Nils Bunnefeld

7.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
113 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Nils Bunnefeld is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Nils Bunnefeld has authored 113 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 79 papers in Ecology, 32 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 26 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Nils Bunnefeld's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (61 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (26 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (21 papers). Nils Bunnefeld is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (61 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (26 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (21 papers). Nils Bunnefeld collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Sweden and United States. Nils Bunnefeld's co-authors include E.J. Milner‐Gulland, Göran Ericsson, Holger Dettki, Thomas Mueller, Luca Börger, Bogumiła Jędrzejewska, Sadie J. Ryan, Nathalie Pettorelli, Kyrre Kausrud and Maurício Lima and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Nils Bunnefeld

111 papers receiving 4.9k 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.

The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI): unforeseen successes in animal ecology

2010 587 citations Thomas Mueller, Nils Bunnefeld et al. profile →
Guidelines for the use of acoustic indices in environmental research

2019 209 citations Nils Bunnefeld et al. Methods in Ecology and Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nils Bunnefeld United Kingdom	37	3.3k	1.4k	950	845	791	113	5.1k
Peter Leimgruber United States	39	3.8k 1.2×	1.1k 0.8×	875 0.9×	910 1.1×	586 0.7×	125	4.8k
Adina M. Merenlender United States	37	2.7k 0.8×	2.1k 1.6×	1.4k 1.5×	852 1.0×	760 1.0×	96	5.4k
Timothy G. O’Brien United States	35	3.0k 0.9×	957 0.7×	996 1.0×	977 1.2×	1.1k 1.4×	81	4.8k
Matthew Linkie United Kingdom	31	3.4k 1.0×	906 0.7×	670 0.7×	877 1.0×	507 0.6×	72	4.3k
R. J. Gutiérrez United States	35	3.6k 1.1×	1.6k 1.2×	1.6k 1.7×	1.2k 1.5×	591 0.7×	107	4.7k
Anthony P. Clevenger United States	38	5.3k 1.6×	792 0.6×	688 0.7×	745 0.9×	349 0.4×	126	6.1k
Paul M. Dolman United Kingdom	35	3.4k 1.1×	1.6k 1.2×	2.1k 2.2×	1.1k 1.3×	1.0k 1.3×	123	5.5k
Raman Sukumar India	35	2.0k 0.6×	959 0.7×	978 1.0×	323 0.4×	781 1.0×	112	3.9k
Mark J. Whittingham United Kingdom	46	4.6k 1.4×	1.8k 1.3×	2.5k 2.7×	1.2k 1.4×	2.1k 2.7×	114	7.9k
Andrew J. Plumptre United States	39	2.5k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	989 1.0×	631 0.7×	958 1.2×	119	4.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Nils Bunnefeld

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nils Bunnefeld

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nils Bunnefeld

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Potopová, Vera, Willem-Jan van Zeist, Michaela Kolářová, et al.. (2025). From local to global and from global to local: Designing the protocol to model agriculture and climate resilience. Environmental and Sustainability Indicators. 27. 100855–100855.

Bussière, Luc F., N. Corniani, Yelitza C. Colmenárez, et al.. (2025). A Practical Approach to Developing and Using Online Games for Transdisciplinary Research into Complex Social-Ecological Systems. Society & Natural Resources. 38(5). 516–539.

Latini, Arianna, Nikolaos Nikoloudakis, Nils Bunnefeld, et al.. (2024). Getting (ECO)Ready: Does EU Legislation Integrate Up-to-Date Scientific Data for Food Security and Biodiversity Preservation Under Climate Change?. Sustainability. 16(23). 10749–10749. 2 indexed citations

Olsson, Erik J, et al.. (2023). Protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement in Cambodia: Enabling conditions and opportunities for intervention. Conservation Science and Practice. 5(4). 6 indexed citations

Rakotonarivo, O. Sarobidy, Stephen Rushton, Andrew Reid Bell, et al.. (2022). An experimental game to examine pastoralists' preferences for human–lion coexistence strategies. People and Nature. 4(5). 1263–1278. 5 indexed citations

Quilliam, Richard S., et al.. (2022). Rapid Characterisation of Stakeholder Networks in Three Catchments Reveals Contrasting Land-Water Management Issues. Land. 11(12). 2324–2324. 5 indexed citations

Quilliam, Richard S., et al.. (2022). Catchment-Scale Participatory Mapping Identifies Stakeholder Perceptions of Land and Water Management Conflicts. Land. 11(2). 300–300. 8 indexed citations

Arbieu, Ugo, Guillaume Chapron, Christos Astaras, et al.. (2021). News selection and framing: the media as a stakeholder in human–carnivore coexistence. Environmental Research Letters. 16(6). 64075–64075. 18 indexed citations

Pozo, Rocío A., A. Bradley Duthie, Nils Bunnefeld, et al.. (2020). A multispecies assessment of wildlife impacts on local community livelihoods. Conservation Biology. 35(1). 297–306. 21 indexed citations

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Rakotonarivo, O. Sarobidy, Isabel L. Jones, Andrew Reid Bell, et al.. (2020). Experimental evidence for conservation conflict interventions: The importance of financial payments, community trust and equity attitudes. People and Nature. 3(1). 162–175. 17 indexed citations

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Bush, Emma R., Robin C. Whytock, Laila Bahaa‐el‐din, et al.. (2020). Long-term collapse in fruit availability threatens Central African forest megafauna. Science. 370(6521). 1219–1222. 59 indexed citations

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John, Freya A. V. St., Tom H. E. Mason, & Nils Bunnefeld. (2020). The role of risk perception and affect in predicting support for conservation policy under rapid ecosystem change. Conservation Science and Practice. 3(2). e316–e316. 4 indexed citations

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Duthie, A. Bradley, Jeremy J. Cusack, Isabel L. Jones, et al.. (2018). GMSE : An r package for generalised management strategy evaluation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 9(12). 2396–2401. 8 indexed citations

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Quilliam, Richard S., et al.. (2018). Quantifying stakeholder understanding of an ecosystem service trade-off. The Science of The Total Environment. 651(Pt 2). 2524–2534. 60 indexed citations

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Day, Nicola J., et al.. (2018). Tidal range and recovery from the impacts of mechanical beach grooming. Ocean & Coastal Management. 154. 66–71. 7 indexed citations

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Bush, Emma R., Nils Bunnefeld, Edmond Dimoto, et al.. (2018). Towards effective monitoring of tropical phenology: maximizing returns and reducing uncertainty in long‐term studies. Biotropica. 50(3). 455–464. 17 indexed citations

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Peltola, Taru, Outi Ratamäki, Maria Åkerman, et al.. (2018). Missing the Peacock—Arts, Sciences, Creativity, and Chronic Environmental Crisis. 8(1). 1–15. 1 indexed citations

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Fontaneto, Diego, Nils Bunnefeld, & Martin Westberg. (2012). Long-Term Survival of Microscopic Animals Under Desiccation Is Not So Long. Astrobiology. 12(9). 863–869. 18 indexed citations

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Bunnefeld, Nils, Daniel C. Reuman, David Baines, & E.J. Milner‐Gulland. (2011). Impact of unintentional selective harvesting on the population dynamics of red grouse. Journal of Animal Ecology. 80(6). 1258–1268. 16 indexed citations

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Bunnefeld, Nils, et al.. (2010). Can supplementary feeding be used to redistribute moose Alces alces?. Wildlife Biology. 16(1). 85–92. 49 indexed citations

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