Leif Engqvist

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Leif Engqvist is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Leif Engqvist has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 31 papers in Genetics and 8 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Leif Engqvist's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (44 papers), Plant and animal studies (43 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (24 papers). Leif Engqvist is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (44 papers), Plant and animal studies (43 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (24 papers). Leif Engqvist collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and Netherlands. Leif Engqvist's co-authors include Klaus Reinhold, Klaus Peter Sauer, Joachim Kurtz, Joachim G. Frommen, Michael Taborsky, Theo C. M. Bakker, Alistair M. Senior, Kerrie Mengersen, Shinichi Nakagawa and Robert Poulin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Trends in Ecology & Evolution and The American Naturalist.

In The Last Decade

Leif Engqvist

57 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

The mistreatment of covariate interaction terms in linear... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 200 400 600
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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.

  1. The mistreatment of covariate interaction terms in linear model analyses of behavioural and evolutionary ecology studies
    2005 635 citations Leif Engqvist Animal Behaviour profile →

Peers

Leif Engqvist
Craig A. Walling United Kingdom
Klaus Reinhold Germany
Anna K. Lindholm Switzerland
Simone Immler United Kingdom
Francisco García–González Australia
Birgitta S. Tullberg Sweden
Jae Chun Choe South Korea
Wiebke Schuett Germany
Luc F. Bussière United Kingdom
Joel W. McGlothlin United States
Craig A. Walling United Kingdom
Leif Engqvist
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All Works

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Engqvist, Leif & Klaus Reinhold. (2017). Adaptive parental effects and how to estimate them: A comment to Bonduriansky and Crean. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 9(3). 457–459. 5 indexed citations
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Engqvist, Leif & Michael Taborsky. (2016). The evolution of genetic and conditional alternative reproductive tactics. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 283(1825). 20152945–20152945. 50 indexed citations
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Soudi, Shaghayegh, Klaus Reinhold, & Leif Engqvist. (2016). Genetic architecture underlying host choice differentiation in the sympatric host races of Lochmaea capreae leaf beetles. Genetica. 144(2). 147–156. 3 indexed citations
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Reinhold, Klaus, et al.. (2015). Male birch catkin bugs vary copula duration to invest more in matings with novel females. Animal Behaviour. 109. 161–166. 5 indexed citations
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Baldauf, Sebastian A., Leif Engqvist, & Franz J. Weissing. (2014). Diversifying evolution of competitiveness. Nature Communications. 5(1). 5233–5233. 22 indexed citations
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Cordes, Nils, Leif Engqvist, Tim Schmoll, et al.. (2014). Larval food composition affects courtship song and sperm expenditure in a lekking moth. Ecological Entomology. 40(1). 34–41. 16 indexed citations
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Reinhold, Klaus & Leif Engqvist. (2013). THE VARIABILITY IS IN THE SEX CHROMOSOMES. Evolution. 67(12). 3662–3668. 57 indexed citations
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Baldauf, Sebastian A., et al.. (2013). Sex-specific conditional mating preferences in a cichlid fish: implications for sexual conflict. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 67(7). 1179–1186. 19 indexed citations
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Engqvist, Leif. (2012). GENETIC CONFLICTS, INTRINSIC MALE FERTILITY, AND EJACULATE INVESTMENT. Evolution. 66(9). 2685–2696. 6 indexed citations
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Engqvist, Leif. (2012). Evolutionary Modeling Predicts a Decrease in Postcopulatory Sperm Viability as a Response to Increasing Levels of Sperm Competition. The American Naturalist. 179(5). 667–677. 8 indexed citations
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Frommen, Joachim G., Fabian Herder, Leif Engqvist, et al.. (2010). Costly plastic morphological responses to predator specific odour cues in three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Evolutionary Ecology. 25(3). 641–656. 54 indexed citations
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Engqvist, Leif. (2007). MALE SCORPIONFLIES ASSESS THE AMOUNT OF RIVAL SPERM TRANSFERRED BY FEMALES' PREVIOUS MATES. Evolution. 61(6). 1489–1494. 16 indexed citations
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Engqvist, Leif. (2007). Environment-dependent genetic correlations between development time and body mass in a scorpionfly. Zoology. 110(5). 344–353. 10 indexed citations
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Engqvist, Leif. (2006). Females benefit from mating with different males in the scorpionfly Panorpa cognata. Behavioral Ecology. 17(3). 435–440. 25 indexed citations
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Engqvist, Leif & Klaus Reinhold. (2005). Pitfalls in experiments testing predictions from sperm competition theory. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 18(1). 116–123. 84 indexed citations
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Engqvist, Leif & Klaus Peter Sauer. (2003). Influence of nutrition on courtship and mating in the scorpionfly Panorpa cognata. Ethology. 109(11). 928. 26 indexed citations
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Engqvist, Leif & Klaus Peter Sauer. (2003). Influence of Nutrition on Courtship and Mating in the ScorpionflyPanorpa cognata(Mecoptera, Insecta). Ethology. 109(11). 911–928. 52 indexed citations

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