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Orr Spiegel 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 Orr Spiegel sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 110 publications — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Orr Spiegel 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 Orr Spiegel sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Orr Spiegel is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel and specializes in research within Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work prominently explores subfields including Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, Social Psychology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The primary topics of Orr Spiegel's research focus on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Avian Ecology and Behavior, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant and Animal Studies, Primate Behavior and Ecology, and Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies.

The scientist has contributed scholarly articles to multiple publication venues, frequently publishing in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Movement Ecology
  • Animal Behaviour
  • Ecological Monographs

Orr Spiegel has co-authored work with several researchers including Sivan Toledo, Ran Nathan, Noa Pinter-Wollman, Andrew Sih, and David L. Sinn, each having 11 to 12 joint publications with the scientist.

Recent significant papers include:

  • A guide to pre-processing high-throughput animal tracking data, 2021, Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Behavioural ecology at the spatial-social interface, 2023, Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Estimating encounter location distributions from animal tracking data, 2021, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Presumed killers? Vultures, stakeholders, misperceptions, and fake news, 2021, Conservation Science and Practice
  • Personality, spatiotemporal ecological variation and resident/explorer movement syndromes in the sleepy lizard, 2021, Journal of Animal Ecology

Best Publications

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

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

  • Mechanisms of long-distance seed dispersal

    Ran Nathan;Frank M. Schurr;Orr Spiegel;Ofer Steinitz

  • 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

  • Trends and missing parts in the study of movement ecology

    Marcel Holyoak;Renato Casagrandi;Ran Nathan;Eloy Revilla

  • What's your move? Movement as a link between personality and spatial dynamics in animal populations.

    Orr Spiegel;Stephan T. Leu;Stephan T. Leu;C. Michael Bull;Andrew Sih

  • Incorporating dispersal distance into the disperser effectiveness framework: frugivorous birds provide complementary dispersal to plants in a patchy environment

    Orr Spiegel;Ran Nathan

  • Management of plant invasions mediated by frugivore interactions

    Yvonne M. Buckley;Yvonne M. Buckley;Sandra Anderson;Carla P. Catterall;Richard T. Corlett

  • From Individuals to Groups and Back: The Evolutionary Implications of Group Phenotypic Composition.

    Damien R. Farine;Damien R. Farine;Damien R. Farine;Pierre-Olivier Montiglio;Orr Spiegel

  • A comprehensive analysis of autocorrelation and bias in home range estimation

    Michael J. Noonan;Michael J. Noonan;Marlee A. Tucker;Christen H. Fleming;Christen H. Fleming;Thomas S. Akre

  • Going through the motions: incorporating movement analyses into disease research.

    Eric R. Dougherty;Dana P. Seidel;Colin J. Carlson;Orr Spiegel

  • Social Information Links Individual Behavior to Population and Community Dynamics.

    Michael A. Gil;Andrew M. Hein;Orr Spiegel;Marissa Leanne Baskett

  • AcceleRater: a web application for supervised learning of behavioral modes from acceleration measurements.

    Yehezkel S Resheff;Shay Rotics;Roi Harel;Orr Spiegel

  • Socially interacting or indifferent neighbours? Randomization of movement paths to tease apart social preference and spatial constraints

    Orr Spiegel;Stephan T. Leu;Andrew Sih;C. Michael Bull

  • A Guide to Pre-Processing High-Throughput Animal Tracking Data

    Pratik Rajan Gupte;Christine E. Beardsworth;Orr Spiegel;Orr Spiegel;Emmanuel Lourie

  • Behavioural ecology at the spatial–social interface

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  • When the going gets tough: behavioural type-dependent space use in the sleepy lizard changes as the season dries

    Orr Spiegel;Stephan T. Leu;Andrew Sih;Stephanie S. Godfrey

  • Social foraging and individual consistency in following behaviour: testing the information centre hypothesis in free-ranging vultures.

    Roi Harel;Orr Spiegel;Wayne M. Getz;Ran Nathan

  • Mixed strategies of griffon vultures' (Gyps fulvus) response to food deprivation lead to a hump-shaped movement pattern.

    Orr Spiegel;Roi Harel;Wayne M Getz;Wayne M Getz;Ran Nathan

  • Decision-making by a soaring bird: time, energy and risk considerations at different spatio-temporal scales.

    Roi Harel;Olivier Duriez;Orr Spiegel;Julie Fluhr

  • Empirical evaluation of directed dispersal and density-dependent effects across successive recruitment phases

    Orr Spiegel;Ran Nathan

  • Factors influencing foraging search efficiency: why do scarce lappet-faced vultures outperform ubiquitous white-backed vultures?

    Orr Spiegel;Wayne M. Getz;Ran Nathan

  • Context-dependent flight speed: evidence for energetically optimal flight speed in the bat Pipistrellus kuhlii?

    Uri Grodzinski;Orr Spiegel;Carmi Korine;Marc W. Holderied

Frequent Co-Authors

Ran Nathan
Ran Nathan Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Andrew Sih
Andrew Sih University of California, Davis
Wayne M. Getz
Wayne M. Getz University of California, Berkeley
Justin M. Calabrese
Justin M. Calabrese University of Maryland, College Park
Roland Kays
Roland Kays North Carolina State University
William F. Fagan
William F. Fagan University of Maryland, College Park
C. Michael Bull
C. Michael Bull Flinders University
Martin Wikelski
Martin Wikelski Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Stephanie S. Godfrey
Stephanie S. Godfrey University of Otago
Thomas Mueller
Thomas Mueller Goethe University Frankfurt

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