Postgraduate Project Opportunities
I am willing to supervise a PhD
Publications
2025
- PublishedThe use of miniaturised Bluetooth Low Energy proximity loggers to study contacts among small rodents in agricultural settings
Huels, F., Van den Broeke, B., Sluydts, V., Kirkpatrick, L., Hererra Olivares, I., Ennen, H., Vermeiren, D., Leirs, H. & Jacob, J., 3 Jan 2025, In: PLoS ONE. 20, 1, p. e0312553
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2024
- E-pub ahead of printShort-term trends in great ape density in a community-based conservation area in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
van Der Hoek, Y., Van de Perre, F., Fastré, C., Kirkpatrick, L., Ngobobo, U., Tokunda, R., Binyinyi, E. & Stoinski, T. S., 4 Sept 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Ecological Solutions and Evidence. 5, 3, e12379.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2023
- PublishedDrivers affecting habitat use in Afrotropical hipposiderid and pteropodid bats
Mande, C., Van Cakenberghe, V., Kirkpatrick, L., Laudisoit, A., De Bruyn, L., Gembu, G.-C. & Verheyen, E., 1 Sept 2023, In: Biotropica. 55, 5, p. 920-932 13 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - PublishedSonotype-level responses of Afrotropical hipposiderid bats to local-scale effects of rainforest structure
Mande, C., Kirkpatrick, L., Van Cakenberghe, V., De Bruyn, L., Laudisoit, A., Gembu, G.-C. & Verheyen, E., 1 Dec 2023, In: African Journal of Ecology. 61, 4, p. 829-839 11 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - PublishedTwenty-nine years of continuous monthly capture-mark-recapture data of multimammate mice (Mastomys natalensis) in Morogoro, Tanzania
Leirs, H., Kirkpatrick, L., Sluydts, V., Sabuni, C., Borremans, B., Katakweba, A., Massawe, A., Makundi, R., Mulungu, L., Machang'u, R. & Mariën, J., 11 Nov 2023, In: Scientific data. 10, 1, p. 798
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2022
- PublishedIncorporating space in hierarchical capture mark recapture models: can we better capture variance?
Van Der Drift, A.-M., Leirs, H., Mariën, J., Sabuni, C., Mulungu, L. & Kirkpatrick, L., 2 Nov 2022, In: bioRxiv. p. 1 10 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
2021
- PublishedTemperature driven hibernation site use in the Western barbastelle Barbastella barbastellus (Schreber, 1774)
De Bruyn, L., Gyselings, R., Kirkpatrick, L., Rachwald, A., Apoznański, G. & Kokurewicz, T., 14 Jan 2021, In: Scientific Reports. 11, 1, p. 1464 1 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - PublishedUnifying spatial and social network analysis in disease ecology
Albery, G. F., Kirkpatrick, L., Firth, J. A. & Bansal, S., 1 Jan 2021, In: Journal of Animal Ecology. 90, 1, p. 45-61 17 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2020
- PublishedBee markers: A novel method for non-invasive short term marking of bats
Kirkpatrick, L., Apoznański, G., Bruyn, L. D., Gyselings, R. & Kokurewicz, T., 2 Mar 2020, In: Acta Chiropterologica. 21, 2, p. 465-471 7 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - PublishedDensity dependence and persistence of Morogoro arenavirus transmission in a fluctuating population of its reservoir host
Mariën, J., Borremans, B., Verhaeren, C., Kirkpatrick, L., Gryseels, S., Goüy de Bellocq, J., Günther, S., Sabuni, C. A., Massawe, A. W. & Reijniers, J., 1 Feb 2020, In: Journal of Animal Ecology. 89, 2, p. 506-518 13 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2018
- PublishedContact detection for social networking of small animals
Berkvens, R., Olivares, I. H., Mercelis, S., Kirkpatrick, L. & Weyn, M., 17 Oct 2018, Advances on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing (3PGCIC-2018). Springer, p. 405-414 10 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review - PublishedFlexible foraging strategies in Pipistrellus pygmaeus in response to abundant but ephemeral prey
Kirkpatrick, L., Graham, J., McGregor, S., Munro, L., Scoarize, M. & Park, K., 4 Oct 2018, In: PLoS ONE. 13, 10, p. e0204511
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - PublishedThe metric matters when assessing diversity: Assessing lepidopteran species richness and diversity in two habitats under different disturbance regimes
Kirkpatrick, L., Mitchell, S. N. & Park, K. J., 1 Nov 2018, In: Ecology and Evolution. 8, 22, p. 11134-11142 9 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2017
- PublishedBat use of commercial coniferous plantations at multiple spatial scales: Management and conservation implications
Kirkpatrick, L., Maher, S. J., Lopez, Z., Lintott, P. R., Bailey, S. A., Dent, D. & Park, K. J., 1 Feb 2017, In: Biological Conservation. 206, p. 1-10 10 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - PublishedNegative impacts of felling in exotic spruce plantations on moth diversity mitigated by remnants of deciduous tree cover
Kirkpatrick, L., Bailey, S. & Park, K. J., 15 Nov 2017, In: Forest Ecology and Management. 404, p. 306-315 10 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - PublishedResponses of bats to clear fell harvesting in Sitka Spruce plantations, and implications for wind turbine installation
Kirkpatrick, L., Oldfield, I. F. & Park, K., 1 Jul 2017, In: Forest Ecology and Management. 395, p. 1-8 8 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - PublishedThe database of the PREDICTS (projecting responses of ecological diversity in changing terrestrial systems) project
Kirkpatrick, L., 1 Jan 2017, In: Ecology and Evolution. 7, 1, p. 145-188 44 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2015
- PublishedGlobal effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity
Newbold, T., Hudson, L. N., Hill, S. L., Contu, S., Lysenko, I., Senior, R. A., Börger, L., Bennett, D. J., Choimes, A., Collen, B. & Kirkpatrick, L., 1 Apr 2015, In: Nature. 520, 7545, p. 45-50 6 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2014
- PublishedA global model of the response of tropical and sub-tropical forest biodiversity to anthropogenic pressures
Newbold, T., Hudson, L. N., Phillips, H. R., Hill, S. L., Contu, S., Lysenko, I., Blandon, A., Butchart, S. H., Booth, H. L., Day, J. & Kirkpatrick, L., 7 Oct 2014, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 281, 1792, p. 20141371 1 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Activities
2025
- Proximity logging to understand animal behaviour
Invited to give a workshop in how to use the biologgers I developed in monitoring animal movement and behaviour in captive animals (zoo conservation).
4 Apr 2025
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)
2024
- Restoration in the Anthropocene: Time for a One Health Perspective?
Invited speaker at a session at the conference
19 Nov 2024
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)