Felix May

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Felix May is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Felix May has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 19 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 16 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Felix May's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (33 papers), Plant and animal studies (19 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (14 papers). Felix May is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (33 papers), Plant and animal studies (19 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (14 papers). Felix May collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Sweden. Felix May's co-authors include Jonathan M. Chase, Tiffany M. Knight, Shane A. Blowes, Florian Jeltsch, Katharina Gerstner, Itamar Giladi, Yaron Ziv, Daniel J. McGlinn, Andreas Huth and K. Baberschke and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Physical review. B, Condensed matter.

In The Last Decade

Felix May

47 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Ecosystem decay exacerbates biodiversity loss with habitat loss

2020 310 citations Jonathan M. Chase, Shane A. Blowes et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Felix May Germany	24	1.0k	658	565	499	454	48	1.9k
Axel G. Rossberg United Kingdom	28	490 0.5×	704 1.1×	454 0.8×	747 1.5×	146 0.3×	86	2.1k
Masashi Murakami Japan	30	2.1k 2.0×	2.6k 4.0×	926 1.6×	701 1.4×	430 0.9×	120	4.1k
Richard M. Smith United Kingdom	23	580 0.6×	446 0.7×	725 1.3×	1.1k 2.3×	161 0.4×	68	3.0k
Michelle Hamer South Africa	18	381 0.4×	517 0.8×	394 0.7×	132 0.3×	303 0.7×	74	1.8k
D. John Pierce United States	17	345 0.3×	895 1.4×	150 0.3×	376 0.8×	253 0.6×	27	1.3k
Hidetoshi Nagamasu Japan	19	1.0k 1.0×	375 0.6×	1.3k 2.3×	414 0.8×	129 0.3×	67	2.4k
Michael Westphal Germany	20	484 0.5×	641 1.0×	201 0.4×	346 0.7×	347 0.8×	59	1.7k
Paul R. Sievert United States	22	266 0.3×	949 1.4×	189 0.3×	231 0.5×	180 0.4×	48	1.5k
Koji Maekawa Japan	23	1.2k 1.1×	861 1.3×	275 0.5×	372 0.7×	90 0.2×	96	2.0k
Paulo Eduardo de Oliveira Brazil	29	771 0.7×	1000 1.5×	928 1.6×	367 0.7×	333 0.7×	70	3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Felix May

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Felix May

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

May, Felix, et al.. (2023). A meta‐analysis examining how fish biodiversity varies with marine protected area size and age. Ecosphere. 14(12). 4 indexed citations

Crawford, Michael, Ulrike E. Schlägel, Felix May, et al.. (2021). While shoot herbivores reduce, root herbivores increase nutrient enrichment’s impact on diversity in a grassland model. Ecology. 102(5). e03333–e03333. 4 indexed citations

Crawford, Michael, Kathryn E. Barry, Adam Thomas Clark, et al.. (2021). The function‐dominance correlation drives the direction and strength of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships. Ecology Letters. 24(9). 1762–1775. 20 indexed citations

May, Felix, et al.. (2021). Forestry contributed to warming of forest ecosystems in northern Germany during the extreme summers of 2018 and 2019. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(3). 21 indexed citations

Engel, Thore, Shane A. Blowes, Daniel J. McGlinn, et al.. (2021). Using coverage‐based rarefaction to infer non‐random species distributions. Ecosphere. 12(9). 15 indexed citations

Craven, Dylan, Masha T. van der Sande, Carsten Meyer, et al.. (2020). A cross‐scale assessment of productivity–diversity relationships. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 29(11). 1940–1955. 42 indexed citations

Chase, Jonathan M., Shane A. Blowes, Tiffany M. Knight, Katharina Gerstner, & Felix May. (2020). Ecosystem decay exacerbates biodiversity loss with habitat loss. Nature. 584(7820). 238–243. 310 indexed citations breakdown →

May, Felix, Thorsten Wiegand, Andreas Huth, & Jonathan M. Chase. (2020). Scale‐dependent effects of conspecific negative density dependence and immigration on biodiversity maintenance. Oikos. 129(7). 1072–1083. 8 indexed citations

Lemma, Brook, et al.. (2020). Woody plant diversity, composition and structure in relation to environmental variables and land‐cover types in Lake Wanchi watershed, central highlands of Ethiopia. African Journal of Ecology. 58(4). 627–638. 9 indexed citations

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Chase, Jonathan M., Leana Gooriah, Felix May, et al.. (2019). A framework for disentangling ecological mechanisms underlying the island species–area relationship. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 11(1). 46 indexed citations

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May, Felix, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Frank M. Schurr, & Jonathan M. Chase. (2019). The geometry of habitat fragmentation: Effects of species distribution patterns on extinction risk due to habitat conversion. Ecology and Evolution. 9(5). 2775–2790. 49 indexed citations

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May, Felix, Katharina Gerstner, Daniel J. McGlinn, Xiao Xiao, & Jonathan M. Chase. (2018). mobsim: An r package for the simulation and measurement of biodiversity across spatial scales. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 9(6). 1401–1408. 32 indexed citations

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Chase, Jonathan M., Brian J. McGill, Daniel J. McGlinn, et al.. (2018). Embracing scale‐dependence to achieve a deeper understanding of biodiversity and its change across communities. Ecology Letters. 21(11). 1737–1751. 207 indexed citations

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Crawford, Michael, Florian Jeltsch, Felix May, Volker Grimm, & Ulrike E. Schlägel. (2018). Intraspecific trait variation increases species diversity in a trait‐based grassland model. Oikos. 128(3). 441–455. 29 indexed citations

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Bohn, Friedrich J., Felix May, & Andreas Huth. (2018). Species composition and forest structure explain the temperature sensitivity patterns of productivity in temperate forests. Biogeosciences. 15(6). 1795–1813. 23 indexed citations

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McGlinn, Daniel J., Xiao Xiao, Felix May, et al.. (2018). Measurement of Biodiversity (MoB): A method to separate the scale‐dependent effects of species abundance distribution, density, and aggregation on diversity change. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 10(2). 258–269. 94 indexed citations

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Wiegand, Thorsten, et al.. (2017). What drives the spatial distribution and dynamics of local species richness in tropical forest?. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 284(1863). 20171503–20171503. 9 indexed citations

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Keil, Petr, Henrique M. Pereira, Juliano Sarmento Cabral, et al.. (2017). Spatial scaling of extinction rates: Theory and data reveal nonlinearity and a major upscaling and downscaling challenge. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 27(1). 2–13. 29 indexed citations

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May, Felix, et al.. (2013). Modelling the effect of belowground herbivory on grassland diversity. Ecological Modelling. 273. 79–85. 15 indexed citations

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May, Felix, Itamar Giladi, Michael Ristow, Yaron Ziv, & Florian Jeltsch. (2013). Metacommunity, mainland‐island system or island communities? Assessing the regional dynamics of plant communities in a fragmented landscape. Ecography. 36(7). 842–853. 33 indexed citations

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