Daniel T. Blumstein
Publication List

[last updated 9 June 09]

PDF versions of published writings are provided as reprints--one copy for your personal use.

Books
•Blumstein, D.T. 1995. An ecotourist's guide to Khunjerab National Park. World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan, Lahore, 126 pages.

•Blumstein, D.T. and J.C. Daniel. 2007. Quantifying behavior the JWatcher Way. Sinauer Associates, Inc., Sunderland, MA, 211 pages. www.sinauer.com

Computer Program
•Blumstein, D.T., Evans, C.S. and J.C. Daniel. 2000. JWatcher 0.9. An introductory user’s guide. http://www.jwatcher.ucla.edu [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T., Daniel, J.C. and C.S. Evans. 2006. JWatcher 1.0. http://www.jwatcher.ucla.edu

Journal Articles

•Blumstein, D.T. 2009. Social effects on emergence from hibernation in yellow-bellied marmots. Journal of Mammalogy

•Blumstein, D.T., Fernando, E., and T. Stankowich. 2009. A test of the multi-predator hypothesis: yellow-bellied marmots respond fearfully to the sight of novel and extinct predators. Animal Behaviour

•Blumstein, D.T., Wey, T.W, and K. Tang. 2009. A test of the social cohesion hypothesis: Interactive female marmots remain at home. Proceedings Series B [pdf available]

•Campos, D.P., Bander, L.A., Raksi, A., and D.T. Blumstein. In Press. Perch exposure and predation risk: a comparative study in passerines. Acta Ethologica

•Fong, T.E., DeLong, T.W.,Hogan, S.B., and D.T. Blumstein. In Press. Direct and indirect cues in white-browed sparrow weaver (Plocepasser mahali) risk assessment. Acta Ethologica

•Kirschel, A.N.G., Blumstein, D.T. and T.B. Smith. 2009. Character displacement in song and morphology of two related African tinkerbirds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA 106:8256-8261. [pdf available] [A Faculty of 1000 'must read']

•Kirschel, A.N.G., Blumstein, D.T., Cohen, R.E., Buermann, W., Smith, T.B., and H. Slabbekoorn. 2009. Birdsong tuned to the environment: green hylia song varies with elevation, tree cover, and noise. Behavioral Ecology

•Lahti, D.C., Johnson, N.A., Ajie, B.C., Otto, S.P., Hendry, A.P., Blumstein, D.T., Coss, R.G., Donohue, K., and S.A. Foster. 2009. Relaxed selection in the wild: contexts and consequences. Trends in Ecology and Evolution [pdf available]

•Olson, L.E., and D.T. Blumstein. 2009. A trait-based approach to the evolution of complex coalitions in male mammals. Behavioral Ecology 20:624-632. [pdf available]

•Ozgul, A., Oli, M.K., Armitage, K.B., Blumstein, D.T., and D.H. Van Vuren. 2009. Influence of local demography on asymptotic and transient dynamics of a yellow-bellied marmot metapopulation. American Naturalist 173:517-530. [pdf available]

•Ali, A.M., Asgari, S., Collier, T.C., Allen, M., Girod, L., Hudson, R.E., Yao, K., Taylor, C.E., and D.T. Blumstein. 2008. An empirical study of collaborative acoustic source localization. Journal of Signal Processing Systems doi:10.1007/s11265-008-0310-7 [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T., Barrow, L., and M. Luterra. 2008. Olfactory predator discrimination in yellow-bellied marmots. Ethology 114:1135-1143. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T., Cooley, L., Winternitz, J., and J.C. Daniel. 2008. Do yellow-bellied marmots respond to predator vocalizations? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 62:457-468. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T., and A.P. Møller. 2008. Is sociality associated with high longevity in North American birds? Biology Letters 4:146-148. [pdf available]

•Borrego, N., Ozgul, A., Armitage, K.B., Blumstein, D.T., and M.K. Oli. 2008. Spatiotemporal variation in survival of male yellow-bellied marmots. Journal of Mammalogy 89:365-373. [pdf available]

•Coleman, A., Richardson, D., Schechter, R., and D.T. Blumstein. 2008. Does habituation to humans influence predator discrimination in Gunther's dik-diks (Madoqua guentheri)? Biology Letters 4:250-252. [pdf available]

•Lea, A.J., Barrera, J.P., Tom, L.M., and D.T. Blumstein. 2008. Heterospecific eavesdropping in a nonsocial species. Behavioral Ecology 19:1041-1046. [pdf available]

•Lombardo, S.R., Mackey, E., Tang, L., Smith, B.R., and D.T. Blumstein 2008. Multimodal communication and spatial binding in pied currawongs (Strepera graculina). Animimal Cognition 11:675-682. [pdf available]

•Maldonando-Chaparro, A., and D.T. Blumstein. 2008. Management implications of capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) social behavior. Biological Conservation 141:1945-1952. [pdf available]

