia. 2014. Coyotes, mule deer, and wildflowers: Diverse evidence points to a trophic cascade. Naturweissenshaften 101: 427-436. [pdf available]
Williams, D.M., Samia, D.S.M., Cooper, W.E. Jr., and D.T. Blumstein. 2014. The flush early and avoid the rush hypothesis holds after accounting for spontaneous behavior. Behavioral Ecology 25: 1136-1147. [pdf available]

Barrett, L., Blumstein, D.T., Clutton-Brock, T., and P. Kappeler. 2013. Taking note of Tinbergen, or: the promise of a biology of behaviour. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Series B 368: 20120352. [pdf reprints]
Blumstein, D. T. 2013. Yellow-bellied marmots: insights from an emergent view of sociality. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Series B 368: 20120349. [pdf reprints]
Blumstein, D.T., Chung, L.K., and J.E. Smith. 2013. Early play may predict later dominance relationships in yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris). Proceedings of the Royal Society B 280: 20130485. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Nguyen, K.T., and J.G.A. Martin. 2013. Ontogenetic variation of heritability and maternal effects in yellow-bellied marmot alarm calls. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 280: 20130176. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Petelle, M.B. and T.W. Wey. 2013. Defensive and social aggression: repeatable but independent. Behavioral Ecology 24: 457-461. [pdf available] [published on-line in 2012]
Cook, T.C. and D.T. Blumstein. 2013. The omnivores dilemma: diet explains variation in vulnerability to vehicle collision mortality. Biological Conservation 167:310-315. [pdf available]
Cross, H.B., Blumstein, D.T., and F. Rosell. 2013. Do marmots display a ‘dear enemy phenomenon’ in response to anal gland secretions? Journal of Zoology, London 289: 189-195. [pdf available] [published on-line in 2012]
Engen, S., Saether, B.-E., Armitage, K.B., Blumstein, D.T., Clutton-Brock, T.H., Coulson, T., Dobson, F.S., Festa-Bianchet, M., Oli, M.K. and A. Ozgul. 2013. Estimating the effect of temporal autocorrelated environments on the demography of density-independent age-structured populations. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 4:573-584. [pdf available]
Johnson, D.D.P., Blumstein, D.T., Fowler, J.H., and M.G. Haselton. 2013. The evolution of error: error management, cognitive constraints, and adaptive decision-making biases. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 28: 474-481. [pdf available]
Journey, L., Drury, J.P., Haymer, M., Rose, K. and D.T. Blumstein. 2013. Vivid birds respond more to acoustic signals of predators. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 67: 1285-1293. [pdf available]
Kappeler, P., Barrett, L., Blumstein, D.T., and T. Clutton-Brock. 2013. Constraints and flexibility in mammalian social behaviour: introduction and synthesis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Series B 368: 20120337. [pdf available]
Laubach, Z., Sampson, G., Blumstein, D.T., Romero, L.M., and J. Foufopoulos. 2013. Are white-crowned sparrow badges reliable signals? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 67: 481-292. [pdf available]
Lopez, J., Wey, T.W. and D.T. Blumstein. 2013. Patterns of parasite prevalence and individual infection in yellow-bellied marmots. Journal of Zoology 291: 296-303. [pdf available]
Mabry, K.E., Shelly, E.L., Davis, K., Blumstein, D.T., and D.H. Van Vuren. 2013. Social mating system and sex-biased dispersal in mammals and birds: a phylogenetic analysis. PLoS ONE 8(3): e57980. [pdf available]
Martin J.G.A., Festa-Bianchet, M., Cote, S.D., and D.T. Blumstein. 2013. Detecting between-individual differences in hind-foot length in populations of wild mammals. Canadian Journal of Zoology 91: 118-123. [pdf available]
Petelle, M.B., McCoy, D.E., Alejandro, V., Martin, J.G.A., and D.T. Blumstein.2013. Development of boldness and docility in yellow-bellied marmots. Animal Behaviour 86: 1147-1154. [pdf available]
Saether, B.-E., Coulson, T., Grøtan, V., Engen, S., Altwegg, R., Armitage, K.B., Barbraud, C., Becker, P.H., Blumstein, D.T., Dobson, F.S., Festa-Bianchet, M., Gaillard, J.-M., Jenkins, A., Jones, C., Nicoll, M.A.C., Norris, K., Oli, M.K., Ozgul, A., and H. Weirmerskirch. 2013. How life history influences population dynamics in fluctuating environments. American Naturalist 182: 743-759. [pdf available]
Samia, D.S.M., Nomura, F., and D.T. Blumstein. 2013. Do animals generally flush early and avoid the rush? A meta-analysis. Biology Letters 9: 20130016 [pdf available]
Schakner, Z.A. and D.T. Blumstein. 2013. Behavioral biology of marine mammal deterrents: a review and prospectus. Biological Conservation 167: 380-389. [pdf available]
Slaughter, E.I., Berlin, E.R., Bower, J.T., and D.T. Blumstein. 2013. A test of the nonlinearity hypothesis in the great-tailed grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus). Ethology 119: 309-315. [pdf available]
Smith, J.E., Chung, L.E., and D.T. Blumstein. 2013. Ontogeny and symmetry of social partner choice among free-living yellow-bellied marmots. Animal Behaviour 85: 715-725.[pdf available]
Smith, T.B., Harrigan, R.J., Kirschel, A.N.G., Buermann, W., Saatchi, S., Blumstein, D.T., de Kort, S.R., and H. Slabbekoorn. 2013. Predicting birdsong from space. Evolutionary Applications 6: 865-874. [pdf available]
Yee, J., Lee, J., Desowitz, A., and D.T. Blumstein. 2013. The costs of conspecifics: are social distractions or environmental distractions more salient? Ethology 119: 480-488. [pdf available]

Blumstein, D.T., Atran, S., Field, S., Hochberg, M.E., Johnson, D.D.P., Sagarin, R. Sosis, R. and B. Thayer. 2012. The peacock’s tale: Lessons from evolution for effective signalling in international politics (with comment). Cliodynamics: The Journal of Theoretical and Mathematical History 3:191-214. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Bryant, G.A., and P. Kaye. 2012. The sound of arousal in music is context dependent. Biology Letters 8:744-747. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., and Y.Y. Chi. 2012. Scared and less noisy: glucocorticoids are associated with alarm call entropy. Biology Letters 8:189-192. [pdf available] [published on-line in 2011]
Blumstein, D.T., McClain, D.R., De Jesus, C., and G. Alarcon. 2012. Breeding bird density does not drive vocal individuality. Current Zoology 58:765-772. [pdf available]
Carrasco, M.F. and D.T. Blumstein. 2012. Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) respond to yellow-bellied marmot (Marmota flaviventris) alarm calls. Ethology 118:243-250. [pdf available]
Chamaillé-Jammes, S., and D.T. Blumstein. 2012. A case for quantile regression in behavioral ecology: getting more out of flight initiation distance data. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 66:985-992. [pdf available]
Clay, Z., Smith, C.L., and D.T. Blumstein. 2012. Food-associated vocalisations in mammals and birds: what do these calls really mean? Animal Behaviour 83:323-330. [pdf available]
Elmasri, O.L., Moreno, M.S. Neumann, C.A., and D.T. Blumstein. 2012. Response of brown anoles (Anolis sagrei) to multimodal signals from a native and novel predator. Current Zoology 58:791-796. [pdf available]
Hensley, N.M., Cook, T.C., Lang, M., Petelle, M.B., and D.T. Blumstein. 2012. Personality and habitat segregation in giant sea anenomes (Condylactis gigantea). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 426-427: 1-4. [pdf available]
Johnson, N.A., Lahti, D.C., and D.T. Blumstein. 2012. Combating the assumption of evolutionary progress: lessons from the decay and loss of traits. Evolution: Education and Outreach 5:128-138. [pdf available]
Monclús, R. and D.T. Blumstein. 2012. Litter sex composition affects life-history traits in yellow-bellied marmots. Journal of Animal Ecology 81:80-86. [pdf available] [published on-line in 2011]
Monclús, R. Cook, T., and D.T. Blumstein. 2012. Masculinized female yellow-bellied marmots initiate more social interactions. Biology Letters 8:208-210. [pdf available] [published on-line in 2011]
Munoz, N.E., and D.T. Blumstein. 2012. Multisensory perception in uncertain environments. Behavioral Ecology 23: 457-462.[pdf available]
Olson, L.E., Blumstein, D.T., Pollinger, J.P., and R.K. Wayne. 2012. No evidence of inbreeding avoidance despite survival costs in a polygynous rodent. Molecular Ecology 21: 562-571. [pdf available] [published on-line in 2011]
Parsons, M.H., Blumstein, D.T., and K.C. Dods. 2012. An in situ vertebrate bioassay helps identify potential matrices for a predator-based synthetic management tool. Wildlife Society Bulletin 36:383-388. [pdf available]
Pollard, K.A., and D.T. Blumstein. 2012. Evolving communicative complexity: insights from rodents and beyond. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 367: 1869-1878. [pdf available]
Rose, K.A., Kirkland, P.D., Davis, R.J., Cooper, D.W., Blumstein, D., Pritchard, L.I., Newberry, K.M., and R.A. Lunt. 2012. Epizootics of sudden death in tammar wallabies (Macropus eugenii) associated with an orbivirus infection. Australian Veterinary Journal 90:505-509. [pdf available]
Ryan, K.M., Blumstein, D.T., Blaisdell, A.P., and W.D. Stahlman. 2012. Stimulus concordance and risk-assessment in hermit crabs (Coenobita clypeatus): Implications for attention. Behavioral Processes 91: 26-29. [pdf available]
Shimanski, L., Kitagawa, K., Hernandez, M., and D.T. Blumstein. 2012. Are blue land crabs (Cardisoma guanhumi) attracted to falling fruit? Acta Ethologica 15:159-164. [pdf available] [published on-line in 2011]
Smith, B.R., and D.T. Blumstein. 2012. Structural consistency of behavioural syndromes: does predator training lead to multi-contextual behavioural change? Behaviour 149: 187-213. [pdf available]
Smith, J.E., Monclús, R., Wantuck, D., Florant, G.L. and D.T. Blumstein. 2012. Fecal glucocorticoid metabolites in wild yellow-bellied marmots: experimental validation, individual differences and ecological correlates. General and Comparative Endocrinology 178: 417-426. [pdf available]
Watanabe, N.M., Stahlman, W.D., Blaisdell, A.P., Garlick, D., Fast, C.D., and D.T. Blumstein. 2012. Quantifying personality: different measures, different inferences. Behavioral Processes 91: 133-140. [pdf available]
Weston, M.A., McLeod, E.M., Blumstein, D.T., and P.-J. Guay. 2012. A review of flight-initiation distances and their application to managing disturbance to Australian birds 112: 269-286. [pdf available]
Wey, T.W., and D.T. Blumstein. 2012. Social attributes and associated performance measures in marmots: bigger male bullies and weakly affiliating females have higher annual reproductive success. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 66: 1075-1085. [pdf available]

