Nils Anthes

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Nils Anthes is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Nils Anthes has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 19 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 18 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Nils Anthes's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (27 papers), Plant and animal studies (21 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (13 papers). Nils Anthes is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (27 papers), Plant and animal studies (21 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (13 papers). Nils Anthes collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Australia. Nils Anthes's co-authors include Nico K. Michiels, Tim Janicke, Rolanda Lange, Marc J. Lajeunesse, Klaus Reinhardt, Dennis Sprenger, Thomas Fartmann, Annika Putz, Giselher Kaule and Johanna Werminghausen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Nils Anthes

53 papers receiving 1.6k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nils Anthes Germany	23	984	496	442	385	194	54	1.6k
Angela J. Crean Australia	21	641 0.7×	435 0.9×	421 1.0×	209 0.5×	183 0.9×	42	1.6k
Gerdien de Jong Netherlands	16	1.4k 1.4×	981 2.0×	760 1.7×	434 1.1×	230 1.2×	25	2.5k
Glauco Machado Brazil	25	1.1k 1.1×	607 1.2×	435 1.0×	361 0.9×	113 0.6×	91	1.7k
James J. Krupa United States	18	1.2k 1.3×	481 1.0×	496 1.1×	337 0.9×	168 0.9×	58	1.7k
Mollie K. Manier United States	21	1.3k 1.3×	1.1k 2.1×	350 0.8×	125 0.3×	194 1.0×	30	1.8k
Jaco M. Greeff South Africa	28	1.3k 1.3×	798 1.6×	338 0.8×	407 1.1×	662 3.4×	85	2.3k
Michio Hori Japan	26	861 0.9×	533 1.1×	768 1.7×	690 1.8×	207 1.1×	100	2.3k
W. Jason Kennington Australia	27	686 0.7×	916 1.8×	876 2.0×	395 1.0×	178 0.9×	106	2.0k
Miguel A. Rodrı́guez-Gironés Spain	26	1.6k 1.6×	475 1.0×	534 1.2×	543 1.4×	287 1.5×	65	2.1k
C. N. Slobodchikoff United States	25	1.0k 1.0×	547 1.1×	1.2k 2.7×	478 1.2×	283 1.5×	62	2.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nils Anthes

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20 of 20 papers shown

Anthes, Nils, et al.. (2025). Solar radiation determines host choice, larval feeding and survival throughout the life cycle of an endangered open forest butterfly. Conservation Science and Practice. 7(8). 1 indexed citations

Anthes, Nils, et al.. (2025). Spatial and temporal variation in farmland bird nesting ecology: implications for effective Corn Bunting Emberiza calandra conservation. Bird Conservation International. 35.

Korner‐Nievergelt, Fränzi, et al.. (2023). A versatile workflow for linear modelling in R. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 11. 16 indexed citations

Förschler, Marc I., et al.. (2023). Variation in reproductive success in a fragmented Meadow Pipit population: a role for vegetation succession?. Journal für Ornithologie. 165(2). 369–379. 1 indexed citations

Michiels, Nico K., et al.. (2018). Controlled iris radiance in a diurnal fish looking at prey. Royal Society Open Science. 5(2). 170838–170838. 8 indexed citations

Furtwängler, Anja, Ella Reiter, Gunnar U. Neumann, et al.. (2018). Ratio of mitochondrial to nuclear DNA affects contamination estimates in ancient DNA analysis. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 14075–14075. 36 indexed citations

Beier, Judith, Nils Anthes, Joachim Wahl, & Katerina Harvati. (2018). Similar cranial trauma prevalence among Neanderthals and Upper Palaeolithic modern humans. Nature. 563(7733). 686–690. 16 indexed citations

Michiels, Nicolaas K., et al.. (2016). The consistent difference in red fluorescence in fishes across a 15 m depth gradient is triggered by ambient brightness, not by ambient spectrum. BMC Research Notes. 9(1). 107–107. 9 indexed citations

Reinhardt, Klaus, Nils Anthes, & Rolanda Lange. (2015). Copulatory Wounding and Traumatic Insemination. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 7(5). a017582–a017582. 96 indexed citations

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Lange, Rolanda, et al.. (2012). Female Fitness Optimum at Intermediate Mating Rates under Traumatic Mating. PLoS ONE. 7(8). e43234–e43234. 19 indexed citations

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Sprenger, Dennis, Rolanda Lange, & Nils Anthes. (2011). Population density and group size effects on reproductive behavior in a simultaneous hermaphrodite. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 11(1). 107–107. 9 indexed citations

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Anthes, Nils, Patrice David, Josh R. Auld, et al.. (2010). Bateman Gradients in Hermaphrodites: An Extended Approach to Quantify Sexual Selection. The American Naturalist. 176(3). 249–263. 73 indexed citations

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Werminghausen, Johanna, et al.. (2009). No effect of mate novelty on sexual motivation in the freshwater snail Biomphalaria glabrata. Frontiers in Zoology. 6(1). 23–23. 15 indexed citations

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Sprenger, Dennis, et al.. (2008). Natural female mating rate maximizes hatchling size in a marine invertebrate. Journal of Animal Ecology. 77(4). 696–701. 24 indexed citations

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Michiels, Nico K., Nils Anthes, Nathan S. Hart, et al.. (2008). Red fluorescence in reef fish: A novel signalling mechanism?. BMC Ecology. 8(1). 16–16. 82 indexed citations

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Anthes, Nils, Hinrich Schulenburg, & Nico K. Michiels. (2008). EVOLUTIONARY LINKS BETWEEN REPRODUCTIVE MORPHOLOGY, ECOLOGY AND MATING BEHAVIOR IN OPISTHOBRANCH GASTROPODS. Evolution. 62(4). 900–916. 36 indexed citations

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Anthes, Nils & Nico K. Michiels. (2007). Precopulatory stabbing, hypodermic injections and unilateral copulations in a hermaphroditic sea slug. Biology Letters. 3(2). 121–124. 39 indexed citations

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Anthes, Nils, et al.. (2007). Mating behaviour in the sea slug Elysia timida (Opisthobranchia, Sacoglossa): hypodermic injection, sperm transfer and balanced reciprocity. Frontiers in Zoology. 4(1). 17–17. 16 indexed citations

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Wägele, Heike, Ingo Burghardt, Nils Anthes, et al.. (2006). Species diversity of opisthobranch molluscs on Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. 69(1). 33–33. 9 indexed citations

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Anthes, Nils, et al.. (2002). Notes on migration dynamics and biometry of the Wood Sandpiper (Tringa glareola) at the sewage farm of Münster (NW-Germany). PUB – Publications at Bielefeld University (Bielefeld University). 24. 11 indexed citations

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