•Pollard, K.A., and D.T. Blumstein. 2008. Time allocation and the evolution of group size. Animal Behaviour 76:1683-1699. [pdf available]

•Smith, B.R., and D.T. Blumstein. 2008. Fitness consequences of personality: a meta-analysis. Behavioral Ecology 19:448-455. [pdf available]

•Wey, T., Blumstein, D.T., Shen, W., and F. Jordán. 2008. Social network analysis of animal behaviour: a promising tool for the study of sociality. Animal Behaviour 75:333-344. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 2007. The evolution, function, and meaning of marmot alarm communication. Advances in the Study of Behavior 37:371-400. [pdf available]

•Bordes, F., Blumstein, D.T., and S. Morand. 2007. Rodent sociality and parasite diversity. Biology Letters 3:692-694 [pdf available]

•Gilman, S., Blumstein, D.T. & J. Foufopoulos. 2007. The effect of hemoparasites on white-crowned sparrow singing behavior. Ethology 113:437-445. [pdf available]

•Heil, L., Fernández-Juricic, E., Renison, D., Nguyen, V., Cingolani, A.M., and D.T. Blumstein. 2007. Avian responses to tourism in the biogeographically isolated high Córdoba Mountains, Argentina. Biodiversity and Conservation 16:1009-1026. [pdf available]

•Mooring, M.S., Blumstein, D.T., Reisig, D.D., Osbourne, E.R. and J.M. Niemeyer. 2007. Insect-repelling behaviour in bovids: role of mass, tail length, and group size. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 91:383-392. [pdf available]

•Ozgul, A., Oli, M.K., Olson, L.E., Blumstein, D.T., and K.B. Armitage. 2007. Spatiotemporal variation in the reproductive parameters of the yellow-bellied marmot. Oecologia 154:95-106. [pdf available]

•Rhoades, E.K., and D.T. Blumstein. 2007. Predicted fitness consequences of threat sensitive hiding behavior. Behavioral Ecology 18: 937-943. [pdf available]

•Tarlow, E., and D.T. Blumstein. 2007. Evaluating methods to quantify anthropogenic stressors on animals. Applied Animal Behaviour 102:429-451. [pdf available]

•Adams, J.L., Camelio, K.W., Orique, M.J., and D.T. Blumstein. 2006. Does information of predators influence general wariness? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 60:742-747. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 2006. The multi-predator hypothesis and the evolutionary persistence of antipredator behavior. Ethology 112: 209-217. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. In 2006. Developing an evolutionary ecology of fear: how life history and natural history affect disturbance tolerance in birds. Animal Behaviour 71: 389-399. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T., Bitton, A., and J. daVeiga. 2006. How does the presence of predators influence the persistence of antipredator behavior? Journal of Theoretical Biology 239:460-468. [pdf available] (first published electronically in 2005)

•Blumstein, D.T., Holland, B.-D., and J.C. Daniel. 2006. Predator discrimination in Vancouver Island marmots. Animal Conservation 9: 274-282. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T., Ozgul, A., Yovovich, V., Van Vuren, D.H., and K.B. Armitage. 2006. Predation risk predicts presence and persistence of yellow-bellied marmot colonies. Journal of Zoology, London 270:132-138. pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T., Patton, M.L., and W. Saltzman. 2006. Faecal glucocorticoid metabolites and alarm calling in free-living yellow-bellied marmots. Biology Letters 2:29-32.[pdf available] (first published electronically in 2005)

•Boyer, J.S., Hass, L.L., Lurie, M.H., and D.T. Blumstein. 2006. Effect of visibility on time allocation and escape decisions in crimson rosellas. Australian Journal of Zoology 54:363-367. [pdf available]

•Ebensperger, L.A., and D.T. Blumstein. 2006. Sociality in New World hystricognath rodents is linked to predators and burrow digging. Behavioral Ecology 17: 410-418. [pdf available]

•Fernandez-Juricic, E., Blumstein, D.T., Abrica, G., Manriquez, L., Adams, L.B., Adams, R., Daneshard, M. and I. Rodriguez-Prieto. 2006. Effects of body mass, size, and morphology on anti-predator escape and post-escape responses: a comparative study with birds. Evolutionary Ecology Research 8:731-752. [pdf available]

•Gulbransen, D., Segrist, T., del Castillo, P., and D.T. Blumstein. 2006. The fixed slope rule: an inter-specific study. Ethology 112:1056-1061. [pdf available]

•Heil, L., Fernández-Juricic, E., Renison, D., Nguyen, V., Cingolani, A.M., and D.T. Blumstein. 2006. Avian responses to tourism in the biogeographically isolated high Córdoba Mountains, Argentina. Biodiversity and Conservation DOI 10.1007/s10531-006-9040-y [pdf available]

