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Cagan H. Sekercioglu

Cagan H. Sekercioglu

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
69
Citations
21342
World Ranking
1419
National Ranking
520

Overview

Cagan H. Sekercioglu is affiliated with the University of Utah in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with significant contributions to the subfields of Ecology, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Genetics.

Their work addresses a range of main topics including Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Avian ecology and behavior, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and animal studies, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, and Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation.

Frequent publication venues for Cagan H. Sekercioglu's research include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Global Change Biology, Biological Conservation, and PLoS ONE. This indicates a strong presence in journals focused on ecology, conservation, and biology.

They have collaborated extensively with several coauthors, including Montague H. C. Neate-Clegg, Kyle D. Kittelberger, Austin M. Green, Josip Kusak, and Evan R. Buechley.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Generation lengths of the world's birds and their implications for extinction risk, 2020, Conservation Biology
  • Tapping into non-English-language science for the conservation of global biodiversity, 2021, PLoS Biology
  • Disturbance type and species life history predict mammal responses to humans, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Global effects of land use on biodiversity differ among functional groups, 2020, Functional Ecology
  • Traits shaping urban tolerance in birds differ around the world, 2023, Current Biology

Best Publications

  • Increasing awareness of avian ecological function.

    Cagan H. Sekercioglu

  • Ecosystem consequences of bird declines

    Çağan H. Şekercioğlu;Gretchen C. Daily;Paul R. Ehrlich

  • Identifying the World's Most Climate Change Vulnerable Species: A Systematic Trait-Based Assessment of all Birds, Amphibians and Corals

    Wendy B. Foden;Wendy B. Foden;Stuart H. M. Butchart;Simon N. Stuart;Jean-Christophe Vié

  • Climate change, elevational range shifts, and bird extinctions.

    Cagan H. Sekercioglu;Stephen H. Schneider;John P. Fay;Scott R. Loarie

  • Disappearance of insectivorous birds from tropical forest fragments

    Cagan H. Sekercioglu;Paul R. Ehrlich;Gretchen C. Daily;Deniz Aygen

  • Measuring the Meltdown: Drivers of Global Amphibian Extinction and Decline

    Navjot S. Sodhi;David Bickford;Arvin C. Diesmos;Arvin C. Diesmos;Tien Ming Lee

  • Landscape constraints on functional diversity of birds and insects in tropical agroecosystems.

    Teja Tscharntke;Cagan H. Sekercioglu;Thomas V. Dietsch;Navjot S. Sodhi

  • The Need to Quantify Ecosystem Services Provided By Birds

    Daniel G. Wenny;Travis L. Devault;Matthew D. Johnson;Dave Kelly

  • The worldwide variation in avian clutch size across species and space.

    Walter Jetz;Cagan H Sekercioglu;Katrin Böhning-Gaese

  • Impacts of birdwatching on human and avian communities.

    Cagan H. Sekercioglu

  • The effects of climate change on tropical birds

    Çağan H. Şekercioğlu;Richard B. Primack;Janice Wormworth

  • Turkey's globally important biodiversity in crisis

    Çağan H. Şekercioğlu;Sean Anderson;Erol Akçay;Raşit Bilgin

  • Human impacts on the rates of recent, present, and future bird extinctions.

    Stuart Pimm;Peter Raven;Alan Peterson;Çağan H. Şekercioğlu

  • Global patterns and predictors of bird species responses to forest fragmentation: Implications for ecosystem function and conservation

    Tom P. Bregman;Cagan H. Sekercioglu;Joseph A. Tobias

  • Ecological traits affect the response of tropical forest bird species to land-use intensity

    Tim Newbold;Tim Newbold;Jörn P. W. Scharlemann;Stuart H. M. Butchart;Çağan H. Şekercioğlu

  • Bird functional diversity and ecosystem services in tropical forests, agroforests and agricultural areas

    Cagan H. Sekercioglu

  • Thresholds of Logging Intensity to Maintain Tropical Forest Biodiversity

    Zuzana Burivalova;Çağan Hakkı Şekercioğlu;Lian Pin Koh;Lian Pin Koh

  • Persistence of forest birds in the Costa Rican agricultural countryside.

    Cagan H. Sekercioglu;Scott R. Loarie;Federico Oviedo Brenes;Paul R. Ehrlich

  • Why birds matter: from economic ornithology to ecosystem services

    Christopher J. Whelan;Çağan H. Şekercioğlu;Çağan H. Şekercioğlu;Daniel G. Wenny

  • The avian scavenger crisis: Looming extinctions, trophic cascades, and loss of critical ecosystem functions

    Evan R. Buechley;Çağan H. Şekercioğlu;Çağan H. Şekercioğlu

  • Effects of forestry practices on vegetation structure and bird community of Kibale National Park, Uganda

    Cagan H. Sekercioglu

Frequent Co-Authors

Navjot S. Sodhi
Navjot S. Sodhi National University of Singapore
Raf Aerts
Raf Aerts KU Leuven
Barry W. Brook
Barry W. Brook University of Tasmania
Tien Ming Lee
Tien Ming Lee Sun Yat-sen University
Walter Jetz
Walter Jetz Yale University
Paul R. Ehrlich
Paul R. Ehrlich Stanford University
Corey J. A. Bradshaw
Corey J. A. Bradshaw Flinders University
Pablo R. Stevenson
Pablo R. Stevenson Universidad de Los Andes
Kelvin S.-H. Peh
Kelvin S.-H. Peh University of Southampton
Gretchen C. Daily
Gretchen C. Daily Stanford University

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