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Frank Adriaensen

Frank Adriaensen

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
41
Citations
8238
World Ranking
5752
National Ranking
72

Frank Adriaensen 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 Frank Adriaensen sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 88 publications — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Frank Adriaensen 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 Frank Adriaensen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Frank Adriaensen is affiliated with the University of Antwerp in Belgium. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, focusing extensively on topics within ecology and behavior.

Adriaensen's work covers various subfields, including Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, Genetics, and Nature and Landscape Conservation. These areas support an investigation into specific topics such as Species Distribution and Climate Change, Avian ecology and behavior, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Plant and animal studies, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

Recent publications by Adriaensen include:

  • Connecting the data landscape of long-term ecological studies: The SPI-Birds data hub (2020), Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Bird populations most exposed to climate change are less sensitive to climatic variation (2022), Nature Communications
  • The roles of temperature, nest predators and information parasites for geographical variation in egg covering behaviour of tits (Paridae) (2020), Journal of Biogeography
  • Temperature synchronizes temporal variation in laying dates across European hole-nesting passerines (2022), Ecology
  • The great tit HapMap project: A continental-scale analysis of genomic variation in a songbird (2024), Molecular Ecology Resources

Frequent co-authors contributing alongside Adriaensen include:

  • Erik Matthysen
  • Tapio Eeva
  • Emilio Barba
  • Blandine Doligez
  • Anne Charmantier

Adriaensen's research has been published across multiple venues with repeat contributions to bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), along with publications in the Journal of Animal Ecology, Nature Communications, Ecology, and Molecular Ecology Resources.

Best Publications

  • The application of 'least-cost' modelling as a functional landscape model

    F Adriaensen;JP Chardon;JP Chardon;G De Blust;E Swinnen

  • Adaptive responses of animals to climate change are most likely insufficient

    Viktoriia Radchuk;Thomas Reed;Céline Teplitsky;Martijn van der Pol

  • Variable responses to large-scale climate change in European Parus populations

    ME Visser;F Adriaensen;JH Van Balen;J Blondel

  • The design of artificial nestboxes for the study of secondary hole-nesting birds: a review of methodological inconsistencies and potential biases

    Marcel M. Lambrechts;Frank Adriaensen;Daniel R. Ardia;Alexandr V. Artemyev

  • Incorporating landscape elements into a connectivity measure: a case study for the speckled wood butterfly (Pararge aegeria L.)

    J. Paul Chardon;J. Paul Chardon;Frank Adriaensen;Erik Matthysen

  • Does matrix resistance influence Red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris L. 1758) distribution in an urban landscape

    Goedele Verbeylen;Luc De Bruyn;Frank Adriaensen;Erik Matthysen

  • Density-dependent clutch size caused by habitat heterogeneity

    Andre A. Dhondt;Bart Kempenaers;Frank Adriaensen

  • Biological corridors and connectivity

    Samuel A. Cushman;Brad McRae;Frank Adriaensen;Paul Beier

  • Evolutionary signals of selection on cognition from the great tit genome and methylome

    Veronika N. Laine;Toni I. Gossmann;Kyle M. Schachtschneider;Kyle M. Schachtschneider;Colin J. Garroway

  • Population dynamics and partial migration of the european robin (Erithacus rubecula) in different habitats

    Frank Adriaensen;Andre A. Dhondt

  • Evaluating least-cost model predictions with empirical dispersal data: A case-study using radiotracking data of hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus)

    Kassandra Driezen;Frank Adriaensen;Carlo Rondinini;C. Patrick Doncaster

  • Genetic Similarity, Inbreeding and Hatching Failure in Blue Tits: Are Unhatched Eggs Infertile?

    Bart Kempenaers;Frank Adriaensen;A. J. van Noordwijk;Andre A. Dhondt

  • Nonadaptive clutch sizes in tits

    André A. Dhondt;Frank Adriaensen;Erik Matthysen;Bart Kempenaers

  • Causes and effects of divorce in the blue tit Parus caeruleus

    Andre A. Dhondt;Frank Adriaensen

  • Dispersal distances of nuthatches, Sitta europaea, in a highly fragmented forest habitat

    Erik Matthysen;Frank Adriaensen;André A. Dhondt

  • Multiple responses to increasing spring temperatures in the breeding cycle of blue and great tits (Cyanistes caeruleus, Parus major)

    Erik Matthysen;Frank Adriaensen;André A. Dhondt;André A. Dhondt

  • Ticks and tick-borne diseases in the city: Role of landscape connectivity and green space characteristics in a metropolitan area

    Dieter Heylen;Dieter Heylen;R. Lasters;F. Adriaensen;M. Fonville

  • Within‐sex density dependence and population dynamics of red squirrels Sciurus vulgaris

    Luc A. Wauters;Luc A. Wauters;Erik Matthysen;Frank Adriaensen;Guido Tosi

  • Genetic integration of local dispersal and exploratory behaviour in a wild bird

    Peter Korsten;Peter Korsten;Peter Korsten;Thijs van Overveld;Frank Adriaensen;Erik Matthysen

  • Climate variation and regional gradients in population dynamics of two hole-nesting passerines.

    Bernt-Erik Saether;Steinar Engen;Anders Pape Møller;Erik Matthysen

  • The extended Moran effect and large-scale synchronous fluctuations in the size of great tit and blue tit populations

    Bernt Erik Sæther;Steinar Engen;Vidar Grøtan;Wolfgang Fiedler

Frequent Co-Authors

Erik Matthysen
Erik Matthysen University of Antwerp
André A. Dhondt
André A. Dhondt Cornell University
Tapio Eeva
Tapio Eeva University of Turku
Marcel E. Visser
Marcel E. Visser University of Groningen
Blandine Doligez
Blandine Doligez Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Markku Orell
Markku Orell University of Oulu
Tore Slagsvold
Tore Slagsvold University of Oslo
János Török
János Török Eötvös Loránd University
Raivo Mänd
Raivo Mänd University of Tartu
Mariusz Cichoń
Mariusz Cichoń Jagiellonian University

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