•Ozgul, A., Armitage, K.B., Oli, M.K., Blumstein, D.T., and D. Van Vuren. 2006. Effects of patch quality and network structure on patch occupancy dynamics of a yellow-bellied marmot metapopulation. Journal of Animal Ecology 75:191-202. [pdf available]

•Ozgul, A., Armitage, K.B., Blumstein, D.T., and M.K. Oli. 2006. Spatiotemporal variation in age-specific survival rates: implications for population dynamics of yellow-bellied marmots. Ecology 87:1027-1037. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T., and J.C. Daniel. 2005. The loss of anti-predator behaviour following isolation on islands. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B 272:1663-1668. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T., Fernández-Juricic, E., Zollner, P.A, and S.C. Garity. 2005. Interspecific variation in avian responses to human disturbance. Journal of Applied Ecology 42:943-953. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. and O. Munos. 2005. Individual and age/sex class variation in marmot alarm calls. Animal Behaviour 69:353-361. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T., and D. Pelletier. 2005. Yellow-bellied marmot hiding time is sensitive to variation in costs. Canadian Journal of Zoology 83:363-367. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T., and A.C. Turner. 2005. Can the acoustic adaptation hypothesis predict the structure of Australian birdsong? Acta Ethologica 15:35-44. [pdf available]

•Cárdenas, Y., Shen, B., Zung, L., and D.T. Blumstein. 2005. Evaluating temporal and spatial margins of safety in galahs. Animal Behaviour [pdf available]

•Fernández-Juricic, F., Venier, P., Renison, D, and D.T. Blumstein. 2005. Sensitivity of wildlife to spatial patterns of recreationist behavior: a critical assessment of minimum approaching distances and buffer areas for grassland birds. Biological Conservation 125:225-235. [pdf available]

•Geist, C., Liao, J., Libby, S, and D.T. Blumstein. 2005. Does intruder group size and orientation affect flight initiation distance in birds? Animal Biodiversity and Conservation 28:69-73. [pdf available]

•Shelley, E.L. and D.T. Blumstein. 2005. The evolution of vocal alarm communication in rodents. Behavioral Ecology [pdf available]

•Stankowich, T. and D.T. Blumstein. 2005. Fear in animals: a meta-analysis and review of risk assessment. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B doi: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3251 [pdf available]

•Webb, N. and D.T. Blumstein. 2005. Variation in human disturbance differentially affects predation risk assessment in western gulls. Condor 107:178-181. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. and J.C. Daniel. 2004. Yellow-bellied marmots discriminate between the alarm calls of individuals and are more responsive to the calls from pups. Animal Behaviour 68:1257-1265. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T., Daniel, J.C., and B.P. Springett. 2004. A test of the multi-predator hypothesis: Rapid loss of antipredator behavior after 130 years of isolation. Ethology 110:919-934. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T., Fernández-Juricic, E., LeDee, O., Larsen, E., Rodriguez-Prieto, I., and C. Zugmeyer. 2004. Avian risk assessment: effects of perching height and detectability. Ethology 110:273-285. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T., Im, S., Nicodemus, A. and C. Zugmeyer. 2004. Yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris) hibernate socially. Journal of Mammalogy 85:25-29. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. Runyan, A., Seymour, M., Nicodemus, A., Ozgul, A., Ransler, F., Im, S., Stark, T., Zugmeyer, C, and J.C Daniel. 2004. Locomotor ability and wariness in yellow-bellied marmots. Ethology 110:615-634. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T., Verenyre, L., and J.C. Daniel. 2004. Reliability and the adaptive utility of discrimination among alarm callers. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 271:1851-1857. [pdf available]

•Gould, M.L.,Green, L., Altenau, B., and D.T. Blumstein. 2004. A study of the species confidence hypothesis with spiny-cheeked honeyeaters (Acanthagenys rufogularis). Emu 104:267-271. [pdf available]

•Mooring, M.S., Blumstein, D.T. and C.J. Stoner. 2004. The evolution of parasite-defence grooming in ungulates. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 81:17-37. [pdf available]

•Runyan, A. and D.T. Blumstein. 2004. Do individual differences influence flight initiation distance? Journal of Wildlife Management 68:1124-1129. [pdf available]

•Shelley, E.L., Tanaka, M.Y.U, Ratnathicam, A.R., and D.T. Blumstein. 2004. Do Lanchester’s laws explain interspecific dominance in birds? The Condor 106:395-400. [pdf available]

•Armitage, K.B., Blumstein, D.T. and B.C. Woods. 2003. Energetics of hibernating yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A 134:101-114. [pdf available]

