Maria Thaker

2.3k total citations
58 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Maria Thaker is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Maria Thaker has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 30 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 27 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Maria Thaker's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (33 papers), Amphibian and Reptile Biology (25 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (23 papers). Maria Thaker is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (33 papers), Amphibian and Reptile Biology (25 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (23 papers). Maria Thaker collaborates with scholars based in India, South Africa and United States. Maria Thaker's co-authors include Abi Tamim Vanak, Rob Slotow, Monika B. Ogden, Cailey R. Owen, Anuradha Batabyal, Diana K. Hews, Steven L. Lima, Daniel Fortin, Dror Hawlena and Michael J. Sheriff and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Maria Thaker

53 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Maria Thaker India	20	1.0k	566	414	296	232	58	1.6k
Achaz von Hardenberg Italy	23	1.3k 1.2×	620 1.1×	175 0.4×	326 1.1×	240 1.0×	58	1.8k
Ryan A. Long United States	26	1.4k 1.4×	309 0.5×	408 1.0×	387 1.3×	171 0.7×	58	1.8k
Thomas M. McCarthy United States	19	907 0.9×	481 0.8×	314 0.8×	189 0.6×	97 0.4×	33	1.4k
Shinsuke Koike Japan	25	1.3k 1.3×	444 0.8×	354 0.9×	688 2.3×	222 1.0×	125	1.9k
Karyn D. Rode United States	32	2.5k 2.5×	399 0.7×	262 0.6×	238 0.8×	241 1.0×	79	3.0k
Jana A. Eccard Germany	29	1.6k 1.6×	1.4k 2.4×	350 0.8×	457 1.5×	200 0.9×	101	2.5k
Charles Foley United States	16	718 0.7×	271 0.5×	245 0.6×	119 0.4×	247 1.1×	24	1.2k
Olivier Pays France	22	947 0.9×	744 1.3×	166 0.4×	165 0.6×	210 0.9×	69	1.4k
Thierry Lodé France	27	1.3k 1.3×	476 0.8×	454 1.1×	248 0.8×	129 0.6×	76	1.8k
Amos Bouskila Israel	25	1.2k 1.2×	1.3k 2.3×	556 1.3×	560 1.9×	131 0.6×	75	2.4k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Thaker, Maria, et al.. (2025). Passive Winter and Active Spring: Variation in the Cave-Exiting Activity of Bats in the Central Himalayas of Nepal. Acta Chiropterologica. 26(2). 1 indexed citations

Raubenheimer, David, et al.. (2025). Does seasonal variation in the corticosterone response affect the nutritional ecology of a free‐ranging lizard?. Journal of Animal Ecology. 94(4). 627–641. 2 indexed citations

Thaker, Maria, et al.. (2025). Risk-sensitive foraging in a tropical lizard. Biology Letters. 21(2). 20240628–20240628. 2 indexed citations

Thaker, Maria & Abi Tamim Vanak. (2025). When humans shield predators from danger. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 40(9). 834–836.

Dutta, Sutirtha, et al.. (2024). Hotter deserts and the impending challenges for the spiny-tailed Lizard in India. Biology Open. 13(4). 2 indexed citations

Seshadri, K., et al.. (2024). Does the diversity of anuran iris patterns have an ecological function or is it just beauty in the eye of the beholder?. Evolutionary Ecology. 38(3). 277–292. 1 indexed citations

Batabyal, Anuradha, et al.. (2023). The extent of rapid colour change in male agamid lizards is unrelated to overall sexual dichromatism. Ecology and Evolution. 13(7). e10293–e10293. 1 indexed citations

Seshadri, K. & Maria Thaker. (2022). Correlated evolution of parental care with dichromatism, colors, and patterns in anurans. Evolution. 76(4). 737–748. 4 indexed citations

Thaker, Maria, et al.. (2022). Colours of stress in male Indian rock agamas predict testosterone levels but not performance. Hormones and Behavior. 144. 105214–105214.

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Cordes, Line S., Rob Slotow, Abi Tamim Vanak, et al.. (2022). Seasonal range fidelity of a megaherbivore in response to environmental change. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 22008–22008. 6 indexed citations

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Mohanty, Nitya Prakash, et al.. (2021). The ecology of sleep in non‐avian reptiles. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 97(2). 505–526. 12 indexed citations

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Batabyal, Anuradha, et al.. (2021). A longitudinal study of perceived stress and cortisol responses in an undergraduate student population from India. PLoS ONE. 16(6). e0252579–e0252579. 14 indexed citations

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Thaker, Maria, et al.. (2021). Does the addition of a new signalling trait enhance receiver responses in diurnal geckos?. Behavioural Processes. 184. 104322–104322. 4 indexed citations

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Mohanty, Nitya Prakash, et al.. (2021). Urban lizards use sleep sites that mirror the structural, thermal, and light properties of natural sites. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 75(12). 7 indexed citations

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Thaker, Maria, et al.. (2021). Diet influences latitudinal gradients in life‐history traits, but not reproductive output, in ectotherms. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 30(12). 2431–2441. 4 indexed citations

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Snell‐Rood, Emilie C., et al.. (2020). Asymmetric interspecific competition drives shifts in signalling traits in fan-throated lizards. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1940). 20202141–20202141. 5 indexed citations

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Batabyal, Anuradha & Maria Thaker. (2018). Social coping styles of lizards are reactive and not proactive in urban areas. General and Comparative Endocrinology. 270. 67–74. 19 indexed citations

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Thaker, Maria, et al.. (2015). Change in Mesoherbivore Browsing Is Mediated by Elephant and Hillslope Position. PLoS ONE. 10(6). e0128340–e0128340. 6 indexed citations

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Thaker, Maria, Abi Tamim Vanak, Cailey R. Owen, Monika B. Ogden, & Rob Slotow. (2010). Group Dynamics of Zebra and Wildebeest in a Woodland Savanna: Effects of Predation Risk and Habitat Density. PLoS ONE. 5(9). e12758–e12758. 46 indexed citations

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Thaker, Maria, Steven L. Lima, & Diana K. Hews. (2008). Alternative antipredator tactics in tree lizard morphs: hormonal and behavioural responses to a predator encounter. Animal Behaviour. 77(2). 395–401. 40 indexed citations

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