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2025

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
58
Citations
12325
World Ranking
2564
National Ranking
11

Tamar Dayan 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 Tamar Dayan sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 533+

This scientist: 158 publications — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 533 publications or more.

Tamar Dayan 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 Tamar Dayan sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 122+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 122 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Tamar Dayan is affiliated with the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History in Israel. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a specific emphasis on subfields such as Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Genetics, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health
  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Avian ecology and behavior

Tamar Dayan has contributed to a range of peer-reviewed publications. Some recent papers include:

  • "Drivers of Infectious Disease Seasonality: Potential Implications for COVID-19," 2021, Journal of Biological Rhythms
  • "Spatial Scale Mismatches in the EU Agri-Biodiversity Conservation Policy. The Case for a Shift to Landscape-Scale Design," 2021, Land
  • "Exploring scenarios for the food system-zoonotic risk interface," 2023, The Lancet Planetary Health
  • "A model of digestive tooth corrosion in lizards: experimental tests and taphonomic implications," 2021, Scientific Reports
  • "Recent Evidence of Scale Matches and Mismatches Between Ecological Systems and Management Actions," 2022, Current Landscape Ecology Reports

Their work has been published most frequently in venues such as Scientific Reports, Journal of Biological Rhythms, The Lancet Planetary Health, Current Landscape Ecology Reports, and Land.

Tamar Dayan has collaborated with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Shlomo Preiss-Bloom
  • Orr Comay
  • Dror Ben-Ami
  • Noga Kronfeld-Schor
  • Francesca Libera Falco

Best Publications

  • Partitioning of Time as an Ecological Resource

    Noga Kronfeld-Schor;Tamar Dayan

  • On the validity of Bergmann's rule

    Shai Meiri;Tamar Dayan

  • Ecological and community‐wide character displacement: the next generation

    Tamar Dayan;Daniel Simberloff

  • Body mass of late Quaternary mammals

    Felisa A. Smith;S. Kathleen Lyons;S. K. Morgan Ernest;Kate E. Jones

  • The Evolution of Maximum Body Size of Terrestrial Mammals

    Felisa A. Smith;Alison G. Boyer;James H. Brown;Daniel P. Costa

  • Character Displacement, Sexual Dimprphism, and Morphological Variation among British and Irish Mustelids

    Tamar Dayan;Daniel Simberloff

  • Chronobiology by moonlight.

    Noga Kronfeld-Schor;Davide M. Dominoni;Horacio de la Iglesia;Oren Levy

  • INTER- AND INTRASPECIFIC CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT IN MUSTELIDS'

    Tamar Dayan;Daniel Simberloff;Eitan Tchernov;Yoram Yom-Tov

  • Similarity of mammalian body size across the taxonomic hierarchy and across space and time.

    Felisa A. Smith;Felisa A. Smith;James H. Brown;John P. Haskell;S. Kathleen Lyons

  • SIZE PATTERNS AMONG COMPETITORS : ECOLOGICAL CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT AND CHARACTER RELEASE IN MAMMALS, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ISLAND POPULATIONS

    Tamar Dayan;Daniel Simberloff

  • Feline Canines: Community-Wide Character Displacement Among the Small Cats of Israel

    Tamar Dayan;Daniel Simberloff;Eitan Tchernov;Yoram Yom-Tov

  • Character displacement and release in the small Indian mongoose, Herpestes javanicus

    Daniel Simberloff;Tamar Dayan;Carl Jones;Go Ogura

  • Carnivores, biases and Bergmann's rule

    Shai Meiri;Tamar Dayan;Daniel Simberloff

  • The generality of the island rule reexamined

    Shai Meiri;Tamar Dayan;Daniel Simberloff

  • Early Domesticated Dogs of the Near East

    Tamar Dayan

  • Body size of insular carnivores: little support for the island rule.

    Shai Meiri;Tamar Dayan;Daniel Simberloff

  • Differential behavioural and hormonal responses of voles and spiny mice to owl calls.

    David Eilam;Tamar Dayan;Shamgar Ben-Eliyahu;Ifat Schulman

  • Time and ecological resilience: can diurnal animals compensate for climate change by shifting to nocturnal activity?

    Ofir Levy;Tamar Dayan;Tamar Dayan;Warren P. Porter;Noga Kronfeld-Schor

  • On the role of phylogeny in determining activity patterns of rodents

    Uri Roll;Tamar Dayan;Noga Kronfeld-Schor

  • COEXISTENCE OF TEMPORALLY PARTITIONED SPINY MICE: ROLES OF HABITAT STRUCTURE AND FORAGING BEHAVIOR

    Menna Jones;Yael Mandelik;Tamar Dayan

  • Supporting Online Material for The Evolution of Maximum Body Size of Terrestrial Mammals

    Felisa A. Smith;Alison G. Boyer;James H. Brown;Daniel P. Costa

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Simberloff
Daniel Simberloff University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Shai Meiri
Shai Meiri Tel Aviv University
Yoram Yom-Tov
Yoram Yom-Tov Tel Aviv University
David Saltz
David Saltz Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Kate E. Jones
Kate E. Jones University College London
Felisa A. Smith
Felisa A. Smith University of New Mexico
James H. Brown
James H. Brown University of New Mexico
Warren P. Porter
Warren P. Porter University of Wisconsin–Madison
S. Kathleen Lyons
S. Kathleen Lyons University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Nava Zisapel
Nava Zisapel Tel Aviv University

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