Barrera, J., Chong, L., Judy, K., and D.T. Blumstein. 2011. Reliability of public information: predators provide more information about risk than conspecifics. Animal Behaviour 81:779-787. [pdf available]
Biedenweg, T.A., Parsons, M.H., Fleming, P.A., and D.T. Blumstein. 2011. Sounds scary? Lack of habituation following the presentation of novel sounds. Public Library of Science-One doi:10.1371/journal.pone.001459 [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Mennill, D.J., Clemins, P., Girod, L., Yao, K., Patricelli, G., Deppe, J.L., Krakhauer, A.H., Clark, C., Cortopassi, K.A., Hanser, S.F., McCowan, B., Ali, A.M., & Kirschel, A.N.G. 2011. Acoustic monitoring in terrestrial environments using microphone arrays: applications, technological considerations and prospectus. Journal of Applied Ecology 48: 758-767.[pdf available] [featured editor’s choice paper]
Chan, A.A.Y.-H., and D.T. Blumstein. 2011. Attention, noise, and implications for wildlife conservation and management. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 131:1-7. [pdf available]
Huang, B., Wey, T.W., and D.T. Blumstein. 2011. Correlates and consequences of dominance in a social rodent. Ethology 117:573-585. [pdf available]
Huang, B., Lubarksy, K., Teng, T., and D.T. Blumstein. 2011. Take only pictures, leave only…fear? The effects of photography on the West Indian anole, Anolis cristatellus. Current Zoology 57:77-82. [published online in 2010] [pdf available]
Kirschel, A.N.G., Slabbekoorn, H., Blumstein, D.T., Cohen, R.E., de Kort, S.R., Buermann, W., and T.B. Smith. 2011. Testing alternative hypotheses for evolutionary diversification in an African songbird: Rainforest refugia versus ecological gradients. Evolution 65:3162-3174. [pdf available]
Lea, A.J., and D.T. Blumstein. 2011. Age and sex influence marmot antipredator behavior during periods of heightened risk. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 65:1525-1533. [pdf available
Lea, A.J., and D.T. Blumstein. 2011. Ontogenetic and sex differences influence alarm call response: a meta-analysis. Ethology 117: 839-851. [pdf available]
Li, C., Monclus, R., Maul, T.L., Jiang, Z., and D.T. Blumstein. 2011. Quantifying human disturbance on antipredator behaviour and flush initiation distance in yellow-bellied marmots. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 129:146-152. [published online in 2010] [pdf available]
Matrosova, V.A., Blumstein, D.T., Volodin, I.A., and E.V. Volodina. 2011. The potential to encode sex, age, and individual identity in the alarm calls of three species of Marmotinae. Naturwissenschaften 98:181-192. [pdf available]
Monclús, R., Tiulim, J., and D.T. Blumstein. 2011. Older mothers follow conservative strategies under predator pressure: the adaptive role of maternal glucocorticoids in yellow-bellied marmots. Hormones and Behavior 60:660-665. [pdf available]
Peshek, K., and D.T. Blumstein. 2011. Can rarefaction be used to estimate song repertoire size in birds? Current Zoology 57:300-306. [pdf available]
Pollard, K.A., and D.T. Blumstein. 2011. Social group size predicts the evolution of individuality. Current Biology 21:413-417. [pdf available] [cover photo]
Stahlman, W.D., Chan, A.A.Y.-H., Blumstein, D.T., Fast, C.D., and A.P. Blaisdell. 2011. Auditory stimulation dishabituates anti-predator escape behavior in hermit crabs (Coenobita clypeatus). Behavioural Processes 88:7-11. [pdf available]

Blumstein, D.T. 2010. Conservation and animal welfare issues arising from forestry practices. Animal Welfare 19:151-157. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2010. Flush early and avoid the rush: A general rule of anti-predator behavior? Behavioral Ecology 21: 440-442. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Davitian, R., and Kaye, P.D. 2010. Do film soundtracks contain non-linear analogues to influence emotion? Biology Letters 6: 751-754. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T, Ebensperger, L.A., Hayes, L.D., Vásquez, R.A., Ahern, T.H., Burger, J.R., Dolezal, A.G., Dosmann, A., González-Mariscal, G., Harris, B.N., Herrera, E.A., Lacey, E.A., Mateo, J., McGraw, L.A., Olazábal, D., Ramenofsky, M., Rubenstein, D.R., Sakhai, S.A., Saltzman, W., Sainz-Borgo, C., Soto-Gamboa, M., Stewart, M.L., Wey, T.W., Wingfield, J.C. & Young, L.J. 2010. Towards an integrative understanding of social behavior: new models and new opportunities. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 4:34. doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2010.00034 [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Lea, A.J., Olson, L.E., and J. Martin. 2010. Heritability of anti-predatory traits: vigilance and locomotor performance in marmots. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23: 879-887. [pdf available] [cover photo]
Chan, A.A.Y.-H., Giraldo-Perez, P., Smith, S., and D.T. Blumstein. 2010. Anthropogenic noise affects risk assessment and attention: the distracted prey hypothesis. Biology Letters 6:458-461. [pdf available]
Chan, A.A.Y.-H., Stahlman, W.D., Garlick, D., Fast, C.D., Blumstein, D.T., and A.P. Blaisdell. 2010. Increased amplitude and duration of acoustic stimuli enhance distraction. Animal Behaviour 80: 1075-1079. [pdf available]
Collier, T.C., Blumstein, D.T., Girod, L. and C.E. Taylor. 2010. Is alarm calling risk? Marmots avoid calling from risky places. Ethology 116: 1171-1178. [pdf available]
Lea, A.J., Blumstein, D.T., Wey, T.W., and J.G.A. Martin. 2010. Heritable victimization and the benefits of agonistic relationships. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 107:21587-21592. [pdf available]
Munoz, N.E., Blumstein, D.T., and J. Foufopolous. 2010. Immunological costs of song and territorial defense in a bird. Behavioral Ecology 21:788-793. [pdf available]
Olson, L.E., and D.T. Blumstein. 2010. Applying the coalitionary traits metric: sociality without complex cooperation in male yellow-bellied marmots. Behavioral Ecology 21:957-965. [pdf available]
Ozgul, A., Childs, D.Z., Oli, M.K., Armitage, K.B., Blumstein, D.T., Olson, L.E., Tuljapurkar, S. and T. Coulson. 2010. Coupled dynamics of body mass and population growth in response to environmental change. Nature 466:482-485. [pdf available] [cover story] [commentary]
Parsons, M.H., and D.T. Blumstein. 2010. Familiarity breeds contempt: Kangaroos persistently avoid areas with experimentally deployed dingo scents. PLoS-One 5(5):e10403. [pdf available]
Parsons, M.H., and Blumstein, D.T. 2010. Feeling vulnerable? Indirect risk cues differentially influence how two marsupials respond to novel dingo urine. Ethology 116: 972-980. [pdf available]
Pollard, K.A., Blumstein, D.T., and Griffin, S.C. 2010. Pre-screening acoustic and other natural signatures for use in noninvasive individual identification. Journal of Applied Ecology 47:1103-1109. [pdf available] [cover photo]
Smith, B.R., and D.T. Blumstein. 2010. Behavioral types as predictors of survival in Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata). Behavioral Ecology 21:919-926. [pdf available]
Wey, T.W., and D.T. Blumstein. 2010. Social cohesion in yellow-bellied marmots is established through age and kin structuring. Animal Behaviour 79: 1343-1352. [pdf available]

