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D-Index
39
Citations
6457
World Ranking
6348
National Ranking
656

Konstans Wells 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 Konstans Wells sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 92 publications — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Konstans Wells 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 Konstans Wells sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Konstans Wells is affiliated with Swansea University in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily in Environmental Science and Medicine. Their work spans several subfields, including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Parasitology, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's research topics cover a wide range of areas such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant and Animal Studies, Viral Infections and Vectors, COVID-19 Epidemiological Studies, Zoonotic Diseases and Public Health, and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Wells include Nicholas J. Clark, Miguel Lurgi, Wolfgang W. Weisser, Manfred Ayasse, and Martin M. Goßner.

Wells has published multiple papers in several notable journals. These journals include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Global Ecology and Biogeography, Epidemics, Ecological Applications, and Royal Society Open Science.

Recent publications feature:

  • Contrasting responses of above- and belowground diversity to multiple components of land-use intensity, 2021, Nature Communications
  • The supply of multiple ecosystem services requires biodiversity across spatial scales, 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Global drivers of avian haemosporidian infections vary across zoogeographical regions, 2021, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Challenges in modelling the dynamics of infectious diseases at the wildlife-human interface, 2021, Epidemics
  • Dynamic generalised additive models (DGAMs) for forecasting discrete ecological time series, 2022, Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Best Publications

  • Implementing large-scale and long-term functional biodiversity research: The Biodiversity Exploratories

    Markus Fischer;Markus Fischer;Oliver Bossdorf;Sonja Gockel;Falk Hansel

  • A quantitative index of land-use intensity in grasslands: Integrating mowing, grazing and fertilization

    Nico Blüthgen;Carsten F. Dormann;Daniel Prati;Valentin H. Klaus

  • Environmental factors affect Acidobacterial communities below the subgroup level in grassland and forest soils.

    Astrid Naether;Astrid Naether;Bärbel U. Foesel;Bärbel U. Foesel;Verena Naegele;Pia K. Wüst

  • The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project

    Lawrence N. Hudson;Tim Newbold;Tim Newbold;Sara Contu;Samantha L.L. Hill;Samantha L.L. Hill

  • The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts

    Lawrence N Hudson;Tim Newbold;Tim Newbold;Sara Contu;Samantha L L Hill;Samantha L L Hill

  • Extinction filters mediate the global effects of habitat fragmentation on animals.

    Matthew G. Betts;Christopher Wolf;Marion Pfeifer;Cristina Banks-Leite

  • Interacting effects of fertilization, mowing and grazing on plant species diversity of 1500 grasslands in Germany differ between regions

    Stephanie A. Socher;Daniel Prati;Steffen Boch;Jörg Müller

  • Contrasting responses of above- and belowground diversity to multiple components of land-use intensity

    Gaëtane Le Provost;Jan Thiele;Catrin Westphal;Caterina Penone

  • High plant species richness indicates management-related disturbances rather than the conservation status of forests

    Steffen Boch;Daniel Prati;Jorg Muller;Stephanie A. Socher

  • Targeted Conservation to Safeguard a Biodiversity Hotspot from Climate and Land-Cover Change

    Matthew J. Struebig;Matthew J. Struebig;Andreas Wilting;David L.A. Gaveau;Erik Meijaard

  • Use of arboreal and terrestrial space by a small mammal community in a tropical rain forest in Borneo, Malaysia

    Konstans Wells;Konstans Wells;Martin Pfeiffer;Maklarin B. Lakim;K. Eduard Linsenmair

  • Effects of rain forest logging on species richness and assemblage composition of small mammals in Southeast Asia

    Konstans Wells;Elisabeth Klara Viktoria Kalko;Elisabeth Klara Viktoria Kalko;Maklarin B. Lakim;Martin Pfeiffer

  • Climate variation influences host specificity in avian malaria parasites

    Alan Fecchio;Konstans Wells;Jeffrey A. Bell;Vasyl V. Tkach

  • Top-Down Control of Herbivory by Birds and Bats in the Canopy of Temperate Broad-Leaved Oaks (Quercus robur)

    Stefan M. Bohm;Konstans Wells;Elisabeth Klara Viktoria Kalko

  • Grassland management intensification weakens the associations among the diversities of multiple plant and animal taxa

    Pete Manning;Martin M. Gossner;Martin M. Gossner;Oliver Bossdorf;Oliver Bossdorf;Eric Allan

  • Parasite spread at the domestic animal - wildlife interface: anthropogenic habitat use, phylogeny and body mass drive risk of cat and dog flea ( Ctenocephalides spp.) infestation in wild mammals

    Nicholas J. Clark;Jennifer M. Seddon;Jan Šlapeta;Konstans Wells

  • Co-infections and environmental conditions drive the distributions of blood parasites in wild birds

    Nicholas J. Clark;Nicholas J. Clark;Konstans Wells;Dimitar Dimitrov;Sonya M. Clegg;Sonya M. Clegg

  • Host Specificity in Variable Environments.

    Konstans Wells;Nicholas J. Clark

  • Diverse MHC IIB allele repertoire increases parasite resistance and body condition in the Long-tailed giant rat (Leopoldamys sabanus).

    Tobias L Lenz;Tobias L Lenz;Konstans Wells;Martin Pfeiffer;Simone Sommer;Simone Sommer

  • Climate, host phylogeny and the connectivity of host communities govern regional parasite assembly

    Nicholas J. Clark;Sonya M. Clegg;Katerina Sam;William Goulding;William Goulding

  • An efficient protocol for the global sensitivity analysis of stochastic ecological models

    Thomas A. A. Prowse;Corey J. A. Bradshaw;Steven Delean;Phillip Cassey

Frequent Co-Authors

Elisabeth K. V. Kalko
Elisabeth K. V. Kalko University of Ulm
Markus Fischer
Markus Fischer University of Bern
Robert B. O'Hara
Robert B. O'Hara Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Wolfgang W. Weisser
Wolfgang W. Weisser Technical University of Munich
Tom M. Fayle
Tom M. Fayle Queen Mary University of London
Jos Barlow
Jos Barlow Lancaster University
François Buscot
François Buscot Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Jason M. Tylianakis
Jason M. Tylianakis University of Canterbury
Andreas Hemp
Andreas Hemp University of Bayreuth
Tim Diekötter
Tim Diekötter Kiel University

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