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Elisabeth K. V. Kalko

Elisabeth K. V. Kalko

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
84
Citations
22651
World Ranking
679
National Ranking
55

Elisabeth K. V. Kalko 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 Elisabeth K. V. Kalko sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 207 publications — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Elisabeth K. V. Kalko 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 Elisabeth K. V. Kalko sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 84 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Elisabeth K. V. Kalko was affiliated with the University of Ulm in Germany. Their research primarily focused on various aspects of biological and environmental sciences, with particular attention to bat biology and ecology.

Their work covered a range of fields including Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Subfields of research included Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, Genetics, and Paleontology.

Kalko's main topics of study addressed:

  • Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Amphibian and Reptile Biology
  • Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies

Among the recent papers attributed to Kalko were:

  • "Diversity and Conservation of Cave-Roosting Bats in Central Ghana," published in 2021 in Tropical Conservation Science
  • "Concordant patterns of genetic, acoustic, and morphological divergence in the West African Old World leaf-nosed bats of the Hipposideros caffer complex," published in 2021 in the Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research

Frequent coauthors in their published work included:

  • Evans E. Nkrumah
  • Heather Baldwin
  • Ebenezer K. Badu
  • Priscilla Anti
  • Peter Vallo

The primary venues for their publications were the Tropical Conservation Science journal and the Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research.

Best Publications

  • Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

    William F. Laurance;William F. Laurance;D. Carolina Useche;Julio Rendeiro;Margareta Kalka

  • Echolocation by insect-eating bats

    Hans-Ulrich Schnitzler;Elisabeth K. V. Kalko

  • Implementing large-scale and long-term functional biodiversity research: The Biodiversity Exploratories

    Markus Fischer;Markus Fischer;Oliver Bossdorf;Sonja Gockel;Falk Hansel

  • A quantitative index of land-use intensity in grasslands: Integrating mowing, grazing and fertilization

    Nico Blüthgen;Carsten F. Dormann;Daniel Prati;Valentin H. Klaus

  • Bats Limit Arthropods and Herbivory in a Tropical Forest

    Margareta B. Kalka;Adam R. Smith;Elisabeth Klara Viktoria Kalko;Elisabeth Klara Viktoria Kalko

  • Trophic structure in a large assemblage of phyllostomid bats in Panama

    Norberto P. Giannini;Elisabeth Klara Viktoria Kalko

  • Environmental factors affect Acidobacterial communities below the subgroup level in grassland and forest soils.

    Astrid Naether;Astrid Naether;Bärbel U. Foesel;Bärbel U. Foesel;Verena Naegele;Pia K. Wüst

  • CHAPTER 16 – Organization, Diversity, and Long-Term Dynamics of a Neotropical Bat Community

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  • Predictors of elevational biodiversity gradients change from single taxa to the multi-taxa community level

    Marcell K. Peters;Andreas Hemp;Tim Appelhans;Christina Behler

  • Relation of fig fruit characteristics to fruit‐eating bats in the New and Old World tropics

    Elisabeth K. V. Kalko;Elisabeth K. V. Kalko;Elisabeth K. V. Kalko;Edward Allen Herre;Charles O. Handley

  • Bats Worldwide Carry Hepatitis E Virus-Related Viruses That Form a Putative Novel Genus within the Family Hepeviridae

    Jan Felix Drexler;Annika Seelen;Victor Max Corman;Adriana Fumie Tateno

  • Echolocating Bats Cry Out Loud to Detect Their Prey

    Annemarie Surlykke;Elisabeth Klara Viktoria Kalko;Elisabeth Klara Viktoria Kalko

  • A Biodiversity Assessment of Bats (Chiroptera) in a Tropical Lowland Rainforest of Central Amazonia, Including Methodological and Conservation Considerations

    Erica M. Sampaio;Elisabeth K. V. Kalko;Enrico Bernard;Bernal Rodríguez-Herrera

  • Neotropical bats in the canopy: diversity, community structure, and implications for conservation

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  • Phenology of neotropical pepper plants (Piperaceae) and their association with their main dispersers, two short‐tailed fruit bats, Carollia perspicillata and C. castanea (Phyllostomidae)

    Wibke Thies;Elisabeth Klara Viktoria Kalko

  • Moving in three dimensions: effects of structural complexity on occurrence and activity of insectivorous bats in managed forest stands

    Kirsten Jung;Sonja Kaiser;Stefan Böhm;Jens Nieschulze

  • Henipavirus RNA in African Bats

    Jan Felix Drexler;Victor Max Corman;Florian Gloza-Rausch;Antje Seebens

  • Insect pursuit, prey capture and echolocation in pipestirelle bats (Microchiroptera)

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  • Activity levels of bats and katydids in relation to the lunar cycle

    Alexander B. Lang;Elisabeth Klara Viktoria Kalko;Elisabeth Klara Viktoria Kalko;Heinrich Romer;Cecile Bockholdt

  • Interacting effects of fertilization, mowing and grazing on plant species diversity of 1500 grasslands in Germany differ between regions

    Stephanie A. Socher;Daniel Prati;Steffen Boch;Jörg Müller

  • Assemblage‐level responses of phyllostomid bats to tropical forest fragmentation: land‐bridge islands as a model system

    C. F. J. Meyer;Elisabeth Klara Viktoria Kalko;Elisabeth Klara Viktoria Kalko

  • Ecological correlates of vulnerability to fragmentation in Neotropical bats

    Christoph F. J. Meyer;Jochen Frund;Willy Pineda Lizano;Elisabeth Klara Viktoria Kalko;Elisabeth Klara Viktoria Kalko

  • Corrigendum: Bats host major mammalian paramyxoviruses.

    Jan Felix Drexler;Victor Max Corman;Marcel Alexander Müller;Gael Darren Maganga

Frequent Co-Authors

Konstans Wells
Konstans Wells Swansea University
Markus Fischer
Markus Fischer University of Bern
Christoph F. J. Meyer
Christoph F. J. Meyer University of Salford
Christian Drosten
Christian Drosten Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Wolfgang W. Weisser
Wolfgang W. Weisser Technical University of Munich
Andreas Hemp
Andreas Hemp University of Bayreuth
Jan Felix Drexler
Jan Felix Drexler Charité - University Medicine Berlin
François Buscot
François Buscot Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Dina K. N. Dechmann
Dina K. N. Dechmann Max Planck Society
Daniel Prati
Daniel Prati University of Bern

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