| Matriarchs as repositories of social knowledge in African elephants K McComb, C Moss, SM Durant, L Baker, S Sayialel Science 292 (5516), 491-494, 2001 | 570 | 2001 |
| Competition refuges and coexistence: an example from Serengeti carnivores SM Durant Journal of Animal ecology 67 (3), 370-386, 1998 | 430 | 1998 |
| Living with the enemy: avoidance of hyenas and lions by cheetahs in the Serengeti SM Durant Behavioral ecology 11 (6), 624-632, 2000 | 265 | 2000 |
| Leadership in elephants: the adaptive value of age K McComb, G Shannon, SM Durant, K Sayialel, R Slotow, J Poole, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278 (1722), 3270-3276, 2011 | 211 | 2011 |
| Leopard (Panthera pardus) status, distribution, and the research efforts across its range AP Jacobson, P Gerngross, JR Lemeris Jr, RF Schoonover, C Anco, ... PeerJ 4, e1974, 2016 | 161 | 2016 |
| Saving the world's terrestrial megafauna WJ Ripple, G Chapron, JV López-Bao, SM Durant, DW Macdonald, ... Bioscience 66 (10), 807-812, 2016 | 139 | 2016 |
| Demography of the Serengeti cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) population: the first 25 years MJ Kelly, MK Laurenson, CD FitzGibbon, DA Collins, SM Durant, ... Journal of Zoology 244 (4), 473-488, 1998 | 134 | 1998 |
| Substrate and species constraints on the use of track incidences to estimate African large carnivore abundance PJ Funston, L Frank, T Stephens, Z Davidson, A Loveridge, ... Journal of Zoology 281 (1), 56-65, 2010 | 119 | 2010 |
| The global decline of cheetah Acinonyx jubatus and what it means for conservation SM Durant, N Mitchell, R Groom, N Pettorelli, A Ipavec, AP Jacobson, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 (3), 528-533, 2017 | 114 | 2017 |
| To fence or not to fence R Woodroffe, S Hedges, SM Durant Science 344 (6179), 46-48, 2014 | 108 | 2014 |
| Predator avoidance, breeding experience and reproductive success in endangered cheetahs, Acinonyx jubatus SM Durant Animal behaviour 60 (1), 121-130, 2000 | 107 | 2000 |
| Road will ruin Serengeti AP Dobson, M Borner, ARE Sinclair, PJ Hudson, TM Anderson, ... Nature 467 (7313), 272-273, 2010 | 101 | 2010 |
| Carnivore biodiversity in Tanzania: revealing the distribution patterns of secretive mammals using camera traps N Pettorelli, AL Lobora, MJ Msuha, C Foley, SM Durant Animal Conservation 13 (2), 131-139, 2010 | 98 | 2010 |
| Factors affecting life and death in Serengeti cheetahs: environment, age, and sociality SM Durant, M Kelly, TM Caro Behavioral Ecology 15 (1), 11-22, 2004 | 94 | 2004 |
| Forgotten biodiversity in desert ecosystems SM Durant, N Pettorelli, S Bashir, R Woodroffe, T Wacher, P De Ornellas, ... Science 336 (6087), 1379-1380, 2012 | 92 | 2012 |
| Fiddling in biodiversity hotspots while deserts burn? Collapse of the S ahara's megafauna SM Durant, T Wacher, S Bashir, R Woodroffe, P De Ornellas, C Ransom, ... Diversity and Distributions 20 (1), 114-122, 2014 | 91 | 2014 |
| Genetic analysis reveals promiscuity among female cheetahs D Gottelli, J Wang, S Bashir, SM Durant Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274 (1621), 1993-2001, 2007 | 91 | 2007 |
| Viability of the Serengeti cheetah population MJ Kelly, SM Durant Conservation biology, 786-797, 2000 | 86 | 2000 |
| Energy availability and density estimates in African ungulates N Pettorelli, J Bro-Jørgensen, SM Durant, T Blackburn, C Carbone The American Naturalist 173 (5), 698-704, 2009 | 85 | 2009 |
| Acinonyx jubatus S Durant, L Marker, N Purchase, F Belbachir, L Hunter, C Packer, ... The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015, 2015 | 84 | 2015 |
Nathalie PettorelliInstitute of Zoology, Zoological Society of LondonVerified email at ioz.ac.uk
