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D-Index
42
Citations
6536
World Ranking
5597
National Ranking
114

Overview

Arpat Ozgul is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland, focusing primarily on Environmental Science. Their research spans several subfields, including Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics covered by their work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, and Amphibian and Reptile Biology.

Ozgul has contributed extensively to scientific literature, with notable frequent publication venues such as Journal of Animal Ecology, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Diversity and Distributions, and The American Naturalist.

Recent papers featuring Ozgul's contributions include:

  • Contrasting effects of climate change on seasonal survival of a hibernating mammal, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Why disease ecology needs life-history theory: a host perspective, 2021, Ecology Letters
  • Temporal homogenization of functional and beta diversity in bird communities of the Swiss Alps, 2020, Diversity and Distributions
  • The myriad of complex demographic responses of terrestrial mammals to climate change and gaps of knowledge: A global analysis, 2021, Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Proximity to humans affects local social structure in a giraffe metapopulation, 2020, Journal of Animal Ecology

Frequent co-authors that have collaborated with Ozgul include Gabriele Cozzi, Maria Paniw, Benedikt R. Schmidt, Dominik M. Behr, and Vicente García-Navas, with collaboration counts ranging from 9 to 18 joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Coupled dynamics of body mass and population growth in response to environmental change

    Arpat Ozgul;Dylan Z. Childs;Madan K. Oli;Kenneth B. Armitage

  • Adaptive responses of animals to climate change are most likely insufficient

    Viktoriia Radchuk;Thomas Reed;Céline Teplitsky;Martijn van der Pol

  • The dynamics of phenotypic change and the shrinking sheep of St. Kilda.

    Arpat Ozgul;Shripad Tuljapurkar;Tim G. Benton;Josephine M. Pemberton

  • The ecological forecast horizon, and examples of its uses and determinants.

    Owen L Petchey;Owen L Petchey;Mikael Pontarp;Mikael Pontarp;Thomas M Massie;Sonia Kéfi

  • How Life History Influences Population Dynamics in Fluctuating Environments

    Bernt-Erik Sæther;Tim Coulson;Vidar Grøtan;Steinar Engen

  • Matrix models for a changeable world: the importance of transient dynamics in population management

    Thomas H. G. Ezard;James M. Bullock;Harmony J. Dalgleish;Alexandre Millon

  • Indicators of transitions in biological systems

    Christopher F. Clements;Christopher F. Clements;Arpat Ozgul

  • Including trait-based early warning signals helps predict population collapse

    Christopher F Clements;Arpat Ozgul

  • Combining human acceptance and habitat suitability in a unified socio-ecological suitability model: a case study of the wolf in Switzerland

    Dominik M. Behr;Arpat Ozgul;Gabriele Cozzi

  • Modeling Adaptive and Nonadaptive Responses of Populations to Environmental Change.

    Tim Coulson;Bruce E Kendall;Julia A. Barthold;Floriane Plard

  • Life history responses of meerkats to seasonal changes in extreme environments

    Maria Paniw;Nino Maag;Gabriele Cozzi;Tim Clutton-Brock

  • Interactive life-history traits predict sensitivity of plants and animals to temporal autocorrelation.

    Maria Paniw;Maria Paniw;Arpat Ozgul;Roberto Salguero‐Gómez

  • Body size shifts and early warning signals precede the historic collapse of whale stocks.

    Christopher F Clements;Julia L Blanchard;Kirsty L Nash;Mark A Hindell;Mark A Hindell

  • A novel biomechanical approach for animal behaviour recognition using accelerometers

    Pritish Chakravarty;Gabriele Cozzi;Arpat Ozgul;Kamiar Aminian

  • Locomotor Ability and Wariness in Yellow‐Bellied Marmots

    Daniel T. Blumstein;Daniel T. Blumstein;Andrea Runyan;Mona Seymour;Amanda Nicodemus

  • Anthropogenic food resources foster the coexistence of distinct life history strategies: year-round sedentary and migratory brown bears

    Gabriele Cozzi;Mark Chynoweth;Josip Kusak;Emrah Coban

  • SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIATION IN SURVIVAL RATES: IMPLICATIONS FOR POPULATION DYNAMICS OF YELLOW-BELLIED MARMOTS

    Arpat Ozgul;Kenneth B. Armitage;Daniel T. Blumstein;Madan K. Oli

  • Effect of predation risk on the presence and persistence of yellow‐bellied marmot (Marmota flaviventris) colonies

    D. T. Blumstein;A. Ozgul;V. Yovovich;D. H. Van Vuren

  • Contrasting effects of climate change on seasonal survival of a hibernating mammal

    Line S. Cordes;Daniel T. Blumstein;Daniel T. Blumstein;Kenneth B. Armitage;Paul J. CaraDonna

  • Density‐dependent dispersal strategies in a cooperative breeder

    Nino Maag;Gabriele Cozzi;Tim Clutton-Brock;Arpat Ozgul

  • The influence of disturbance events on survival and dispersal rates of Florida box turtles.

    C. Kenneth Dodd;C. Kenneth Dodd;Arpat Ozgul;Madan K. Oli

  • Modeling Adaptive and Non-adaptive Responses of Populations to Environmental Change

    Tim Coulson;Bruce E Kendall;Julia Barthold;Floriane Plard

Frequent Co-Authors

Madan K. Oli
Madan K. Oli University of Florida
Daniel T. Blumstein
Daniel T. Blumstein University of California, Los Angeles
Tim H. Clutton-Brock
Tim H. Clutton-Brock University of Cambridge
Kenneth B. Armitage
Kenneth B. Armitage University of Kansas
Tim Coulson
Tim Coulson University of Oxford
Benedikt R. Schmidt
Benedikt R. Schmidt University of Zurich
Damien R. Farine
Damien R. Farine University of Zurich
Diego Fontaneto
Diego Fontaneto Water Research Institute
Lowell L. Getz
Lowell L. Getz University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jean-Michel Gaillard
Jean-Michel Gaillard Claude Bernard University Lyon 1

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