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D-Index
40
Citations
6643
World Ranking
6084
National Ranking
79

Nicolas Schtickzelle 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 Nicolas Schtickzelle sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 143 publications — 48th percentile

48% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Nicolas Schtickzelle 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 Nicolas Schtickzelle sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Nicolas Schtickzelle is affiliated with the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. Their research spans multiple fields, prominently in Environmental Science, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Their work encompasses several specialized subfields including Ecology, Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Oceanography.

The main topics of their research include:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Genetic diversity and population structure

Among recent publications, key papers authored or co-authored by Nicolas Schtickzelle include:

  • A multidimensional approach to the expression of phenotypic plasticity, 2020, Functional Ecology
  • Anthropogenic disturbance drives dispersal syndromes, demography, and gene flow in amphibian populations, 2020, Ecological Monographs
  • Dispersal syndromes in challenging environments: A cross-species experiment, 2022, Ecology Letters
  • Dispersal syndromes can link intraspecific trait variability and meta-ecosystem functioning, 2021, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Fragmentation mediates thermal habitat choice in ciliate microcosms, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Nicolas Schtickzelle include:

  • Staffan Jacob
  • Julien Côté
  • Florent Manzi
  • Michel Baguette
  • Estelle Laurent

The scientist frequently publishes in several venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Preprints.org
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Oikos

Best Publications

  • Costs of dispersal

    Dries Bonte;Hans Van Dyck;James M Bullock;Aurélie Coulon

  • DISPERSAL DEPRESSION WITH HABITAT FRAGMENTATION IN THE BOG FRITILLARY BUTTERFLY

    Nicolas Schtickzelle;Gwénaëlle Mennechez;Michel Baguette

  • Each life stage matters: the importance of assessing the response to climate change over the complete life cycle in butterflies

    Viktoriia Radchuk;Camille Turlure;Nicolas Schtickzelle

  • Behavioural responses to habitat patch boundaries restrict dispersal and generate emigration-patch area relationships in fragmented landscapes

    Nicolas Schtickzelle;Michel Baguette

  • To replicate, or not to replicate - that is the question: how to tackle nonlinear responses in ecological experiments

    Juergen Kreyling;Andreas H. Schweiger;Michael Bahn;Phil Ineson

  • Big answers from small worlds: A user's guide for protist microcosms as a model system in ecology and evolution

    Florian Altermatt;Florian Altermatt;Emanuel A. Fronhofer;Aurélie Garnier;Andrea Giometto;Andrea Giometto

  • Quantifying functional connectivity: Experimental evidence for patch-specific resistance in the Natterjack toad (Bufo calamita)

    Virginie M. Stevens;Emmanuelle Polus;Renate A. Wesselingh;Nicolas Schtickzelle

  • Quantitative analysis of changes in movement behaviour within and outside habitat in a specialist butterfly

    Nicolas Schtickzelle;Augustin Joiris;Hans Van Dyck;Michel Baguette;Michel Baguette

  • A metapopulation perspective for salmon and other anadromous fish

    Nicolas Schtickzelle;Nicolas Schtickzelle;Thomas P. Quinn

  • Metapopulation dynamics and conservation of the marsh fritillary butterfly: Population viability analysis and management options for a critically endangered species in Western Europe

    Nicolas Schtickzelle;Julie Choutt;Philippe Goffart;Violaine Fichefet

  • Positive correlation between genetic diversity and fitness in a large, well-connected metapopulation.

    Sofie Vandewoestijne;Nicolas Schtickzelle;Michel Baguette

  • Eco‐evolutionary dynamics in fragmented landscapes

    Delphine Legrand;Delphine Legrand;Julien Cote;Emanuel A. Fronhofer;Emanuel A. Fronhofer;Robert D. Holt

  • Metapopulation dynamics of the bog fritillary butterfly: demographic processes in a patchy population

    Nicolas Schtickzelle;Éric Le Boulengé;Michel Baguette

  • BEMOVI, software for extracting behavior and morphology from videos, illustrated with analyses of microbes.

    Frank Pennekamp;Frank Pennekamp;Nicolas Schtickzelle;Owen L. Petchey

  • Local population dynamics are important to the conservation of metapopulations in highly fragmented landscapes

    Michel Baguette;Nicolas Schtickzelle

  • Metapopulation dynamics of the bog fritillary butterfly : experimental changes in habitat quality induced negative density-dependent dispersal

    Michel Baguette;Jean Clobert;Nicolas Schtickzelle

  • Bottom-up and top-down control of dispersal across major organismal groups

    Emanuel A Fronhofer;Emanuel A Fronhofer;Emanuel A Fronhofer;Delphine Legrand;Florian Altermatt;Florian Altermatt;Armelle Ansart

  • Effect of habitat fragmentation on dispersal in the butterfly Proclossiana eunomia

    Michel Baguette;Gwénnaëlle Mennechez;Sandrine Petit;Nicolas Schtickzelle

  • Gene flow favours local adaptation under habitat choice in ciliate microcosms.

    Staffan Jacob;Staffan Jacob;Delphine Legrand;Alexis S. Chaine;Alexis S. Chaine;Dries Bonte

  • Metapopulation dynamics of the bog fritillary butterfly: comparison of demographic parameters and dispersal between a continuous and a highly fragmented landscape

    Gwénaëlle Mennechez;Nicolas Schtickzelle;Michel Baguette

  • Metapopulation viability analysis of the bog fritillary butterfly using RAMAS/GIS

    Nicolas Schtickzelle;Michel Baguette

  • Quantifying functional connectivity: experimental evidence for patch-specific resistance in the Natterjack toad (Bufo calamita)

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Frequent Co-Authors

Michel Baguette
Michel Baguette Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Hans Van Dyck
Hans Van Dyck Université Catholique de Louvain
Jean Clobert
Jean Clobert Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Volker Grimm
Volker Grimm Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Emanuel A. Fronhofer
Emanuel A. Fronhofer University of Montpellier
Julien Cote
Julien Cote Paul Sabatier University
Florian Altermatt
Florian Altermatt University of Zurich
Karin Johst
Karin Johst Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Virginie M. Stevens
Virginie M. Stevens Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Michiel F. WallisDeVries
Michiel F. WallisDeVries Wageningen University & Research

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