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46
Citations
23366
World Ranking
4526
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1567

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2000 - The Rockefeller Prentice Memorial Award in Animal Breeding and Genetics, American Society of Animal Science
  • 1995 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Don E. Wilson is affiliated with the National Museum of Natural History in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Medicine, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. The scientist's work is further specialized in subfields such as Paleontology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Ecological Modeling, and Ecology.

The main topics covered by Don E. Wilson include Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Bat Biology and Ecology Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, and Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment.

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated extensively with Don E. Wilson include Roberto Leonan Morim Novaes, Ricardo Moratelli, Jesús E. Maldonado, Vinícius C. Cláudio, and Edson F. Abreu.

The scientist regularly publishes in several venues, with the most publications appearing in Journal of Mammalogy, arXiv (Cornell University), Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Zoologia (Curitiba), and Vertebrate Zoology.

Recent papers by Don E. Wilson include:

  • Expert range maps of global mammal distributions harmonised to three taxonomic authorities, 2022, Journal of Biogeography
  • Museomics of tree squirrels: a dense taxon sampling of mitogenomes reveals hidden diversity, phenotypic convergence, and the need of a taxonomic overhaul, 2020, BMC Evolutionary Biology
  • Taxonomic re-evaluation of New World Eptesicus and Histiotus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae), with the description of a new genus, 2023, Zoologia (Curitiba)
  • Spatiotemporal Diversification of Tree Squirrels: Is the South American Invasion and Speciation Really That Recent and Fast?, 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • A new species of Myotis (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) from Uruguay, 2021, Vertebrate Zoology

Don E. Wilson has received awards including The Rockefeller Prentice Memorial Award in Animal Breeding and Genetics from the American Society of Animal Science in 2000, and was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1995.

Best Publications

  • Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference

    Rudolf Schmid;Don. E. Wilson;DeeAnn M. Reeder

  • Measuring and Monitoring Biological Diversity: Standard Methods for Mammals

    Don E. Wilson;F. Russell Cole;James D. Nichols;Rasanayagam Rudran

  • Mammals of North America

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  • Three Central American Bat Communitis: Structure, Reproductive Cycles, and Movement Patterns

    Theodore H. Fleming;Emmet T. Hooper;Don E. Wilson

  • Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness

    Zhi-Qiang Zhang;John Na Hooper;Rob Wm Van Soest;Andrzej Pisera

  • Biodiversity II: understanding and protecting our biological resources

    M L Reaka-Kudla;D E Wilson;E O Wilson

  • The Smithsonian book of North American mammals

    Don E. Wilson;Sue Ruff

  • The global biodiversity of coral reefs: a comparison with rain forests.

    M. L. Reaka-Kudla;D. E. Wilson;E. O. Wilson

  • RELATIVE BRAIN SIZE AND FEEDING STRATEGIES IN THE CHIROPTERA.

    John F. Eisenberg;Don E. Wilson;Don E. Wilson

  • Demography and natural history of the common fruit bat, Artibeus jamaicensis, on Barro Colorado Island, Panamá

    Charles O. Handley;Don E. Wilson;Alfred L. Gardner

  • Generic Revision in the Holarctic Ground Squirrel Genus Spermophilus

    Kristofer M. Helgen;F. Russell Cole;Lauren E. Helgen;Don E. Wilson

  • BAT FAUNAS: A TROPHIC COMPARISON

    Don E. Wilson

  • Morphologic Properties of Bat Wings

    James S. Findley;Eugene H. Studier;Don E. Wilson

  • Mammals of North America

    Roland W. Kays;Don E. Wilson

  • Global trends and biases in new mammal species discoveries.

    DeeAnn M. Reeder;Kristofer M. Helgen;Don E. Wilson

  • Expert range maps of global mammal distributions harmonised to three taxonomic authorities

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  • Predation on Scheelea Palm Seeds by Bruchid Beetles: Seed Density and Distance from the Parent Palm

    Don E. Wilson;Daniel H. Janzen

  • Mammals of the La Selva-Braulio Carrillo Complex, Costa Rica

    Robert M. Timm;Don E. Wilson;Barbara L. Clauson;Richard K. LaVal

  • Biodiversity at its utmost: tropical forest beetles.

    T. L. Erwin;M. L. Reaka-Kudla;D. E. Wilson;E. O. Wilson

  • Taxonomic revision of the olingos (Bassaricyon), with description of a new species, the Olinguito

    Kristofer M. Helgen;C. Miguel Pinto;Roland Kays;Lauren E. Helgen

  • Relative brain size and demographic strategies in didelphid marsupials

    John F. Eisenberg;Don E. Wilson

  • Bat Biology and Conservation

    Don E. Wilson;Thomas H. Kunz;Paul A. Racey

Frequent Co-Authors

Kristofer M. Helgen
Kristofer M. Helgen Australian Museum
Roland Kays
Roland Kays North Carolina State University
Russell A. Mittermeier
Russell A. Mittermeier Conservation International
Jesús E. Maldonado
Jesús E. Maldonado Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Robert M. Timm
Robert M. Timm University of Kansas
Daniel H. Janzen
Daniel H. Janzen University of Pennsylvania
Thomas E. Lacher
Thomas E. Lacher Texas A&M University
Uwe Fritz
Uwe Fritz American Museum of Natural History
Robert J. Baker
Robert J. Baker Texas Tech University
Adriano B. Kury
Adriano B. Kury Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

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