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36
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Piotr Skórka 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 Piotr Skórka sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 136 publications — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Piotr Skórka 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 Piotr Skórka sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 36 D-Index — 17th percentile

17% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Piotr Skórka is affiliated with the Polish Academy of Sciences in Poland. Their research primarily lies within Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, contributing extensively to the fields of ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Their work encompasses multiple subfields, including ecology, nature and landscape conservation, plant science, and global and planetary change. This multidisciplinary approach allows exploration of diverse topics such as ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant and animal studies, species distribution and climate change, wildlife ecology and conservation, avian ecology and behavior, plant parasitism and resistance, and animal behavior and reproduction.

Skórka has regularly published in various scientific outlets. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Scientific Reports
  • The European Zoological Journal
  • Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • PLoS ONE
  • Urban forestry & urban greening

Their recent papers illustrate the breadth of research interests and collaborative work within the academic community:

  • "Different response of the taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity of birds to forest fragmentation," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "The macroecology of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Anthropocene," 2020, PLoS ONE
  • "Keep trees for bees: Pollen collection by Osmia bicornis along the urbanization gradient," 2021, Urban forestry & urban greening
  • "Small things are important: the value of singular point elements for birds in agricultural landscapes," 2021, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • "Effects of amusing memes on concern for unappealing species," 2020, Conservation Biology

Throughout their career, Skórka has frequently collaborated with multiple researchers. Notable co-authors include:

  • Magdalena Lenda
  • Dawid Moroń
  • Michał Bełcik
  • Sylwia Pustkowiak
  • Piotr Tryjanowski

Best Publications

  • Conservation of farmland birds faces different challenges in Western and Central-Eastern Europe

    Piotr Tryjanowski;Tibor Hartel;András Báldi;Paweł Szymański

  • Wild pollinator communities are negatively affected by invasion of alien goldenrods in grassland landscapes

    Dawid Moroń;Magdalena Lenda;Piotr Skórka;Hajnalka Szentgyörgyi

  • Urban and rural habitats differ in number and type of bird feeders and in bird species consuming supplementary food

    Piotr Tryjanowski;Piotr Skórka;Tim H. Sparks;Waldemar Biaduń

  • Population ecology of the endangered butterflies Maculinea teleius and M. nausithous and the implications for conservation

    Piotr Nowicki;Madgalena Witek;Piotr Skórka;Josef Settele

  • Abundance and diversity of wild bees along gradients of heavy metal pollution

    Dawid Moroń;Irena M. Grześ;Irena M. Grześ;Piotr Skórka;Hajnalka Szentgyörgyi

  • Effects of management cessation on grassland butterflies in southern Poland

    Piotr Skórka;Josef Settele;Michal Woyciechowski

  • Invasive alien goldenrods negatively affect grassland bird communities in Eastern Europe

    Piotr Skórka;Magdalena Lenda;Piotr Tryjanowski

  • Factors affecting road mortality and the suitability of road verges for butterflies

    Piotr Skórka;Magdalena Lenda;Dawid Moroń;Konrad Kalarus

  • From metapopulation theory to conservation recommendations: Lessons from spatial occurrence and abundance patterns of Maculinea butterflies

    Piotr Nowicki;Aleksandra Pepkowska;Joanna Kudlek;Piotr Skórka

  • A Paradox for Conservation: Electricity Pylons May Benefit Avian Diversity in Intensive Farmland

    Piotr Tryjanowski;Tim H. Sparks;Tim H. Sparks;Tim H. Sparks;Leszek Jerzak;Zuzanna M. Rosin

  • Host ant specificity of large blue butterflies Phengaris (Maculinea) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) inhabiting humid grasslands in East-central Europe

    Magdalena Witek;Ewa B. Śliwińska;Piotr Skórka;Piotr Nowicki

  • Loss of migration and urbanization in birds: a case study of the blackbird (Turdus merula)

    Anders Pape Møller;Jukka Jokimäki;Piotr Skorka;Piotr Tryjanowski

  • Invasive alien plants affect grassland ant communities, colony size and foraging behaviour

    Magdalena Lenda;Magdalena Witek;Piotr Skórka;Dawid Moroń

  • Plant establishment and invasions: an increase in a seed disperser combined with land abandonment causes an invasion of the non-native walnut in Europe.

    Magdalena Lenda;Piotr Skórka;Johannes M. H. Knops;Dawid Moroń

  • Polymorphic growth in larvae of Maculinea butterflies, as an example of biennialism in myrmecophilous insects.

    Magdalena Witek;Ewa B. Sliwinska;Piotr Skórka;Piotr Nowicki

  • Effect of the internet commerce on dispersal modes of invasive alien species.

    Magdalena Lenda;Piotr Skórka;Johannes M. H. Knops;Dawid Moroń

  • Villages and their old farmsteads are hot spots of bird diversity in agricultural landscapes

    Zuzanna M. Rosin;Piotr Skórka;Tomas Pärt;Michał Żmihorski;Michał Żmihorski

  • Railway embankments as new habitat for pollinators in an agricultural landscape.

    Dawid Moroń;Piotr Skórka;Magdalena Lenda;Elżbieta Rożej-Pabijan

  • Survival, reproduction and population growth of the bee pollinator, Osmia rufa (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae), along gradients of heavy metal pollution

    Dawid Moroń;Hajnalka Szentgyörgyi;Piotr Skórka;Simon G. Potts

  • Winter Bird Assemblages in Rural and Urban Environments: A National Survey

    Piotr Tryjanowski;Tim H. Sparks;Waldemar Biaduń;Tomasz Brauze

  • Colonization and population growth of Yellow‐legged Gull Larus cachinnans in southeastern Poland: causes and influence on native species

    Piotr Skórka;Joanna D. Wójcik;Rafa L Martyka

Frequent Co-Authors

Piotr Tryjanowski
Piotr Tryjanowski University of Life Sciences in Poznań
Michal Woyciechowski
Michal Woyciechowski Jagiellonian University
Tim H. Sparks
Tim H. Sparks University of Cambridge
Josef Settele
Josef Settele Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
William J. Sutherland
William J. Sutherland University of Cambridge
Johannes M. H. Knops
Johannes M. H. Knops Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Anders Pape Møller
Anders Pape Møller University of Paris-Saclay
Hugh P. Possingham
Hugh P. Possingham University of Queensland
Peter A. Vesk
Peter A. Vesk University of Melbourne
Simon G. Potts
Simon G. Potts University of Reading

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