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Ecology and Evolution
Germany
2025

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
110
Citations
45077
World Ranking
178
National Ranking
12

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Germany Leader Award
  • 2016 - Max Planck Research Award Pioneering research into the sensory perception of organisms

Overview

Martin Wikelski is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Germany. Their research broadly covers the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

Their primary subfields of study include Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, Genetics, and Developmental Biology. The main research topics addressed in their work encompass:

  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies

Wikelski has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Kamran Safi, Wolfgang Fiedler, Roland Kays, Ivan Pokrovsky, and Andrea Flack.

Their recent publications include:

  • "COVID-19 lockdown allows researchers to quantify the effects of human activity on wildlife" (2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • "Perspectives in machine learning for wildlife conservation" (2022, Nature Communications)
  • "The Movebank system for studying global animal movement and demography" (2021, Methods in Ecology and Evolution)
  • "Ecological insights from three decades of animal movement tracking across a changing Arctic" (2020, Science)
  • "Biological Earth observation with animal sensors" (2022, Trends in Ecology & Evolution)

The most frequent venues where Wikelski has published include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Movebank, Movement Ecology, Scientific Reports, and the Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

Among their recognitions, Wikelski received the Max Planck Research Award in 2016 for research on the sensory perception of organisms.

Best Publications

  • The physiology/life-history nexus

    Robert E. Ricklefs;Martin Wikelski

  • Terrestrial animal tracking as an eye on life and planet

    Roland Kays;Roland Kays;Roland Kays;Margaret Chatham Crofoot;Margaret Chatham Crofoot;Margaret Chatham Crofoot;Walter Jetz;Walter Jetz;Martin Wikelski;Martin Wikelski;Martin Wikelski

  • Moving in the Anthropocene : global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements

    Marlee A. Tucker;Katrin Böhning-Gaese;William F. Fagan;John M. Fryxell

  • Biotelemetry: a mechanistic approach to ecology.

    Steven J. Cooke;Scott G. Hinch;Martin Wikelski;Russel D. Andrews

  • Going, going, gone : is animal migration disappearing

    David S Wilcove;Martin Wikelski

  • Conservation physiology.

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  • Perspectives in machine learning for wildlife conservation

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  • The genomic landscape underlying phenotypic integrity in the face of gene flow in crows

    Jelmer Poelstra;Nagarjun Vijay;Christen Bossu;Henrik Lantz;Henrik Lantz

  • Technology on the Move: Recent and Forthcoming Innovations for Tracking Migratory Birds

    Eli S. Bridge;Kasper Thorup;Melissa S. Bowlin;Phillip B. Chilson

  • Avian metabolism: Costs of migration in free-flying songbirds

    Martin Wikelski;E. M. Tarlow;A. Raim;R. H. Diehl

  • COVID-19 lockdown allows researchers to quantify the effects of human activity on wildlife.

    Christian Rutz;Christian Rutz;Matthias-Claudio Loretto;Matthias-Claudio Loretto;Amanda E. Bates;Sarah C. Davidson;Sarah C. Davidson

  • A dynamic Brownian bridge movement model to estimate utilization distributions for heterogeneous animal movement.

    Bart Kranstauber;Roland Kays;Scott D. LaPoint;Martin Wikelski

  • Corticosterone levels predict survival probabilities of Galápagos marine iguanas during El Niño events

    L. M. Romero;Martin Wikelski

  • Observing the unwatchable through acceleration logging of animal behavior

    Danielle D Brown;Roland Kays;Roland Kays;Roland Kays;Martin Wikelski;Martin Wikelski;Martin Wikelski;Rory Wilson

  • Immune activity elevates energy expenditure of house sparrows: a link between direct and indirect costs?

    L. B. Martin;Alexander Scheuerlein;Martin Wikelski

  • Using tri-axial acceleration data to identify behavioral modes of free-ranging animals: general concepts and tools illustrated for griffon vultures

    Ran Nathan;Orr Spiegel;Scott Fortmann-Roe;Roi Harel

  • Automated image-based tracking and its application in ecology

    Anthony I. Dell;John A. Bender;Kristin Branson;Iain D. Couzin

  • Key Questions in Marine Megafauna Movement Ecology

    Graeme C. Hays;Luciana C. Ferreira;Luciana C. Ferreira;Ana M.M. Sequeira;Mark G. Meekan

  • What is conservation physiology? Perspectives on an increasingly integrated and essential science†

    Steven Cooke;Lawren Sack;Craig E Franklin;Anthony P Farrell

  • Exposure to ecotourism reduces survival and affects stress response in hoatzin chicks (Opisthocomus hoazin)

    A. Müllner;K. E. Linsenmair;Martin Wikelski

  • Phytohemagglutinin-induced skin swelling in birds : histological support for a classic immunoecological technique

    Lynn B. Martin;Lynn B. Martin;Peggy Han;Jason Lewittes;Joshua R. Kuhlman

  • Migrating Songbirds Recalibrate Their Magnetic Compass Daily from Twilight Cues

    William W. Cochran;Henrik Mouritsen;Martin Wikelski

Frequent Co-Authors

Dina K. N. Dechmann
Dina K. N. Dechmann Max Planck Society
Roland Kays
Roland Kays North Carolina State University
Kamran Safi
Kamran Safi Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Wolfgang Fiedler
Wolfgang Fiedler Max Planck Society
Michaela Hau
Michaela Hau University of Konstanz
Ran Nathan
Ran Nathan Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Lynn B. Martin
Lynn B. Martin University of South Florida
Kasper Thorup
Kasper Thorup University of Copenhagen
Scott H. Newman
Scott H. Newman Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
John C. Wingfield
John C. Wingfield University of California, Davis

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