•Biebouw, K. and D.T. Blumstein. 2003. Tammar wallabies (Macropus eugenii) associate safety with higher levels of nocturnal illumination. Ethology, Ecology & Evolution 15:159-172. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 2003. Flight initiation distance in birds is dependent on intruder starting distance. Journal of Wildlife Management 67:852-857. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T., Anthony, L.L, Harcourt, R.G. and G. Ross. 2003. Testing a key assumption of wildlife buffer zones: is flight initiation distance a species-specific trait? Biological Conservation 110:97-100. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. and J.C. Daniel. 2003. Red kangaroos (Macropus rufus) receive an antipredator benefit from aggregation. Acta Ethologica 5:95-99. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. and J.C. Daniel. 2003. Foraging behavior of three Tasmanian macropodid marsupials in response to present and historical predation threat. Ecography 26:585-594. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. and J.C. Daniel. 2003. Developing predictive models of behaviour: Do rock-wallabies receive an antipredator benefit from aggregation? Australian Mammalogy 25:147-154. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T., Daniel, J.C. and R.A. Sims. 2003. Group size but not distance to cover influences agile wallaby (Macropus agilis) time allocation. Journal of Mammalogy 84:197-204. [pdf available]

•Ikuta, L.A., and D.T. Blumstein. 2003. Do fences protect birds from human disturbance? Biological Conservation 112:447-452. [pdf available]

•Johnson, F.R, McNaughton, E.J., Shelley, C.D. and D.T. Blumstein. 2003. Mechanisms of heterospecific recognition in avian mobbing calls. Australian Journal of Zoology 51:577-585. [pdf available]

•Nanayakkara, D.D., and D.T. Blumstein. 2003. Defining yellow-bellied marmot social groups using association indices. Oecologia Montana 12:7-11. [published in 2006] [pdf available]

•Olson, L.E., Yovovich, V., and D.T. Blumstein. 2003. Early season arboreal behavior in yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris). Oecologia Montana 12:12-14. [published in 2006] [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 2002. Moving to suburbia: ontogenetic and evolutionary consequences of life on predator-free islands. Journal of Biogeography 29:685-692. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T., Ardron, J.G. and C.S. Evans. 2002. Kin discrimination in a macropod marsupial. Ethology 108: 815-823. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. and J.C. Daniel. 2002. Isolation from mammalian predators differentially affects two congeners. Behavioral Ecology 13:657-663. [pdf available] [cover photo]

•Blumstein, D.T., Daniel, J.C., Ardron, J.G. and C.S. Evans. 2002. Does feeding competition influence tammar wallaby time allocation? Ethology 108: 937-945. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T., Daniel, J.C., Schnell, M.R., Ardron, J.G. and C.S. Evans. 2002. Antipredator behaviour of red-necked pademelons: a factor contributing to species survival? Animal Conservation 5:325-331. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T., Mari, M., Daniel, J.C., Ardron, J.G., Griffin, A.S. and C.S. Evans. 2002. Olfactory predator recognition: wallabies may have to learn to be wary. Animal Conservation 5:87-93. [pdf available]

•Cahan, S., Blumstein, D.T., Sundström, L., Liebig, J. and A. Griffin. 2002. Social trajectories and the evolution of social behaviour. Oikos 96:206-216. [pdf available]

•Griffin, A.S., C.S. Evans, and D.T. Blumstein. 2002. Selective learning in a marsupial. Ethology 108:1103-1114. [pdf available]

•Ord, T.J. and D.T. Blumstein. 2002. Size constraints and the evolution of display complexity: why do large lizards have simple displays? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 76:145-161. [pdf available]

•Ord, T.J., Blumstein, D.T. and C.S.Evans. 2002. Ecology and signal evolution in lizards. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 77:127-148. [pdf available]

•Bayly, K.L. and D.T. Blumstein. 2001. Pied currawongs and the decline of native birds. Emu 101:199-204. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T., Daniel, J.C. and I.G. McLean. 2001. Group size effects in quokkas. Australian Journal of Zoology 49:641-649. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T., Daniel, J.C. and C.S. Evans. 2001. Yellow-footed rock-wallaby group size effects reflect a trade-off. Ethology 107:655-664. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T., Daniel, J.C. and A.A. Bryant. 2001. Anti-predator behavior of Vancouver Island marmots: using congeners to evaluate abilities of a critically endangered mammal. Ethology 107:1-14. [pdf available]

•Griffin, A.S., Evans, C.S. and D.T. Blumstein. 2001. Learning specificity in acquired predator recognition. Animal Behaviour 62:577-589. [pdf available]

•Ord, T.J., Blumstein, D.T. and C.S. Evans. 2001. Intrasexual selection predicts the evolution of signal complexity in lizards. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 268:737-744. [pdf available]

•Anthony, L.L. and D.T. Blumstein. 2000. Integrating behaviour into wildlife conservation: the multiple ways that behaviour can reduce Ne. Biological Conservation 95:303-315. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 2000. Understanding antipredator behavior for conservation. The Open Country 1(2):37-44. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T., Daniel, J.C., Griffin, A.S. and C.S. Evans. 2000. Insular tammar wallabies respond to visual but not acoustic cues from predators. Behavioral Ecology 11:528-535. [pdf available]

