Jürgen Niedballa

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 775 citations indexed

About

Jürgen Niedballa is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecological Modeling and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Jürgen Niedballa has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 775 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Ecology, 13 papers in Ecological Modeling and 7 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Jürgen Niedballa's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (21 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (13 papers) and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (6 papers). Jürgen Niedballa is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (21 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (13 papers) and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (6 papers). Jürgen Niedballa collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Malaysia. Jürgen Niedballa's co-authors include Andreas Wilting, Rahel Sollmann, Alexandre Courtiol, Azlan Mohamed, Heribert Hofer, Jesse F. Abrams, Seth T. Wong, Andrew Tilker, An Nguyen and Stephanie Kramer‐Schadt and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Science Advances and Global Environmental Change.

In The Last Decade

Jürgen Niedballa

24 papers receiving 754 citations

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camtrapR: an R package for efficient camera trap data management

2016 355 citations Jürgen Niedballa, Rahel Sollmann et al. Methods in Ecology and Evolution profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jürgen Niedballa Germany	12	661	237	138	126	122	24	775
Thomas N. E. Gray United States	19	748 1.1×	272 1.1×	171 1.2×	158 1.3×	196 1.6×	45	920
Wanlop Chutipong Thailand	13	588 0.9×	200 0.8×	115 0.8×	71 0.6×	159 1.3×	28	686
Arjun Srivathsa India	18	823 1.2×	249 1.1×	146 1.1×	130 1.0×	146 1.2×	36	970
Dusit Ngoprasert Thailand	15	777 1.2×	281 1.2×	114 0.8×	84 0.7×	224 1.8×	67	883
Stephanie Schuttler United States	13	511 0.8×	245 1.0×	74 0.5×	77 0.6×	175 1.4×	21	747
Tim O’Brien United States	8	603 0.9×	307 1.3×	118 0.9×	68 0.5×	110 0.9×	14	676
Abishek Harihar India	18	782 1.2×	167 0.7×	160 1.2×	131 1.0×	140 1.1×	41	875
Azlan Mohamed Germany	15	779 1.2×	341 1.4×	121 0.9×	95 0.8×	178 1.5×	28	888
Bivash Pandav India	17	812 1.2×	188 0.8×	206 1.5×	117 0.9×	111 0.9×	60	961

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Tilker, Andrew, et al.. (2025). Ecotones Shape Ground‐Dwelling Mammal and Bird Diversity Along a Habitat Gradient in the Southern Coastal Dry Forests of Vietnam. Biotropica. 57(1). 2 indexed citations

Tilker, Andrew, Jürgen Niedballa, Lê Văn Sơn, et al.. (2024). Ground‐dwelling mammal and bird diversity in the southern Annamites: Exploring complex habitat associations and the ghost of past hunting pressure. Conservation Science and Practice. 6(4). 3 indexed citations

Tilker, Andrew, Jürgen Niedballa, Jesse F. Abrams, et al.. (2024). Addressing the Southeast Asian snaring crisis: Impact of 11 years of snare removal in a biodiversity hotspot. Conservation Letters. 17(4). 7 indexed citations

Wong, Seth T., Azlan Mohamed, John Mathai, et al.. (2024). Changes in tropical terrestrial vertebrate communities along two anthropogenic gradients: Forest degradation and accessibility. Biotropica. 56(3). 1 indexed citations

Niedballa, Jürgen, et al.. (2024). Multi‐species occupancy modeling of ground‐dwelling mammals in central Laos: a case study for monitoring in tropical forests. Wildlife Biology. 2025(2). 1 indexed citations

Mugerwa, Badru, Jürgen Niedballa, Aimara Planillo, et al.. (2023). Global disparity of camera trap research allocation and defaunation risk of terrestrial mammals. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. 10(1). 121–136. 3 indexed citations

Niedballa, Jürgen, Jan Axtner, Andrew Tilker, et al.. (2022). imageseg: An R package for deep learning‐based image segmentation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 13(11). 2363–2371. 9 indexed citations

Abrams, Jesse F., et al.. (2022). Camera-trapping reveals new insights in the ecology of three sympatric muntjacs in an overhunted biodiversity hotspot. Mammalian Biology. 102(2). 489–500. 11 indexed citations

Mohamed, Azlan, Seth T. Wong, Jürgen Niedballa, et al.. (2021). Sustainable forest management is vital for the persistence of sun bear Helarctos malayanus populations in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Forest Ecology and Management. 493. 119270–119270. 6 indexed citations

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Wong, Seth T., Jerrold L. Belant, Rahel Sollmann, et al.. (2019). Influence of body mass, sociality, and movement behavior on improved detection probabilities when using a second camera trap. Global Ecology and Conservation. 20. e00791–e00791. 14 indexed citations

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Tilker, Andrew, Jesse F. Abrams, Azlan Mohamed, et al.. (2019). Habitat degradation and indiscriminate hunting differentially impact faunal communities in the Southeast Asian tropical biodiversity hotspot. Communications Biology. 2(1). 396–396. 62 indexed citations

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Niedballa, Jürgen, Andreas Wilting, Rahel Sollmann, Heribert Hofer, & Alexandre Courtiol. (2019). Assessing analytical methods for detecting spatiotemporal interactions between species from camera trapping data. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. 5(3). 272–285. 52 indexed citations

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Mathai, John, Jürgen Niedballa, Viktoriia Radchuk, et al.. (2019). Identifying refuges for Borneo's elusive Hose's civet. Global Ecology and Conservation. 17. e00531–e00531. 10 indexed citations

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Budiharta, Sugeng, Erik Meijaard, David Gaveau, et al.. (2018). Restoration to offset the impacts of developments at a landscape scale reveals opportunities, challenges and tough choices. Global Environmental Change. 52. 152–161. 47 indexed citations

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Sollmann, Rahel, Azlan Mohamed, Jürgen Niedballa, et al.. (2017). Quantifying mammal biodiversity co‐benefits in certified tropical forests. Diversity and Distributions. 23(3). 317–328. 42 indexed citations

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Mathai, John, Rahel Sollmann, Jerrold L. Belant, et al.. (2017). Fine-scale distributions of carnivores in a logging concession in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. Mammalian Biology. 86. 56–65. 8 indexed citations

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Wong, Seth T., Jerrold L. Belant, Rahel Sollmann, et al.. (2017). Habitat associations of the Sunda stink-badger Mydaus javanensis in three forest reserves in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Mammalian Biology. 88. 75–80. 3 indexed citations

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Niedballa, Jürgen, Rahel Sollmann, Alexandre Courtiol, & Andreas Wilting. (2016). camtrapR: an R package for efficient camera trap data management. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 7(12). 1457–1462. 355 indexed citations breakdown →

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Niedballa, Jürgen, et al.. (2015). Defining habitat covariates in camera-trap based occupancy studies. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 17041–17041. 35 indexed citations

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Wilting, Andreas, Alexandre Courtiol, Per Christiansen, et al.. (2015). Planning tiger recovery: Understanding intraspecific variation for effective conservation. Science Advances. 1(5). e1400175–e1400175. 54 indexed citations

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