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D-Index
41
Citations
8151
World Ranking
5757
National Ranking
618

M. de L. Brooke 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 M. de L. Brooke sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 138 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

M. de L. Brooke 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 M. de L. Brooke sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

M. de L. Brooke is a researcher affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with strong contributions in several related subfields including Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Global and Planetary Change, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's research topics span a variety of areas within biology and ecology, specifically:

  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Amphibian and Reptile Biology

M. de L. Brooke has contributed to multiple publications across notable scientific journals and venues. Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Molecular Ecology

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by M. de L. Brooke include:

  • Global assessment of marine plastic exposure risk for oceanic birds, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Genetic diversity, demographic history and neo-sex chromosomes in the Critically Endangered Raso lark, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Seabird Migration Strategies: Flight Budgets, Diel Activity Patterns, and Lunar Influence, 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • High MHC gene copy number maintains diversity despite homozygosity in a Critically Endangered single-island endemic bird, but no evidence of MHC-based mate choice, 2020, Molecular Ecology
  • Contrasting stripes are a widespread feature of group living in birds, mammals and fishes, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Collaboration is a significant component of their scientific activity. Frequent co-authors associated with M. de L. Brooke include:

  • Thomas A. Clay
  • Elisa Dierickx
  • Tim Guilford
  • Martin Stervander
  • Jack Thorley

Best Publications

  • Cuckoos versus reed warblers: Adaptations and counteradaptations

    N.B. Davies;M. de L. Brooke

  • AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF CO-EVOLUTION BETWEEN THE CUCKOO, CUCULUS CANORUS, AND ITS HOSTS. I. HOST EGG DISCRIMINATION

    N. B. Davies;M. De L. Brooke

  • Egg mimicry by cuckoos Cuculus canorus in relation to discrimination by hosts

    M. de L. Brooke;N. B. Davies

  • AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF CO-EVOLUTION BETWEEN THE CUCKOO, CUCULUS CANORUS, AND ITS HOSTS. II. HOST EGG MARKINGS, CHICK DISCRIMINATION AND GENERAL DISCUSSION

    N. B. Davies;M. De L. Brooke

  • Recognition Errors and Probability of Parasitism Determine Whether Reed Warblers Should Accept or Reject Mimetic Cuckoo Eggs

    Nicholas Barry Davies;M. De L. Brooke;Alejandro Kacelnik

  • The food consumption of the world's seabirds.

    M. de L. Brooke

  • Genetic evidence for female host-specific races of the common cuckoo

    H. Lisle Gibbs;Michael D. Sorenson;Karen Marchetti;Karen Marchetti;M. de L. Brooke

  • Rapid decline of host defences in response to reduced cuckoo parasitism: behavioural flexibility of reed warblers in a changing world

    M. de L. Brooke;N. B. Davies;D. G. Noble

  • Some factors affecting the laying date, incubation and breeding success of the Manx Shearwater, Puffinus puffinus.

    M. De L. Brooke

  • The scaling of eye size with body mass in birds

    M. de L. Brooke;S. Hanley;S. B. Laughlin

  • Cuckoos and parasitic ants: Interspecific brood parasitism as an evolutionary arms race

    N.B. Davies;Andrew F.G. Bourke;M. de L. Brooke

  • Sexual differences in the voice and individual vocal recognition in the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus)

    M. de L. Brooke

  • Correlates of extinction risk and hunting pressure in gamebirds (Galliformes)

    Aidan Keane;M.de L. Brooke;P.J.K. Mcgowan

  • Seabird population changes following mammal eradications on islands

    M. de L. Brooke;E. Bonnaud;B. J. Dilley;E. N. Flint

  • Recent changes in host usage by cuckoos Cuculus canorus in britain

    M. De L. Brooke;N. B. Davies

  • Costing eradications of alien mammals from islands

    T. L. F. Martins;T. L. F. Martins;M. de L. Brooke;G. M. Hilton;S. Farnsworth

  • Prioritizing the world's islands for vertebrate-eradication programmes

    M. de L. Brooke;G. M. Hilton;T. L. F. Martins

  • The Eye of a Procellariiform Seabird, the Manx Shearwater, Puffinus puffinus: Visual Fields and Optical Structure

    Graham R. Martin;M. de L. Brooke

  • Provisioning of nestling Cuckoos Cuculus canorus by Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus hosts

    M. de L. Brooke;N. B. Davies

  • Retinal ganglion cell distribution and behaviour in procellariiform seabirds

    B.P. Hayes;M. De L. Brooke;M. De L. Brooke

  • The Thick-Billed Murres of Prince Leopold Island : a study of the breeding ecology of a colonial high arctic seabird

    A. J. Gaston;David N. Nettleship

  • Evolutionary dynamics of a natural population: The large cactus finch of the galapagos

    M. de L. Brooke

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas B. Davies
Nicholas B. Davies University of Cambridge
Geoff M. Hilton
Geoff M. Hilton Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust
Jennifer L. Lavers
Jennifer L. Lavers Esperance Tjaltjraak Native Title Aboriginal Corporation
Steffen Oppel
Steffen Oppel Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Mark C. Mainwaring
Mark C. Mainwaring University of Montana
Juliet A. Vickery
Juliet A. Vickery Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
William Amos
William Amos University of Cambridge
Graham P. Martin
Graham P. Martin University of Cambridge
Deborah J. Pain
Deborah J. Pain University of Cambridge
Mark A. Taggart
Mark A. Taggart University of the Highlands and Islands

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