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Leif Egil Loe

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
44
Citations
7189
World Ranking
5088
National Ranking
73

Leif Egil Loe 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 Leif Egil Loe 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.

Leif Egil Loe 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 Leif Egil Loe sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Leif Egil Loe is affiliated with the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Norway. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Environmental Science, with significant contributions to the subfields of Ecology, General Health Professions, Genetics, Small Animals, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's work addresses several topics, notably Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Indigenous Studies and Ecology, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, Bat Biology and Ecology Studies, Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies, and Climate Change and Permafrost.

Among their recent publications are these papers:

  • The neglected season: Warmer autumns counteract harsher winters and promote population growth in Arctic reindeer, published in 2020 in Global Change Biology
  • Determinants of heart rate in Svalbard reindeer reveal mechanisms of seasonal energy management, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Stress responses to repeated captures in a wild ungulate, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • Harvesting can stabilise population fluctuations and buffer the impacts of extreme climatic events, 2022, Ecology Letters
  • The roles of climate and alternative prey in explaining 142 years of declining willow ptarmigan hunting yield, 2022, Wildlife Biology

The scientist frequently publishes in several academic venues, including:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Wildlife Biology
  • Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Global Ecology and Conservation
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The researcher collaborates commonly with a group of frequent co-authors, which include:

  • S. D. Albon
  • Erik Ropstad
  • Brage Bremset Hansen
  • R. Justin Irvine
  • Åshild Ønvik Pedersen

Best Publications

  • Temporal scales, trade-offs, and functional responses in red deer habitat selection

    Inger Maren Rivrud Godvik;Leif Egil Loe;Jon Olav Vik;VebjØrn Veiberg

  • Empirical Evidence of Density- Dependence in Populations of Large Herbivores

    C. Bonenfant;J.M. Gaillard;T. Coulson;M. Festa-Bianchet

  • A Migratory Northern Ungulate in the Pursuit of Spring: Jumping or Surfing the Green Wave?

    Richard Bischof;Leif Egil Loe;Erling L. Meisingset;Barbara Zimmermann

  • Warmer and wetter winters: characteristics and implications of an extreme weather event in the High Arctic

    Brage Bremset Hansen;Ketil Isaksen;Rasmus E. Benestad;Jack Kohler

  • What determines variation in home range size across spatiotemporal scales in a large browsing herbivore

    Floris M. van Beest;Floris M. van Beest;Inger M. Rivrud;Leif E. Loe;Leif E. Loe;Jos M. Milner

  • Forage quantity, quality and depletion as scale-dependent mechanisms driving habitat selection of a large browsing herbivore.

    Floris M. Van Beest;Floris M. Van Beest;Atle Mysterud;Leif E. Loe;Jos M. Milner

  • 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

  • Partial migration in expanding red deer populations at northern latitudes – a role for density dependence?

    Atle Mysterud;Leif Egil Loe;Barbara Zimmermann;Richard Bischof

  • Contrasting effects of summer and winter warming on body mass explain population dynamics in a food-limited Arctic herbivore.

    Steve D. Albon;R. Justin Irvine;Odd Halvorsen;Rolf Langvatn

  • An adaptive behavioural response to hunting: surviving male red deer shift habitat at the onset of the hunting season

    Karen Lone;Leif Egil Loe;Erling L. Meisingset;Inga Stamnes

  • How does local weather predict red deer home range size at different temporal scales

    Inger Maren Rivrud;Leif Egil Loe;Atle Mysterud

  • Climate predictability and breeding phenology in red deer: timing and synchrony of rutting and calving in Norway and France

    L. E. Loe;C. Bonenfant;A. Mysterud;J.-M. Gaillard

  • Congruent responses to weather variability in high arctic herbivores.

    Audun Stien;Rolf A. Ims;Steve D. Albon;Eva Fuglei

  • Multiple causes of sexual segregation in European red deer: enlightenments from varying breeding phenology at high and low latitude.

    Christophe Bonenfant;Leif E. Loe;Leif E. Loe;Atle Mysterud;Rolf Langvatn

  • Density dependent and temporal variability in habitat selection by a large herbivore; an experimental approach

    Ragnhild Mobæk;Atle Mysterud;Leif Egil Loe;Øystein Holand

  • Monitoring population size of red deer Cervus elaphus: an evaluation of two types of census data from Norway

    Atle Mysterud;Erling L. Meisingset;Vebjørn Veiberg;Rolf Langvatn

  • Activity pattern of arctic reindeer in a predator-free environment: no need to keep a daily rhythm

    Leif Egil Loe;Christophe Bonenfant;Christophe Bonenfant;Atle Mysterud;Torbjørn Severinsen

  • Fitness consequences of environmental conditions at different life stages in a long-lived vertebrate

    Mathieu Douhard;Mathieu Douhard;Floriane Plard;Jean-Michel Gaillard;Gilles Capron

  • Red deer habitat selection and movements in relation to roads

    Erling L. Meisingset;Leif E. Loe;Øystein Brekkum;Bram Van Moorter

  • Icing events trigger range displacement in a high-arctic ungulate.

    Audun Stien;Leif Egil Loe;Atle Mysterud;Torbjørn Severinsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Atle Mysterud
Atle Mysterud University of Oslo
Audun Stien
Audun Stien University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Rolf Langvatn
Rolf Langvatn Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Steve D. Albon
Steve D. Albon James Hutton Institute
Christophe Bonenfant
Christophe Bonenfant Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Nils Chr. Stenseth
Nils Chr. Stenseth University of Oslo
John D. C. Linnell
John D. C. Linnell Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
John Odden
John Odden Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Gunnar Austrheim
Gunnar Austrheim Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Bart Peeters
Bart Peeters Siemens (Belgium)

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