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Dan Cogălniceanu

Dan Cogălniceanu

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
31
Citations
4736
World Ranking
8204
National Ranking
3

Overview

Dan Cogălniceanu is affiliated with Ovidius University in Romania and has contributed research primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their scholarly output encompasses several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main topics addressed in their work focus on Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Turtle Biology and Conservation, and Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior.

Frequently published venues for their work include Amphibia-Reptilia, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), PeerJ, PLoS ONE, and Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.

Dan Cogălniceanu has collaborated regularly with several coauthors, notably Florina Stănescu, Diana Székely, Raluca Ioana Băncilă, Sabina E. Vlad, and Paul Székely.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Dan Cogălniceanu include:

  • Age, size and body condition do not equally reflect population response to habitat change in the common spadefoot toad Pelobates fuscus, 2021, PeerJ
  • Scientists' warning of threats to mountains, 2022, The Science of The Total Environment
  • How to recover from a bad start: size at metamorphosis affects growth and survival in a tropical amphibian, 2020, BMC Ecology
  • The distribution and biogeography of slow worms (Anguis, Squamata) across the Western Palearctic, with an emphasis on secondary contact zones, 2021, Amphibia-Reptilia
  • An extended mtDNA phylogeography for the alpine newt illuminates the provenance of introduced populations, 2023, Amphibia-Reptilia

In addition to research articles, they have contributed to book publications, including the title "Lucrari practice de ecologie generala" published by Editura Universitara in 2020.

Best Publications

  • The conservation status of the world's reptiles

    Monika Böhm;Ben Collen;Jonathan E.M. Baillie;Philip Bowles

  • Phylogeography of two European newt species — discordance between mtDNA and morphology

    W. Babik;W. Branicki;J. Crnobrnja-Isailovic;D. Cogalniceanu

  • The effect of fish and aquatic habitat complexity on amphibians

    Tibor Hartel;Szilárd Nemes;Dan Cogălniceanu;Kinga Öllerer

  • Multilocus species tree analyses resolve the radiation of the widespread Bufo bufo species group (Anura, Bufonidae).

    E. Recuero;D. Canestrelli;J. Vörös;K. Szabó

  • Ecological thresholds in European alpine lakes

    Jordi Catalan;M. Grazia Barbieri;Frederic Bartumeus;Peter Bitušík

  • Comparing three body condition indices in amphibians: a case study of yellow-bellied toad Bombina variegata

    Rodica Plăiaşu;Tibor Hartel;Raluca Ioana Băncilă;Dan Cogălniceanu

  • Amphibian distribution in a traditionally managed rural landscape of Eastern Europe: Probing the effect of landscape composition

    Tibor Hartel;Tibor Hartel;Oliver Schweiger;Kinga Öllerer;Dan Cogălniceanu

  • No evidence for nuclear introgression despite complete mtDNA replacement in the Carpathian newt (Lissotriton montandoni)

    P. Zielinski;Krystyna Nadachowska-Brzyska;Krystyna Nadachowska-Brzyska;B. Wielstra;R. Szkotak

  • Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences

    Luis M.P. Ceríaco;Luis M.P. Ceríaco;Eliécer E. Gutiérrez;Eliécer E. Gutiérrez;Alain Dubois;Cristian Simón Abdala

  • Scientists' warning of threats to mountains.

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  • Nuclear and mitochondrial phylogeography of the European fire-bellied toads Bombina bombina and Bombina variegata supports their independent histories.

    Anna Fijarczyk;Krystyna Nadachowska;Sebastian Hofman;Spartak N Litvinchuk

  • Feeding in anuran communities on islands in the Danube floodplain

    Dan CogÆ;Michael W. Palmer;Constantin Ciubuc

  • Population age structure and growth in four syntopic amphibian species inhabiting a large river floodplain

    Dan Cogalniceanu;Claude Miaud

  • Phylogeography of the fire‐bellied toads<i>Bombina</i>: independent Pleistocene histories inferred from mitochondrial genomes

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  • Long-term survival of a urodele amphibian despite depleted major histocompatibility complex variation.

    W. Babik;W. Babik;M. Pabijan;J.W. Arntzen;D. Cogalniceanu

  • Diversity and distribution of reptiles in Romania

    Dan Cogălniceanu;Laurentiu Rozylowicz;Paul Székely;Ciprian Samoilă

  • Diversity and distribution of amphibians in Romania

    Dan Cogălniceanu;Paul Székely;Ciprian Samoilă;Iosif Ruben

  • How to recover from a bad start: size at metamorphosis affects growth and survival in a tropical amphibian.

    Diana Székely;Diana Székely;Diana Székely;Dan Cogălniceanu;Paul Székely;Diego Armijos-Ojeda;Diego Armijos-Ojeda

  • Moving into protected areas? Setting conservation priorities for Romanian reptiles and amphibians at risk from climate change.

    Viorel D. Popescu;Viorel D. Popescu;Laurenţiu Rozylowicz;Dan Cogălniceanu;Iulian Mihăiţă Niculae

  • Acidification in European mountain lake districts: A regional assessment of critical load exceedance

    Chris J. Curtis;Ivan Botev;Lluis Camarero;Jordi Catalan

  • The distribution and conservation status of the Danube crested newt, Triturus dobrogicus

    J.W. Arntzen;G.P. Wallis;R.J.F. Bugter;D. Cogalniceanu

  • Phylogeography of a cryptic speciation continuum in Eurasian spadefoot toads (Pelobates)

    Christophe Dufresnes;Christophe Dufresnes;Ilias Strachinis;Nataliia Suriadna;Galyna Mykytynets

  • Genetic diversity and distribution patterns of diploid and polyploid hybrid water frog populations (Pelophylax esculentus complex) across Europe

    Alexandra Hoffmann;Jörg Plötner;Nicolas B. M. Pruvost;Ditte G. Christiansen

Frequent Co-Authors

Mathieu Denoël
Mathieu Denoël University of Liège
Tibor Hartel
Tibor Hartel Babeș-Bolyai University
Jan W. Arntzen
Jan W. Arntzen Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Benedikt R. Schmidt
Benedikt R. Schmidt University of Zurich
Claude Miaud
Claude Miaud University of Montpellier
Miguel A. Carretero
Miguel A. Carretero University of Porto
Petros Lymberakis
Petros Lymberakis University of Crete
Íñigo Martínez-Solano
Íñigo Martínez-Solano Spanish National Research Council
Wolfgang Böhme
Wolfgang Böhme Leibniz Association
Pierre-André Crochet
Pierre-André Crochet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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