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Heribert Hofer

Heribert Hofer

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
63
Citations
12185
World Ranking
1996
National Ranking
114

Overview

Heribert Hofer is affiliated with the Leibniz Association in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, contributing extensively within the subfields of Ecology, Genetics, Social Psychology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Molecular Biology.

Hofer's work covers a range of topics, particularly in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, with further contributions to Primate Behavior and Ecology, Human-Animal Interaction Studies, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Animal Behavior and Reproduction.

The scientist has authored several papers published in notable venues, including:

  • Movement-mediated community assembly and coexistence (2020), Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Biological Earth observation with animal sensors (2022), Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Communication hubs of an asocial cat are the source of a human-carnivore conflict and key to its solution (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Intravital Dynamic and Correlative Imaging of Mouse Livers Reveals Diffusion-Dominated Canalicular and Flow-Augmented Ductular Bile Flux (2020), Hepatology
  • Early-life adversity predicts performance and fitness in a wild social carnivore (2022), Journal of Animal Ecology

Frequent co-authors in Hofer's research include:

  • Marion L. East (17 collaborations)
  • Sarah Benhaiem (12 collaborations)
  • Sonja Metzger (6 collaborations)
  • Jörns Fickel (5 collaborations)
  • Morgane Gicquel (5 collaborations)

Hofer's work has appeared multiple times in the following publication venues:

  • Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie (7 publications)
  • Animals (3 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (3 publications)
  • Journal of Animal Ecology (2 publications)
  • Ecology and Evolution (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • The importance of correcting for sampling bias in MaxEnt species distribution models

    Stephanie Kramer-Schadt;Jürgen Niedballa;John D. Pilgrim;Boris Schröder;Boris Schröder

  • Bushmeat hunting by communities adjacent to the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania: the importance of livestock ownership and alternative sources of protein and income

    Martin Loibooki;Heribert Hofer;Kenneth L.I. Campbell;Marion L. East

  • Improving density estimates for elusive carnivores: Accounting for sex-specific detection and movements using spatial capture–recapture models for jaguars in central Brazil

    Rahel Sollmann;Rahel Sollmann;Mariana Malzoni Furtado;Mariana Malzoni Furtado;Beth Gardner;Heribert Hofer

  • Noninvasive Fecal Monitoring of Glucocorticoids in Spotted Hyenas,Crocuta crocuta ☆

    Wolfgang Goymann;Erich Möstl;Thomas J. Van't Hof;Marion L. East;Marion L. East

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

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

  • The erect "penis" is a flag of submission in a female-dominated society: Greetings in the Serengeti spotted hyaenas

    Marion L. East;Heribert Hofer;Wolfgang Wickler

  • The commuting system of Serengeti spotted hyaenas: how a predator copes with migratory prey. I. Social organization

    Heribert Hofer;Marion L. East

  • Male spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) queue for status in social groups dominated by females

    Marion L. East;Heribert Hofer

  • Hyaenas: Status Survey And Conservation Action Plan

    Sandy Dengler;Heribert Hofer

  • Biological Conservation and Stress

    Heribert Hofer;Marion L. East

  • Social, state-dependent and environmental modulation of faecal corticosteroid levels in free-ranging female spotted hyenas.

    Wolfgang Goymann;Marion L. East;Bettina Wachter;Oliver P. Höner

  • Modelling the species distribution of flat-headed cats (Prionailurus planiceps), an endangered South-East Asian small felid.

    Andreas Wilting;Anna Cord;Anna Cord;Andrew J. Hearn;Deike Hesse

  • Biological Earth observation with animal sensors.

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  • Behavioral processes and costs of co-existence in female spotted hyenas: a life history perspective

    Heribert Hofer;Heribert Hofer;Marion L. East;Marion L. East

  • Cooperative Breeding, Reproductive Suppression, and Body Mass in Canids

    Patricia D. Moehlman;Heribert Hofer;Nancy G. Solomon;Jeffrey A. French

  • Regular exposure to rabies virus and lack of symptomatic disease in Serengeti spotted hyenas

    Marion L. East;Heribert Hofer;James H. Cox;Ulrich Wulle

  • The response of spotted hyaenas to long‐term changes in prey populations: functional response and interspecific kleptoparasitism

    Oliver P. Höner;Oliver P. Höner;Bettina Wachter;Bettina Wachter;Marion L. East;Heribert Hofer

  • Genetic characterization of canine distemper virus in Serengeti carnivores

    Margaret A Carpenter;Max J.G. Appel;Melody E Roelke-Parker;Linda Munson

  • Sexual conflicts in spotted hyenas: male and female mating tactics and their reproductive outcome with respect to age, social status and tenure

    Marion L East;Terry Burke;Kerstin Wilhelm;Carolyn Greig

  • Loud calling in a female-dominated mammalian society: II. Behavioural contexts and functions of whooping of spotted hyaenas, Crocuta crocuta

    Marion L. East;Heribert Hofer

  • The commuting system of Serengeti spotted hyaenas: how a predator copes with migratory prey. III. Attendance and maternal care

    Heribert Hofer;Marion L. East

  • Integrating movement ecology with biodiversity research

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Marion L. East
Marion L. East Leibniz Association
Stephanie Kramer-Schadt
Stephanie Kramer-Schadt Leibniz Association
Wolfgang Goymann
Wolfgang Goymann Max Planck Society
Martin Dehnhard
Martin Dehnhard Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Rahel Sollmann
Rahel Sollmann University of California, Davis
Andreas Wilting
Andreas Wilting Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Marcus Clauss
Marcus Clauss University of Zurich
Terry Burke
Terry Burke University of Sheffield
Sylvia Ortmann
Sylvia Ortmann Leibniz Association
Gábor Á. Czirják
Gábor Á. Czirják Leibniz Association

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