Ali, A.M., Asgari, S., Collier, T.C., Allen, M., Girod, L., Hudson, R.E., Yao, K., Taylor, C.E., and D.T. Blumstein. 2009. An empirical study of collaborative acoustic source localization. Journal of Signal Processing Systems 57: 415-436. [pdf available]
Bednekoff, P.A., and D.T. Blumstein. 2009. Peripheral obstructions influence marmot vigilance: integrating observational and experimental results. Behavioral Ecology 20: 1111-1117. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2009. Social effects on emergence from hibernation in yellow-bellied marmots. Journal of Mammalogy 90:1184-1187. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Fernando, E., and T. Stankowich. 2009. A test of the multi-predator hypothesis: yellow-bellied marmots respond fearfully to the sight of novel and extinct predators. Animal Behaviour [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., and C. Récapet. 2009. The sound of arousal: the addition of novel nonlinearities increases responsiveness in marmot alarm calls. Ethology 115: 1074-1081. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Wey, T.W, and K. Tang. 2009. A test of the social cohesion hypothesis: Interactive female marmots remain at home. Proceedings Series B 276: 3007-3012. [pdf available]
Campos, D.P., Bander, L.A., Raksi, A., and D.T. Blumstein. 2009. Perch exposure and predation risk: a comparative study in passerines. Acta Ethologica 12: 93-98. [pdf available]
Fong, T.E., DeLong, T.W.,Hogan, S.B., and D.T. Blumstein. 2009. Direct and indirect cues in white-browed sparrow weaver (Plocepasser mahali) risk assessment. Acta Ethologica 12: 79-85. [pdf available]
Kirschel, A.N.G., Blumstein, D.T. and T.B. Smith. 2009. Character displacement in song and morphology of two related African tinkerbirds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA 106:8256-8261. [pdf available] [A Faculty of 1000 ‘must read’]
Kirschel, A.N.G., Blumstein, D.T., Cohen, R.E., Buermann, W., Smith, T.B., and H. Slabbekoorn. 2009. Birdsong tuned to the environment: green hylia song varies with elevation, tree cover, and noise. Behavioral Ecology 20: 1089-1095. [pdf available]
Lahti, D.C., Johnson, N.A., Ajie, B.C., Otto, S.P., Hendry, A.P., Blumstein, D.T., Coss, R.G., Donohue, K., and S.A. Foster. 2009. Relaxed selection in the wild: contexts and consequences. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 24:487-496. [pdf available]
Olson, L.E., and D.T. Blumstein. 2009. A trait-based approach to the evolution of complex coalitions in male mammals. Behavioral Ecology 20:624-632. [pdf available ]
Ozgul, A., Oli, M.K., Armitage, K.B., Blumstein, D.T., and D.H. Van Vuren. 2009. Influence of local demography on asymptotic and transient dynamics of a yellow-bellied marmot metapopulation. American Naturalist 173:517-530. [pdf available]

Blumstein, D.T., Barrow, L., and M. Luterra. 2008. Olfactory predator discrimination in yellow-bellied marmots. Ethology 114:1135-1143. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Cooley, L., Winternitz, J., and J.C. Daniel. 2008. Do yellow-bellied marmots respond to predator vocalizations? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 62:457-468. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., and A.P. Møller. 2008. Is sociality associated with high longevity in North American birds? Biology Letters 4:146-148. [pdf available ]
Blumstein, D.T., Richardson, D.T., Cooley, L., Winternitz, J., and J.C. Daniel. 2008. The structure, function, and meaning of yellow-bellied marmots pup screams. Animal Behaviour 76:1055-1064. [pdf available]
Borrego, N., Ozgul, A., Armitage, K.B., Blumstein, D.T., and M.K. Oli. 2008. Spatiotemporal variation in survival of male yellow-bellied marmots. Journal of Mammalogy 89:365-373. [pdf available]
Coleman, A., Richardson, D., Schechter, R., and D.T. Blumstein. 2008. Does habituation to humans influence predator discrimination in Gunther’s dik-diks (Madoqua guentheri)? Biology Letters 4:250-252. [pdf available]
Lea, A.J., Barrera, J.P., Tom, L.M., and D.T. Blumstein. 2008. Heterospecific eavesdropping in a nonsocial species. Behavioral Ecology 19:1041-1046. [pdf available]
Lombardo, S.R., Mackey, E., Tang, L., Smith, B.R., and D.T. Blumstein 2008. Multimodal communication and spatial binding in pied currawongs (Strepera graculina). Animimal Cognition 11:675-682. [pdf available]
Maldonando-Chaparro, A., and D.T. Blumstein. 2008. Management implications of capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) social behavior. Biological Conservation 141:1945-1952. [pdf available]
Pollard, K.A., and D.T. Blumstein. 2008. Time allocation and the evolution of group size. Animal Behaviour 76:1683-1699. [pdf available]
Smith, B.R., and D.T. Blumstein. 2008. Fitness consequences of personality: a meta-analysis. Behavioral Ecology 19:448-455. [pdf available]
Wey, T., Blumstein, D.T., Shen, W., and F. Jordán. 2008. Social network analysis of animal behaviour: a promising tool for the study of sociality. Animal Behaviour 75:333-344. [pdf available]

Blumstein, D.T. 2007. The evolution, function, and meaning of marmot alarm communication. Advances in the Study of Behavior 37:371-400. [pdf available]
Bordes, F., Blumstein, D.T., and S. Morand. 2007. Rodent sociality and parasite diversity. Biology Letters 3:692-694 [pdf available]
Gilman, S., Blumstein, D.T. & J. Foufopoulos. 2007. The effect of hemoparasites on white-crowned sparrow singing behavior. Ethology 113:437-445. [pdf available]
Heil, L., Fernández-Juricic, E., Renison, D., Nguyen, V., Cingolani, A.M., and D.T. Blumstein. 2007. Avian responses to tourism in the biogeographically isolated high Córdoba Mountains, Argentina. Biodiversity and Conservation 16:1009-1026. [pdf available]
Mooring, M.S., Blumstein, D.T., Reisig, D.D., Osbourne, E.R. and J.M. Niemeyer. 2007. Insect-repelling behaviour in bovids: role of mass, tail length, and group size. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 91:383-392. [pdf available]
Ozgul, A., Oli, M.K., Olson, L.E., Blumstein, D.T., and K.B. Armitage. 2007. Spatiotemporal variation in the reproductive parameters of the yellow-bellied marmot. Oecologia 154:95-106. [pdf available]
Rhoades, E.K., and D.T. Blumstein. 2007. Predicted fitness consequences of threat sensitive hiding behavior. Behavioral Ecology 18: 937-943. [pdf available]
Tarlow, E., and D.T. Blumstein. 2007. Evaluating methods to quantify anthropogenic stressors on animals. Applied Animal Behaviour 102:429-451. [pdf available]

Adams, J.L., Camelio, K.W., Orique, M.J., and D.T. Blumstein. 2006. Does information of predators influence general wariness? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 60:742-747. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2006. The multi-predator hypothesis and the evolutionary persistence of antipredator behavior. Ethology 112: 209-217. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. In 2006. Developing an evolutionary ecology of fear: how life history and natural history affect disturbance tolerance in birds. Animal Behaviour 71: 389-399. [pdf available] [classic paper in animal behavior]
Blumstein, D.T., Bitton, A., and J. daVeiga. 2006. How does the presence of predators influence the persistence of antipredator behavior? Journal of Theoretical Biology 239:460-468. [pdf available] (first published electronically in 2005)
Blumstein, D.T., Holland, B.-D., and J.C. Daniel. 2006. Predator discrimination in Vancouver Island marmots. Animal Conservation 9: 274-282. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Ozgul, A., Yovovich, V., Van Vuren, D.H., and K.B. Armitage. 2006. Predation risk predicts presence and persistence of yellow-bellied marmot colonies. Journal of Zoology, London 270:132-138. pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Patton, M.L., and W. Saltzman. 2006. Faecal glucocorticoid metabolites and alarm calling in free-living yellow-bellied marmots. Biology Letters 2:29-32.[pdf available] (first published electronically in 2005)
Boyer, J.S., Hass, L.L., Lurie, M.H., and D.T. Blumstein. 2006. Effect of visibility on time allocation and escape decisions in crimson rosellas. Australian Journal of Zoology 54:363-367. [pdf available]
Ebensperger, L.A., and D.T. Blumstein. 2006. Sociality in New World hystricognath rodents is linked to predators and burrow digging. Behavioral Ecology 17: 410-418. [pdf available]
Fernandez-Juricic, E., Blumstein, D.T., Abrica, G., Manriquez, L., Adams, L.B., Adams, R., Daneshard, M. and I. Rodriguez-Prieto. 2006. Effects of body mass, size, and morphology on anti-predator escape and post-escape responses: a comparative study with birds. Evolutionary Ecology Research 8:731-752. [pdf available]
Gulbransen, D., Segrist, T., del Castillo, P., and D.T. Blumstein. 2006. The fixed slope rule: an inter-specific study. Ethology 112:1056-1061. [pdf available]
Heil, L., Fernández-Juricic, E., Renison, D., Nguyen, V., Cingolani, A.M., and D.T. Blumstein. 2006. Avian responses to tourism in the biogeographically isolated high Córdoba Mountains, Argentina. Biodiversity and Conservation DOI 10.1007/s10531-006-9040-y [pdf available]
Ozgul, A., Armitage, K.B., Oli, M.K., Blumstein, D.T., and D. Van Vuren. 2006. Effects of patch quality and network structure on patch occupancy dynamics of a yellow-bellied marmot metapopulation. Journal of Animal Ecology 75:191-202. [pdf available]
Ozgul, A., Armitage, K.B., Blumstein, D.T., and M.K. Oli. 2006. Spatiotemporal variation in age-specific survival rates: implications for population dynamics of yellow-bellied marmots. Ecology 87:1027-1037. [pdf available]

