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Peter M. Kappeler

Peter M. Kappeler

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
91
Citations
26386
World Ranking
450
National Ranking
34

Peter M. Kappeler 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 Peter M. Kappeler sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 362 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Peter M. Kappeler 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 Peter M. Kappeler sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 91 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Peter M. Kappeler is affiliated with the German Primate Center in Germany and has a research profile that spans across psychology and agricultural and biological sciences. Their primary areas of study encompass Social Psychology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Developmental Biology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics related to primate behavior and ecology, with additional focus on animal behavior and reproduction, animal vocal communication and behavior, wildlife ecology and conservation, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, amphibian and reptile biology, and neuroendocrine regulation and behavior.

Prominent recent publications include:

  • A Severe Lack of Evidence Limits Effective Conservation of the World's Primates, 2020, BioScience
  • Effects of body size on estimation of mammalian area requirements, 2020, Conservation Biology
  • The long lives of primates and the 'invariant rate of ageing' hypothesis, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Sex roles and sex ratios in animals, 2022, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Biological sex is binary, even though there is a rainbow of sex roles, 2022, BioEssays

Peter M. Kappeler has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Claudia Fichtel, Michael Heistermann, Ute Radespiel, Marie J. E. Charpentier, and Jörg U. Ganzhorn.

Their studies have been published often in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Communications Biology, and Nature Communications.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Evolution of primate social systems

    Peter M. Kappeler;Carel P. van Schaik

  • The Dark Side of Light: A Transdisciplinary Research Agenda for Light Pollution Policy

    Franz Hölker;Timothy Moss;Barbara Griefahn;Werner Kloas

  • Infanticide risk and the evolution of male–female association in primates

    Carel P. Van Schaik;Peter M. Kappeler

  • Modifying the Body: Motivations for Getting Tattooed and Pierced

    Silke Wohlrab;Jutta Stahl;Peter M. Kappeler

  • The Dark Side of Light

    Franz Hölker;Timothy Moss;Barbara Griefahn;Werner Kloas

  • Primate males : causes and consequences of variation in group composition

    Peter M. Kappeler

  • Long-term field studies of primates

    Peter M. Kappeler;David P. Watts

  • A framework for studying social complexity

    Peter M. Kappeler

  • Anti-predator behavior of group-living Malagasy primates: mixed evidence for a referential alarm call system

    Claudia Fichtel;Peter M. Kappeler

  • Lemur social systems and their ecological basis

    Peter M. Kappeler;Jörg U. Ganzhorn;Their Ecological Basis

  • Primate life histories and socioecology

    Peter M. Kappeler;Michael Eric Pereira

  • The evolution of primate societies

    John Cary Mitani;Josep Call;Peter M. Kappeler;Ryne A. Palombit

  • Divergent Systems of Agonistic Behaviour in Lemurid Primates

    Michael E. Pereira;Peter M. Kappeler

  • Patterns of sexual dimorphism in body weight among prosimian primates.

    Peter M. Kappeler

  • Competition, coalitions and canine size in primates

    J.Michael Plavcan;Carel P. van Schaik;Peter M. Kappeler

  • 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

  • Sociality and health: impacts of sociality on disease susceptibility and transmission in animal and human societies

    Peter M. Kappeler;Sylvia Cremer;Charles L. Nunn

  • Methodological and Evolutionary Aspects of Reconciliation among Primates

    Peter M. Kappeler;Carel P. van Schaik

  • Sympatric mouse lemurs (Microcebus spp.) in western Madagascar.

    Jutta Schmid;Peter M. Kappeler

  • Cooperation in primates and humans : mechanisms and evolution

    Peter M. Kappeler;Carel P. van Schaik

  • Sexual Selection in Primates: New and Comparative Perspectives

    Peter M. Kappeler

  • Mandrills use olfaction to socially avoid parasitized conspecifics

    Clémence Poirotte;François Massol;Anaïs Herbert;Eric Willaume

  • Microsatellite analyses reveal fine-scale genetic structure in grey mouse lemurs (Microcebus murinus).

    T. Fredsted;C. Pertoldi;C. Pertoldi;M. H. Schierup;P. M. Kappeler;P. M. Kappeler

Frequent Co-Authors

Claudia Fichtel
Claudia Fichtel German Primate Center
Carel P. van Schaik
Carel P. van Schaik University of Zurich
Marie J. E. Charpentier
Marie J. E. Charpentier University of Montpellier
Charles L. Nunn
Charles L. Nunn Duke University
Julia Ostner
Julia Ostner University of Göttingen
Anne D. Yoder
Anne D. Yoder Duke University
Michael Heistermann
Michael Heistermann German Primate Center
Oliver Schülke
Oliver Schülke University of Göttingen
Jörg U. Ganzhorn
Jörg U. Ganzhorn Universität Hamburg
Fabian H. Leendertz
Fabian H. Leendertz Robert Koch Institute

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