Michael K. Borregaard

7.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
49 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Michael K. Borregaard is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael K. Borregaard has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 23 papers in Ecological Modeling and 21 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Michael K. Borregaard's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (27 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (23 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (13 papers). Michael K. Borregaard is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (27 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (23 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (13 papers). Michael K. Borregaard collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, United Kingdom and United States. Michael K. Borregaard's co-authors include Carsten Rahbek, Robert J. Whittaker, Jon Fjeldså, Ben G. Holt, David Nogués‐Bravo, Thomas J. Matthews, Robert K. Colwell, Kostas A. Triantis, Jean‐Philippe Lessard and Knud A. Jønsson and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Michael K. Borregaard

47 papers receiving 4.2k 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.

An Update of Wallace’s Zoogeographic Regions of the World

2012 968 citations Ben G. Holt, Michael K. Borregaard et al. Science profile →
Humboldt’s enigma: What causes global patterns of mountain biodiversity?

2019 624 citations Carsten Rahbek, Michael K. Borregaard et al. Science profile →
Building mountain biodiversity: Geological and evolutionary processes

2019 484 citations Carsten Rahbek, Michael K. Borregaard et al. Science profile →
Island biogeography: Taking the long view of nature’s laboratories

2017 391 citations Robert J. Whittaker, José María Fernández‐Palacios et al. Science profile →

Peers

Michael K. Borregaard

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Kostas A. Triantis Greece

Susanne A. Fritz Germany

Søren Faurby Sweden

Christy M. McCain United States

Albert B. Phillimore United Kingdom

Ana Carolina Carnaval United States

Elizabeth A. Hadly United States

S. K. Morgan Ernest United States

Simone Fattorini Italy

Allen H. Hurlbert United States

Kostas A. Triantis Greece

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751 ×0.8

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael K. Borregaard

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20 of 20 papers shown

Shen, Congcong, Michael K. Borregaard, Marcell K. Peters, et al.. (2025). Climate and microbial community composition drive shifts in ecosystem function along three parallel elevational gradients. Ecography. 2025(12).

Sonne, Jesper, Michael K. Borregaard, Robert K. Colwell, & Carsten Rahbek. (2025). Geographic range shapes influence species richness in global hotspots. Science Advances. 11(33). eaea0138–eaea0138.

Liu, Yunpeng, Xiaoting Xu, Dimitar Dimitrov, et al.. (2023). An updated floristic map of the world. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2990–2990. 36 indexed citations

Florens, F. B. Vincent, Cláudia Baider, Julian P. Hume, et al.. (2023). Novel plant–frugivore network on Mauritius is unlikely to compensate for the extinction of seed dispersers. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1019–1019. 25 indexed citations

Sonne, Jesper, Bo Dalsgaard, Michael K. Borregaard, et al.. (2022). Biodiversity cradles and museums segregating within hotspots of endemism. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1981). 20221102–20221102. 19 indexed citations

Borregaard, Michael K., Gary R. Graves, & Carsten Rahbek. (2020). Dispersion fields reveal the compositional structure of South American vertebrate assemblages. Nature Communications. 11(1). 491–491. 9 indexed citations

Matthews, Thomas J., Michael K. Borregaard, Colin S. Gillespie, et al.. (2018). Extension of the gambin model to multimodal species abundance distributions. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 10(3). 432–437. 8 indexed citations

Kennedy, Jonathan D., Michael K. Borregaard, Petter Z. Marki, et al.. (2018). Expansion in geographical and morphological space drives continued lineage diversification in a global passerine radiation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 285(1893). 20182181–20182181. 23 indexed citations

Whittaker, Robert J., José María Fernández‐Palacios, Thomas J. Matthews, Michael K. Borregaard, & Kostas A. Triantis. (2017). Island biogeography: Taking the long view of nature’s laboratories. Science. 357(6354). 391 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jønsson, Knud A., Michael K. Borregaard, Daniel Carstensen, et al.. (2017). Biogeography and Biotic Assembly of Indo-Pacific Corvoid Passerine Birds. Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics. 48(1). 231–253. 21 indexed citations

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Kennedy, Jonathan D., Michael K. Borregaard, Knud A. Jønsson, et al.. (2016). The influence of wing morphology upon the dispersal, geographical distributions and diversification of the Corvides (Aves; Passeriformes). Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 283(1844). 20161922–20161922. 36 indexed citations

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Jønsson, Knud A., Anders P. Tøttrup, Michael K. Borregaard, et al.. (2016). Tracking Animal Dispersal: From Individual Movement to Community Assembly and Global Range Dynamics. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 31(3). 204–214. 58 indexed citations

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Matthews, Thomas J., Kostas A. Triantis, François Rigal, et al.. (2016). Island species–area relationships and species accumulation curves are not equivalent: an analysis of habitat island datasets. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 25(5). 607–618. 39 indexed citations

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Jønsson, Knud A., Pierre‐Henri Fabre, Jonathan D. Kennedy, et al.. (2015). A supermatrix phylogeny of corvoid passerine birds (Aves: Corvides). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 94(Pt A). 87–94. 66 indexed citations

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Reeve, Andrew Hart, Michael K. Borregaard, & Jon Fjeldså. (2015). Negative range size–abundance relationships in Indo‐Pacific bird communities. Ecography. 39(10). 990–997. 7 indexed citations

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Borregaard, Michael K., Carsten Rahbek, Jon Fjeldså, et al.. (2014). Node‐based analysis of species distributions. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 5(11). 1225–1235. 26 indexed citations

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Borregaard, Michael K., Nicholas J. Gotelli, & Carsten Rahbek. (2012). ARE RANGE-SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS CONSISTENT WITH SPECIES-LEVEL HERITABILITY?. Evolution. 66(7). 2216–2226. 22 indexed citations

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Borregaard, Michael K. & Carsten Rahbek. (2010). Causality of the Relationship between Geographic Distribution and Species Abundance. The Quarterly Review of Biology. 85(1). 3–25. 128 indexed citations

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Nachman, Gösta & Michael K. Borregaard. (2010). From complex spatial dynamics to simple Markov chain models: do predators and prey leave footprints?. Ecography. 33(1). 137–147. 5 indexed citations

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Borregaard, Michael K. & Carsten Rahbek. (2006). Prevalence of intraspecific relationships between range size and abundance in Danish birds. Diversity and Distributions. 12(4). 417–422. 14 indexed citations

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