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Ferenc Jordán

Ferenc Jordán

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
37
Citations
5873
World Ranking
8862
National Ranking
195

Overview

Ferenc Jordán is affiliated with the University of Parma in Italy, where they have contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Sociology and Political Science, and Oceanography.

Their research addresses a variety of topics, such as:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Ferenc Jordán's recent publications include:

  • "Combining centrality indices: Maximizing the predictability of keystone species in food webs" (2021, Ecological Indicators)
  • "A quixotic view of spatial bias in modelling the distribution of species and their diversity" (2023, npj Biodiversity)
  • "Pyntacle: a parallel computing-enabled framework for large-scale network biology analysis" (2020, GigaScience)
  • "Who Is Where in Marine Food Webs? A Trait-Based Analysis of Network Positions" (2021, Frontiers in Marine Science)
  • "A simple approach for quantifying node centrality in signed and directed social networks" (2020, Applied Network Science)

Their work has appeared frequently in several journals, indicating patterns of publication focus. These venues include:

  • Community Ecology
  • Ecological Modelling
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Food Webs

Ferenc Jordán often collaborates with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Katalin Patonai
  • Antonio Bodini
  • Wei-Chung Liu
  • Ágnes Móréh
  • Greta Capelli

Best Publications

  • Social network analysis of animal behaviour : a promising tool for the study of sociality

    Tina Wey;Daniel T. Blumstein;Weiwei Shen;Ferenc Jordán

  • Keystone species and food webs.

    Ferenc Jordán

  • Topological keystone species : measures of positional importance in food webs

    Ferenc Jordán;Wei-chung Liu;Andrew J. Davis

  • Contribution of habitat patches to network connectivity: Redundancy and uniqueness of topological indices

    Gabriella Baranyi;Santiago Saura;János Podani;Ferenc Jordán

  • First encounters – deployment of defence-related natural products by plants

    Ben Field;Ferenc Jordán;Anne Osbourn

  • Characterizing the importance of habitat patches and corridors in maintaining the landscape connectivity of a Pholidoptera transsylvanica (Orthoptera) metapopulation

    F. Jordán;A. Báldi;K.-M. Orci;I. Rácz

  • Infectious disease and group size: more than just a numbers game.

    Charles L. Nunn;Ferenc Jordán;Collin M. McCabe;Jennifer L. Verdolin

  • A Reliability Theoretical Quest for Keystones

    Ferenc Jordan;Andras Takacs-Santa;Istvan Molnar

  • Can Genes Explain Biological Complexity

    Eörs Szathmáry;Ferenc Jordán;Csaba Pál

  • Network ecology: Topological constraints on ecosystem dynamics

    Ferenc Jordán;István Scheuring

  • Quantifying positional importance in food webs: A comparison of centrality indices

    Ferenc Jordán;Zsófia Benedek;János Podani

  • Identifying important species: Linking structure and function in ecological networks

    Ferenc Jordán;Thomas A. Okey;Thomas A. Okey;Barbara Bauer;Simone Libralato

  • A reliability-theory approach to corridor design

    Ferenc Jordán

  • Network position of hosts in food webs and their parasite diversity

    Hsuan-Wien Chen;Wei-Chung Liu;Andrew J. Davis;Ferenc Jordán

  • Searching for keystones in ecological networks

    Ferenc Jordan;Ferenc Jordan;István Scheuring

  • Eutrophication and overfishing in temperate nearshore pelagic food webs: a network perspective

    Vera Vasas;Christiane Lancelot;Véronique Rousseau;Ferenc Jordán

  • Quantifying the importance of species and their interactions in a host-parasitoid community

    F. Jordán;F. Jordán;W. C. Liu;F. J. F. van Veen

  • Topological keystone species in ecological interaction networks : Considering link quality and non-trophic effects

    Vera Vasas;Ferenc Jordán

  • Weighting, scale dependence and indirect effects in ecological networks: A comparative study

    Marco Scotti;János Podani;Ferenc Jordán

  • Graph theory in action: evaluating planned highway tracks based on connectivity measures

    Vera Vasas;Tibor Magura;Ferenc Jordán;Béla Tóthmérész

  • Trophic field overlap: A new approach to quantify keystone species

    Ferenc Jordán;Ferenc Jordán;Wei-chung Liu;Ágnes Mike

  • Identifying keystone trophic groups in benthic ecosystems: Implications for fisheries management

    Marco Ortiz;Richard Levins;Leonardo Campos;Fernando Berrios

  • Carabids (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in a forest patchwork: a connectivity analysis of the Bereg Plain landscape graph

    Ferenc Jordán;Tibor Magura;Béla Tóthmérész;Vera Vasas

  • Species positions and extinction dynamics in simple food webs.

    Ferenc Jordán;István Scheuring;Gábor Vida

Frequent Co-Authors

Corrado Priami
Corrado Priami University of Pisa
Eörs Szathmáry
Eörs Szathmáry Parmenides Foundation
Tibor Magura
Tibor Magura University of Debrecen
Béla Tóthmérész
Béla Tóthmérész University of Debrecen
András Báldi
András Báldi Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Simone Libralato
Simone Libralato National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics
Daniel T. Blumstein
Daniel T. Blumstein University of California, Los Angeles
Harini Nagendra
Harini Nagendra Azim Premji University
Santiago Saura
Santiago Saura Technical University of Madrid
Catherine M. Yule
Catherine M. Yule University of the Sunshine Coast

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