Scientific Publications

Below is the lab's scientific publications (lab members are highlighted in bold font). Our research articles are published in peer-reviewed journals and are available in the links provided. If you want a full-text version of an article, please contact us and we will send you a copy!

2025

O’Bryan, C.J., Alexander R. Braczkowski, Pim Martens. "Predators and Scavengers as Sentinals for Planetary Health." BioScience (2025). https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaf054.

2024

Braczkowski, Alexander, Nicholas Elliot, Aggrey Rwetsiba, Tutilo Mudumba, Arjun M. Gopalaswamy, Christopher J. O’Bryan, Anna Crysell et al. "Insights into Large Carnivore Populations in Uganda: A Participatory Survey of Lions, Leopards, and Hyenas Using Spatial Capture-Recapture." Global Ecology and Conservation (2024): e03312.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2024.e03312. 

Braczkowski, Alexander, Lilian Namusoke, Silvan Musobozi, Orin Cornille, Tutilo Mudumba,   Gilbert Drileyo, Femke Broekhuis, Sophia Jingo, Brenda Asimwe, Peter Luhonda, Bosco Atukwatse, Christopher J. O’Bryan, et al. "Rangers on the frontline of wildlife monitoring: a case study on African lions in Uganda's Nile Delta." Communications Biology 7, 1308 (2024).  https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06796-0. 

Braczkowski, Alexander, Luke Ochse, Bosco Atukwatse, Orin Cornille, Christopher J. O’Bryan, Peter Linsey, R. Kotze, Luke Gibson, Duan Biggs. "Long-Distance Swimming by African Lions in Uganda." Ecology and Evolution e11597 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11597. 

Abeysinghe, Nisansala, Christopher J. O’Bryan, Jonathan R. Rhodes, Eve McDonald‐Madden, Angela M. Guerrero. "Diversity in Invasive Species Management Networks." Journal of Environmental Management 365, no. 121412 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.121424.

Arenas-Castro, Henry, Violeta Berdejo-Espinola, Shawan Chowdhury, Argelia Rodríguez-Contreras, Aubrie R. M. James, Nussaïbah B. Raja, Emma M. Dunne, ... Christopher J. O'Bryan,  et al. “Academic Publishing Requires Linguistically Inclusive Policies.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 291, no. 2018 (2024): 20232840. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2840.

Berdejo-Espinola, Violeta, Renee Zahnow, Christopher J. O’Bryan, and Richard A. Fuller. “Virtual Reality for Nature Experiences.” Nature Human Behaviour, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01857-0.

2023

Abeysinghe, Nisansala, Christopher J. O’Bryan, Angela M. Guerrero, Jonathan R. Rhodes, and Eve McDonald‐Madden. “Unravelling How Collaboration Impacts Success of Invasive Species Management.” People and Nature 5, no. 6 (2023): 2093–2106. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10544.

Abeysinghe, Nisansala, Angela M. Guerrero, Jonathan R. Rhodes, Eve McDonald-Madden, and Christopher J. O’Bryan. “How Success Is Evaluated in Collaborative Invasive Species Management: A Systematic Review.” Journal of Environmental Management 348 (2023): 119272. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.119272.

O’Bryan, C. J., J. Rhodes, Olusegun O. Osunkoya, G. Lundie-Jenkins, N. Abeysinghe, T. Sydes, M. Calvert, E. McDonald-Madden, and M. Bode. “Setting Conservation Priorities in Multi-Actor Landscapes.” BioScience, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biad046.

Braczkowski, Alexander R., Christopher J. O’Bryan, Christian Lessmann, Carlo Rondinini, Anna P. Crysell, Sophie Gilbert, Martin Stringer, Luke Gibson, and Duan Biggs. “The Unequal Burden of Human-Wildlife Conflict.” Communications Biology 6, no. 1 (2023): 182. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04493-y.

