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Michael K. Borregaard

Michael K. Borregaard

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
33
Citations
7459
World Ranking
7763
National Ranking
102

Overview

Michael K. Borregaard is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and focuses on Environmental Science, with a specialization in Ecology and related subfields. Their work encompasses several key areas including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, and Hardware and Architecture.

Their research topics span a range of themes such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Plant Diversity and Evolution, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, and Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions.

Michael K. Borregaard's recent publications include:

  • "Snapshot isolation and isolation history challenge the analogy between mountains and islands used to understand endemism", 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "Environmental heterogeneity dynamics drive plant diversity on oceanic islands", 2020, Journal of Biogeography
  • "Evolutionary winners are ecological losers among oceanic island plants", 2021, Journal of Biogeography
  • "An updated floristic map of the world", 2023, Nature Communications
  • "Conservation of species interactions to achieve self-sustaining ecosystems", 2020, Ecography

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Carsten Rahbek
  • Julia H. Heinen
  • Christopher Rackauckas
  • Norma P. Simon
  • Pietro Vertechi

The venues where Michael K. Borregaard often publishes are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Biogeography
  • Ecography

Best Publications

  • An Update of Wallace’s Zoogeographic Regions of the World

    Ben G. Holt;Jean-Philippe Lessard;Michael K. Borregaard;Susanne A. Fritz

  • Humboldt’s enigma: What causes global patterns of mountain biodiversity?

    Carsten Rahbek;Carsten Rahbek;Carsten Rahbek;Michael K. Borregaard;Robert K. Colwell;Robert K. Colwell;Robert K. Colwell;Bo Dalsgaard

  • Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans

    Eline D. Lorenzen;David Nogués-Bravo;Ludovic Orlando;Jaco Weinstock

  • Building mountain biodiversity: Geological and evolutionary processes

    Carsten Rahbek;Carsten Rahbek;Carsten Rahbek;Michael K. Borregaard;Alexandre Antonelli;Robert K. Colwell;Robert K. Colwell;Robert K. Colwell

  • Island biogeography: Taking the long view of nature’s laboratories

    Robert J. Whittaker;Robert J. Whittaker;José María Fernández-Palacios;Thomas J. Matthews;Thomas J. Matthews;Michael K. Borregaard

  • An Anthropocene map of genetic diversity

    Andreia Miraldo;Sen Li;Michael K. Borregaard;Alexander Flórez-Rodríguez

  • Causality of the Relationship between Geographic Distribution and Species Abundance

    Michael Krabbe Borregaard;Carsten Rahbek

  • On the form of species–area relationships in habitat islands and true islands

    Thomas J. Matthews;Thomas J. Matthews;François Guilhaumon;François Guilhaumon;Kostas A. Triantis;Kostas A. Triantis;Michael K. Borregaard

  • Oceanic island biogeography through the lens of the general dynamic model: assessment and prospect.

    Michael K. Borregaard;Michael K. Borregaard;Isabel R. Amorim;Paulo A. V. Borges;Juliano S. Cabral

  • Strong influence of regional species pools on continent-wide structuring of local communities

    Jean-Philippe Lessard;Jean-Philippe Lessard;Michael K. Borregaard;James A. Fordyce;Carsten Rahbek

  • Introducing the biogeographic species pool

    Daniel Wisbech Carstensen;Jean‐Philippe Lessard;Ben G. Holt;Michael Krabbe Borregaard

  • A supermatrix phylogeny of corvoid passerine birds (Aves: Corvides) ☆

    Knud Andreas Jønsson;Knud Andreas Jønsson;Knud Andreas Jønsson;Pierre-Henri Fabre;Jonathan D. Kennedy;Ben G. Holt

  • The general dynamic model: towards a unified theory of island biogeography?

    Michael K. Borregaard;Thomas J. Matthews;Thomas J. Matthews;Robert J. Whittaker;Robert J. Whittaker

  • Linking environmental filtering and disequilibrium to biogeography with a community climate framework

    Benjamin Blonder;Benjamin Blonder;David Nogués-Bravo;Michael K. Borregaard;John C. Donoghue;John C. Donoghue

  • Snapshot isolation and isolation history challenge the analogy between mountains and islands used to understand endemism

    Suzette G. A. Flantua;Suzette G. A. Flantua;Davnah Payne;Michael K. Borregaard;Carl Beierkuhnlein

  • Tracking Animal Dispersal: From Individual Movement to Community Assembly and Global Range Dynamics.

    Knud Andreas Jønsson;Knud Andreas Jønsson;Anders P. Tøttrup;Michael Krabbe Borregaard;Sally A. Keith

  • An updated floristic map of the world

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  • Environmental heterogeneity dynamics drive plant diversity on oceanic islands

    Martha Paola Barajas‐Barbosa;Patrick Weigelt;Michael Krabbe Borregaard;Gunnar Keppel;Gunnar Keppel

  • Island species–area relationships and species accumulation curves are not equivalent: an analysis of habitat island datasets

    Thomas J. Matthews;Thomas J. Matthews;Kostas A. Triantis;François Rigal;François Rigal;Michael K. Borregaard;Michael K. Borregaard

  • Process-Based Species Pools Reveal the Hidden Signature of Biotic Interactions Amid the Influence of Temperature Filtering.

    Jean-Philippe Lessard;Ben G. Weinstein;Michael K. Borregaard;Katharine A. Marske

  • Beyond the Last Glacial Maximum: Island endemism is best explained by long‐lasting archipelago configurations

    S.J. Norder;S.J. Norder;S.J. Norder;K. Proios;R.J. Whittaker;R.J. Whittaker;M.R. Alonso

Frequent Co-Authors

Carsten Rahbek
Carsten Rahbek University of Copenhagen
Robert J. Whittaker
Robert J. Whittaker University of Oxford
Thomas J. Matthews
Thomas J. Matthews University of Birmingham
Jon Fjeldså
Jon Fjeldså University of Copenhagen
Knud A. Jønsson
Knud A. Jønsson Swedish Museum of Natural History
David Nogués-Bravo
David Nogués-Bravo University of Copenhagen
José María Fernández-Palacios
José María Fernández-Palacios University of La Laguna
Robert K. Colwell
Robert K. Colwell University of Connecticut
Kostas A. Triantis
Kostas A. Triantis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Gary R. Graves
Gary R. Graves National Museum of Natural History

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