Michael J. Chase

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

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Michael J. Chase is a scholar working on Ecology, Social Psychology and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael J. Chase has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Ecology, 9 papers in Social Psychology and 7 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Michael J. Chase's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (30 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (9 papers) and Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation (9 papers). Michael J. Chase is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (30 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (9 papers) and Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation (9 papers). Michael J. Chase collaborates with scholars based in Kenya, United States and Australia. Michael J. Chase's co-authors include Curtice R. Griffin, Scott Schlossberg, Rudi J. van Aarde, C.L. Roever, Samuel A. Cushman, Hawthorne L. Beyer, Paul W. Elkan, Keith Leggett, Edward M. Kohi and Patrick Omondi and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Michael J. Chase

34 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Continent-wide survey reveals massive decline in African savannah elephants

2016 242 citations Michael J. Chase, Scott Schlossberg et al. PeerJ profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael J. Chase Kenya	19	843	202	164	151	145	34	1.1k
Craig J. Tambling South Africa	22	1.2k 1.5×	272 1.3×	220 1.3×	268 1.8×	234 1.6×	45	1.4k
Ellen O. Aikens United States	14	1.1k 1.3×	134 0.7×	182 1.1×	260 1.7×	126 0.9×	25	1.4k
Charles Foley United States	16	718 0.9×	184 0.9×	245 1.5×	119 0.8×	247 1.7×	24	1.2k
Mike Knight South Africa	18	620 0.7×	133 0.7×	78 0.5×	140 0.9×	114 0.8×	49	853
Shadrack Ngene Kenya	18	640 0.8×	144 0.7×	83 0.5×	61 0.4×	81 0.6×	43	779
Joseph Kolowski United States	17	1.1k 1.3×	182 0.9×	116 0.7×	110 0.7×	204 1.4×	32	1.3k
Hugo Jachmann Netherlands	18	939 1.1×	268 1.3×	229 1.4×	301 2.0×	77 0.5×	32	1.2k
Andrew Taber United States	15	962 1.1×	103 0.5×	230 1.4×	192 1.3×	125 0.9×	26	1.4k
David B. Croft Australia	22	1.1k 1.3×	90 0.4×	164 1.0×	123 0.8×	134 0.9×	55	1.5k
Michelle Henley South Africa	16	502 0.6×	73 0.4×	98 0.6×	136 0.9×	190 1.3×	49	703

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Pimm, Stuart L., et al.. (2024). Local elephant movements, turning angles, and water access across a rainfall gradient in Southern Africa. Biological Conservation. 296. 110669–110669. 5 indexed citations

Aarde, Rudi J. van, et al.. (2022). Mapping potential connections between Southern Africa’s elephant populations. PLoS ONE. 17(10). e0275791–e0275791. 10 indexed citations

Leggett, Keith, et al.. (2021). Elephant movements in different human land-uses in Chobe District, Botswana. Pachyderm. 62. 74–86. 5 indexed citations

Schlossberg, Scott, et al.. (2020). State-space models reveal a continuing elephant poaching problem in most of Africa. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 10166–10166. 24 indexed citations

Kingsford, Richard T., et al.. (2019). Drone-based effective counting and ageing of hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) in the Okavango Delta in Botswana. PLoS ONE. 14(12). e0219652–e0219652. 23 indexed citations

Schlossberg, Scott, et al.. (2019). Evidence of a Growing Elephant Poaching Problem in Botswana. Current Biology. 29(13). 2222–2228.e4. 25 indexed citations

O'Connor, D.A., Jenna Stacy‐Dawes, Arthur Muneza, et al.. (2019). Updated geographic range maps for giraffe, Giraffa spp., throughout sub‐Saharan Africa, and implications of changing distributions for conservation. Mammal Review. 49(4). 285–299. 25 indexed citations

Chase, Michael J., et al.. (2018). Partial migration in savanna elephant populations distributed across southern Africa. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 11331–11331. 49 indexed citations

Schlossberg, Scott, Michael J. Chase, & Curtice R. Griffin. (2018). Poaching and human encroachment reverse recovery of African savannah elephants in south-east Angola despite 14 years of peace. PLoS ONE. 13(3). e0193469–e0193469. 24 indexed citations

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Gravett, Nadine, Adhil Bhagwandin, Michael J. Chase, et al.. (2017). Inactivity/sleep in two wild free-roaming African elephant matriarchs – Does large body size make elephants the shortest mammalian sleepers?. PLoS ONE. 12(3). e0171903–e0171903. 81 indexed citations

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Schlossberg, Scott, Michael J. Chase, & Curtice R. Griffin. (2016). Testing the Accuracy of Aerial Surveys for Large Mammals: An Experiment with African Savanna Elephants (Loxodonta africana). PLoS ONE. 11(10). e0164904–e0164904. 34 indexed citations

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Miller, Lance J., et al.. (2016). A Comparison of Walking Rates Between Wild and Zoo African Elephants. Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science. 19(3). 271–279. 12 indexed citations

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Chase, Michael J., Scott Schlossberg, Curtice R. Griffin, et al.. (2016). Continent-wide survey reveals massive decline in African savannah elephants. PeerJ. 4. e2354–e2354. 242 indexed citations breakdown →

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Songhurst, Anna, Michael J. Chase, & Tim Coulson. (2015). Using simulations of past and present elephant (Loxodonta africana) population numbers in the Okavango Delta Panhandle, Botswana to improve future population estimates. Wetlands Ecology and Management. 23(4). 583–602. 14 indexed citations

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Naidoo, Robin, Michael J. Chase, Piet Beytell, et al.. (2014). A newly discovered wildlife migration in Namibia and Botswana is the longest in Africa. Oryx. 50(1). 138–146. 53 indexed citations

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Roever, C.L., Hawthorne L. Beyer, Michael J. Chase, & Rudi J. van Aarde. (2013). The pitfalls of ignoring behaviour when quantifying habitat selection. Diversity and Distributions. 20(3). 322–333. 82 indexed citations

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Roever, C.L., Rudi J. van Aarde, & Michael J. Chase. (2013). Incorporating mortality into habitat selection to identify secure and risky habitats for savannah elephants. Biological Conservation. 164. 98–106. 23 indexed citations

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Chase, Michael J.. (2011). DRY SEASON FIXED-WING AERIAL SURVEY OF ELEPHANTS AND WILDLIFE IN NORTHERN BOTSWANA SEPTEMBER – NOVEMBER 2010. 10 indexed citations

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Chase, Michael J. & Curtice R. Griffin. (2011). Elephants of south‐east Angola in war and peace: their decline, re‐colonization and recent status. African Journal of Ecology. 49(3). 353–361. 26 indexed citations

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Chase, Michael J. & Curtice R. Griffin. (2009). Seasonal Abundance and Distribution of Elephants in Sioma Ngwezi National Park, southwest Zambia. Pachyderm. 45. 88–97. 8 indexed citations

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