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D-Index
43
Citations
8043
World Ranking
5278
National Ranking
128

Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt 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 Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 533+

This scientist: 129 publications — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 533 publications or more.

Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt 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 Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 122+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 122 D-Index or more.

Overview

Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt is affiliated with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Sweden. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with particular expertise in ecology. This expertise extends into subfields such as ecology, global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, ecological modeling, and ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics within environmental science. Main themes include wildlife ecology and conservation, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, species distribution and climate change, rangeland management and livestock ecology, animal behavior and welfare studies, fire effects on ecosystems, and rangeland and wildlife management.

Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt is regularly published in respected journals, with frequent contributions to:

  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Oikos
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Ecosphere
  • Journal of Ecology

Their recent significant papers include:

  • "Trophic rewilding can expand natural climate solutions" (2023), published in Nature Climate Change
  • "Fifty years of European ungulate dietary studies: a synthesis" (2020), published in Oikos
  • "Floristic evidence for alternative biome states in tropical Africa" (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Animal body size distribution influences the ratios of nutrients supplied to plants" (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "The generality of cryptic dietary niche differences in diverse large-herbivore assemblages" (2022), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Cromsigt collaborates with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Fredrik Widemo
  • Navinder J. Singh
  • Graham I. H. Kerley
  • Mariska te Beest
  • Tim R. Hofmeester

Best Publications

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Global decline in aggregated migrations of large terrestrial mammals

    Grant Harris;Simon Thirgood;J. Grant;C. Hopcraft

  • Paws without claws? Ecological effects of large carnivores in anthropogenic landscapes

    D. P. J. Kuijper;E. Sahlén;Bodil Elmhagen;S. Chamaillé-Jammes

  • Hunting for fear: innovating management of human–wildlife conflicts

    Joris P.G.M. Cromsigt;Joris P.G.M. Cromsigt;Joris P.G.M. Cromsigt;Dries P.J. Kuijper;Marius Adam;Robert L. Beschta

  • Do ungulates preferentially feed in forest gaps in European temperate forest

    D.P.J. Kuijper;J.P.G.M. Cromsigt;M. Churski;B. Adam

  • Conservation implications of the refugee species concept and the European bison: king of the forest or refugee in a marginal habitat?

    G. I. H. Kerley;R. Kowalczyk;J. P. G. M. Cromsigt

  • Bottom-up versus top-down control of tree regeneration in the Bialowieza Primeval Forest, Poland

    Dries P. J. Kuijper;Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt;Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt;Bogumiła Jędrzejewska;Stanisław Miścicki

  • Trophic rewilding can expand natural climate solutions

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  • Habitat heterogeneity as a driver of ungulate diversity and distribution patterns: interaction of body mass and digestive strategy

    Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt;Herbert H. T. Prins;Han Olff

  • Framing pictures: A conceptual framework to identify and correct for biases in detection probability of camera traps enabling multi-species comparison

    Tim R. Hofmeester;Joris P.G.M. Cromsigt;Joris P.G.M. Cromsigt;John Odden;Henrik Andrén

  • Dynamics of grazing lawn formation: an experimental test of the role of scale-dependent processes

    Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt;Han Olff

  • Resource partitioning among savanna grazers mediated by local heterogeneity: An experimental approach

    Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt;Han Olff

  • Fatal attraction: vegetation responses to nutrient inputs attract herbivores to infectious anthrax carcass sites.

    Wendy C. Turner;Kyrre L. Kausrud;Yathin S. Krishnappa;Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt

  • Megaherbivores Modify Trophic Cascades Triggered by Fear of Predation in an African Savanna Ecosystem.

    Elizabeth le Roux;Graham I.H. Kerley;Joris P.G.M. Cromsigt;Joris P.G.M. Cromsigt

  • Trophic rewilding as a climate change mitigation strategy

    Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt;Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt;Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt;Mariska te Beest;Graham I. H. Kerley;Marietjie Landman

  • Restoration of a megaherbivore: landscape-level impacts of white rhinoceros in Kruger National Park, South Africa

    Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt;Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt;Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt;Mariska te Beest

  • Fifty years of European ungulate dietary studies: a synthesis

    Robert Spitzer;Annika Felton;Marietjie Landman;Navinder J. Singh

  • Dynamics of grazing lawn formation

    Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt;Han Olff;Heikki Setälä

  • The generality of cryptic dietary niche differences in diverse large-herbivore assemblages

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  • Revisiting the browsing lawn concept: Evolutionary Interactions or pruning herbivores?

    Joris P.G.M. Cromsigt;Dries P.J. Kuijper

  • Floristic evidence for alternative biome states in tropical Africa.

    J. C. Aleman;J. C. Aleman;A. Fayolle;C. Favier;A. C. Staver

  • Rewilding Europe's large grazer community: how functionally diverse are the diets of European bison, cattle, and horses?

    Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt;Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt;Yvonne J. M. Kemp;Esther Rodriguez;Hubert Kivit

  • Pictures or pellets? Comparing camera trapping and dung counts as methods for estimating population densities of ungulates

    Sabine E. Pfeffer;Robert Spitzer;Andrew M. Allen;Andrew M. Allen;Tim R. Hofmeester

Frequent Co-Authors

Göran Ericsson
Göran Ericsson Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Graham I. H. Kerley
Graham I. H. Kerley Nelson Mandela University
Dries P. J. Kuijper
Dries P. J. Kuijper Mammal Research Institute
Han Olff
Han Olff University of Groningen
Norman Owen-Smith
Norman Owen-Smith University of the Witwatersrand
Andrew J. Plumptre
Andrew J. Plumptre BirdLife international, UK
Jonas Kindberg
Jonas Kindberg Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Martin J. Wassen
Martin J. Wassen Utrecht University
Marco Heurich
Marco Heurich University of Freiburg
Sally Archibald
Sally Archibald University of the Witwatersrand

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