Blumstein, D.T., and J.C. Daniel. 2005. The loss of anti-predator behaviour following isolation on islands. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B 272:1663-1668. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Fernández-Juricic, E., Zollner, P.A, and S.C. Garity. 2005. Interspecific variation in avian responses to human disturbance. Journal of Applied Ecology 42:943-953. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. and O. Munos. 2005. Individual and age/sex class variation in marmot alarm calls. Animal Behaviour 69:353-361. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., and D. Pelletier. 2005. Yellow-bellied marmot hiding time is sensitive to variation in costs. Canadian Journal of Zoology 83:363-367. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., and A.C. Turner. 2005. Can the acoustic adaptation hypothesis predict the structure of Australian birdsong? Acta Ethologica 15:35-44. [pdf available]
Cárdenas, Y., Shen, B., Zung, L., and D.T. Blumstein. 2005. Evaluating temporal and spatial margins of safety in galahs. Animal Behaviour [pdf available]
Fernández-Juricic, F., Venier, P., Renison, D, and D.T. Blumstein. 2005. Sensitivity of wildlife to spatial patterns of recreationist behavior: a critical assessment of minimum approaching distances and buffer areas for grassland birds. Biological Conservation 125:225-235. [pdf available]
Geist, C., Liao, J., Libby, S, and D.T. Blumstein. 2005. Does intruder group size and orientation affect flight initiation distance in birds? Animal Biodiversity and Conservation 28:69-73. [pdf available]
Shelley, E.L. and D.T. Blumstein. 2005. The evolution of vocal alarm communication in rodents. Behavioral Ecology [pdf available]
Stankowich, T. and D.T. Blumstein. 2005. Fear in animals: a meta-analysis and review of risk assessment. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B doi: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3251 [pdf available]
Webb, N. and D.T. Blumstein. 2005. Variation in human disturbance differentially affects predation risk assessment in western gulls. Condor 107:178-181. [pdf available]

Blumstein, D.T. and J.C. Daniel. 2004. Yellow-bellied marmots discriminate between the alarm calls of individuals and are more responsive to the calls from pups. Animal Behaviour 68:1257-1265. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Daniel, J.C., and B.P. Springett. 2004. A test of the multi-predator hypothesis: Rapid loss of antipredator behavior after 130 years of isolation. Ethology 110:919-934. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Fernández-Juricic, E., LeDee, O., Larsen, E., Rodriguez-Prieto, I., and C. Zugmeyer. 2004. Avian risk assessment: effects of perching height and detectability. Ethology 110:273-285. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Im, S., Nicodemus, A. and C. Zugmeyer. 2004. Yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris) hibernate socially. Journal of Mammalogy 85:25-29. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. Runyan, A., Seymour, M., Nicodemus, A., Ozgul, A., Ransler, F., Im, S., Stark, T., Zugmeyer, C, and J.C Daniel. 2004. Locomotor ability and wariness in yellow-bellied marmots. Ethology 110:615-634. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Verenyre, L., and J.C. Daniel. 2004. Reliability and the adaptive utility of discrimination among alarm callers. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 271:1851-1857. [pdf available]
Gould, M.L.,Green, L., Altenau, B., and D.T. Blumstein. 2004. A study of the species confidence hypothesis with spiny-cheeked honeyeaters (Acanthagenys rufogularis). Emu 104:267-271. [pdf available]
Mooring, M.S., Blumstein, D.T. and C.J. Stoner. 2004. The evolution of parasite-defence grooming in ungulates. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 81:17-37. [pdf available]
Runyan, A. and D.T. Blumstein. 2004. Do individual differences influence flight initiation distance? Journal of Wildlife Management 68:1124-1129. [pdf available]
Shelley, E.L., Tanaka, M.Y.U, Ratnathicam, A.R., and D.T. Blumstein. 2004. Do Lanchester’s laws explain interspecific dominance in birds? The Condor 106:395-400. [pdf available]

Armitage, K.B., Blumstein, D.T. and B.C. Woods. 2003. Energetics of hibernating yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A 134:101-114. [pdf available]
Biebouw, K. and D.T. Blumstein. 2003. Tammar wallabies (Macropus eugenii) associate safety with higher levels of nocturnal illumination. Ethology, Ecology & Evolution 15:159-172. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2003. Flight initiation distance in birds is dependent on intruder starting distance. Journal of Wildlife Management 67:852-857. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Anthony, L.L, Harcourt, R.G. and G. Ross. 2003. Testing a key assumption of wildlife buffer zones: is flight initiation distance a species-specific trait? Biological Conservation 110:97-100. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. and J.C. Daniel. 2003. Red kangaroos (Macropus rufus) receive an antipredator benefit from aggregation. Acta Ethologica 5:95-99. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. and J.C. Daniel. 2003. Foraging behavior of three Tasmanian macropodid marsupials in response to present and historical predation threat. Ecography 26:585-594. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. and J.C. Daniel. 2003. Developing predictive models of behaviour: Do rock-wallabies receive an antipredator benefit from aggregation? Australian Mammalogy 25:147-154. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Daniel, J.C. and R.A. Sims. 2003. Group size but not distance to cover influences agile wallaby (Macropus agilis) time allocation. Journal of Mammalogy 84:197-204. [pdf available]
Ikuta, L.A., and D.T. Blumstein. 2003. Do fences protect birds from human disturbance? Biological Conservation 112:447-452. [pdf available]
Johnson, F.R, McNaughton, E.J., Shelley, C.D. and D.T. Blumstein. 2003. Mechanisms of heterospecific recognition in avian mobbing calls. Australian Journal of Zoology 51:577-585. [pdf available]
Nanayakkara, D.D., and D.T. Blumstein. 2003. Defining yellow-bellied marmot social groups using association indices. Oecologia Montana 12:7-11. [published in 2006] [pdf available]
Olson, L.E., Yovovich, V., and D.T. Blumstein. 2003. Early season arboreal behavior in yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris). Oecologia Montana 12:12-14. [published in 2006] [pdf available]

Blumstein, D.T. 2002. Moving to suburbia: ontogenetic and evolutionary consequences of life on predator-free islands. Journal of Biogeography 29:685-692. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Ardron, J.G. and C.S. Evans. 2002. Kin discrimination in a macropod marsupial. Ethology 108: 815-823. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. and J.C. Daniel. 2002. Isolation from mammalian predators differentially affects two congeners. Behavioral Ecology 13:657-663. [pdf available [cover photo]
Blumstein, D.T., Daniel, J.C., Ardron, J.G. and C.S. Evans. 2002. Does feeding competition influence tammar wallaby time allocation? Ethology 108: 937-945. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Daniel, J.C., Schnell, M.R., Ardron, J.G. and C.S. Evans. 2002. Antipredator behaviour of red-necked pademelons: a factor contributing to species survival? Animal Conservation 5:325-331. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Mari, M., Daniel, J.C., Ardron, J.G., Griffin, A.S. and C.S. Evans. 2002. Olfactory predator recognition: wallabies may have to learn to be wary. Animal Conservation 5:87-93. [pdf available]
Cahan, S., Blumstein, D.T., Sundström, L., Liebig, J. and A. Griffin. 2002. Social trajectories and the evolution of social behaviour. Oikos 96:206-216. [pdf available]
Griffin, A.S., C.S. Evans, and D.T. Blumstein. 2002. Selective learning in a marsupial. Ethology 108:1103-1114. [pdf available]
Ord, T.J. and D.T. Blumstein. 2002. Size constraints and the evolution of display complexity: why do large lizards have simple displays? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 76:145-161. [pdf available]
Ord, T.J., Blumstein, D.T. and C.S.Evans. 2002. Ecology and signal evolution in lizards. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 77:127-148. [pdf available]

Bayly, K.L. and D.T. Blumstein. 2001. Pied currawongs and the decline of native birds. Emu 101:199-204. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Daniel, J.C. and I.G. McLean. 2001. Group size effects in quokkas. Australian Journal of Zoology 49:641-649. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Daniel, J.C. and C.S. Evans. 2001. Yellow-footed rock-wallaby group size effects reflect a trade-off. Ethology 107:655-664. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Daniel, J.C. and A.A. Bryant. 2001. Anti-predator behavior of Vancouver Island marmots: using congeners to evaluate abilities of a critically endangered mammal. Ethology 107:1-14. [pdf available]
Griffin, A.S., Evans, C.S. and D.T. Blumstein. 2001. Learning specificity in acquired predator recognition. Animal Behaviour 62:577-589. [pdf available]
Ord, T.J., Blumstein, D.T. and C.S. Evans. 2001. Intrasexual selection predicts the evolution of signal complexity in lizards. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 268:737-744. [pdf available]

Anthony, L.L. and D.T. Blumstein. 2000. Integrating behaviour into wildlife conservation: the multiple ways that behaviour can reduce Ne. Biological Conservation 95:303-315. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2000. Understanding antipredator behavior for conservation. The Open Country 1(2):37-44. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Daniel, J.C., Griffin, A.S. and C.S. Evans. 2000. Insular tammar wallabies respond to visual but not acoustic cues from predators. Behavioral Ecology 11:528-535. [pdf available]
Griffin, A.S., Blumstein, D.T. and C.S. Evans. 2000. Training captive-bred or translocated animals to avoid predators. Conservation Biology 14:1317-1326. [pdf available]

Blumstein, D.T. 1999. Alarm calling in three species of marmots. Behaviour 136:731-757. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 1999. The evolution of functionally referential alarm communication: multiple adaptations; multiple constraints. The Evolution of Communication 3:135-147. [pdf available] (published in 2002)
Blumstein, D.T. and K.B. Armitage. 1999. Cooperative breeding in marmots. Oikos 84:369-382. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D. T., Evans, C. S. and J. C. Daniel. 1999. An experimental study of behavioural group size effects in tammar wallabies (Macropus eugenii). Animal Behaviour 58:351-360. [pdf available]
Nikol’skii, A.A., Kotlyakov, V.M. and D.T. Blumstein. 1999. Glaciation as a factor of geographic variation in the long-tailed marmot (bioacoustical analysis). Doklady Biological Sciences 368:509-513 (first published in Russian in: Doklady Akademii Nauk 368:849-852). [pdf available]