2022

Sonter, Laura J., Thomas J. Lloyd, Stephen G. Kearney, Moreno Di Marco, Christopher J. O’Bryan, Richard K. Valenta, and James E. M. Watson. “Conservation Implications and Opportunities of Mining Activities for Terrestrial Mammal Habitat.” Conservation Science and Practice 4, no. 12 (2022): e12806. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.12806.

O’Bryan, Christopher J., James R. Allan, Andres Felipe Suarez-Castro, Dobrochna M. Delsen, Ralph Buij, Christopher J. W. McClure, Jose A. Rehbein, et al. “Human Impacts on the World’s Raptors.” Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution10 (2022): 624896. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.624896.

O’Bryan, Christopher, M. Kevin Hamed, Thomas F. Laughlin, and J. Wallace Coffey. “Body-Size and Aerial Basking Dynamics of the Spiny Softshell (Apalone Spinifera) in a Human-Modified Landscape in Tennessee, USA.” Journal of North American Herpetology 2022, no. 1 (2022). https://doi.org/10.17161/jnah.v2022i1.14515.

O’Bryan, Christopher J., Nicholas R. Patton, Jim Hone, Jesse S. Lewis, Violeta Berdejo‐Espinola, Derek R. Risch, Matthew H. Holden, and Eve McDonald‐Madden. “Unrecognized Threat to Global Soil Carbon by a Widespread Invasive Species.” Global Change Biology 28, no. 3 (2022): 877–82. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15769.

2021

Andrade Junior, Milton A.U. de, James E.M. Watson, Brooke A. Williams, James R. Allan, Christopher J. O’Bryan, and Sean L. Maxwell. “How to Halve the Carbon and Biodiversity Impacts of Biofuel-Driven Land-Use Change in Brazil.” Biological Conservation 260 (2021): 109214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109214.

O’Bryan, Christopher J., Nicholas R. Patton, Jim Hone, Jesse S. Lewis, Violeta Berdejo‐Espinola, Derek R. Risch, Matthew H. Holden, and Eve McDonald‐Madden. “Invasive Wild Pigs (Sus Scrofa) as a Human‐mediated Source of Soil Carbon Emissions: Uncertainties and Future Directions.” Global Change Biology, 2021, gcb.15992. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15992.

2020

Braczkowski, Alexander, Julien Fattebert, Ralph Schenk, Christopher O’Bryan, Duan Biggs, and Martine Maron. “Evidence for Increasing Human‐wildlife Conflict despite a Financial Compensation Scheme on the Edge of a Ugandan National Park.” Conservation Science and Practice 2, no. 12 (2020): e309. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.309.

O’Bryan, Christopher J., Stephen T. Garnett, Julia E. Fa, Ian Leiper, Jose A. Rehbein, Álvaro Fernández‐Llamazares, Micha V. Jackson, et al. “The Importance of Indigenous Peoples’ Lands for the Conservation of Terrestrial Mammals.” Conservation Biology 35, no. 3 (2020): 1002–8. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13620.

O’Bryan, Christopher J, Alexander R Braczkowski, Ricardo J Soares Magalhães, and Eve McDonald-Madden. “Conservation Epidemiology of Predators and Scavengers to Reduce Zoonotic Risk.” The Lancet Planetary Health 4, no. 8 (2020): e304–5. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(20)30166-2.

O’Bryan, Christopher J., James R. Allan, Matthew Holden, Christopher Sanderson, Oscar Venter, Moreno Di Marco, Eve McDonald-Madden, and James E. M. Watson. “Intense Human Pressure Is Widespread across Terrestrial Vertebrate Ranges.” Global Ecology and Conservation 21 (March 1, 2020): e00882. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2019.e00882.

O’Bryan, Christopher J. “The Exposure and Contribution of Predators and Scavengers to Humans.” PhD Thesis, The University of Queensland, 2020. https://doi.org/10.14264/uql.2020.204.

2019

O’Bryan, Christopher J., Matthew H. Holden, and James E. M. Watson. “The Mesoscavenger Release Hypothesis and Implications for Ecosystem and Human Well-Being.” Ecology Letters 22, no. 9 (2019): 1340–48. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13288.

