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Jacob Nabe-Nielsen

Jacob Nabe-Nielsen

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
35
Citations
4842
World Ranking
7362
National Ranking
100

Jacob Nabe-Nielsen 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 Jacob Nabe-Nielsen sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 109 publications — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jacob Nabe-Nielsen 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 Jacob Nabe-Nielsen sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 35 D-Index — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Jacob Nabe-Nielsen is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark and focuses primarily on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their research encompasses a variety of subfields, including atmospheric science, ecology, global and planetary change, oceanography, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The main topics covered in Nabe-Nielsen's research include marine animal studies overview, climate change and permafrost, cryospheric studies and observations, geology and paleoclimatology research, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, underwater acoustics research, and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics.

Notable recent publications authored or co-authored by Nabe-Nielsen are:

  • The ODD Protocol for Describing Agent-Based and Other Simulation Models: A Second Update to Improve Clarity, Replication, and Structural Realism, 2020, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
  • Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Energetics as common currency for integrating high resolution activity patterns into dynamic energy budget-individual based models, 2020, Ecological Modelling
  • Keeping modelling notebooks with TRACE: Good for you and good for environmental research and management support, 2020, Environmental Modelling & Software
  • A risk assessment review of mercury exposure in Arctic marine and terrestrial mammals, 2022, The Science of The Total Environment

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, such as Signe Normand, Anne D. Bjorkman, Bo Elberling, Urs A. Treier, and Jonathan von Oppen.

Jacob Nabe-Nielsen has published in a range of journals and platforms, with repeated contributions to Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Ecological Modelling, Conservation Physiology, Marine Ecology Progress Series, and Diversity and Distributions.

Best Publications

  • Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

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

  • The ODD protocol for describing agent-based and other simulation models: A second update to improve clarity, replication, and structural realism

    Volker Grimm;Steven F. Railsback;Christian E. Vincenot;Uta Berger

  • Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

    Anne D. Bjorkman;Anne D. Bjorkman;Isla H. Myers-Smith;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Signe Normand

  • Diversity and distribution of lianas in a neotropical rain forest, Yasuní National Park, Ecuador

    Jacob Nabe-Nielsen

  • Representing the acquisition and use of energy by individuals in agent‐based models of animal populations

    Richard M. Sibly;Volker Grimm;Volker Grimm;Benjamin T. Martin;Alice S. A. Johnston

  • An improved method for the rapid assessment of forest understorey light environments

    Nick Brown;Steve Jennings;Phil Wheeler;Jacob Nabe-Nielsen

  • Effects of noise and by-catch on a Danish harbour porpoise population

    Jacob Nabe-Nielsen;Richard M. Sibly;Jakob Tougaard;Jonas Teilmann

  • Seasonal habitat-based density models for a marine top predator, the harbor porpoise, in a dynamic environment

    A. Gilles;A. Gilles;S. Viquerat;E. A. Becker;K. A. Forney

  • Predicting the impacts of anthropogenic disturbances on marine populations

    Jacob Nabe‐Nielsen;Floris M van Beest;Volker Grimm;Richard M Sibly

  • Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome

    H. J. D. Thomas;A. D. Bjorkman;A. D. Bjorkman;I. H. Myers-Smith;S. C. Elmendorf

  • How a simple adaptive foraging strategy can lead to emergent home ranges and increased food intake

    Jacob Nabe‐Nielsen;Jakob Tougaard;Jonas Teilmann;Klaus Lucke

  • Bubble curtains attenuate noise from offshore wind farm construction and reduce temporary habitat loss for harbour porpoises

    Michael Dähne;Jakob Tougaard;Jacob Carstensen;Armin Rose

  • Tundra Trait Team: A database of plant traits spanning the tundra biome

    Anne D. Bjorkman;Anne D. Bjorkman;Isla H. Myers-Smith;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Signe Normand

  • Communicating complex ecological models to non-scientist end users

    Samantha J. Cartwright;Katharine M. Bowgen;Catherine Collop;Kieran Hyder

  • Spatial interactions between marine predators and their prey: herring abundance as a driver for the distributions of mackerel and harbour porpoise

    Signe Sveegaard;Jacob Nabe-Nielsen;Karl-Johan Stæhr;Torben Filt Jensen

  • Multi-scale Modeling of Animal Movement and General Behavior Data Using Hidden Markov Models with Hierarchical Structures

    Vianey Leos-Barajas;Eric J. Gangloff;Timo Adam;Roland Langrock

  • A risk assessment review of mercury exposure in Arctic marine and terrestrial mammals.

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  • Classifying grey seal behaviour in relation to environmental variability and commercial fishing activity -a multivariate hidden Markov model

    Floris M. van Beest;Sina Mews;Svenja Elkenkamp;Patrick Schuhmann

  • Traditional plant functional groups explain variation in economic but not size-related traits across the tundra biome

    H. J. D. Thomas;I. H. Myers‐Smith;A. D. Bjorkman;A. D. Bjorkman;S. C. Elmendorf

  • Defining management units for cetaceans by combining genetics, morphology, acoustics and satellite tracking

    Signe Sveegaard;Anders Galatius;Rune Dietz;Line Kyhn

  • Using habitat selection theories to predict the spatiotemporal distribution of migratory birds during stopover – a case study of pink-footed geese Anser brachyrhynchus

    Magda E. Chudzińska;Floris M. van Beest;Jesper Madsen;Jacob Nabe‐Nielsen

  • Predicting the population-level impact of mitigating harbor porpoise bycatch with pingers and time-area fishing closures

    Floris M. van Beest;Lotte Kindt-Larsen;Francois Bastardie;Valerio Bartolino

  • The effects of spatial and temporal heterogeneity on the population dynamics of four animal species in a Danish landscape

    Richard M Sibly;Richard M Sibly;Jacob Nabe-Nielsen;Jacob Nabe-Nielsen;Mads C Forchhammer;Mads C Forchhammer;Valery E Forbes

Frequent Co-Authors

Volker Grimm
Volker Grimm Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Jonas Teilmann
Jonas Teilmann Aarhus University
Richard M. Sibly
Richard M. Sibly University of Reading
Rune Dietz
Rune Dietz Aarhus University
Mads C. Forchhammer
Mads C. Forchhammer University of Copenhagen
Anne D. Bjorkman
Anne D. Bjorkman University of Gothenburg
Anu Eskelinen
Anu Eskelinen University of Oulu
Sarah C. Elmendorf
Sarah C. Elmendorf Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Signe Normand
Signe Normand Aarhus University
Chris J. Topping
Chris J. Topping Aarhus University

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