Niels Blaum

4.8k total citations
80 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Niels Blaum is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Niels Blaum has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Ecology, 44 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 21 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Niels Blaum's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (43 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (39 papers) and Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (16 papers). Niels Blaum is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (43 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (39 papers) and Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (16 papers). Niels Blaum collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Namibia and South Africa. Niels Blaum's co-authors include Florian Jeltsch, Eva Rossmanith, Monika Schwager, Britta Tietjen, Alexander Popp, Wiebke Ullmann, Christina Fischer, Katja Geißler, Eva Mosner and Colleen L. Seymour and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Niels Blaum

77 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Niels Blaum Germany	23	999	705	491	362	276	80	1.7k
Johannes Kamp Germany	26	1.0k 1.0×	648 0.9×	712 1.5×	316 0.9×	448 1.6×	81	2.0k
Kari E. Veblen United States	24	1.0k 1.0×	1.0k 1.5×	552 1.1×	393 1.1×	124 0.4×	69	1.8k
Malcolm Ausden United Kingdom	15	1.1k 1.1×	695 1.0×	367 0.7×	284 0.8×	301 1.1×	19	1.7k
Izak P. J. Smit South Africa	29	1.5k 1.5×	920 1.3×	1.1k 2.2×	171 0.5×	302 1.1×	89	2.5k
Nicola Koper Canada	25	1.5k 1.5×	797 1.1×	658 1.3×	382 1.1×	294 1.1×	92	2.2k
Dawn M. Browning United States	22	912 0.9×	437 0.6×	624 1.3×	168 0.5×	231 0.8×	46	1.4k
Ryan A. Chisholm Singapore	22	590 0.6×	728 1.0×	524 1.1×	404 1.1×	355 1.3×	75	1.6k
Glenn D. Sutherland Canada	16	925 0.9×	534 0.8×	504 1.0×	316 0.9×	257 0.9×	29	1.7k
Leonie E. Valentine Australia	24	1.3k 1.3×	880 1.2×	1.0k 2.1×	300 0.8×	415 1.5×	76	2.4k
Nathaniel E. Seavy United States	24	1.4k 1.4×	587 0.8×	656 1.3×	397 1.1×	665 2.4×	80	2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Niels Blaum

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Niels Blaum

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Nathan, Ran, Sivan Toledo, Florian Jeltsch, et al.. (2025). Pathogen-induced alterations in fine-scale movement behaviour predict impaired reproductive success. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2044). 20250238–20250238. 1 indexed citations

Ullmann, Wiebke, Rahel Sollmann, Ran Nathan, et al.. (2024). Sick without signs. Subclinical infections reduce local movements, alter habitat selection, and cause demographic shifts. Communications Biology. 7(1). 1426–1426. 6 indexed citations

Dammhahn, Melanie, et al.. (2024). African dryland antelope trade‐off behaviours in response to heat extremes. Ecology and Evolution. 14(6). e11455–e11455.

Blaum, Niels, et al.. (2024). Performance of five statistical methods to infer interactions among moving individuals in a predator–prey system. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 15(6). 1097–1112. 1 indexed citations

Blaum, Niels, et al.. (2024). Navigating uncertainty: Managing herbivore communities enhances Savanna ecosystem resilience under climate change. Journal of Applied Ecology. 61(3). 551–563. 4 indexed citations

Cherstvy, Andrey G., et al.. (2023). Directedeness, correlations, and daily cycles in springbok motion: From data via stochastic models to movement prediction. Physical Review Research. 5(4). 24 indexed citations

Blaum, Niels, et al.. (2023). Allometric relationships between sapwood area and shrub dimensions for six common Southern African savanna bush encroacher species: Universal or species‐specific?. Ecohydrology. 17(1). 1 indexed citations

Dammhahn, Melanie, et al.. (2023). Keeping cool on hot days: activity responses of African antelope to heat extremes. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 11. 5 indexed citations

Hauptfleisch, Morgan, et al.. (2023). A Qualitative Exploration of Conflicts in Human-Wildlife Interactions in Namibia’s Kunene Region. Diversity. 15(3). 440–440. 4 indexed citations

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Ullmann, Wiebke, et al.. (2023). The heat is on: impacts of rising temperature on the activity of a common European mammal. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 11. 6 indexed citations

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Ullmann, Wiebke, Christina Fischer, Stephanie Kramer‐Schadt, et al.. (2023). The secret life of wild animals revealed by accelerometer data: how landscape diversity and seasonality influence the behavioural types of European hares. Landscape Ecology. 38(12). 3081–3095. 3 indexed citations

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Heinze, Johannes, et al.. (2022). Shoot herbivory by grasshoppers has stronger effects on root morphology than clipping. Plant Ecology. 223(9). 1069–1078. 1 indexed citations

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Mayer, Martin, Christina Fischer, Niels Blaum, Peter Sunde, & Wiebke Ullmann. (2022). Influence of roads on space use by European hares in different landscapes. Landscape Ecology. 38(1). 131–146. 9 indexed citations

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Eldridge, David J., et al.. (2020). Interconnected effects of shrubs, invertebrate‐derived macropores and soil texture on water infiltration in a semi‐arid savanna rangeland. Land Degradation and Development. 31(16). 2307–2318. 33 indexed citations

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Eldridge, David J., et al.. (2019). Large shrubs partly compensate negative effects of grazing on hydrological function in a semi-arid savanna. Basic and Applied Ecology. 38. 58–68. 15 indexed citations

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Paton, Eva Nora, et al.. (2017). Quantification of areal extent of soil erosion in dryland urban areas: an example from Windhoek, Namibia. 10(1). 8. 8 indexed citations

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Jeltsch, Florian, et al.. (2016). A review on urban soil water erosion. UNAM Scholarly Repository (University of Namibia). 163–178. 5 indexed citations

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Jeltsch, Florian, Dries Bonte, Guy Pe’er, et al.. (2013). Integrating movement ecology with biodiversity research - exploring new avenues to address spatiotemporal biodiversity dynamics. Movement Ecology. 1(1). 6–6. 185 indexed citations

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Blaum, Niels, et al.. (2008). Indexing small mammalian carnivores in the southern Kalahari, South Africa. Wildlife Research. 35(1). 72–79. 21 indexed citations

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Rossmanith, Eva, Volker Grimm, Niels Blaum, & Florian Jeltsch. (2006). Behavioural flexibility in the mating system buffers population extinction: lessons from the lesser spotted woodpecker Picoides minor. Journal of Animal Ecology. 75(2). 540–548. 28 indexed citations

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