Allan, James R., James E. M. Watson, Moreno Di Marco, Christopher J. O’Bryan, Hugh P. Possingham, Scott C. Atkinson, and Oscar Venter. “Hotspots of Human Impact on Threatened Terrestrial Vertebrates.” Edited by Pedro Jordano. PLOS Biology 17, no. 3 (2019): e3000158. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000158.

Braczkowski, Alexander, Andrés Ruzo, Fatima Sanchez, Romi Castagnino, Chip Brown, Sharon Guynup, Steve Winter, Devlin Gandy, and Christopher O’Bryan. “The Ayahuasca Tourism Boom: An Undervalued Demand Driver for Jaguar Body Parts?” Conservation Science and Practice 1, no. 12 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.126.

2018

O’Bryan, Christopher J., Alexander R. Braczkowski, Hawthorne L. Beyer, Neil H. Carter, James E. M. Watson, and Eve McDonald-Madden. “The Contribution of Predators and Scavengers to Human Well-Being.” Nature Ecology & Evolution 2, no. 2 (2018): 229–36. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0421-2.

Braczkowski, Alexander R., Christopher J. O’Bryan, Martin J. Stringer, James EM Watson, Hugh P. Possingham, and Hawthorne L. Beyer. “Leopards Provide Public Health Benefits in Mumbai, India.” Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 16, no. 3 (2018): 176–82. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.1776.

Braczkowski, Alexander, Matthew H. Holden, Christopher O’Bryan, Chi-Yeung Choi, Xiaojing Gan, Nicholas Beesley, Yufang Gao, et al. “Reach and Messages of the World’s Largest Ivory Burn: Ivory Burn.” Conservation Biology 32, no. 4 (2018): 765–73. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13097.

2017

O’Bryan, C. J. “Documentation of Unusual Movement Behaviour of the Indigo Snake Drymarchon Couperi (Holbrook, 1842) (Squamata: Colubridae), an Upland Species, in a Pastureland Matrix of the USA.” Herpetology Notes 10 (2017): 317–18.

2016

O’Bryan, C. J., J. A. Homyack, R. F. Baldwin, Y. Kanno, and A.‐L. Harrison. “Novel Habitat Use Supports Population Maintenance in a Reconfigured Landscape.” Ecosphere 7, no. 3 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.1228.

Homyack, Jessica A., Christopher J. O’Bryan, Jamie E. Thornton, and Robert F. Baldwin. “Community Occupancy of Herpetofauna in Roadside Ditches in a Managed Pine Landscape.” Forest Ecology and Management 361 (2016): 346–57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2015.11.037.

2015

O’Bryan, CJ, MK Hamed, JW Coffey, B Rowell, and TF Laughlin. “Geographic Distribution. New County Record for the Spiny Softshell Turtle (Apalone Spinifera) in Tennessee.” Herpetological Review 46 (2015): 214.

2014

Homyack, Jessica A., Christopher J. O’Bryan, Jamie E. Thornton, and Robert F. Baldwin. “Anuran Assemblages Associated with Roadside Ditches in a Managed Pine Landscape.” Forest Ecology and Management 334 (2014): 217–31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2014.08.035.

O’Bryan, Christopher J. “Persistance of a Vulnerable Semi-Aquatic Turtle in an Intensively Managed Forest Landscape.” MSc Thesis, Clemson University, 2014. 

2012

O’Bryan, C. J., M. J. Gray, and C. S. Brooks. “Further Presence of Ranavirus Infection in Amphibian Populations of Tennessee, USA.” Herpetological Review 43, no. 2 (2012): 293–95.

2008

O’Bryan, C. J., J. Wallace Coffey, and A Jones. “Southwest Virginia’s First Winter Nest Record of Barn Owl (Tyto Alba).” The Raven 79, no. 1 & 2 (2008): 3–4.