Blumstein, D.T. 1998 a. Quantifying predation risk for refuging animals: a case study with golden marmots. Ethology 104:501-516. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 1998 b. Female preferences and effective population size. Animal Conservation 1:173-177. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. and K.B. Armitage. 1998. Life history consequences of social complexity: a comparative study of ground-dwelling sciurids. Behavioral Ecology 9:8-19. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. and W. Arnold. 1998. Ecology and social behavior of golden marmots (Marmota caudata aurea). Journal of Mammalogy 79:873-886. [pdf available]
Daniel, J.C. and D.T. Blumstein. 1998. A test of the acoustic adaptation hypothesis in four species of marmots. Animal Behaviour 56:1517-1528. [pdf available]

Blumstein, D.T. 1997. Infanticide among golden marmots (Marmota caudata aurea). Ethology Ecology & Evolution 9:169-173. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. and K.B. Armitage. 1997 a. Alarm calling in yellow-bellied marmots: I. The meaning of situationally variable alarm calls. Animal Behaviour 53:143-171. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. and K.B. Armitage. 1997 b. Does sociality drive the evolution of communicative complexity? A comparative test with ground-dwelling sciurid alarm calls. The American Naturalist 150:179-200. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. and J.C. Daniel. 1997. Inter- and intraspecific variation in the acoustic habitats of three marmot species. Ethology 103:325-338. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. and J.M. Foggin. 1997. Effects of vegetative variation on weaning success, overwinter survival, and social group density in golden marmots (Marmota caudata aurea). Journal of Zoology (London) 243:57-69. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Steinmetz, J., Armitage, K.B. and J.C. Daniel. 1997. Alarm calling in yellow-bellied marmots: II. The importance of direct fitness. Animal Behaviour 53:173-184. [pdf available]

Blumstein, D.T. 1996. How much does social group size influence golden marmot vigilance? Behaviour 133:1133-1151. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. and A. Bouskila. 1996. Assessment and decision making in animals: a mechanistic model underlying behavioral flexibility can prevent ambiguity. Oikos 77:569-576. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. and S. Henderson. 1996. Cheek-rubbing in golden marmots (Marmota caudata aurea). Journal of Zoology (London) 238:113-123. [pdf available]

Blumstein, D.T. 1995 a. Golden-marmot alarm calls. I. The production of situationally specific vocalizations. Ethology 100:113-125. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 1995 b. Golden-marmot alarm calls. II. Asymmetrical production and perception of situationally specific vocalizations? Ethology 101:25-32. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. and W. Arnold. 1995. Situational specificity in alpine-marmot alarm communication. Ethology 100:1-13. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. and M. Robertson. 1995. Summer diets of Tibetan red foxes in Khunjerab National Park, Pakistan. Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde 60:243-245. [pdf available]

Blumstein, D.T. 1993. New records of Mustela from Khunjerab National Park, Pakistan. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 90:500-501. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. and J.M. Foggin. 1993. Playing with fire? Alpine Choughs play with a Tibetan red fox. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 90:513-515. [pdf available]

Blumstein, D.T. 1992. Multivariate analysis of golden marmot maximum running speed: a new method to study MRS in the field. Ecology 73:1757-1767. [pdf available]
Bouskila, A. and D.T. Blumstein. 1992. Rules of thumb for predation hazard assessment: predictions from a dynamic model. The American Naturalist 139:161-176. [pdf available]

Blumstein, D.T. 1990. An observation of social play in Bearded Vultures. The Condor 92:779-781. [pdf available]

Blumstein, D.T. 1989. Food habits of Red-tailed Hawks in Boulder County, Colorado. The Journal of Raptor Research 23:53-55. [pdf available]

Special Publications, Conference Proceedings, and Book Chapters

Schakner, Z.A. and D.T. Blumstein. 2021. The California sea lion: thriving in a human-dominated world. In: Ethology and Behavioral Ecology of Otariids and the Odobenid. Ethology and Behavioral Ecology of Marine Mammals. (R. Harcourt and C. Campangna, eds.), Springer, Cham, pp: 347-365. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59184-7_18 [pdf available]
Billings, A.C., and D.T. Blumstein. 2020. A framework to understand interspecific multimodal signaling systems. In: Coding strategies in vertebrate acoustic communication (T. Aubin and N. Mathevon, eds.). Springer, Cham, pp. 315-325. [pdf available]
Billings, A.C., and D.T. Blumstein. 2019. Communication. In: Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior (J. Vonk and T.K. Shackelford, eds.). Springer, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_1665-1. [pdf available]
Natterson-Horowitz, B., and D.T. Blumstein. 2019. Integrating evolutionary thinking into medical education and curricula. In: Evolutionary Studies: Unfolding Darwin’s Roadmap across the Curriculum (Geher, G., Wilson, D.S., Head, H., and A. Gallup, eds.). Oxford University Press, XX-YY.
Putman, B.J., Samia, D.S.M., Cooper, W.E., Jr., and D.T. Blumstein. 2019. Impact of human-induced environmental changes on lizard behavior: insights from urbanization. In: Behavior of lizards: Evolutionary and mechanistic perspectives (V.L. Bells and A.P. Russell, eds.). Taylor and Francis, XX-YY.

Blumstein, D.T., Geffroy, B., Samia, D.S.M., and E. Bessa. 2017. Introduction: Ecotourism’s promise and peril. In: Ecotourism’s promise and peril: a biological evaluation (D.T., Blumstein, B. Geffroy, D.S.M. Samia, and E. Bessa eds.), Springer, XXX-YYY.
Blumstein, D.T., Geffroy, B., Samia, D.S.M., and E. Bessa. 2017. Creating a research-based agenda to reduce ecotourism impacts on wildlife. In: Ecotourism’s promise and peril: a biological evaluation (D.T., Blumstein, B. Geffroy, D.S.M. Samia, and E. Bessa eds.), Springer, XXX-YYY.
Samia, D.S.M., Angeloni, L.M., Bearzi, M., Bessa, E., Crooks, K.R., D’Amico, M., Ellenberg, U., Geffroy, B., Larson, C.L., Loyola, R., Møller, A.P., Reed, S.E., Sadoul, B., Shannon, G., Tablado, Z., Zacarias, D., and D.T. Blumstein. 2017. Best practices towards sustainable ecotourism. In: Ecotourism’s promise and peril: a biological evaluation (D.T., Blumstein, B. Geffroy, D.S.M. Samia, and E. Bessa eds.), Springer, XXX-YYY.

Sagarin, R., Blumstein, D.T., Dietl, G. 2016. Security, evolution and. In: Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology, vol. 4 (R.M. Kliman, ed.). Academic Press, Oxford, 10-15. [pdf available]
Schakner, Z., and D.T. Blumstein. 2016. Learning and conservation behavior: an introduction and overview. In: Conservation Behavior: Applying behavioral ecology to wildlife conservation and management (O. Berger-Tal and D. Saltz, eds.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 66-92. [pdf available]

Blumstein, D.T., and W.E. Cooper, Jr. 2015. Afterword. In: Escaping from predators: An integrative view of escape decisions (W.E. Cooper, Jr. and D.T. Blumstein, eds.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 420-426. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Samia, D.S.M., Stankowich, T., and W.E. Cooper, Jr. 2015. Best practice for the study of escape behaviour. In: Escaping from predators: An integrative view of escape decisions (W.E. Cooper, Jr. and D.T. Blumstein, eds.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 407-419. [pdf available]
Cooper, W.E., Jr., and D.T. Blumstein. 2015. Escape behaviour: importance, scope, and variables. In: Escaping from predators: An integrative view of escape decisions (W.E. Cooper, Jr. and D.T. Blumstein, eds.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 3-14. [pdf available]

Blumstein, D.T. 2014. Attention, habituation, and antipredator behaviour: implications for urban birds. In: Avian urban ecology (D. Gil and H. Brumm, eds.), Oxford University Press, Oxford, 41- 53. [pdf available]

Blumstein, D.T. 2013. Why we really don’t care about the evidence in evidence-based decision-making in conservation (and how to change this). In: Ignoring Nature No More: The Case for Compassionate Conservation (M. Bekoff, ed.). University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 103-112. [pdf available]
Smith, B.R. & D.T. Blumstein. 2013. Animal personalities and conservation biology: the importance of behavioral diversity. Pp. 379-411. In: Animal personalities: behavior, physiology, and evolution (C. Carere and D. Maestripieri, eds.), University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL. [pdf available]

Blumstein, D.T. 2012. Social behaviour. Pp. 119-128, In: Behavioural responses to a changing world (B. Wong & U. Candolin, eds.). Oxford University Press, Oxford. [pdf available]

Angeloni, L., Crooks, K.R., and D.T. Blumstein. 2010. Conservation and behavior: introduction. In: Breed M.D. and Moore J., (eds.) Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, volume 1, pp. 377-381 Oxford: Academic Press. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2010. Social behaviour in conservation. In: Social behaviour: Genes, ecology and evolution (A.J. Moore, T. Szekely and J. Komdeur, eds.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 654-672. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2010. Kinship. In: The encyclopaedia of applied animal behaviour and welfare (D. Mills, ed.), CAB International, 371. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2010. Fitness. In: The encyclopaedia of applied animal behaviour and welfare (D. Mills, ed.), CAB International, 265. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2010. Individual fitness. In: The encyclopaedia of applied animal behaviour and welfare (D. Mills, ed.), CAB International, 342-343. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2010. Tinbergen’s four questions. In: The encyclopaedia of applied animal behaviour and welfare (D. Mills, ed.), CAB International, 605-606. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2010. Social behaviour in conservation. Social behaviour: Genes, ecology and evolution (A.J. Moore, T. Szekely and J. Komdeur, eds.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. [pdf available]
Nonacs, P & D.T. Blumstein 2010. Predation risk and behavioral life history. Evolutionary behavioral ecology (D.F. Westneat and C.W. Fox, eds.), Oxford University Press, New York, 207-221. [pdf available]

