Published Scientific articles

In peer review journals

Iliopoulos, Y., Astaras, C., Lazarou, Y., Petridou, M., Kazantzidis, S., Waltert, M. (under review). Tools for co-existence: Fladry corrals repel efficiently wild wolves (Canis lupus) from experimental baiting sites. Wildlife Research.

Kiki, M., Astaras, C., Montgomery R.A., Henschel, P., Tehou, A., Macdonald, D.W. (under review). Application of cost-effective research techniques to carnivore conservation within a network of transboundary protected areas. Biodiversity and Conservation.

Astaras, C., Linder, J.M., Wrege, P., Orume, R.D., Macdonald, D.W. (2017). Passive acoustic monitoring as a law enforcement monitoring tool for Afrotropical rainforests. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 15:233-234.

Rostro-Garcia, S., Tharchen, L., Abade, L., Astaras, C., Cushman, S., Macdonald, D.W. (2016). Scale dependence of felid predation risk: Identifying predictors of livestock kills by tigers and leopards in Bhutan. Landscape Ecology 31:1277-1298.

Morgan, B., Abwe, E., Dixson, A., Astaras, C. (2013). The distribution, status and conservation outlook of the drill (Mandrillus leucophaeus) in Cameroon. International Journal of Primatology 34:281-302.

Ting, N., Astaras, C., Gail, H., Honarvar, S., Corush, J., Burrel, A., Phillips, N., Morgan, B., Gadsby, E., Raaum, R., Roos, C. (2012). Genetic signatures of a demographic collapse in a large-bodied forest dwelling primate (Mandrillus leucophaeus). Ecology and Evolution 2:550-561.

Astaras, C., Krause, S., Mattner, L., Rehse, C., Waltert, C. (2011). Associations between the drill (Mandrillus leucophaeus) and sympatric primate species in Korup National Park, Cameroon. American Journal of Primatology 73:127-134.

Astaras, C., Waltert, M. (2010). What does seed handling by the drill tell us about the ecological services of terrestrial cercopithecines in African forests? Animal Conservation 13:568-578.

Astaras, C. (2009). Ecology and conservation status of the drill (Mandrillus leucophaeus) in Korup National Park, Southwest Cameroon: Implications for conservation. Göttingen:Optimus Verlag. pp. 263.

Astaras, C., Mühlenberg, M., Waltert, M. (2008). Note on drill (Mandrillus leucophaeus) ecology and conservation status in Korup National Park, Southwest Cameroon. American Journal of Primatology 70:306-310.