Arpat Özgül

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
130 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Arpat Özgül is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Arpat Özgül has authored 130 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 97 papers in Ecology, 58 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 42 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Arpat Özgül's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (72 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (42 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (39 papers). Arpat Özgül is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (72 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (42 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (39 papers). Arpat Özgül collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and United Kingdom. Arpat Özgül's co-authors include Madan K. Oli, Tim Coulson, Christopher F. Clements, Kenneth B. Armitage, Daniel T. Blumstein, Tim Clutton‐Brock, Gabriele Cozzi, Shripad Tuljapurkar, Dylan Z. Childs and Lucretia E. Olson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Arpat Özgül

127 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Coupled dynamics of body mass and population growth in response to environmental change

2010 493 citations Arpat Özgül, Dylan Z. Childs et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Arpat Özgül Switzerland	33	2.4k	1.4k	993	956	887	130	3.8k
Dominique Berteaux Canada	44	4.1k 1.7×	1.6k 1.2×	1.1k 1.2×	1.1k 1.2×	955 1.1×	162	6.1k
Stephanie Kramer‐Schadt Germany	40	3.4k 1.4×	1.0k 0.7×	703 0.7×	983 1.0×	922 1.0×	138	4.6k
Niels Martin Schmidt Denmark	38	2.4k 1.0×	952 0.7×	802 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	824 0.9×	159	4.7k
Jedediah F. Brodie United States	33	2.7k 1.1×	866 0.6×	1.4k 1.4×	1.0k 1.1×	837 0.9×	105	4.1k
Colleen T. Downs South Africa	33	3.7k 1.6×	1.8k 1.3×	2.1k 2.1×	739 0.8×	763 0.9×	471	5.7k
Bart A. Nolet Netherlands	41	4.1k 1.7×	1.3k 1.0×	1.5k 1.5×	650 0.7×	697 0.8×	166	5.8k
Taal Levi United States	32	3.2k 1.3×	721 0.5×	1.2k 1.2×	804 0.8×	1.1k 1.3×	96	5.2k
Sipke E. van Wieren Netherlands	36	2.1k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	804 0.8×	286 0.3×	531 0.6×	78	3.7k
Peter Leimgruber United States	39	3.8k 1.6×	586 0.4×	875 0.9×	910 1.0×	1.1k 1.3×	125	4.8k
Jeffrey R. Walters United States	42	3.7k 1.6×	2.3k 1.7×	1.5k 1.5×	730 0.8×	919 1.0×	150	5.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Arpat Özgül

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20 of 20 papers shown

Özgül, Arpat, et al.. (2025). Prenatal sex determination illuminates the unusual adult sex ratio of a group-living lemur. Biology Letters. 21(2). 20240418–20240418.

Sommer, Stefan, et al.. (2025). Body-Size Change in a Rodent Is Affected by Environmental Warming and Population-Specific Thermoneutral Zone. Animals. 15(8). 1112–1112.

Alther, Roman, et al.. (2024). Systematic and highly resolved modelling of biodiversity in inherently rare groundwater amphipods. Journal of Biogeography. 51(11). 2094–2108. 2 indexed citations

Paniw, Maria, et al.. (2024). Multifaceted density dependence: Social structure and seasonality effects on Serengeti lion demography. Journal of Animal Ecology. 93(10). 1493–1509. 1 indexed citations

Cozzi, Gabriele, et al.. (2023). Combining accelerometry with allometry for estimating daily energy expenditure in joules when in-lab calibration is unavailable. Movement Ecology. 11(1). 29–29. 4 indexed citations

Ertürk, Alper, et al.. (2023). Seasonal habitat-use patterns of large mammals in a human-dominated landscape. Journal of Mammalogy. 105(1). 122–133. 5 indexed citations

Özgül, Arpat, Claudia Fichtel, Maria Paniw, & Peter M. Kappeler. (2023). Destabilizing effect of climate change on the persistence of a short-lived primate. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(14). e2214244120–e2214244120. 15 indexed citations

Behr, Dominik M., et al.. (2023). A hierarchical approach for estimating state‐specific mortality and state transition in dispersing animals with incomplete death records. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14(4). 1074–1091. 3 indexed citations

García‐Navas, Vicente, et al.. (2023). No country for small birds: Potential positive association among medium‐sized, aggressive species in Australian bird communities. Diversity and Distributions. 29(12). 1561–1577. 2 indexed citations

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Baruah, Gaurav, Arpat Özgül, & Christopher F. Clements. (2022). Community structure determines the predictability of population collapse. Journal of Animal Ecology. 91(9). 1880–1891. 4 indexed citations

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Hansen, Dennis M., Leyla R. Davis, Nancy Bunbury, et al.. (2022). Chromosome-level genome assembly for the Aldabra giant tortoise enables insights into the genetic health of a threatened population. GigaScience. 11. 5 indexed citations

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Paniw, Maria, C. Ruth Archer, Gesa Römer, et al.. (2021). The myriad of complex demographic responses of terrestrial mammals to climate change and gaps of knowledge: A global analysis. Journal of Animal Ecology. 90(6). 1398–1407. 41 indexed citations

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Valenzuela‐Sánchez, Andrés, M. Wilber, Stefano Canessa, et al.. (2021). Why disease ecology needs life‐history theory: a host perspective. Ecology Letters. 24(4). 876–890. 45 indexed citations

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Li, Guoliang, Xinrong Wan, Baofa Yin, et al.. (2021). Timing outweighs magnitude of rainfall in shaping population dynamics of a small mammal species in steppe grassland. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(42). 11 indexed citations

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García‐Navas, Vicente, Thomas Sattler, Hans Schmid, & Arpat Özgül. (2020). Temporal homogenization of functional and beta diversity in bird communities of the Swiss Alps. Diversity and Distributions. 26(8). 900–911. 51 indexed citations

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Baruah, Gaurav, Christopher F. Clements, & Arpat Özgül. (2019). Eco‐evolutionary processes underlying early warning signals of population declines. Journal of Animal Ecology. 89(2). 436–448. 10 indexed citations

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Clements, Christopher F. & Arpat Özgül. (2018). Indicators of transitions in biological systems. Ecology Letters. 21(6). 905–919. 86 indexed citations

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Özgül, Arpat, et al.. (2018). Lion population dynamics: do nomadic males matter?. Behavioral Ecology. 29(3). 660–666. 8 indexed citations

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Petchey, Owen L., Mikael Pontarp, Thomas M. Massie, et al.. (2015). The ecological forecast horizon, and examples of its uses and determinants. Ecology Letters. 18(7). 597–611. 207 indexed citations

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Sæther, Bernt‐Erik, Tim Coulson, Vidar Grøtan, et al.. (2013). How Life History Influences Population Dynamics in Fluctuating Environments. The American Naturalist. 182(6). 743–759. 147 indexed citations

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