Wang, T., Nonacs, P., and D.T. Blumstein. 2009. Social skew as a measure of the costs and benefits of group-living in marmots. In: Reproductive skew in vertebrates: Proximate and ultimate causes (R. Hager and C.B. Jones). Pp. 114-133. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. [pdf available]

Blumstein, D.T. 2008. Fourteen lessons from anti-predator behavior. In: Natural security: A Darwinian approach to a dangerous world (R. Sagarin and T. Taylor, eds.). U. California Press, 147-158. [pdf available]
Allen, M., Girod, L., Newton, R., Madden, S., Blumstein, D.T., and D. Estrin. 2008. VoxNet: An Interactive, Rapidly-Deployable Acoustic Monitoring Platform. In: IPSN ’08: Proceedings of the seventh international conference on Information processing in sensor networks, New York: ACM Press. [pdf available]

Ali, A., Collier, T., Girod, L., Yao, K., Taylor, C., and D.T. Blumstein. 2007. Acoustic source localization using the acoustic ENSBox. In: IPSN ’07: Proceedings of the sixth international conference on information processing in sensor networks, New York: ACM Press, 555-556. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2007. The evolution of alarm communication in rodents: structure, function, and the puzzle of apparently altruistic calling in rodents. In: Rodent societies (J.O. Wolff and P.W. Sherman, eds.). U. Chicago Press, 317-327. [pdf available]
Ebensperger, L.A. and D. T. Blumstein. 2007. Functions of non-parental infanticide in rodents. In: Rodent societies (J.O. Wolff and P.W. Sherman, eds.). U. Chicago Press, 267-279. [pdf available]
Trifa, V. M., L. Girod, T. Collier, D. T. Blumstein and C. E. Taylor. 2007. Automated wildlife monitoring using self-configuring sensor networks deployed in natural habitats. In M. Sugisaka and H. Tanaka, eds., Proceedings of the Twelfth International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics [pdf available]

Blumstein, D.T. and J.C. Daniel. 2005. Observing and quantifying behavior with JWatcher. In, Learning the skills of research: animal behavior exercises in the laboratory and field (E.M. Jacob and M. Hodge, eds.). Instructor Resource CD to accompany J. Alcock’s Animal Behavior: an evolutionary approach, 8th ed. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA, 31-35.
Blumstein, D.T. Accepted. Khunjerab National Park: an alpine paradise in jeopardy? In: Himalayan Crucible: North Pakistan in Transition (N.J.R. Allan, ed.). Oxford University Press, Karachi.

Blumstein, D.T. 2004. Antipredatory behavior: A brief overview. In, The encyclopedia of animal behavior (M. Bekoff, ed.). Greenwood Press, 45-47. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2004. Communication–Vocal: Alarm calls. In, The encyclopedia of animal behavior (M. Bekoff, ed.). Greenwood Press, 381-382. [pdf available]

Blumstein, D.T. 2003. Social complexity but not the acoustic environment is responsible for the evolution of complex alarm communication / La complexité sociale est responsable de l’évolution de la communication d’alarme complexe, non le milieu acoustique. In, Adaptative strategies and diversity in marmots / Stratégies adaptatives et diversité chez les marmottes (R. Ramousse, D. Allainé and M. Le Berre, eds.). International Network on Marmots, 31-38. [pdf available]
Daniel J.C. and D.T. Blumstein. 2003. Using JWatcher to study behaviour. / Etude du comportement des marmottes avec Jwatcher. In, Adaptative strategies and diversity in marmots / Stratégies adaptatives et diversité chez les marmottes (R. Ramousse, D. Allainé and M. Le Berre, eds.). International Network on Marmots, 41-44. [pdf available]

Blumstein, D.T. 2002. Group living. Pp. 448-450, In: Encyclopedia of evolution (M. Pagel, ed.). Oxford University Press, Oxford. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., J.C. Daniel and W. Arnold. 2002. Pp. 82-85, in: Holarctic Marmots as a Factor of Biodiversity- Proceedings of the 3d International Conference on Marmots, Cheboksary , Russia, 25-30 August 1997 (K.B. Armitage and V.Y. Rumiantsev, eds.). ABF Publishing House, Moscow. [pdf available]
Armitage, K.B. and D.T. Blumstein. 2002. Body-mass diversity in marmots. Pp. 22-32, in: Holarctic Marmots as a Factor of Biodiversity- Proceedings of the 3d International Conference on Marmots, Cheboksary , Russia, 25-30 August 1997 (K.B. Armitage and V.Y. Rumiantsev, eds.). ABF Publishing House, Moscow. [pdf available]
Woods, B.C., Armitage, K.B. and D.T. Blumstein. 2002. Yellow-bellied marmots depress metabolism to enter torpor. Pp. 400-404, in: Holarctic Marmots as a Factor of Biodiversity- Proceedings of the 3d International Conference on Marmots, Cheboksary, Russia, 25-30 August 1997 (K.B. Armitage and V.Y. Rumiantsev, eds.). ABF Publishing House, Moscow. [pdf available]
Woods, B.C., Armitage, K.B. and D.T. Blumstein. 2002. Circadian rhythm is maintained during hibernation in yellow-bellied marmots. Pp. 389-395, in: Holarctic Marmots as a Factor of Biodiversity- Proceedings of the 3d International Conference on Marmots, Cheboksary , Russia, 25-30 August 1997 (K.B. Armitage and V.Y. Rumiantsev, eds.). ABF Publishing House, Moscow. [pdf available]

Blumstein, D.T. 2000. The evolution of infanticide in rodents: a comparative analysis. Pp. 178-197, In: Infanticide by males and its implications (C. van Schaik and C.H. Janson, eds.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. [pdf available]
Rose, K. A., Kirkland, P. D., Davis, R. J., Cooper, D. W. and D. T. Blumstein. 2000. An epizootic of sudden death in tammar wallabies (Macropus eugenii). Annual Conference- American Association of Zoo Veterinarians, 2000:166-170. [pdf available]

Nikol’skii, A.A. and D.T. Blumstein. 1999. Geographic variation in Marmota caudata alarm calls: bioacoustical analysis supports the subspecific status of East Pamir and Karakoram populations. Pp. 72-73, In: Palearctic marmots: Biology and Management of Populations: Proceedings of the III International (VII) Conference of the CIS-states (O.V. Brandler, ed.). Moscow University Dialog Press, Moscow. [pdf available]

Blumstein, D.T. and J. Lopez. 1993. Habitat use by Himalayan Snowcocks. Pp. 142-143, In: Pheasants in Asia 1992 (D. Jenkins, ed.). World Pheasant Association, Reading, UK. [pdf available]

Blumstein, D.T. 1986. The diets and breeding biology of Red-tailed Hawks in Boulder County: 1985 nesting season. Boulder County Nature Association Publication No. 5, iv + 1-78. [pdf available]