•Griffin, A.S., Blumstein, D.T. and C.S. Evans. 2000. Training captive-bred or translocated animals to avoid predators. Conservation Biology 14:1317-1326. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 1999. Alarm calling in three species of marmots. Behaviour 136:731-757. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 1999. The evolution of functionally referential alarm communication: multiple adaptations; multiple constraints. The Evolution of Communication 3:135-147. [pdf available] (published in 2002)

•Blumstein, D.T. and K.B. Armitage. 1999. Cooperative breeding in marmots. Oikos 84:369-382. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D. T., Evans, C. S. and J. C. Daniel. 1999. An experimental study of behavioural group size effects in tammar wallabies (Macropus eugenii). Animal Behaviour 58:351-360. [pdf available]

•Nikol’skii, A.A., Kotlyakov, V.M. and D.T. Blumstein. 1999. Glaciation as a factor of geographic variation in the long-tailed marmot (bioacoustical analysis). Doklady Biological Sciences 368:509-513 (first published in Russian in: Doklady Akademii Nauk 368:849-852). [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 1998 a. Quantifying predation risk for refuging animals: a case study with golden marmots. Ethology 104:501-516. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 1998 b. Female preferences and effective population size. Animal Conservation 1:173-177. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. and K.B. Armitage. 1998. Life history consequences of social complexity: a comparative study of ground-dwelling sciurids. Behavioral Ecology 9:8-19. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. and W. Arnold. 1998. Ecology and social behavior of golden marmots (Marmota caudata aurea). Journal of Mammalogy 79:873-886. [pdf available]

•Daniel, J.C. and D.T. Blumstein. 1998. A test of the acoustic adaptation hypothesis in four species of marmots. Animal Behaviour 56:1517-1528. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 1997. Infanticide among golden marmots (Marmota caudata aurea). Ethology Ecology & Evolution 9:169-173. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. and K.B. Armitage. 1997 a. Alarm calling in yellow-bellied marmots: I. The meaning of situationally variable alarm calls. Animal Behaviour 53:143-171. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. and K.B. Armitage. 1997 b. Does sociality drive the evolution of communicative complexity? A comparative test with ground-dwelling sciurid alarm calls. The American Naturalist 150:179-200. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. and J.C. Daniel. 1997. Inter- and intraspecific variation in the acoustic habitats of three marmot species. Ethology 103:325-338. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. and J.M. Foggin. 1997. Effects of vegetative variation on weaning success, overwinter survival, and social group density in golden marmots (Marmota caudata aurea). Journal of Zoology (London) 243:57-69. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T., Steinmetz, J., Armitage, K.B. and J.C. Daniel. 1997. Alarm calling in yellow-bellied marmots: II. The importance of direct fitness. Animal Behaviour 53:173-184. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 1996. How much does social group size influence golden marmot vigilance? Behaviour 133:1133-1151. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. and A. Bouskila. 1996. Assessment and decision making in animals: a mechanistic model underlying behavioral flexibility can prevent ambiguity. Oikos 77:569-576. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. and S. Henderson. 1996. Cheek-rubbing in golden marmots (Marmota caudata aurea). Journal of Zoology (London) 238:113-123. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 1995 a. Golden-marmot alarm calls. I. The production of situationally specific vocalizations. Ethology 100:113-125. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 1995 b. Golden-marmot alarm calls. II. Asymmetrical production and perception of situationally specific vocalizations? Ethology 101:25-32. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. and W. Arnold. 1995. Situational specificity in alpine-marmot alarm communication. Ethology 100:1-13. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. and M. Robertson. 1995. Summer diets of Tibetan red foxes in Khunjerab National Park, Pakistan. Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde 60:243-245. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 1993. New records of Mustela from Khunjerab National Park, Pakistan. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 90:500-501. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. and J.M. Foggin. 1993. Playing with fire? Alpine Choughs play with a Tibetan red fox. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 90:513-515. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 1992. Multivariate analysis of golden marmot maximum running speed: a new method to study MRS in the field. Ecology 73:1757-1767. [pdf available]

•Bouskila, A. and D.T. Blumstein. 1992. Rules of thumb for predation hazard assessment: predictions from a dynamic model. The American Naturalist 139:161-176. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 1990. An observation of social play in Bearded Vultures. The Condor 92:779-781. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 1989. Food habits of Red-tailed Hawks in Boulder County, Colorado. The Journal of Raptor Research 23:53-55. [pdf available]

Special Publications, Conference Proceedings, and Book Chapters

•Blumstein, D.T. 2009. Social behaviour in conservation. Social behaviour: Genes, ecology and evolution (A.J. Moore, T. Szekely and J. Komdeur, eds.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

•Blumstein, D.T. 2008. Fourteen lessons from anti-predator behavior. In: Natural security: A Darwinian approach to a dangerous world (R. Sagarin and T. Taylor, eds.). U. California Press, 147-158. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 2008. Kinship. In: The encyclopaedia of applied animal behaviour and welfare (D. Mills, ed.), CAB International.

