Ben T. Hirsch

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute — PA

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

29h-index2.5kcitations84works5.02yr avg
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Research Topics

Wildlife Ecology and Conservation(39), Primate Behavior and Ecology(27), Animal Behavior and Reproduction(20), Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies(10), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(9)

Publications84 total

Habitat use of invasive chital deer is associated with soil mineral content
Wildlife Research·2025Open Access
<scp>DNA</scp> metabarcoding provides new insight into the diet of invasive chital deer (<i>Axis axis</i>) in a tropical savanna landscape
Ecosphere·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Behavioral sequences across multiple animal species in the wild share common structural features
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Large‐scale and long‐term wildlife research and monitoring using camera traps: a continental synthesis
Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society·2025· 20 citedOpen Access
Whole group tracking reveals that relatedness drives consistent subgrouping patterns in white-nosed coatis
Animal Behaviour·2024· 8 citedOpen Access
Why did primates evolve such big brains? First study of its kind says it wasn’t for finding food
2024Open Access
Smarter foragers do not forage smarter: a test of the diet hypothesis for brain expansion
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Behavioral sequences across multiple animal species in the wild share common structural features
2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Whole group tracking reveals that relatedness drives consistent subgrouping patterns in white-nosed coatis
2023· 2 citedOpen Access
Multi-scale movement syndromes for comparative analyses of animal movement patterns
Movement Ecology·2023· 29 citedOpen Access
Novel observations of cleaning interactions between eastern grey kangaroos and three Australian bird species
Food Webs·2023Open Access
Invasive wild deer exhibit environmental niche shifts in Australia: Where to from here?
Ecology and Evolution·2023· 9 citedOpen Access
Dancing to a different tune: changing reproductive seasonality in an introduced chital deer population
Oecologia·2022· 8 citedOpen Access
Laying low: Rugged lowland rainforest preferred by feral cats in the Australian Wet Tropics
Ecology and Evolution·2022· 3 citedOpen Access
Life in 2.5D: Animal Movement in the Trees
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution·2022· 12 citedOpen Access
Predicted alteration of vertebrate communities in response to climate‐induced elevational shifts
Diversity and Distributions·2022· 9 citedOpen Access
Laying low: Rugged lowland rainforest preferred by feral cats in the Australian Wet Tropics.
2022
Population‐level inference for home‐range areas
Methods in Ecology and Evolution·2022· 35 citedOpen Access
A Quantitative Framework for Identifying Patterns of Route-Use in Animal Movement Data
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution·2022· 8 citedOpen Access
Predicting species abundance by implementing the ecological niche theory
Ecography·2021· 29 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Roland Kays(16), Margaret C. Crofoot(9), Patrick A. Jansen(8), Stanley D. Gehrt(6), Damien Caillaud(5), Rasmus Worsøe Havmøller(5), Shauhin E. Alavi(5), Willem‐Jan Emsens(4), Suzanne Prange(4), Stephanie A. Hauver(4), Catherine L. Kelly(4), Michael Noonan(3), Christen H. Fleming(3), William F. Fagan(3), Justin M. Calabrese(3), Richard Coleman(3), Stephen E. Williams(3), Lin Schwarzkopf(3), Iain J. Gordon(3), Veronica Zamora‐Gutierrez(2)