Commentaries, Replies, and Reviews

Blumstein, D.T. 2024. Individuality matters but its cause has consequences. Animal Sentience 34(7). [pdf available]
Kepp, K.P., Aavitsland, P., Ballin, M., Balloux, F. Baral, F.S., Bardosh, K., Bauchner, H., Bendavid, E., Bhopal, R., Blumstein, D.T., Boffetta, P., Bourgeois, F., Brufsky, A., Collignon, P.J., Cripps, S., Cristea, I.A., Curtis, N., Djulbegovic, B., Faude, O., Flacco, M.E., Guyatt, G.H., Hajishengallis, G., Hemkens, L.G., Hoffmann, T., Joffe, A.R., Klassen, T.P., Koletsi, D., Kontoyiannis, D.P., Kuhl, E., La Vecchia, C., Lallukka, T., Lambris, J., Levitt, M., Makridakis, S., Maltezou, H.C., Manzoli, L., Marusic, A., Mavragani, C., Moher, D., Mol, B.W., Muka, T., Naudet, F., Noble, P.W., Nordström, A., Nordström, P., Pandis, N., Papatheodorou, S., Patel, C.J., Petersen, I., Pilz, S., Plesnila, N., Ponsonby, A.-L., Rivas, M.A., Saltelli, A., Schabus, M., Schippers, M.C., Schünemann, H., Solmi, M., Stang, A., Streeck, H., Sturmberg, J.P., Thabane, L., Thombs, B.D., Tsakris, A., Wood, S.A., and J.P.A. Ioannidis. 2024. Commentary: Selection bias with panel stacking is a threat to consensus statement validity. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 173:111428. [pdf]
Stryjek, R., Parsons, M.H., Blumstein, D.T., Fendt, M., and Y. Kiyokawa. 2024. Editorial: Trends toward naturalistic, field assays with free-ranging animals as contemporary alternatives to laboratory models. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 12:1455394. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., Alberti, M., Beninde, J., Blakey, R.V., Burger, J.R., Cooper, D.S., Niesner, C.A., Schell, C.J., Soga, M., and K. Uchida. 2023. Editorial: Global urban biodiversity and the importance of scale. Frontiers in Conservation Science 4:1149088. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T.. 2022. A guide for the malevolent: a review of Jennifer Jacquet, the playbook: how to deny science, sell lies, and make a killing in the corporate world. Journal of Bioeconomics 24:241-243. [pdf available]
Salsbury, C.M., Van Vuren, D.H., Fairbanks, W.S., Barthelmess, E.L., Blumstein, D.T., Koprowski, J.L., and R.M. Timm. 2022. Obituary: Kenneth Barclay Armitage (1925-2022). Journal of Mammalogy 103:993-998. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2022a. Review of: Fuzz: When nature breaks the law. Quarterly Review of Biology 7:48-49. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2022b. Review of: Exuberant life: An evolutionary approach to conservation in the Galápagos. Quarterly Review of Biology 7:58. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2021. Just because we can…: a review of Beth Shapiro, Life as we made it: how 50,000 years of human innovation refined- and redefined nature. Journal of Bioeconomics 23:325-328. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2021. Leveraging evolved instincts: a review of Dominic D.P. Johnson, Strategic insights: the adaptive advantages of cognitive biases in international politics. Journal of Bioeconomics 23:121-124. [pdf available]
Bradshaw, C.J.A., Ehrlich, P.R., Beattie, A., Ceballos, G., Crist, E., Diamond, J., Dirzo, R., Ehrlich, A.E., Harte, J., Harte, M.E., Pyke, G., Raven, P.H., Ripple, W.J., Saltre, F., Turnbull, C., Wackernagel, M., and D.T. Blumstein. 2021. Response: Commentary: Understanding the challenges of avoiding a ghastly future. Frontiers in Conservation Science 2:700869. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2020. Grand challenges in conservation science. Frontiers in Conservation Science 1:588568. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2020. The respect it deserves: Book review of Szulkin, M., J. Munshi-South, and A. Charmantier, eds. 2020. Urban evolutionary biology. Evolution 74:2748-2751. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., and K.E. Lynch. 2020. Innovative, yes: But is it rewilding? Animal Sentience 28:8. [pdf available]
Hale, R., McNally, R., Blumstein, D.T., and S.E. Swearer. 2020. Using animal behavior to guide habitat restoration. SERNews 34(3):4-7. [pdf available]
Lynch, K.E., and D.T. Blumstein. 2020. Conflicts and triage. Animal Sentience 27:24. [pdf available]
Lynch, K.E., and D.T. Blumstein. 2020. Hidden ethical costs of conservation. Science 370:179-180. [pdf available]
Carthey, A.J.R., Gillings, M.R., and D.T. Blumstein. 2019. Microbial genomes as extension packs for microorganismal diversity: a reply to Morimoto and Baltrus. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 34:188. [pdf available]
Berger-Tal, O., Greggor, A.L. Macura, B., Adams, C.A., Blumenthal, A., Bouskila, A., Candolin, U., Doran, C., Fernández-Juricic, E., Gotanda, K.M., Price, C., Putman, B.J., Segoli, M., Snijders, L., Wong, B.B.M., and D.T. Blumstein. 2019. Systematic evidence synthesis as part of a larger process: a response to comments on Berger-Tal et al. Behavioral Ecology 30:14-15. Published on-line in 2018. [pdf available]
Ehrlich, P.R., and D.T. Blumstein. 2018. Viewpoint: The great mismatch. BioScience 68:844-846. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. and D.M. Williams. 2018. Animal behavior: Social learning by a whisker. Current Biology 28:R658-660. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2018. Review of: Handbook of mammals of the world. Vol. 7. Rodents II. Quarterly Review of Biology 93:259-260. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2018. Review of: Mixed-species groups of animals: Behavior, community structure, and conservation. Quarterly Review of Biology 93:36-37. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2017. Review of: Handbook of the mammals of the world. Vol. 6. Lagomorphs and rodents 1. Quarterly Review of Biology 92:343-344. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2017. Review of: How to tame a fox (and build a dog). Quarterly Review of Biology 92:324-325. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2017. A triumph of multiple hypothesis testing. Review of: Zebra stripes. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 32:399-400. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2017. Research credibility: the devil is in the details: a comment on Ihle et al. Behavioral Ecology 28:355-361. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2017. Review of: Mammal societies. Journal of Wildlife Management doi: 10.1002/jwmg.21186 [pdf available]
Mills, J.A. Teplitsky, C. et al. 2016. Solutions for archiving data in long-term studies – a reply to Whitlock et al. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 31:85-87. [pdf available]
Geffroy, B., Samia, D.S.M., Bessa, E. and D.T. Blumstein. 2016. Nature-based tourism and prey vulnerability to predators: A reply to Fitzgerald and Stronza. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 31:95-96. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2016. Review of: Noise Matters: The Evolution of Communication. The Quarterly Review of Biology 90:87. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2015. Prioritizing conservation behavior research: A comment on Wong & Candolin. Behavioral Ecology 26:674. [pdf available] [published on-line in 2014]
Blumstein, D.T., Buckner, J., Shah, S., Patel, S., Alfaro, M.E., and B. Natterson-Horowitz. 2015. A clinical research pathway towards developing new insights into cardiomyopathy. Evolution, Medicine and Public Health 2015:280. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2014. Review of: Evolution of Emotional Communication: From Sounds in Nonhuman Mammals to Speech and Music in Man. Quarterly Review of Biology 88:342-343. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2014. A primer on evolutionary medicine: Review of: Evolution and Medicine. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 29:75-76. [pdf available]
Schakner, Z.A., Petelle, M.B., Berger-Tal, O., Owen, M., and D.T. Blumstein. 2014. Developing effective tools for conservation behaviourists: Reply to Greggor et al. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 29:651-652. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2012. Lessons from the field: A review of “Wild hope: On the front lines of conservation success”. Los Angeles Review of Books. [link to review]
Blumstein, D.T. 2012. Tactical deception reduces predation on birds’ eggs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 109:19043-19044. [pdf available]
Chan, A.Y., and D.T. Blumstein. 2012. Anthropogenic noise’s first reverberation into community ecology. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 279:2725-2726. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2011. Review of: Macropods: The biology of kangaroos, wallabies and rat-kangaroos. The Quarterly Review of Biology 86:151. [pdf available]
Swaisgood, R.R., Terbourgh, J.W. and D.T. Blumstein. 2010. Letter: Funding should come to those who wait. Science 329:276. [pdf available]
Sagarin, R.D., Alcorta, C.S., Atran, S., Blumstein, D.T, Dietl, G.P, Hochberg, M.E., Johnson, D.D.P., Levin, S., Madin, E.P., Madin, J.S., Prescott, E.M., Sosis, R., Taylor, T., Toby, J. and G. Vermeij. 2010. OPINION: Decentralise, adapt and cooperate. Nature 465:292-293. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D. T. 2010. Review of: Leaders in animal behavior: the second generation. Quarterly Review of Biology 85:362-363. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2010. Review of: Prairie dogs: communication and community in an animal society. Great Plains Research 20:138. [pdf available]
Keene, M. and D.T. Blumstein. 2010. Environmental education: a time of change, a time for change. Evaluation and Program Planning 33:201-204. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2008. In Focus: Calling for different purposes. Animal Behaviour 76: 1453-1454. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2008. In Focus: Wary elk support the risk allocation hypothesis. Animal Behaviour 76:1103-1105. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2008. In Focus: Communicating fear is sexy in chickens. Animal Behaviour 76:519-520. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2008. Commentary: Does agriculture drive predator-mediated behavioral effects on prey? Animal Conservation 11:9-10. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2007. Commentary: Feeling the heat: ground squirrels heat their tails to discourage rattlesnake attack. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA 104: 14177-14178. [pdf available] [translated into German and published in Rodentia Kleinsauger-Fachmagazin 50(9):19-21]
Blumstein, D.T. and C. Saylan. 2007. The failure of environmental education (and how we can fix it). PLoS Biology 5:e120. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2007. Darwinian decision-making: putting the adaptive into adaptive management. Conservation Biology 21:552-553. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2006. Attacking the big issues in antipredator defense. (Book review of Caro’s Antipredator Defenses in Birds and Mammals). Ethology 112:725-726. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2004. Book review: Evolutionary conservation biology (ed. by R. Ferriere, U. Dieckmann and D. Couvet). Ecoscience 11:483. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T., and E. Fernández-Juricic. 2004. Lead editorial: The emergence of conservation behavior. Conservation Biology 18:1175-1177. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2004. Perspective: Developing a career in conservation behavior. The Conservation Behaviorist 2(1):4. [link]
Blumstein, D.T. 2003. Book review: Acoustic communication in insects and anurans: common problems and diverse solutions (by H.C. Gerhardt & F. Huber). Ethology 109:89-90. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2001. Book review: Behaviour and conservation (ed. by L.M. Gosling and W.J. Sutherland). Journal of Wildlife Management 65:601-603. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 1999. Perspective: Selfish sentinels. Science 284:1633-1634. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. and K.B. Armitage. 1998. Why do yellow-bellied marmots call? Animal Behaviour 56:1053-1055. [pdf available]
Bouskila, A., Blumstein, D.T. and M. Mangel. 1995. Prey under stochastic conditions should almost always overestimate predation risk: a reply to Abrams. The American Naturalist 145:1015-1019. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 1993. Making humans part of the solution: a reply to Willers. Conservation Biology 7:223-224. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 1993. Book review: The Birds of Pakistan (by T.J. Roberts). Mountain Research and Development 13:112-113. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 1987. Book review: Medicine for mountaineering, third ed. (by J.A. Wilkerson). Rock and Ice 19:69-70. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 1987. Book review: Hypothermia, frostbite and other cold injuries (by J.A. Wilkerson). Rock and Ice 19:70-71. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 1986. Book review: The ABC of avalanche safety, second ed. (by E.R. LaChapelle). Rock and Ice 16:95. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 1986. Book review: The avalanche book (by B.A. Armstrong and K. Williams). Rock and Ice 16:95. [pdf available]

Training Manuals

Blumstein, D.T. 2000. How an understanding of behaviour can enlighten conservation biology. In: Conservation, welfare and handling of Australian marsupials—a practical course (D. Cooper, ed.). Macquarie University Department of Biological Sciences, Sydney.
Blumstein, D.T., R. Bowen, L. Boggs, J. Daniel, E.F. Loomis, and J.W. McNutt. N.D. A training manual for Khunjerab National Park guides. World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan, Lahore.
Blumstein, D.T. 1994. Marmots–a species account. For International Snow Leopard Trust training manual (ed. by R. Jackson).