•Blumstein, D.T. 2008. Fitness. In: The encyclopaedia of applied animal behaviour and welfare (D. Mills, ed.), CAB International.

•Blumstein, D.T. 2008. Individual fitness. In: The encyclopaedia of applied animal behaviour and welfare (D. Mills, ed.), CAB International.

•Blumstein, D.T. 2008. Tinbergen's four questions. In: The encyclopaedia of applied animal behaviour and welfare (D. Mills, ed.), CAB International.

•Nonacs, P & D.T. Blumstein 2008. The evolutionary ecology of predation risk: from behavior to life history. Evolutionary behavioral ecology (D.F. Westneat and C.W. Fox, eds.), Oxford University Press, New York.

•Wang, T., Nonacs, P., and D.T. Blumstein. 2008. Social skew as a measure of the costs and benefits of group-living in marmots. In: Reproductive skew in vertebrates: Proximate and ultimate causes (R. Hager and C.B. Jones). Cambridge University Press.

•Allen, M., Girod, L., Newton, R., Madden, S., Blumstein, D.T., and D. Estrin. 2008. VoxNet: An Interactive, Rapidly-Deployable Acoustic Monitoring Platform.  In:  IPSN ’08:  Proceedings of the seventh international conference on Information processing in sensor networks, New York:  ACM Press. [pdf available]

•Ali, A., Collier, T., Girod, L., Yao, K., Taylor, C., and D.T. Blumstein. 2007. Acoustic source localization using the acoustic ENSBox. In: IPSN '07: Proceedings of the sixth international conference on information processing in sensor networks, New York: ACM Press, 555-556. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 2007. The evolution of alarm communication in rodents: structure, function, and the puzzle of apparently altruistic calling in rodents. In: Rodent societies (J.O. Wolff and P.W. Sherman, eds.). U. Chicago Press, 317-327. [pdf available]

•Ebensperger, L.A. and D. T. Blumstein. 2007. Functions of non-parental infanticide in rodents. In: Rodent societies (J.O. Wolff and P.W. Sherman, eds.). U. Chicago Press, 267-279. [pdf available]

•Trifa, V. M., L. Girod, T. Collier, D. T. Blumstein and C. E. Taylor. 2007. Automated wildlife monitoring using self-configuring sensor networks deployed in natural habitats. In M. Sugisaka and H. Tanaka, eds., Proceedings of the Twelfth International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. and J.C. Daniel. 2005. Observing and quantifying behavior with JWatcher. In, Learning the skills of research: animal behavior exercises in the laboratory and field (E.M. Jacob and M. Hodge, eds.). Instructor Resource CD to accompany J. Alcock's Animal Behavior: an evolutionary approach, 8th ed. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA, 31-35.

•Blumstein, D.T. Accepted. Khunjerab National Park: an alpine paradise in jeopardy? In: Himalayan Crucible: North Pakistan in Transition (N.J.R. Allan, ed.). Oxford University Press, Karachi.

•Blumstein, D.T. 2004. Antipredatory behavior: A brief overview. In, The encyclopedia of animal behavior (M. Bekoff, ed.). Greenwood Press, 45-47. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 2004. Communication–Vocal: Alarm calls. In, The encyclopedia of animal behavior (M. Bekoff, ed.). Greenwood Press, 381-382. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 2003. Social complexity but not the acoustic environment is responsible for the evolution of complex alarm communication / La complexité sociale est responsable de l'évolution de la communication d’alarme complexe, non le milieu acoustique. In, Adaptative strategies and diversity in marmots / Stratégies adaptatives et diversité chez les marmottes (R. Ramousse, D. Allainé and M. Le Berre, eds.). International Network on Marmots, 31-38. [pdf available]

•Daniel J.C. and D.T. Blumstein. 2003. Using JWatcher to study behaviour. / Etude du comportement des marmottes avec Jwatcher. In, Adaptative strategies and diversity in marmots / Stratégies adaptatives et diversité chez les marmottes (R. Ramousse, D. Allainé and M. Le Berre, eds.). International Network on Marmots, 41-44. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 2002. Group living. Pp. 448-450, In: Encyclopedia of evolution (M. Pagel, ed.). Oxford University Press, Oxford. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T., J.C. Daniel and W. Arnold. 2002. Pp. 82-85, in: Holarctic Marmots as a Factor of Biodiversity- Proceedings of the 3d International Conference on Marmots, Cheboksary , Russia, 25-30 August 1997 (K.B. Armitage and V.Y. Rumiantsev, eds.). ABF Publishing House, Moscow. [pdf available]

