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58
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34

Overview

Robert B. O'Hara is affiliated with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Norway. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a strong emphasis on subfields such as Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Infectious Diseases.

The main topics covered in their work include Species Distribution and Climate Change, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Plant and Animal Studies, Zoonotic Diseases and Public Health, Meta-analysis and Systematic Reviews, and Scientometrics and Bibliometrics Research.

O'Hara has coauthored numerous papers with frequent collaborators including Kwaku Peprah Adjei, Bert van der Veen, Emily G. Simmonds, Jorge Sicacha-Parada, and Emma Sofie Skarstein.

The scientist has published articles in several venues repeatedly, including arXiv (Cornell University), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Ecography, and Methods in Ecology and Evolution.

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Rewriting results sections in the language of evidence" (2021, Trends in Ecology & Evolution)
  • "Is more data always better? A simulation study of benefits and limitations of integrated distribution models" (2020, Ecography)
  • "Ecological mechanisms explaining interactions within plant-hummingbird networks: morphological matching increases towards lower latitudes" (2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)
  • "Species distribution models are inappropriate for COVID-19" (2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • "Limited climatic space for alternative ecosystem states in Africa" (2023, Science)

Best Publications

  • vegan: Community Ecology Package

    Jari Oksanen;F. Guillaume Blanchet;Roeland Kindt;Pierre Legendre

  • Do not log-transform count data

    Robert B. O’Hara;D. Johan Kotze

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

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

  • Making BUGS open

    Andrew Thomas;Robert O'Hara;Uwe Ligges;Sibylle Sturtz

  • Standards for distribution models in biodiversity assessments

    Miguel B. Araujo;Miguel B. Araujo;Miguel B. Araujo;Robert P. Anderson;Robert P. Anderson;Robert P. Anderson;A. Marcia Barbosa;Colin Michael Beale

  • A review of Bayesian variable selection methods: what, how and which

    R. B. O'Hara;M. J. Sillanpää

  • So Many Variables: Joint Modeling in Community Ecology.

    David I. Warton;F. Guillaume Blanchet;Robert B. O’Hara;Otso Ovaskainen;Otso Ovaskainen

  • Understanding co-occurrence by modelling species simultaneously with a Joint Species Distribution Model (JSDM)

    Laura J. Pollock;Reid Tingley;William K. Morris;Nick Golding

  • Comparative studies of quantitative trait and neutral marker divergence: a meta-analysis.

    T. Leinonen;R. B. O’Hara;J. M. Cano;J. Merilä

  • Q ST – F ST comparisons: evolutionary and ecological insights from genomic heterogeneity

    Tuomas Leinonen;R. J. Scott McCairns;Robert B. O'Hara;Juha Merilä

  • Towards novel approaches to modelling biotic interactions in multispecies assemblages at large spatial extents

    W. D. Kissling;Carsten F. Dormann;Carsten F. Dormann;Juergen Groeneveld;Juergen Groeneveld;Thomas Hickler

  • Social learning of migratory performance

    Thomas Mueller;Thomas Mueller;Thomas Mueller;Robert B. O’Hara;Sarah J. Converse;Richard P. Urbanek

  • Species decline--but why? Explanations of carabid beetle (Coleoptera, Carabidae) declines in Europe.

    D. Johan Kotze;Robert B. O'Hara

  • Data Integration for Large-Scale Models of Species Distributions

    Nick J.B. Isaac;Marta A. Jarzyna;Petr Keil;Lea I. Dambly

  • How to understand species' niches and range dynamics: a demographic research agenda for biogeography

    Frank M. Schurr;Frank M. Schurr;Frank M. Schurr;Joern Pagel;Juliano Sarmento Cabral;Juergen Groeneveld;Juergen Groeneveld

  • Latitudinal divergence of common frog (Rana temporaria) life history traits by natural selection: evidence from a comparison of molecular and quantitative genetic data.

    Jukka Palo;Robert B. O'Hara;Ane T. Laugen;Anssi Laurila

  • Bias and precision in QST estimates: problems and some solutions.

    R B O'Hara;Juha Merilä

  • Species richness estimators: how many species can dance on the head of a pin?

    R. B. O'hara

  • Host Genotype Shapes the Foliar Fungal Microbiome of Balsam Poplar (Populus balsamifera)

    Miklós Bálint;Peter L Tiffin;Björn Hallström;Robert B. O'Hara

  • Connecting dynamic vegetation models to data – an inverse perspective

    Florian Hartig;James Dyke;Thomas Hickler;Steven I. Higgins

  • What drives community dynamics

    Crispin M. Mutshinda;Robert B. O'Hara;Ian P. Woiwod

Frequent Co-Authors

Konstans Wells
Konstans Wells Swansea University
Juha Merilä
Juha Merilä University of Hong Kong
Frank M. Schurr
Frank M. Schurr University of Hohenheim
D. Johan Kotze
D. Johan Kotze University of Helsinki
Steven I. Higgins
Steven I. Higgins University of Bayreuth
Thomas Hickler
Thomas Hickler Goethe University Frankfurt
Otso Ovaskainen
Otso Ovaskainen University of Jyväskylä
Anna Kuparinen
Anna Kuparinen University of Jyväskylä
Christine Römermann
Christine Römermann Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Michael Veith
Michael Veith University of Trier

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