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Niels Martin Schmidt

Niels Martin Schmidt

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
57
Citations
19410
World Ranking
2637
National Ranking
40

Overview

Niels Martin Schmidt is a researcher affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark, specializing in Environmental Science, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work focuses on multiple subfields including Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, and Plant Science. The main areas of study encompass wildlife ecology and conservation, species distribution and climate change, climate change and permafrost, indigenous studies and ecology, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant and animal studies, and avian ecology and behavior.

Their research output includes numerous publications in notable venues. Frequent publication venues include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Global Change Biology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, and Ecological Monographs.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Schmidt highlight various aspects of environmental and ecological research. These papers include:

  • Environmental drivers of increased ecosystem respiration in a warming tundra, 2024, Nature
  • Multispecies tracking reveals a major seabird hotspot in the North Atlantic, 2021, Conservation Letters
  • Accounting for environmental variation in co-occurrence modelling reveals the importance of positive interactions in root-associated fungal communities, 2020, Molecular Ecology
  • Nonlinear trends in abundance and diversity and complex responses to climate change in Arctic arthropods, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Energetics as common currency for integrating high resolution activity patterns into dynamic energy budget-individual based models, 2020, Ecological Modelling

Schmidt frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Floris M. van Beest
  • Tomas Roslin
  • Lars Holst Hansen
  • Nicolas Lecomte
  • Toke T. Høye

The scientist's extensive involvement across a variety of research topics demonstrates a broad and detailed engagement with environmental and ecological sciences, focusing particularly on the interactions between species, climate change impacts, and ecosystem dynamics.

Best Publications

  • The role of biotic interactions in shaping distributions and realised assemblages of species: implications for species distribution modelling

    Mary Susanne Wisz;Julien Pottier;W. Daniel Kissling;Loïc Pellissier

  • Shrub expansion in tundra ecosystems: dynamics, impacts and research priorities

    Isla H Myers-Smith;Isla H Myers-Smith;Bruce C Forbes;Martin Wilmking;Martin Hallinger

  • Ecological Dynamics Across the Arctic Associated with Recent Climate Change

    Eric Post;Eric Post;Mads C. Forchhammer;M. Syndonia Bret-Harte;Terry V. Callaghan;Terry V. Callaghan

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

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

  • Global assessment of experimental climate warming on tundra vegetation: heterogeneity over space and time.

    Sarah C. Elmendorf;Gregory H. R. Henry;Robert D. Hollister;Robert G. Bjork

  • Plot-scale evidence of tundra vegetation change and links to recent summer warming.

    Sarah C. Elmendorf;Gregory H.R. Henry;Robert D. Hollister;Robert G. Björk

  • Key indicators of Arctic climate change : 1971–2017

    Jason E. Box;William T. Colgan;Torben Røjle Christensen;Torben Røjle Christensen;Niels Martin Schmidt

  • Climate sensitivity of shrub growth across the tundra biome

    Isla H. Myers-Smith;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Pieter S. A. Beck;Martin Wilmking

  • Higher predation risk for insect prey at low latitudes and elevations

    Tomas Roslin;Tomas Roslin;Bess Hardwick;Vojtech Novotny;Vojtech Novotny;William K. Petry;William K. Petry

  • Large loss of CO2 in winter observed across the northern permafrost region

    Susan M. Natali;Jennifer D. Watts;Brendan M. Rogers;Stefano Potter

  • Rapid advancement of spring in the High Arctic

    Toke T. Høye;Toke T. Høye;Eric Post;Hans Meltofte;Niels M. Schmidt

  • Climate change and the ecology and evolution of Arctic vertebrates

    Olivier Gilg;Olivier Gilg;Kit M. Kovacs;Jon Aars;Jérôme Fort

  • Selecting the Number of States in Hidden Markov Models: Pragmatic Solutions Illustrated Using Animal Movement

    Jennifer Pohle;Roland Langrock;Floris M. van Beest;Niels Martin Schmidt

  • Shorter flowering seasons and declining abundance of flower visitors in a warmer Arctic

    Toke T. Høye;Eric Post;Niels M. Schmidt;Kristian Trøjelsgaard

  • Multiple Effects of Changes in Arctic Snow Cover

    Terry V. Callaghan;Margareta Johansson;Ross D. Brown;Pavel Ya Groisman

  • Greater temperature sensitivity of plant phenology at colder sites: implications for convergence across northern latitudes

    Janet Prevéy;Mark Vellend;Nadja Rüger;Robert D. Hollister

  • Phenological response of tundra plants to background climate variation tested using the International Tundra Experiment

    S F Oberbauer;S C Elmendorf;T G Troxler;R D Hollister

  • Nonlinear flowering responses to climate: are species approaching their limits of phenological change?

    Amy M. Iler;Toke Thomas Høye;W. David Inouye;W. David Inouye;Niels Martin Schmidt

  • Response of an arctic predator guild to collapsing lemming cycles

    Niels Martin Schmidt;Rolf A. Ims;Toke T. Høye;Olivier Gilg

  • Warming shortens flowering seasons of tundra plant communities

    Janet S. Prevéy;Christian Rixen;Nadja Rüger;Toke T. Høye

  • Long-term patterns in European brown hare population dynamics in Denmark: effects of agriculture, predation and climate

    Niels M Schmidt;Tommy Asferg;Mads C Forchhammer

Frequent Co-Authors

Tomas Roslin
Tomas Roslin Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Toke T. Høye
Toke T. Høye Aarhus University
Anders Michelsen
Anders Michelsen University of Copenhagen
Mads C. Forchhammer
Mads C. Forchhammer University of Copenhagen
Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir
Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir University of Iceland
Torben R. Christensen
Torben R. Christensen Aarhus University
Eric Post
Eric Post University of California, Davis
Isla H. Myers-Smith
Isla H. Myers-Smith University of Edinburgh
Jeffrey M. Welker
Jeffrey M. Welker University of Oulu
Esther Lévesque
Esther Lévesque Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

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