Dr Ben Walton

Dr Ben Walton

Post-doctoral Research Fellow

Email
bjw8@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

Dr Ben Walton is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow, working with Professor Christian Rutz, to launch an ambitious new global initiative, combining community building, wildlife tracking technology, local empowerment, education, and storytelling to increase human-wildlife coexistence in the world's unprotected areas, in collaboration with the .

Ben has broad interests in animal behaviour and widlife conservation, in particular using cutting-edge biologging technologies to understand animal responses to human activities and increase human-wildlife coexistence. 

Ben co-leads the Connectivity Working Group, an international collaboration to transform movement insights into actionable evidence that supports international conservation policy and planning for habitat connectivity.

Selected publications

  • Open access
    Walton, B. J., Findlay, L. J. & Hill, R. A., Aug 2024, In: International Journal of Primatology. 45, 4, p. 882-886 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Walton, B. J., Findlay, L. J. & Hill, R. A., Apr 2022, In: Ecology and Evolution. 12, 4, p. 1-9 9 p., e8808.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Walton, B. J., Findlay, L. J. & Hill, R. A., Jan 2021, In: Ecology and Evolution. 11, 2, p. 990-1001 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Walton, B. & Kershenbaum, A., 2 Nov 2019, In: Bioacoustics. 28, 6, p. 592-603 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review