•Armitage, K.B. and D.T. Blumstein. 2002. Body-mass diversity in marmots. Pp. 22-32, in: Holarctic Marmots as a Factor of Biodiversity- Proceedings of the 3d International Conference on Marmots, Cheboksary , Russia, 25-30 August 1997 (K.B. Armitage and V.Y. Rumiantsev, eds.). ABF Publishing House, Moscow. [pdf available]

•Woods, B.C., Armitage, K.B. and D.T. Blumstein. 2002. Yellow-bellied marmots depress metabolism to enter torpor. Pp. 400-404, in: Holarctic Marmots as a Factor of Biodiversity- Proceedings of the 3d International Conference on Marmots, Cheboksary, Russia, 25-30 August 1997 (K.B. Armitage and V.Y. Rumiantsev, eds.). ABF Publishing House, Moscow. [pdf available]

•Woods, B.C., Armitage, K.B. and D.T. Blumstein. 2002. Circadian rhythm is maintained during hibernation in yellow-bellied marmots. Pp. 389-395, in: Holarctic Marmots as a Factor of Biodiversity- Proceedings of the 3d International Conference on Marmots, Cheboksary , Russia, 25-30 August 1997 (K.B. Armitage and V.Y. Rumiantsev, eds.). ABF Publishing House, Moscow. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 2000. The evolution of infanticide in rodents: a comparative analysis. Pp. 178-197, In: Infanticide by males and its implications (C. van Schaik and C.H. Janson, eds.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. [pdf available]

• Rose, K. A., Kirkland, P. D., Davis, R. J., Cooper, D. W. and D. T. Blumstein. 2000. An epizootic of sudden death in tammar wallabies (Macropus eugenii). Annual Conference- American Association of Zoo Veterinarians, 2000:166-170. [pdf available]

•Nikol’skii, A.A. and D.T. Blumstein. 1999. Geographic variation in Marmota caudata alarm calls: bioacoustical analysis supports the subspecific status of East Pamir and Karakoram populations. Pp. 72-73, In: Palearctic marmots: Biology and Management of Populations: Proceedings of the III International (VII) Conference of the CIS-states (O.V. Brandler, ed.). Moscow University Dialog Press, Moscow. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. and J. Lopez. 1993. Habitat use by Himalayan Snowcocks. Pp. 142-143, In: Pheasants in Asia 1992 (D. Jenkins, ed.). World Pheasant Association, Reading, UK. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 1986. The diets and breeding biology of Red-tailed Hawks in Boulder County: 1985 nesting season. Boulder County Nature Association Publication No. 5, iv + 1-78.

Commentaries, Replies, and Reviews

•Keene, M. & D.T. Blumstein. 2009. Environmental education: a time of change, a time for change. Journal of Evaluation and Program Planning

•Blumstein, D.T. 2008. In Focus: Calling for different purposes. Animal Behaviour 76: 1453-1454. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 2008. In Focus: Wary elk support the risk allocation hypothesis. Animal Behaviour 76:1103-1105. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 2008. In Focus: Communicating fear is sexy in chickens. Animal Behaviour 76:519-520. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 2008. Commentary: Does agriculture drive predator-mediated behavioral effects on prey? Animal Conservation 11:9-10. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 2007. Commentary: Feeling the heat: ground squirrels heat their tails to discourage rattlesnake attack. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA 104: 14177-14178. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. and C. Saylan. 2007. The failure of environmental education (and how we can fix it). PLoS Biology 5:e120. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 2007. Darwinian decision-making: putting the adaptive into adaptive management. Conservation Biology 21:552-553. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 2006. Attacking the big issues in antipredator defense. (Book review of Caro's Antipredator Defenses in Birds and Mammals). Ethology 112:725-726. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 2004. Book review: Evolutionary conservation biology (ed. by R. Ferriere, U. Dieckmann and D. Couvet). Ecoscience 11:483. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T., and E. Fernández-Juricic. 2004. Lead editorial: The emergence of conservation behavior. Conservation Biology 18:1175-1177. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 2004. Perspective: Developing a career in conservation behavior. The Conservation Behaviorist 2(1):4. www.animalbehavior.org/ABS/Conservation/ccConsBeh.html

•Blumstein, D.T. 2003. Book review: Acoustic communication in insects and anurans: common problems and diverse solutions (by H.C. Gerhardt & F. Huber). Ethology 109:89-90. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 2001. Book review: Behaviour and conservation (ed. by L.M. Gosling and W.J. Sutherland). Journal of Wildlife Management 65:601-603. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 1999. Perspective: Selfish sentinels. Science 284:1633-1634. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. and K.B. Armitage. 1998. Why do yellow-bellied marmots call? Animal Behaviour 56:1053-1055. [pdf available]

