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Mark-Oliver Rödel

Mark-Oliver Rödel

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
47
Citations
13776
World Ranking
4338
National Ranking
230

Overview

Mark-Oliver Rödel is affiliated with the Museum für Naturkunde in Germany. The scientist's research principally focuses on Environmental Science, with a significant number of publications in related subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Genetics, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their primary topics of study encompass Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Genetic diversity and population structure, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

The scientist has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • "Ongoing declines for the world's amphibians in the face of emerging threats" (2023, Nature)
  • "A global reptile assessment highlights shared conservation needs of tetrapods" (2022, Nature)
  • "Successful application of ancient DNA extraction and library construction protocols to museum wet collection specimens" (2021, Molecular Ecology Resources)
  • "Tracking Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Infection Across the Globe" (2020, EcoHealth)
  • "Citizen science and online data: Opportunities and challenges for snake ecology and action against snakebite" (2021, Toxicon X)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Mark-Oliver Rödel include Johannes Penner, Eli Greenbaum, Chifundera Kusamba, Michael F. Barej, and Johannes Müller. These collaborations reflect a network of research partners contributing across multiple projects.

Publications by Rödel have appeared in various scientific venues, with multiple contributions to Zootaxa, African Journal of Herpetology, Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Nature, and Zoosystematics and Evolution. The distribution of publications indicates active engagement in both broad and specialized journals pertaining to biology and biodiversity.

Best Publications

  • Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

    William F. Laurance;William F. Laurance;D. Carolina Useche;Julio Rendeiro;Margareta Kalka

  • Amphibian fungal panzootic causes catastrophic and ongoing loss of biodiversity

    Ben C. Scheele;Ben C. Scheele;Frank Pasmans;Lee F. Skerratt;Lee Berger

  • The conservation status of the world's reptiles

    Monika Böhm;Ben Collen;Jonathan E.M. Baillie;Philip Bowles

  • The use of bioacoustics in anuran taxonomy: theory, terminology, methods and recommendations for best practice

    Jörn Köhler;Martin Jansen;Ariel Rodríguez;Philippe J. R. Kok

  • Ongoing declines for the world’s amphibians in the face of emerging threats

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  • A global reptile assessment highlights shared conservation needs of tetrapods

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  • Adaptive responses of animals to climate change are most likely insufficient

    Viktoriia Radchuk;Thomas Reed;Céline Teplitsky;Martijn van der Pol

  • Predictors of elevational biodiversity gradients change from single taxa to the multi-taxa community level

    Marcell K. Peters;Andreas Hemp;Tim Appelhans;Christina Behler

  • The taxonomic impediment: a shortage of taxonomists, not the lack of technical approaches

    Michael S. Engel;Luis M.P. Ceríaco;Gimo M. Daniel;Pablo M. Dellapé

  • Specimen collection: An essential tool

    L. A. Rocha;A. Aleixo;G. Allen;F. Almeda

  • Diversity erosion beyond the species level : Dramatic loss of functional diversity after selective logging in two tropical amphibian communities

    Raffael Ernst;K. Eduard Linsenmair;Mark-Oliver Rödel

  • MEASURING AND MONITORING AMPHIBIAN DIVERSITY IN TROPICAL FORESTS. I. AN EVALUATION OF METHODS WITH RECOMMENDATIONS FOR STANDARDIZATION

    Mark-Oliver Rödel;Raffael Ernst

  • Evaluating mechanisms of diversification in a Guineo-Congolian tropical forest frog using demographic model selection

    Daniel M. Portik;Adam D. Leaché;Danielle Rivera;Michael F. Barej

  • Connecting Earth observation to high-throughput biodiversity data

    Alex Bush;Alex Bush;Alex Bush;Rahel Sollmann;Andreas Wilting;Kristine Bohmann;Kristine Bohmann

  • Oviposition site selection in a complex and variable environment: the role of habitat quality and conspecific cues

    Volker H. W. Rudolf;Mark-Oliver Rödel

  • Phylogeography of Ptychadena mascareniensis suggests transoceanic dispersal in a widespread African‐Malagasy frog lineage

    Miguel Vences;Joachim Kosuch;Mark-Oliver Rödel;Stefan Lötters

  • ANTHROPOGENICALLY INDUCED CHANGES OF PREDICTABILITY IN TROPICAL ANURAN ASSEMBLAGES

    Raffael Ernst;Mark-Oliver Rödel

  • The importance of environmental heterogeneity for species diversity and assemblage structure in Bornean stream frogs

    Alexander Keller;Mark-Oliver Rödel;K. Eduard Linsenmair;T. Ulmar Grafe

  • Effects of forest fragmentation and habitat degradation on West African leaf-litter frogs.

    Annika Hillers;Michael Veith;Mark-Oliver Rödel

  • Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences

    Luis M.P. Ceríaco;Luis M.P. Ceríaco;Eliécer E. Gutiérrez;Eliécer E. Gutiérrez;Alain Dubois;Cristian Simón Abdala

  • Phenotypic plasticity and optimal timing of metamorphosis under uncertain time constraints

    Volker H. W. Rudolf;Mark-Oliver Rödel

  • Patterns of community composition in two tropical tree frog assemblages: separating spatial structure and environmental effects in disturbed and undisturbed forests

    Raffael Ernst;Mark-Oliver Rödel

Frequent Co-Authors

Eli Greenbaum
Eli Greenbaum The University of Texas at El Paso
David C. Blackburn
David C. Blackburn Florida Museum of Natural History
Adam D. Leaché
Adam D. Leaché University of Washington
Miguel Vences
Miguel Vences Technische Universität Braunschweig
Wolfgang Böhme
Wolfgang Böhme Leibniz Association
Heike Feldhaar
Heike Feldhaar University of Bayreuth
Michael Veith
Michael Veith University of Trier
Aaron M. Bauer
Aaron M. Bauer Villanova University
K. Eduard Linsenmair
K. Eduard Linsenmair University of Würzburg
Jean-François Trape
Jean-François Trape Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

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