Unpublished Research Reports

Blumstein, D.T. 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992. The behavioral ecology of golden marmots and community ecology of Dhee Sar (Khunjerab National Park): A progress report. National Council for the Conservation of Wildlife, Islamabad, Pakistan and World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan, Lahore.

Electronic Publications

Blumstein, D.T. 2024. Un-natural surprises. Smerconish.com. https://www.smerconish.com/exclusive-content/un-natural-surprises/
Blumstein, D.T., and T.B. Smith. 2024. Is the Wilderness Act still protecting nature? Zocalo Public Square https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2024/04/22/wilderness-act-protecting-nature-climate-change-crisis/ideas/essay/ (reprinted in The San Francisco Chronicle: https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/wilderness-act-bureaucracy-19451807.php)
Blumstein, D.T., Price, C., and T. van Dooren. 2023. Changing wild animals’ behavior could help save them—but is it ethical? The Conversation https://theconversation.com/changing-wild-animals-behavior-could-help-save-them-but-is-it-ethical-206083
Blumstein, D.T., Price, C., and T. van Dooren. 2023. Opinion: Conservation scientists can train wild animals to avoid threats, but is it ethical? The Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-06-06/conservation-scientists-can-train-wild-animals-to-avoid-threats
Blumstein, D.T. 2021. It’s groundhog day. Again… The Nature of Life, Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-nature-life/202101/it-s-groundhog-day-again
Bradshaw, C.J.A., Blumstein, D.T., and P. Ehrlich. 2021. Worried about Earth’s future? Well, the outlook is worse than even scientists can grasp. The Conversation https://theconversation.com/worried-about-earths-future-well-the-outlook-is-worse-than-even-scientists-can-grasp-153091
Nimmo, D., Carthey, A., Jolly, C.J., and D.T. Blumstein. 2021. Some animals have excellent tricks to evade bushfire. But flames might be reaching more animals naïve to the dangers. The Conversation https://theconversation.com/some-animals-have-excellent-tricks-to-evade-bushfire-but-flames-might-be-reaching-more-animals-naive-to-the-dangers-164894
O’Shea, J., and D.T. Blumstein. 2021. What if we used play to solve the world’s biggest problems? Zócalo Public Square. https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2021/01/28/friendly-competition-play-innovation-solve-world-problems/ideas/essay/
Blumstein, D.T. 2020. Banning sociality is costly. The Nature of Life, Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-nature-life/202011/banning-sociality-is-costly
Blumstein, D.T. 2020. Is it possible to be just terrified enough this covid halloween? Zócalo Public Square. https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2020/10/28/fear-motivate-covid-halloween/ideas/essay/
Blumstein, D.T. 2020. Inoculating ourselves against fear. The Nature of Life, Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-nature-life/202008/inoculating-ourselves-against-fear
Blumstein, D.T. 2020. Changing your mind based on new evidence is natural. The Nature of Life, Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-nature-life/202008/changing-your-mind-based-new-evidence-is-natural
Blumstein, D.T. 2020. Coronavirus lockdown gave me nature deficit disorder. The Nature of Life, Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-nature-life/202007/coronavirus-lockdown-gave-me-nature-deficit-disorder
Blumstein, D.T. 2020. A great global group selection experiment. The Nature of Life, Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-nature-life/202007/great-global-group-selection-experiment
Blumstein, D.T., Bradshaw, C., and P.R. Ehrlich. 2020. Never let a good crisis go to waste. The millennium alliance for humanity and the biosphere (MAHB) Blog: https://mahb.stanford.edu/blog/never-let-a-good-crisis-go-to-waste/
Blumstein, D.T., and B.N. Horowitz. 2020. The nature of deception in the age of coronavirus. The Nature of Life, Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-nature-life/202007/the-nature-deception-in-the-age-coronavirus
Blumstein, D.T., and T. Taylor. 2020. Lessons from nature can improve our pandemic response. The Nature of Life, Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-nature-life/202007/lessons-nature-can-improve-our-pandemic-response
Blumstein, D.T. and P.R. Ehrlich. 2020. The case for a shadow government now! Pros and cons. The millennium alliance for humanity and the biosphere (MAHB) Blog: https://mahb.stanford.edu/blog/the-case-for-a-shadow-government-now-pros-and-cons/
Jordán, F, Ehrlich, P.R., and D.T. Blumstein. 2020. Pandemics have multiple, interacting drivers. The Nature of Life, Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-nature-life/202007/pandemics-have-multiple-interacting-drivers
Blumstein, D.T., and Pinter-Wollman, N. 2019. Which GLM? Animal Ecology in Focus https://animalecologyinfocus.com/2019/04/22/which-glm/
Blumstein, D.T. 2018. Social security: do specific social relationships make animals safer? Science Trends https://sciencetrends.com/social-security-do-specific-social-relationships-make-animals-safer/
Blumstein, D., Geffroy, B., Samia, D., and Bessa, E. 2017. Ecotourism: biological benefit or bane?. The Scientist [link]
Saylan, C., and D.T. Blumstein. 2011. Environmental education should be made a significant part of public school curriculum. Ecology Global Network Forum.
Blumstein, D.T. 2009. Op-Ed: What marmots teach us about terrorism. Wired Science.
Blumstein, D.T. and the Animal Behavior Society Conservation Committee. 2002. 13 things a behavioral biologist can do to help conservation. [reprinted in the Conservation Behaviorist: 2003-]
Blumstein, D.T. 1997. Problems in ecotourism development: Contrasting the agendas of actors in sustainable ecotourism development. For: On-line International Ecotourism Conference, March 3 – April 5, 1997.
Blumstein, D.T. 1995 – current. The Marmot Burrow. http://www.marmotburrow.ucla.edu
Blumstein Lab: 2010 – current. BLOG: Marmot Minutes. http://www.marmots-ucla.blogspot.com
Blumstein, D.T. 2011 – current. BLOG: Eating Our Way to Civility. http://www.eatingourwaytocivility.blogspot.com
Blumstein, D.T. 2012 – current. Blogger for The Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com
Blumstein, D.T. 2012 – current. Blogger for Evolution: This View of Life. http://www.thisviewoflife.com/

Popular Publications

Natterson-Horowitz, B., and D.T. Blumstein. 2023. What can evolution teach us about being sick? Frontiers in Young Minds https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2023.1052144
Blumstein, D.T. 2018. My airline gold status should come with a carbon tax. Los Angeles Times: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-blumstein-20181214-story.html
Blumstein, D.T. 2017. Surviving in a post-truth world. Project Syndicate: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/political-lessons-from-the-animal-kingdom-by-daniel-t–blumstein-2017-08
Blumstein, D.T. 2017. Skiing for science. Science 356:214. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2017. Groundhog Day is so silly. But as a groundhog scientist, I love it anyway. Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/02/01/groundhog-day-could-not-be-less-scientific-im-a-scientist-who-loves-it-anyway/?utm_term=.7699d795e766 (also published in Zocalo Public Square and at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History What it Means to be an American project.
Price, M., Waser, N., Blumstein, D., Inouye, D., Castro-Escobar, B., Furman, R. 2013. Marr Fund Research: Coyotes and columbines: Do predators deter deer from eating Colorado native wildflowers? Aquilegia 37(5): 3-5. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2012. Respecting animal diversity for its own sake. Crested Butte News, 20 July 2012: 22. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2009. The last pika. In: Thoreau’s Legacy: American Stories About Global Warming. Penguin Classics, New York.
Blumstein, D.T. 2008. Do marmots retain fear of extinct predators? Crested Butte News, 18 July 2008: 44-45. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2008. A localized ecological disaster. The Denver Post, 1 July 2008–online: http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_9756521 [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 2006. Nature’s wake-up call: the marmot alarm. Crested Butte News, 30 June 2006: 84-85. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 1993. Infanticide: a search for an adaptive explanation. Natura–World Wide Fund for Nature–Pakistan, Newsletter 19(3): 14-15. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 1993. Territoriality: an economic approach. Natura–World Wide Fund for Nature–Pakistan, Newsletter 19(2): 8-10. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 1993. Mating systems: together with man and nature. Natura–World Wide Fund for Nature–Pakistan, Newsletter 19(2): 11-13. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 1993. Dhee Sar: portrait of a high alpine meadow. Natura–World Wide Fund for Nature–Pakistan, Newsletter 18(1):4-7. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 1992. Boxing marmots: functions of play. Natura–World Wide Fund for Nature–Pakistan, Newsletter 17(4):8-10. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 1992. Flying feathers–some theory of animal conflict. Natura–World Wide Fund for Nature–Pakistan, Newsletter 16(3):9-10. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 1992. Why did the peafowl scream?–Functions of animal vocalizations. Natura–World Wide Fund for Nature–Pakistan, Newsletter 14(1):26-28. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 1991. Why do male Himalayan ibex have large horns? Natura–World Wide Fund for Nature–Pakistan, Newsletter 13(4):22-23. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 1991. Mountain marmots of the Karakoram. Natura–World Wide Fund for Nature–Pakistan, Newsletter 12(3):8-11. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 1987. Africa by bicycle. Outside (February):40. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 1987. Cliff-nesting raptors and cliff-climbing humans. Rock and Ice 18:16-17. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 1986. Avalanche hazards and the extreme skier and big mountain climber. Rock and Ice 16:93-94. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D. 1986. Product review: Rump riders. Mountain Bike Magazine (July/August).

Children’s Stories

Blumstein, D.T. 1994. The lessons of Naveed the marmot. Mithu Begum–World Wide Fund for Nature–Pakistan, Children’s Comic Book. [pdf available]
Blumstein, D.T. 1993. Naveed’s first lesson. Natura–World Wide Fund for Nature–Pakistan, Newsletter 18(1):14-15. [pdf available]