Dr Hedgehog Communications

Here you can download my scientific publications

  • Abigail Gazzard, David W. Macdonald, Sophie Lund Rasmussen 2025. Conservation concern for Europe’s hedgehog species (Erinaceidae): current statuses, issues and needs. Biological Conservation 304, 111033. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111033
  • Abigail Gazzard, David W Macdonald and Sophie Lund Rasmussen 2024. European hedgehog’s ‘near threatened’ listing raises concerns for an iconic species. Nature. 634, 1053 (2024). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03516-w
  • Brawin Kumar, Sophie Lund Rasmussen, Mohammed Thanvir, Mohammed Shahidh. 2024. Mapping the Distribution of the Endemic Madras Hedgehog Paraechinus nudiventris in Tamil Nadu, India. Conservation, 4 no. 4, 812-829. Download den her: https://doi.org/10.3390/conservation4040048
  • Sophie Lund Rasmussen, Cino Pertoldi, Jeppe Lund Nielsen, Peter Roslev, Katrin Vorkamp. Pesticides in the Danish population of European hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus). 2024. Frontiers in Veterinary Science 11: 1436965, in the special issue “Wildlife Health Consequences from Environmental Pollution”. Download it here: https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2024.1436965
  • Anne Berger, Nigel Reeve and Sophie Lund Rasmussen (Eds.). 2024. Applied Hedgehog Conservation Research. Publisher: MDPI, Switzerland. ISBN 978-3-7258-0935-6. https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-7258-0936-3. The book can be downloaded here.
  • Sophie Lund Rasmussen, Cino Pertoldi, Peter Roslev, Katrin Vorkamp, and Jeppe Lund Nielsen. 2024. A Review of the Occurrence of Metals and Xenobiotics in European Hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus). Animals 14, no. 2: 232. Download den her: https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14020232
  • Sophie Lund Rasmussen, Bettina Thuland Schrøder, Anne Berger, Rahel Sollmann, David W. Macdonald, Cino Pertoldi, and Aage Kristian Olsen Alstrup. 2024. Testing the Impact of Robotic Lawn Mowers on European Hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus) and Designing a Safety Test. Animals . Download it here: https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14010122
  • Sophie Lund Rasmussen, Bettina Thuland Schrøder, Anne Berger, David W. Macdonald, Cino Pertoldi, Elodie Floriane Briefer, and Aage Kristian Olsen Alstrup. 2024. Facing Danger: Exploring Personality and Reactions of European Hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus) towards Robotic Lawn Mowers. Animals . Download it here: https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14010002  
  • Troels Pank Arbøll*, Sophie Lund Rasmussen*, Nadieh de Jonge, Anne Haslund Hansen, Cino Pertoldi and Jeppe Lund Nielsen 2023. Revealing the secrets of a 2,900-year-old clay brick: Discovering a time capsule of ancient DNA. Nature Scientific Reports 13, 13092. Download it here: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-38191-w
  • Sophie Lund Rasmussen, Thomas B. Berg, Helle Jakobe Martens, and Owen R. Jones. 2023. Anyone Can Get Old—All You Have to Do Is Live Long Enough: Understanding Mortality and Life Expectancy in European Hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus). Animals 13, 4: 626. Download it here: https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13040626
  • Gabriela Kadlecova, Sophie Lund Rasmussen, Eva Voslarova, and Vladimir Vecerek 2023. Differences in Mortality of Pre-Weaned and Post-Weaned Juvenile European Hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus) at Wildlife Rehabilitation Centres in the Czech Republic. Animals 13, 3: 337. Download it here: https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13030337
  • Jesper Larsen, Claire Raisen, Xiaoliang Ba, Nicholas Sadgrove, Guillermo Padilla-González, Monique Simmonds, Igor Loncaric, Heidrun Kerschner, Petra Apfalter, Rainer Hartl, Ariane Deplano, Stien Vandendriessche, Barbora Černá Bolfíková, Pavel Hulva, Maiken Arendrup, Rasmus Hare, Céline Barnadas, Marc Stegger, Raphael Sieber, Robert Skov, Andreas Petersen, Øystein Angen, Sophie Lund Rasmussen, Carmen Espinosa-Gongora, Frank Aarestrup, Laura Lindholm, Suvi Nykäsenoja, Frederic Laurent, Karsten Becker, Birgit Walther, Corinna Kehrenberg, Christiane Cuny, Franziska Layer, Guido Werner, Wolfgang Witte, Ivonne Stamm, Paolo Moroni, Hannah Jørgensen, Hermínia de Lencastre, Emilia Cercenado, Fernando García-Garrote, Stefan Börjesson, Sara Hæggman, Vincent Perreten, Christopher Teale, Andrew Waller, Bruno Pichon, Martin Curran, Matthew Ellington, John Welch, Sharon Peacock, David Seilly, Fiona Morgan, Julian Parkhill, Nazreen Hadjirin, Jodi Lindsay, Matthew Holden, Giles Edwards, Geoffrey Foster, Gavin Paterson, Xavier Didelot, Mark Holmes, Ewan Harrison, Anders Larsen 2022. Emergence of methicillin resistance predates clinical use of antibiotics. NATURE 602,135–141. Download it here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04265-w
  • Sophie Lund Rasmussen, Cino Pertoldi and David W. Macdonald 2022. Machine-learning prediction of hosts of novel coronaviruses requires caution as it may affect wildlife conservation. Nature Communications 13, 5101. Download it here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-32746-7
  • Sophie Lund Rasmussen, Rien van Wijk, Jakob Hallig & Heidi Huus Petersen 2021. An investigation of parasites and the determinants of parasite carriage in European hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus) from Denmark. International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 16, 217-22. Download den her: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2021.10.005
  • Sophie Lund Rasmussen, Ane Elise Schrøder, Ronja Mathiesen, Jeppe Lund Nielsen, Cino Pertoldi, David W. Macdonald 2021. Wildlife Conservation at a Garden Level: The Effect of Robotic Lawn Mowers on European Hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus). Animals 11(5), 1191.  Download den her: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/11/5/1191
  • Sophie Lund Rasmussen, Otto Kalliokoski, Torben Dabelsteen, Klas Abelson 2021. An exploratory investigation of glucocorticoids, personality and survival rates in wild and rehabilitated hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus) in Denmark. BMC ecology and evolution 21(1), 1-16.  Download den her: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12862-021-01816-7
  • Sophie Lund Rasmussen, Jeppe Lund Nielsen, Owen R. Jones, Thomas B. Berg, Cino Pertoldi 2020. Genetic structure of the European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) in Denmark. PLOS ONE 15(1): e0227205. Download it here: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227205
  • Sophie Lund Rasmussen, Thomas B. Berg, Torben Dabelsteen and Owen R. Jones 2019. The ecology of suburban juvenile European hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus) in Denmark. Ecology and Evolution 9, 13174– 13187. Download den her: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5764
  • Sophie Lund Rasmussen, Jesper Larsen, Rien van Wijk, Owen R. Jones, Thomas Bjørneboe Berg, Øystein Angen, Anders Rhod Larsen 2019. European hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus) as a natural reservoir of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carrying mecC in Denmark. PLOS ONE 14(9): e0222031. Download it here: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222031

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