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Florian Jeltsch

Florian Jeltsch

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
61
Citations
20267
World Ranking
2138
National Ranking
118

Overview

Florian Jeltsch is affiliated with the University of Potsdam in Germany and specializes in environmental science with a focus on agricultural and biological sciences. Their research primarily addresses various ecological and environmental dynamics, especially concerning animal behavior, vegetation, and ecosystem processes.

The main fields of study in which Florian Jeltsch has contributed include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these broader domains, the scientist has worked extensively on subfields such as:

  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Genetics

Jeltsch's research covers a variety of topics that focus on ecological and animal studies, including:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant and Animal Studies
  • Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Bat Biology and Ecology Studies

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, contributing with notable co-authors such as:

  • Niels Blaum
  • Ran Nathan
  • Manuel Roeleke
  • Ulrike E. Schlägel
  • Viktoriia Radchuk

Florian Jeltsch has published multiple papers in prominent scientific venues, with repeated contributions to several key journals and series. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Science
  • Biological Reviews / Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Oikos
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Selected recent papers by Florian Jeltsch include:

  • Big-data approaches lead to an increased understanding of the ecology of animal movement, 2022, Science
  • Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands, 2022, Science
  • Movement-mediated community assembly and coexistence, 2020, Biological Reviews / Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Effects of body size on estimation of mammalian area requirements, 2020, Conservation Biology
  • Unforeseen plant phenotypic diversity in a dry and grazed world, 2024, Nature

Best Publications

  • Animal species diversity driven by habitat heterogeneity/diversity: the importance of keystone structures

    J. Tews;U. Brose;V. Grimm;K. Tielbörger

  • Pattern-oriented modeling of agent-based complex systems: lessons from ecology

    Volker Grimm;Eloy Revilla;Uta Berger;Florian Jeltsch

  • Moving in the Anthropocene : global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements

    Marlee A. Tucker;Katrin Böhning-Gaese;William F. Fagan;John M. Fryxell

  • Big-data approaches lead to an increased understanding of the ecology of animal movement

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  • Using pattern-oriented modeling for revealing hidden information: a key for reconciling ecological theory and application

    Thorsten Wiegand;Florian Jeltsch;Ilkka Hanski;Volker Grimm

  • Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands

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  • Ecological buffering mechanisms in savannas : a unifying theory of long-term tree-grass coexistence

    Florian Jeltsch;Gerhard E. Weber;Volker Grimm

  • Large trees, fertile islands, and birds in arid savanna

    W.R.J. Dean;S.J. Milton;F. Jeltsch

  • The virtual ecologist approach: simulating data and observers

    Damaris Zurell;Uta Berger;Juliano S. Cabral;Florian Jeltsch

  • Tree spacing and coexistence in semiarid savannas.

    Jeltsch F;Milton Sj;Dean Wrj;Van Rooyen N

  • Pattern-oriented modelling in population ecology

    Volker Grimm;Karin Frank;Florian Jeltsch;Roland Brandl

  • Integrating movement ecology with biodiversity research - exploring new avenues to address spatiotemporal biodiversity dynamics.

    Florian Jeltsch;Dries Bonte;Guy Pe’er;Björn Reineking

  • A comprehensive analysis of autocorrelation and bias in home range estimation

    Michael J. Noonan;Michael J. Noonan;Marlee A. Tucker;Christen H. Fleming;Christen H. Fleming;Thomas S. Akre

  • Modelling the impact of small-scale heterogeneities on tree—grass coexistence in semi-arid savannas

    F. Jeltsch;S.J. Milton;W.R.J. Dean;N. van Rooyen

  • The challenges of the first migration : movement and behaviour of juvenile vs. adult white storks with insights regarding juvenile mortality

    Shay Rotics;Michael Kaatz;Yehezkel S. Resheff;Sondra Feldman Turjeman

  • Analysing Shrub Encroachment in the Southern Kalahari: A Grid-Based Modelling Approach

    F. Jeltsch;S. J. Milton;W. R. J. Dean;N. Van Rooyen

  • Static species distribution models in dynamically changing systems: how good can predictions really be?

    Damaris Zurell;Florian Jeltsch;Carsten F. Dormann;Boris Schröder

  • Simulated pattern formation around artificial waterholes in the semi‐arid Kalahari

    Florian Jeltsch;Suzanne J. Milton;W. Richard J. Dean;Noel van Rooyen

  • The state of plant population modelling in light of environmental change

    Florian Jeltsch;Kirk A. Moloney;Frank Martin Schurr;Martin Köchy

  • Changes in arthropod diversity along a land use driven gradient of shrub cover in savanna rangelands: identification of suitable indicators

    Niels Blaum;Colleen Seymour;Eva Rossmanith;Monika Schwager

  • Life history variation in an annual plant under two opposing environmental constraints along an aridity gradient

    Martina Petrů;Katja Tielbörger;Ruthie Belkin;Marcelo Sternberg

  • Integrating movement ecology with biodiversity research

    Florian Jeltsch;Dries Bonte;Guy Pe'er;Björn Reineking

  • ARTICLE Animal species diversity driven by habitat heterogeneity/diversity: the importance of keystone structures

    J. Tews;U. Brose;V. Grimm;M. C. Wichmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Volker Grimm
Volker Grimm Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Martin Wikelski
Martin Wikelski Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Britta Tietjen
Britta Tietjen Freie Universität Berlin
Christian Wissel
Christian Wissel Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Damaris Zurell
Damaris Zurell University of Potsdam
Wolfgang Fiedler
Wolfgang Fiedler Max Planck Society
Ran Nathan
Ran Nathan Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Frank M. Schurr
Frank M. Schurr University of Hohenheim
Kirk A. Moloney
Kirk A. Moloney Iowa State University
Ulrike Herzschuh
Ulrike Herzschuh University of Potsdam

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