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D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
54
Citations
16226
World Ranking
3064
National Ranking
1082

Christopher C. Wilmers publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christopher C. Wilmers sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 140 publications — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Christopher C. Wilmers D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christopher C. Wilmers sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Christopher C. Wilmers is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a strong emphasis on wildlife ecology and conservation. They have contributed extensively to the understanding of animal behavior, ecological modeling, species distribution, and the interaction between humans and wildlife.

The main fields of study for Wilmers include:

  • Environmental Science

Their work spans several subfields, notably:

  • Ecology
  • Small Animals
  • Genetics
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Research topics addressed by Wilmers cover:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
  • Ecology and biodiversity studies
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Human-Animal Interaction Studies

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Wilmers include:

  • "Disturbance type and species life history predict mammal responses to humans" (2021), published in Global Change Biology
  • "Energetics and fear of humans constrain the spatial ecology of pumas" (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Network structure of vertebrate scavenger assemblages at the global scale: drivers and ecosystem functioning implications" (2020), published in Ecography
  • "Fine-scale movement decisions by a large carnivore inform conservation planning in human-dominated landscapes" (2020), published in Landscape Ecology
  • "Surviving in steep terrain: a lab-to-field assessment of locomotor costs for wild mountain lions (Puma concolor)" (2020), published in Movement Ecology

Wilmers frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • Ecosphere
  • Biological Conservation
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Collaborative work involves coauthors including:

  • Heiko U. Wittmer
  • Maximilian L. Allen
  • Justin P. Suraci
  • L. Mark Elbroch
  • Anna C. Nisi

Best Publications

  • Status and ecological effects of the world's largest carnivores.

    William J. Ripple;James A. Estes;Robert L. Beschta;Christopher C. Wilmers

  • Moving in the Anthropocene : global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements

    Marlee A. Tucker;Katrin Böhning-Gaese;William F. Fagan;John M. Fryxell

  • Human predators outpace other agents of trait change in the wild

    Chris T. Darimont;Stephanie M. Carlson;Michael T. Kinnison;Paul C. Paquet

  • LoCoH: Nonparameteric Kernel Methods for Constructing Home Ranges and Utilization Distributions

    Wayne M. Getz;Wayne M. Getz;Scott Fortmann-Roe;Paul C. Cross;Andrew J. Lyons

  • The golden age of bio‐logging: how animal‐borne sensors are advancing the frontiers of ecology

    Christopher C. Wilmers;Barry Nickel;Caleb M. Bryce;Justine A. Smith

  • A local nearest-neighbor convex-hull construction of home ranges and utilization distributions

    Wayne M. Getz;Christopher C. Wilmers

  • Trophic facilitation by introduced top predators: grey wolf subsidies to scavengers in Yellowstone National Park

    Christopher C. Wilmers;Robert L. Crabtree;Douglas W. Smith;Kerry M. Murphy

  • Fear of humans as apex predators has landscape-scale impacts from mountain lions to mice.

    Justin P. Suraci;Michael Clinchy;Liana Y. Zanette;Christopher C. Wilmers

  • Deer, predators, and the emergence of Lyme disease

    Taal Levi;A. Marm Kilpatrick;Marc Mangel;Christopher C. Wilmers

  • Animals and the zoogeochemistry of the carbon cycle

    Oswald J. Schmitz;Christopher C. Wilmers;Shawn J. Leroux;Christopher E. Doughty

  • Mesopredator spatial and temporal responses to large predators and human development in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California

    Yiwei Wang;Maximilian L. Allen;Christopher C. Wilmers

  • Resource dispersion and consumer dominance: scavenging at wolf- and hunter-killed carcasses in Greater Yellowstone, USA

    Christopher C. Wilmers;Daniel R. Stahler;Robert L. Crabtree;Douglas W. Smith

  • Wolves–coyotes–foxes: a cascade among carnivores

    Taal Levi;Christopher C. Wilmers

  • Fear of the human 'super predator' reduces feeding time in large carnivores.

    Justine A. Smith;Justin P. Suraci;Justin P. Suraci;Michael Clinchy;Ayana Crawford

  • Animating the Carbon Cycle

    Oswald J. Schmitz;Peter A. Raymond;James A. Estes;Werner A. Kurz

  • Phenological sequences reveal aggregate life history response to climatic warming.

    Eric S. Post;Eric S. Post;Christian Pedersen;Christopher C. Wilmers;Mads C. Forchhammer

  • Do trophic cascades affect the storage and flux of atmospheric carbon? An analysis of sea otters and kelp forests

    Christopher C Wilmers;James A Estes;Matthew Edwards;Kristin L Laidre

  • Gray wolves as climate change buffers in Yellowstone.

    Christopher C Wilmers;Wayne M Getz;Wayne M Getz

  • Warming, plant phenology and the spatial dimension of trophic mismatch for large herbivores

    Eric Post;Christian Pedersen;Christopher C Wilmers;Mads C Forchhammer

  • Instantaneous energetics of puma kills reveal advantage of felid sneak attacks

    Terrie M. Williams;Lisa Wolfe;Tracy Davis;Traci Kendall

  • Scale Dependent Behavioral Responses to Human Development by a Large Predator, the Puma

    Christopher C. Wilmers;Yiwei Wang;Barry Nickel;Paul Houghtaling

Frequent Co-Authors

Taal Levi
Taal Levi Oregon State University
Terrie M. Williams
Terrie M. Williams University of California, Santa Cruz
Eric Post
Eric Post University of California, Davis
Wayne M. Getz
Wayne M. Getz University of California, Berkeley
Heiko U. Wittmer
Heiko U. Wittmer Victoria University of Wellington
Douglas W. Smith
Douglas W. Smith National Park Service
Chris T. Darimont
Chris T. Darimont University of Victoria
Daniel R. Stahler
Daniel R. Stahler National Park Service
Marc Mangel
Marc Mangel University of Bergen
Paul C. Paquet
Paul C. Paquet University of Victoria

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