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Germany
2026
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Animal Science and Veterinary
Austria
2025

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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
65
Citations
14000
World Ranking
238
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Austria Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Ursula Siebert is affiliated with the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna in Austria. Their research predominantly focuses on Environmental Science, with a significant emphasis on subfields such as Ecology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, and studies concerning Small Animals.

Their scholarly work covers a range of topics including Marine animal studies overview, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Underwater Acoustics Research, Mercury impact and mitigation studies, Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact, and Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies.

Ursula Siebert has contributed to numerous publications, with frequent appearances in reputable venues such as Animals, Scientific Reports, Environment International, Pathogens, and Frontiers in Marine Science.

The scientist's recent papers include:

  • Health effects from contaminant exposure in Baltic Sea birds and marine mammals: A review (2020, Environment International)
  • Determination of 56 per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in top predators and their prey from Northern Europe by LC-MS/MS (2021, Chemosphere)
  • Animal tag technology keeps coming of age: an engineering perspective (2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)
  • Infections with highly pathogenic avian influenza A virus (HPAIV) H5N8 in harbor seals at the German North Sea coast, 2021 (2022, Emerging Microbes & Infections)
  • Spatiotemporal mortality and demographic trends in a small cetacean: Strandings to inform conservation management (2020, Biological Conservation)

Frequent co-authors in Ursula Siebert's body of work include:

  • Peter Wohlsein
  • Kristina Lehnert
  • Stephanie Groß
  • Jonas Teilmann
  • Anders Galatius

Best Publications

  • Cetacean abundance and distribution in European Atlantic shelf waters to inform conservation and management

    Philip Steven Hammond;Kelly Macleod;Per Berggren;David Louis Borchers

  • Immunotoxic effects of environmental pollutants in marine mammals.

    Jean-Pierre W. Desforges;Christian Sonne;Milton Levin;Ursula Siebert

  • Emerging infectious diseases in cetaceans worldwide and the possible role of environmental stressors.

    Marie-Francoise Van Bressem;Juan Antonio Raga;Giovanni Di Guardo;Paul D. Jepson

  • Ultra-High Foraging Rates of Harbor Porpoises Make Them Vulnerable to Anthropogenic Disturbance

    Danuta Maria Wisniewska;Mark Johnson;Jonas Teilmann;Laia Rojano-Doñate

  • Post-mortem findings in harbour porpoises (phocoena phocoena) from the German North and Baltic Seas

    U. Siebert;A. Wünschmann;R. Weiss;H. Frank

  • Potential Relation Between Mercury Concentrations and Necropsy Findings in Cetaceans from sGerman Waters of the North and Baltic Seas

    Ursula Siebert;Claude Joiris;Ludo Holsbeek;Harald Benke

  • High rates of vessel noise disrupt foraging in wild harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena)

    Danuta Maria Wisniewska;Mark Johnson;Jonas Teilmann;Ursula Siebert

  • All at sea with animal tracks; methodological and analytical solutions for the resolution of movement

    Rory P. Wilson;Nikolai Liebsch;Ian M. Davies;Flavio Quintana

  • Investigations of the Potential Influence of Environmental Contaminants on the Thymus and Spleen of Harbor Porpoises(Phocoena phocoena)

    Andreas Beineke;Ursula Siebert;Michael McLachlan;Regina Bruhn

  • High-density areas for harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) identified by satellite tracking

    Signe Sveegaard;Jonas Teilmann;Jakob Tougaard;Rune Dietz

  • Phocine distemper Virus: Current knowledge and future directions

    Pádraig J. Duignan;Marie Françoise Van Bressem;Jason D. Baker;Michelle Barbieri

  • Comparison of echolocation behaviour between coastal and riverine porpoises

    T. Akamatsu;J. Teilmann;L.A. Miller;J. Tougaard

  • Avian Influenza A(H10N7) virus-associated mass deaths among harbor seals.

    Rogier Bodewes;Theo M. Bestebroer;Erhard van der Vries;Josanne H. Verhagen

  • Seasonal distribution of harbour porpoises and possible interference of offshore wind farms in the German North Sea

    Anita Gilles;Meike Scheidat;Ursula Siebert

  • A decade of harbour porpoise occurrence in German waters- : Analyses of aerial surveys, incidental sightings and strandings

    Ursula Siebert;Anita Gilles;Klaus Lucke;Martje Ludwig

  • Large amounts of marine debris found in sperm whales stranded along the North Sea coast in early 2016.

    Bianca Unger;Elisa L. Bravo Rebolledo;Rob Deaville;Andrea Gröne

  • Seasonal habitat-based density models for a marine top predator, the harbor porpoise, in a dynamic environment

    A. Gilles;A. Gilles;S. Viquerat;E. A. Becker;K. A. Forney

  • The influence of environmental and physiological factors on the litter size of wild boar (Sus scrofa) in an agriculture dominated area in Germany.

    Magali Frauendorf;Friederike Gethöffer;Ursula Siebert;Oliver Keuling

  • Health effects from contaminant exposure in Baltic Sea birds and marine mammals: A review

    Christian Sonne;Christian Sonne;Ursula Siebert;Katharina Gonnsen;Jean-Pierre Desforges

  • Mercury immune toxicity in harbour seals: links to in vitro toxicity.

    Krishna Das;Ursula Siebert;Audrey Gillet;Aurélie Dupont

  • Epidemiological pattern of tattoo skin disease: a potential general health indicator for cetaceans.

    Marie-Françoise Van Bressem;Koen Van Waerebeek;Francisco Javier Aznar;Juan Antonio Raga

  • Heavy metals in dolphins stranded on the French Atlantic coast.

    Ludo Holsbeek;Ursula Siebert;Ursula Siebert;Claude R Joiris

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonas Teilmann
Jonas Teilmann Aarhus University
Krishna Das
Krishna Das University of Liège
Wolfgang Baumgärtner
Wolfgang Baumgärtner University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Christian Sonne
Christian Sonne Aarhus University
Rune Dietz
Rune Dietz Aarhus University
Albert D. M. E. Osterhaus
Albert D. M. E. Osterhaus University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation
Walter Baumgartner
Walter Baumgartner University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Paul Jepson
Paul Jepson Zoological Society of London
Timm C. Harder
Timm C. Harder Kiel University
Christina Strube
Christina Strube University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation

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