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Jana A. Eccard is affiliated with the University of Potsdam in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a substantial number of publications in these fields.

Their work spans several subfields, including:

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

Main topics covered in their research consist of:

  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change

Jana A. Eccard has published frequently in several scientific venues, including:

  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Oikos

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Jana A. Eccard include:

  • "Movement-mediated community assembly and coexistence," 2020, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • "Small mammals in the big city: Behavioural adjustments of non-commensal rodents to urban environments," 2020, Global Change Biology
  • "Of city and village mice: behavioural adjustments of striped field mice to urban environments," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "My niche: individual spatial niche specialization affects within- and between-species interactions," 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Among-individual differences in foraging modulate resource exploitation under perceived predation risk," 2020, Oecologia

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, notably:

  • Melanie Dammhahn
  • Valeria Mazza
  • Peter Stuart
  • Jasmin Firozpoor
  • Ulrike E. Schlägel

Best Publications

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

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

  • How livestock grazing affects vegetation structures and small mammal distribution in the semi-arid Karoo.

    J.A Eccard;J.A Eccard;R.B Walther;S.J Milton

  • Individuals in space: personality-dependent space use, movement and microhabitat use facilitate individual spatial niche specialization

    Annika Schirmer;Antje Herde;Jana A. Eccard;Melanie Dammhahn

  • Consistency in boldness, activity and exploration at different stages of life

    Antje Herde;Jana Anja Eccard

  • Movement-mediated community assembly and coexistence.

    Ulrike E. Schlägel;Volker Grimm;Volker Grimm;Niels Blaum;Pierluigi Colangeli

  • The fast and the flexible: cognitive style drives individual variation in cognition in a small mammal

    Valeria Mazza;Valeria Mazza;Jana A. Eccard;Marco Zaccaroni;Jens Jacob

  • Interspecific competition in small rodents: from populations to individuals

    Jana A. Eccard;Hannu Ylönen

  • Is the antipredatory response in behaviour reflected in stress measured in faecal corticosteroids in a small rodent

    Hannu Ylönen;Jana A. Eccard;Ilmari Jokinen;Janne Sundell

  • Predation rate, prey preference and predator switching: experiments on voles and weasels

    Janne Sundell;Jana A. Eccard;Raisa Tiilikainen;Hannu Ylönen

  • Foraging patterns of voles at heterogeneous avian and uniform mustelid predation risk.

    Jana A. Eccard;Jyrki Pusenius;Janne Sundell;Stefan Halle

  • Direct interference or indirect exploitation? An experimental study of fitness costs of interspecific competition in voles

    Jana A. Eccard;Hannu Ylönen

  • Initiation of breeding after winter in bank voles: effects of food and population density

    Jana A. Eccard;Hannu Ylönen

  • Under pressure: human adolescents express a pace-of-life syndrome

    Andreas Lehmann;Jana A. Eccard;Christiane Scheffler;Ralf H. J. M. Kurvers

  • Small mammals in the big city: Behavioural adjustments of non-commensal rodents to urban environments.

    Valeria Mazza;Melanie Dammhahn;Elisa Lösche;Jana A. Eccard

  • The relevance of vegetation structures and small water bodies for bats foraging above farmland

    Olga Heim;Olga Heim;Johannes Lenski;Johannes Lenski;Jelena Schulze;Jelena Schulze;Kirsten Jung

  • My niche: individual spatial niche specialization affects within- and between-species interactions.

    Annika Schirmer;Julia Hoffmann;Jana A. Eccard;Melanie Dammhahn

  • Estimating interactions between individuals from concurrent animal movements

    Ulrike E. Schlägel;Johannes Signer;Antje Herde;Sophie Eden

  • Do female bank voles (Clethrionomys glareolus) mate multiply to improve on previous mates

    Ines Klemme;Jana A. Eccard;Hannu Ylönen

  • Seasonal activity patterns of European bats above intensively used farmland

    Olga Heim;Olga Heim;Assja Schröder;Assja Schröder;Jana Eccard;Kirsten Jung

  • Seasonal variation in the behaviour of a short-lived rodent.

    Jana A Eccard;Antje Herde

  • Long-term fitness benefits of polyandry in a small mammal, the bank vole Clethrionomys glareolus

    Ines Klemme;Hannu Ylönen;Jana Anja Eccard

  • Beech Fructification and Bank Vole Population Dynamics--Combined Analyses of Promoters of Human Puumala Virus Infections in Germany.

    Daniela Reil;Christian Imholt;Jana Anja Eccard;Jens Jacob

  • WEASELS’ (MUSTELA NIVALIS NIVALIS) PREFERENCE FOR OLFACTORY CUES OF THE VOLE (CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS)

    Hannu Ylönen;Janne Sundell;Raisa Tiilikainen;Jana A. Eccard

  • Integrating movement ecology with biodiversity research

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Hannu Ylönen
Hannu Ylönen University of Jyväskylä
Boris Schröder
Boris Schröder Technische Universität Braunschweig
Christian C. Voigt
Christian C. Voigt Leibniz Association
Rupert Palme
Rupert Palme University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Rainer G. Ulrich
Rainer G. Ulrich Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Jasmin Joshi
Jasmin Joshi University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil
Florian Jeltsch
Florian Jeltsch University of Potsdam
Stephanie Kramer-Schadt
Stephanie Kramer-Schadt Leibniz Association
Kirsten Jung
Kirsten Jung Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Jaap M. Koolhaas
Jaap M. Koolhaas University of Groningen

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