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D-Index
42
Citations
8522
World Ranking
5491
National Ranking
1881

Fiona Maisels 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 Fiona Maisels sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 106 publications — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Fiona Maisels 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 Fiona Maisels sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Fiona Maisels is affiliated with the Wildlife Conservation Society in the United States. Their research lies primarily within Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Ecology as a subfield along with Social Psychology, Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their work covers a range of topics including Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Primate Behavior and Ecology, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Zoonotic Diseases and Public Health, Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management.

Among their recent scholarly contributions are the following publications:

  • Expert range maps of global mammal distributions harmonised to three taxonomic authorities, 2022, Journal of Biogeography
  • Methods for wildlife monitoring in tropical forests: Comparing human observations, camera traps, and passive acoustic sensors, 2021, Conservation Science and Practice
  • Human footprint and protected areas shape elephant range across Africa, 2021, Current Biology
  • Predicting range shifts of African apes under global change scenarios, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Spatial priorities for conserving the most intact biodiverse forests within Central Africa, 2020, Environmental Research Letters

Frequent co-authors in their research include Andrew J. Plumptre, Samantha Strindberg, Hjalmar S. Kühl, Bethan J. Morgan, and Katharine Abernethy.

Their publications appear regularly in venues such as the American Journal of Primatology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Global Ecology and Conservation, African Journal of Ecology, and Nature Sustainability.

Fiona Maisels has also contributed to book literature, including a publication through the University of Stirling titled "Great Apes and FSC: Implementing 'Ape Friendly' Practices in Central Africa's Logging Concessions" (2022).

Best Publications

  • Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

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

  • Catastrophic ape decline in western equatorial Africa

    Péter D. Walsh;Kate A. Abernethy;Magdalena Bermejo;René Beyers

  • Devastating decline of forest elephants in Central Africa

    Fiona Maisels;Fiona Maisels;Samantha Strindberg;Stephen Blake;George Wittemyer;George Wittemyer

  • Extent and ecological consequences of hunting in Central African rainforests in the twenty-first century

    Katharine Abernethy;Lauren M Coad;Lauren M Coad;Gemma Taylor;Michelle Lee

  • Gorilla diet in the Lope Reserve, Gabon: A nutritional analysis

    M. Elizabeth Rogers;Fiona Maisels;Elizabeth A. Williamson;Michel Fernandez

  • Saving the World's Terrestrial Megafauna

    William J Ripple;Guillaume Chapron;José Vicente López-Bao;Sarah M. Durant

  • Roadless wilderness area determines forest elephant movements in the Congo Basin.

    Stephen Blake;Sharon L. Deem;Samantha Strindberg;Fiona Maisels

  • Forest Elephant Crisis in the Congo Basin

    Stephen Blake;Samantha Strindberg;Patrick Boudjan;Calixte Makombo

  • Best practice guidelines for surveys and monitoring of great ape populations

    Hjalmar Kuhl;Fiona Maisels;Marc Ancrenaz;Elizabeth A Williamson

  • Selection criteria for suites of landscape species as a basis for site-based conservation

    Pete Coppolillo;Humberto Gomez;Fiona Maisels;Robert Wallace

  • Primates in peril: the significance of Brazil, Madagascar, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo for global primate conservation

    Alejandro Estrada;Paul A. Garber;Russell A. Mittermeier;Serge Wich

  • Forest Elephants: Tree Planters of the Congo

    Stephen Blake;Sharon Lynn Deem;Sharon Lynn Deem;Eric Mossimbo;Fiona Maisels

  • Recent decline in suitable environmental conditions for African great apes

    Jessica Junker;Stephen Blake;Christophe Boesch;Geneviève Campbell

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

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  • Diets of Two Sympatric Colobines in Zaire: More Evidence on Seed-Eating in Forests on Poor Soils

    Fiona G. Maisels;Annie Gautier-Hion;Jean-Pierre Gautier

  • Guns, germs, and trees determine density and distribution of gorillas and chimpanzees in Western Equatorial Africa

    Samantha Strindberg;Fiona Maisels;Fiona Maisels;Elizabeth A. Williamson;Stephen Blake;Stephen Blake

  • The extirpation of large mammals and implications for montane forest conservation: the case of the Kilum-Ijim Forest, North-west Province, Cameroon

    F. Maisels;E. Keming;M. Kemei;C. Toh

  • Methods for wildlife monitoring in tropical forests: Comparing human observations, camera traps, and passive acoustic sensors

    Joeri A. Zwerts;P. J. Stephenson;Fiona Maisels;Fiona Maisels;Marcus Rowcliffe

  • Assessing Africa-Wide Pangolin Exploitation by Scaling Local Data

    Daniel J. Ingram;Lauren Coad;Lauren Coad;Lauren Coad;Katharine A. Abernethy;Fiona Maisels;Fiona Maisels

  • Environmental Issues in Central Africa

    Katharine Abernethy;Fiona Maisels;Lee J.T. White

  • Lack of conservation effort rapidly increases African great ape extinction risk

    Sandra Tranquilli;Sandra Tranquilli;Michael Abedi-Lartey;Fidèle Amsini;Luis Arranz

  • Seed dispersal versus seed predation: an inter-site comparison of two related African monkeys

    Annie Gautier-Hion;Jean-Pierre Gautier;Fiona G. Maisels

  • Survey of Raphia swamp forest, Republic of Congo, indicates high densities of Critically Endangered western lowland gorillas Gorilla gorilla gorilla

    Hugo J. Rainey;Fortuné C. Iyenguet;Guy-Aimé F. Malanda;Bola Madzoké

  • Effective non-invasive genetic monitoring of multiple wild western gorilla groups

    Mimi Arandjelovic;Josephine Head;Hjalmar Kuhl;Christophe Boesch

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth A. Williamson
Elizabeth A. Williamson London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Stephen Blake
Stephen Blake Saint Louis University
Hjalmar S. Kühl
Hjalmar S. Kühl Max Planck Society
Andrew J. Plumptre
Andrew J. Plumptre BirdLife international, UK
John Hart
John Hart University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Christophe Boesch
Christophe Boesch Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Serge A. Wich
Serge A. Wich Liverpool John Moores University
Susan M. Cheyne
Susan M. Cheyne Oxford Brookes University
David Wilkie
David Wilkie Wildlife Conservation Society
Iain Douglas-Hamilton
Iain Douglas-Hamilton Save the Elephants

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