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2026

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D-Index
73
Citations
29419
World Ranking
1155
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3

Ran Nathan 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 Ran Nathan sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 185 publications — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ran Nathan 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 Ran Nathan sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 73 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Israel Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Israel Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Israel Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Israel Leader Award

Overview

Ran Nathan is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science with a strong emphasis on agricultural and biological sciences. Within these broad fields, their work engages deeply with ecology, including ecological modeling, evolution, behavior, and systematics, as well as molecular biology and nature and landscape conservation.

Their main topics of research encompass wildlife ecology and conservation, avian ecology and behavior, animal behavior and reproduction, species distribution and climate change, marine animal studies, animal vocal communication and behavior, and bat biology and ecology studies.

Among recent publications, Ran Nathan contributed to the following papers:

  • Big-data approaches lead to an increased understanding of the ecology of animal movement, 2022, Science
  • Cognitive map-based navigation in wild bats revealed by a new high-throughput tracking system, 2020, Science
  • Movement-mediated community assembly and coexistence, 2020, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • A guide to pre-processing high-throughput animal tracking data, 2021, Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Unravelling the origins of anomalous diffusion: From molecules to migrating storks, 2022, Physical Review Research

Ran Nathan has frequently collaborated with the following co-authors:

  • Sivan Toledo
  • Christine E. Beardsworth
  • Yotam Orchan
  • Wayne M. Getz
  • Allert I. Bijleveld

Research outputs have been published in various scientific venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Movement Ecology
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Best Publications

  • A movement ecology paradigm for unifying organismal movement research

    Ran Nathan;Wayne M. Getz;Eloy Revilla;Marcel Holyoak

  • Spatial patterns of seed dispersal, their determinants and consequences for recruitment.

    Ran Nathan;Helene C. Muller-Landau

  • Long-distance dispersal of plants.

    Ran Nathan

  • 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

  • The Ecology and Evolution of Seed Dispersal: A Theoretical Perspective

    Simon Asher Levin;Helene C. Muller-Landau;Ran Nathan;Jérôme Chave

  • Stochastic simulations reveal few green wave surfing populations among spring migrating herbivorous waterfowl.

    Xin Wang;Lei Cao;Anthony D. Fox;Richard Fuller

  • Mechanisms of long-distance dispersal of seeds by wind

    Ran Nathan;Gabriel G. Katul;Henry S. Horn;Suvi M. Thomas

  • Long-distance gene flow and adaptation of forest trees to rapid climate change

    Antoine Kremer;Antoine Kremer;Ophélie Ronce;Juan J. Robledo‐Arnuncio;Frédéric Guillaume

  • The importance of long-distance dispersal in biodiversity conservation

    Ana Trakhtenbrot;Ran Nathan;Gad Perry;David M. Richardson;David M. Richardson

  • Big-data approaches lead to an increased understanding of the ecology of animal movement

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  • ARE LONG‐DISTANCE DISPERSAL EVENTS IN PLANTS USUALLY CAUSED BY NONSTANDARD MEANS OF DISPERSAL?

    S. I. Higgins;R. Nathan;M. L. Cain

  • Methods for estimating long-distance dispersal

    Ran Nathan;Gad Perry;James T. Cronin;Allan E. Strand

  • 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

  • Forecasting Regional to Global Plant Migration in Response to Climate Change

    Ronald P. Neilson;Louis F. Pitelka;Allen M. Solomon;Ran Nathan

  • An emerging movement ecology paradigm

    Ran Nathan

  • The challenges of studying dispersal

    Ran Nathan

  • DETERMINANTS OF LONG-DISTANCE SEED DISPERSAL BY WIND IN GRASSLANDS

    Merel B. Soons;Gerrit W. Heil;Ran Nathan;Gabriel G. Katul

  • Mechanistic analytical models for long-distance seed dispersal by wind.

    G. G. Katul;A. Porporato;R. Nathan;M. Siqueira

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

    Orr Spiegel;Ran Nathan

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Wikelski
Martin Wikelski Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Orr Spiegel
Orr Spiegel Tel Aviv University
Wolfgang Fiedler
Wolfgang Fiedler Max Planck Society
Wayne M. Getz
Wayne M. Getz University of California, Berkeley
Gabriel G. Katul
Gabriel G. Katul Duke University
Florian Jeltsch
Florian Jeltsch University of Potsdam
Yvonne M. Buckley
Yvonne M. Buckley Trinity College Dublin
Damaris Zurell
Damaris Zurell University of Potsdam
Frank M. Schurr
Frank M. Schurr University of Hohenheim
Gil Bohrer
Gil Bohrer The Ohio State University

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