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Luca Börger

0000-0001-8763-5997

Professor of Ecology and Biodiversity (Ecology not elsewhere classified)

Swansea/Wales/UK

I am broadly interested in behavioural, population and community ecology, including management applications and methodological aspects. My work is not system specific but question-driven and as such I work on contrasting study systems (invertebrates, vertebrates, and plants), using experimental, statistical, and simulation modelling approaches. I obtained a M.Sc. in Biology at the U. of Pisa (Italy) and a PhD in Zoology at Cambridge University (UK), followed by postdoctoral research in Canada (U. of Guelph) and France (CNRS & INRA). Before doing science I obtained a B. Mus. (music performance - French horn) and worked for over 10 years as a professional musician.

Publications

  • updated list here: http://publicationslist.org/luca.borger
  • see also my Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=D5CTvNUAAAAJ&hl=en
  • Fieberg, J., Börger, L. (2012) Could you please phrase “home range” in the form of a question? Journal of Mammalogy 93(4): 890-902.
  • Fridley, J. D., J. P. Grime, M. A. Huston, S. Pierce, S. M. Smart, K. Thompson, L. Börger et al. (2012). Comment on "Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness". Science 335:1441.
  • Börger, L., Matthiopoulos, J., Holdo, R., Morales, J., Couzin, I., McCauley, E. (2011). Inferential frameworks: linking models and data across scale. Pages 111-128. In: Animal Migration – A Synthesis. Editors: Milner-Gulland, E.J., Fryxell, J.M., Sinclair A.R.E. Oxford University Press, Oxford (UK).
  • Bunnefeld N., Börger L., van Moorter B., Rolandsen C.M., Dettki H., Solberg E.J., Ericsson G. (2011) A unified behavioural and geographical approach for migration: quantifying individual, regional and yearly differences. Journal of Animal Ecology 80(2): 466-476.
  • Struve, J., Lorenzen, K., Blanchard, J., Börger, L., Bunnefeld, N., Edwards, C., Hortal, J., MacCall, A., Matthiopoulos, J.F., Moorter, B.V., Ozgul, A., Royer, F., Singh, N., Yesson, C., & Bernard, R. (2010) Lost in space? Searching for directions in the spatial modelling of individuals, populations and species ranges. Biology Letters 6(5): 575-578.
  • Van Moorter, B., Visscher, D., Benhamou, S., Börger, L., Boyce, M. & Gaillard, JM. (2009) Memory keeps you at home: a mechanistic model for home range emergence. Oikos 118: 641-652.
  • Börger, L., Dalziel, B.D., Fryxell, J.M. (2008) Are there general mechanisms of animal home range behaviour? A review and prospects for future research. Ecology Letters 11: 637-650.
  • Fryxell, J.M., Hazell, M., Börger, L., Dalziel, B. D., Haydon, D.T., Morales, J.M., McIntosh, T., & Rosatte, R. (2008) Multiple movement modes by large herbivores at multiple spatio-temporal scales. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (49): 19114-19119.
  • Bunnefeld, N., Börger, L., Nilsen, E.B., Basille, M., Hall, R., Ezard, T.H.G., Trierweiler, C., Minderman, J., Mangel, M., Gaillard, J.-M., Milner-Gulland, E.J. (2007) Coming out of the ivory tower: how to ensure that ecological modelling research remains practical and applied. Bulletin of the British Ecological Society 38(4): 64-66.
  • Börger L., et al. (2006) Effects of sampling regime on the mean and variance of home range size estimates. Journal of Animal Ecology, 75: 1393-1405.
  • Börger, L.; et al. (2006) An integrated approach to identify spatio-temporal and individual-level determinants of animal home range size. The American Naturalist, 168: 471–485.
  • Pelletier F., Börger L. (2006) Reproductive Social Behavior: Ignoring Ecological Scenarios and the "Currency" of Evolution. Science; eletters/311/5763/965.
  • Maire, V., Gross, N., Börger, L., Proulx, R., Wirth, C., Pontes, L. d. S., Soussana, J.-F. & Louault, F. (2012) Habitat filtering and niche differentiation jointly explain species relative abundance within grassland communities along fertility and disturbance gradients. New Phytologist 196: 497–509.
  • Wiebe, P. A., Fryxell, J. M., Thompson, I. D., Börger, L. & Baker, J. A. (2013) Do trappers understand marten habitat? Journal of Wildilfe Management 77(2): 379–391.
  • N. Gross, L. Börger, M. S. Soriano, Y. Le Bagousse-Pinguet, J. L. Quero, M. García-Gómez, E. Valencia-Gómez & F. T. Maestre (in press) Uncovering multi-scale effects of aridity and biotic interactions on the functional structure of Mediterranean shrublands. Journal of Ecology.

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