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D-Index
54
Citations
11810
World Ranking
3115
National Ranking
164

Thomas Mueller 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 Thomas Mueller sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 93 publications — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thomas Mueller 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 Thomas Mueller sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Thomas Mueller is affiliated with Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany and specializes in Environmental Science with a focus on Ecology. Their research spans various subfields, including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Social Psychology, Ecological Modeling, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's work addresses multiple topics related to wildlife and ecological studies. Key themes include:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Plant and animal studies

Among the recent papers associated with Thomas Mueller are several notable publications:

  • "COVID-19 lockdown allows researchers to quantify the effects of human activity on wildlife," 2020, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "A guide for studying among-individual behavioral variation from movement data in the wild," 2020, published in Movement Ecology
  • "The importance of species diversity for human well-being in Europe," 2020, published in Ecological Economics
  • "Trait-Based Assessments of Climate-Change Impacts on Interacting Species," 2020, published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "Mapping out a future for ungulate migrations," 2021, published in Science

Mueller frequently collaborates with other researchers. Co-authors with whom Mueller has co-published multiple times include:

  • Nandintsetseg Dejid
  • Roland Kays
  • Marlee A. Tucker
  • Matthias Schleuning
  • Eike Lena Neuschulz

The scientist's work appears regularly in several academic venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Nature Communications
  • Ecology

Best Publications

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

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

  • The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI): unforeseen successes in animal ecology

    Nathalie Pettorelli;Sadie Ryan;Thomas Mueller;Nils Bunnefeld

  • Spatial memory and animal movement

    William F. Fagan;Mark A. Lewis;Marie Auger-Méthé;Tal Avgar

  • COVID-19 lockdown allows researchers to quantify the effects of human activity on wildlife.

    Christian Rutz;Christian Rutz;Matthias-Claudio Loretto;Matthias-Claudio Loretto;Amanda E. Bates;Sarah C. Davidson;Sarah C. Davidson

  • Rigorous home range estimation with movement data: a new autocorrelated kernel density estimator

    Chris H. Fleming;Chris H. Fleming;W. F. Fagan;Thomas Mueller;Kirk A. Olson

  • Search and navigation in dynamic environments – from individual behaviors to population distributions

    Thomas Mueller;William F. Fagan

  • Social learning of migratory performance

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

  • From fine-scale foraging to home ranges: a semivariance approach to identifying movement modes across spatiotemporal scales.

    Chris H. Fleming;Justin M. Calabrese;Thomas Mueller;Kirk A. Olson

  • Integrating movement ecology with biodiversity research - exploring new avenues to address spatiotemporal biodiversity dynamics.

    Florian Jeltsch;Dries Bonte;Guy Pe’er;Björn Reineking

  • A guide for studying among-individual behavioral variation from movement data in the wild

    Anne G. Hertel;Petri T. Niemelä;Niels J. Dingemanse;Thomas Mueller

  • In search of forage: predicting dynamic habitats of Mongolian gazelles using satellite-based estimates of vegetation productivity

    Thomas Mueller;Thomas Mueller;Kirk A. Olson;Kirk A. Olson;Todd K. Fuller;George B. Schaller

  • How landscape dynamics link individual- to population-level movement patterns: A multispecies comparison of ungulate relocation data

    Thomas Mueller;Thomas Mueller;Kirk A. Olson;Gunnar Dressler;Peter Leimgruber

  • 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

  • Beyond Migration: Causes and Consequences of Nomadic Animal Movements

    Claire S. Teitelbaum;Thomas Mueller

  • Revisitation analysis uncovers spatio‐temporal patterns in animal movement data

    Chloe Bracis;Keith L. Bildstein;Thomas Mueller

  • The importance of species diversity for human well-being in Europe

    Joel Methorst;Katrin Rehdanz;Thomas Mueller;Bernd Hansjürgens

  • Pollination and seed dispersal are the most threatened processes of plant regeneration

    Eike Lena Neuschulz;Thomas Mueller;Matthias Schleuning;Katrin Böhning-Gaese

  • Trait-Based Assessments of Climate-Change Impacts on Interacting Species

    Matthias Schleuning;Eike Lena Neuschulz;Jörg Albrecht;Irene M.A. Bender

  • DILITHIUM DERIVATIVE OF TETRAPHENYLSILOLE : AN ETA 1-ETA 5 DILITHIUM STRUCTURE

    Robert West;Honglae Sohn;Uwe Bankwitz;Joseph Calabrese

  • Annulation via alkylation-Alder ene cyclizations. Palladium-catalyzed cycloisomerization of 1,6-enynes

    Barry M. Trost;M. Lautens;C. Chan;D. J. Jebaratnam

Frequent Co-Authors

William F. Fagan
William F. Fagan University of Maryland, College Park
Justin M. Calabrese
Justin M. Calabrese University of Maryland, College Park
Peter Leimgruber
Peter Leimgruber Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Katrin Böhning-Gaese
Katrin Böhning-Gaese Goethe University Frankfurt
Todd K. Fuller
Todd K. Fuller University of Massachusetts Amherst
Petra Kaczensky
Petra Kaczensky Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
Nuria Selva
Nuria Selva Polish Academy of Sciences
Roland Kays
Roland Kays North Carolina State University
Martin Wikelski
Martin Wikelski Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
George B. Schaller
George B. Schaller Wildlife Conservation Society

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