•Bouskila, A., Blumstein, D.T. and M. Mangel. 1995. Prey under stochastic conditions should almost always overestimate predation risk: a reply to Abrams. The American Naturalist 145:1015-1019. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 1993. Making humans part of the solution: a reply to Willers. Conservation Biology 7:223-224. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 1993. Book review: The Birds of Pakistan (by T.J. Roberts). Mountain Research and Development 13:112-113. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 1987. Book review: Medicine for mountaineering, third ed. (by J.A. Wilkerson). Rock and Ice 19:69-70. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 1987. Book review: Hypothermia, frostbite and other cold injuries (by J.A. Wilkerson). Rock and Ice 19:70-71. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 1986. Book review: The ABC of avalanche safety, second ed. (by E.R. LaChapelle). Rock and Ice 16:95. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 1986. Book review: The avalanche book (by B.A. Armstrong and K. Williams). Rock and Ice 16:95. [pdf available]

Training Manuals
•Blumstein, D.T. 2000. How an understanding of behaviour can enlighten conservation biology. In: Conservation, welfare and handling of Australian marsupials—a practical course (D. Cooper, ed.). Macquarie University Department of Biological Sciences, Sydney.

•Blumstein, D.T., R. Bowen, L. Boggs, J. Daniel, E.F. Loomis, and J.W. McNutt. N.D. A training manual for Khunjerab National Park guides. World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan, Lahore.

•Blumstein, D.T. 1994. Marmots–a species account. For International Snow Leopard Trust training manual (ed. by R. Jackson).

Unpublished Research Reports
•Blumstein, D.T. 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992. The behavioral ecology of golden marmots and community ecology of Dhee Sar (Khunjerab National Park): A progress report. National Council for the Conservation of Wildlife, Islamabad, Pakistan and World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan, Lahore.

Electronic Publications
•Blumstein, D.T. and the Animal Behavior Society Conservation Committee. 2002. 13 things a behavioral biologist can do to help conservation. http://spot.colorado.edu/~halloran/abscc/thirteen.html [reprinted in the Conservation Behaviorist: 2003-]

•Blumstein, D.T. 1997. Problems in ecotourism development: Contrasting the agendas of actors in sustainable ecotourism development. For: On-line International Ecotourism Conference, March 3 - April 5, 1997.

•Blumstein, D.T. 1995 - current. The Marmot Burrow. http://www.marmotburrow.ucla.edu

Popular Publications
•Blumstein, D.T. 2008. Do marmots retain fear of extinct predators? Crested Butte News, 18 July 2008: 44-45. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 2008. A localized ecological disaster. The Denver Post, 1 July 2008--online: http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_9756521 [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 2006. Nature's wake-up call: the marmot alarm. Crested Butte News, 30 June 2006: 84-85. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 1993. Infanticide: a search for an adaptive explanation. Natura--World Wide Fund for Nature--Pakistan, Newsletter 19(3): 14-15. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 1993. Territoriality: an economic approach. Natura--World Wide Fund for Nature--Pakistan, Newsletter 19(2): 8-10. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 1993. Mating systems: together with man and nature. Natura--World Wide Fund for Nature--Pakistan, Newsletter 19(2): 11-13. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 1993. Dhee Sar: portrait of a high alpine meadow. Natura--World Wide Fund for Nature--Pakistan, Newsletter 18(1):4-7. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 1992. Boxing marmots: functions of play. Natura--World Wide Fund for Nature--Pakistan, Newsletter 17(4):8-10. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 1992. Flying feathers--some theory of animal conflict. Natura--World Wide Fund for Nature--Pakistan, Newsletter 16(3):9-10. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 1992. Why did the peafowl scream?--Functions of animal vocalizations. Natura--World Wide Fund for Nature--Pakistan, Newsletter 14(1):26-28. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 1991. Why do male Himalayan ibex have large horns? Natura--World Wide Fund for Nature--Pakistan, Newsletter 13(4):22-23. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 1991. Mountain marmots of the Karakoram. Natura--World Wide Fund for Nature--Pakistan, Newsletter 12(3):8-11. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 1987. Africa by bicycle. Outside (February):40. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 1987. Cliff-nesting raptors and cliff-climbing humans. Rock and Ice 18:16-17. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 1986. Avalanche hazards and the extreme skier and big mountain climber. Rock and Ice 16:93-94. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D. 1986. Product review: Rump riders. Mountain Bike Magazine (July/August).

Children's Stories
•Blumstein, D.T. 1994. The lessons of Naveed the marmot. Mithu Begum--World Wide Fund for Nature--Pakistan, Children's Comic Book. [pdf available]

•Blumstein, D.T. 1993. Naveed's first lesson. Natura--World Wide Fund for Nature--Pakistan, Newsletter 18(1):14-15. [pdf available]