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Ecology and Evolution
Norway
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
86
Citations
27183
World Ranking
594
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Norway Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Norway Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Norway Leader Award

Overview

John D. C. Linnell is affiliated with the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research in Norway. Their primary field of study is Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Ecology, Ecological Modeling, and Small Animals. Additional subfields include Nature and Landscape Conservation and Genetics.

Their research concentrates on topics such as Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology, and Human-Animal Interaction Studies.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with John D. C. Linnell include:

  • John Oddén
  • Marco Heurich
  • Jenny Mattisson
  • Henrik Andrén
  • Miha Krofel

John D. C. Linnell has published in various scientific venues, notably:

  • Frontiers in Conservation Science
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Biological Conservation
  • Global Ecology and Conservation
  • Research Square

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by John D. C. Linnell are:

  • The challenges and opportunities of coexisting with wild ungulates in the human-dominated landscapes of Europe's Anthropocene (2020, Biological Conservation)
  • Wave-like Patterns of Plant Phenology Determine Ungulate Movement Tactics (2020, Current Biology)
  • Behavioral responses of terrestrial mammals to COVID-19 lockdowns (2023, Science)
  • Hunters as citizen scientists: Contributions to biodiversity monitoring in Europe (2020, Global Ecology and Conservation)
  • European agreements for nature conservation need to explicitly address wolf-dog hybridisation (2020, Biological Conservation)

Best Publications

  • Recovery of large carnivores in Europe’s modern human-dominated landscapes

    Guillaume Chapron;Petra Kaczensky;John D. C. Linnell;Manuela von Arx

  • Understanding and managing conservation conflicts

    Steve M. Redpath;Juliette Young;Anna Evely;William M. Adams

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

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

  • Co-Adaptation Is Key to Coexisting with Large Carnivores

    Neil H. Carter;John Durrus Linnell

  • Predators and people: conservation of large carnivores is possible at high human densities if management policy is favourable

    John D. C. Linnell;Jon E. Swenson;Reidar Anderson

  • Habitat use and ecological correlates of home range size in a small cervid : the roe deer

    Jarle Tufto;Reidar Andersen;John Linnell

  • Big cats in our backyards: Persistence of large carnivores in a human dominated landscape in India

    Vidya Athreya;Morten Odden;John Durrus Linnell;Jagdish Krishnaswamy

  • Interference interactions, co-existence and conservation of mammalian carnivores

    John D. C. Linnell;Olav Strand

  • The European roe deer: the biology of success.

    R. Andersen;P. Duncan;J. D. C. Linnell

  • Who killed Bambi? The role of predation in the neonatal mortality of temperate ungulates

    John D. C. Linnell;Ronny Aanes;Reidar Andersen

  • Patterns of self-reported fear towards large carnivores among the Norwegian public

    Eivin Røskaft;Tore Bjerke;Bjørn Kaltenborn;John D.C Linnell

  • Prey density, environmental productivity and home-range size in the Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx)

    Ivar Herfindal;John D. C. Linnell;John Odden;Erlend Birkeland Nilsen

  • Translocation of carnivores as a method for managing problem animals: a review

    John D. C. Linnell;Ronny Aanes;Jon E. Swenson;John Odden

  • Partial migration in roe deer: migratory and resident tactics are end points of a behavioural gradient determined by ecological factors

    Francesca Cagnacci;Stefano Focardi;Marco Heurich;Anja Stache

  • The challenges and opportunities of coexisting with wild ungulates in the human-dominated landscapes of Europe’s Anthropocene

    John Durrus Linnell;Benjamin Cretois;Erlend Birkeland Nilsen;Christer Moe Rolandsen

  • The fear of wolves: A review of wolf attacks on humans

    John Linnell;Reidar Andersen;Zanete Andersone;Linas Balciauskas

  • Survival rates and causes of mortality in Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) in multi-use landscapes

    Henrik Andrén;John D.C. Linnell;Olof Liberg;Reidar Andersen

  • Translocation as a tool for mitigating conflict with leopards in human-dominated landscapes of India

    Vidya Athreya;Morten Odden;Morten Odden;John D. C. Linnell;K. Ullas Karanth

  • Living and dying in a multi‐predator landscape of fear: roe deer are squeezed by contrasting pattern of predation risk imposed by lynx and humans

    Karen Lone;Leif Egil Loe;Terje Gobakken;John D. C. Linnell

  • Predation has a greater impact in less productive environments: variation in roe deer, Capreolus capreolus, population density across Europe

    Claudia Melis;Bogumiła Jędrzejewska;Marco Apollonio;Kamil A. Bartoń

  • Factors affecting maternal care in an income breeder, the European roe deer

    Reidar Andersen;Jean Michel Gaillard;John D.C. Linnell;Patrick Duncan

Frequent Co-Authors

John Odden
John Odden Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Reidar Andersen
Reidar Andersen Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Henrik Andrén
Henrik Andrén Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Marco Heurich
Marco Heurich University of Freiburg
Atle Mysterud
Atle Mysterud University of Oslo
Francesca Cagnacci
Francesca Cagnacci Fondazione Edmund Mach
Ivar Herfindal
Ivar Herfindal Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Luigi Boitani
Luigi Boitani Sapienza University of Rome
Petra Kaczensky
Petra Kaczensky Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
Bjørn P. Kaltenborn
Bjørn P. Kaltenborn Norwegian Institute for Nature Research

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