Peter Leimgruber

9.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
125 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Peter Leimgruber is a scholar working on Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Leimgruber has authored 125 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 107 papers in Ecology, 28 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 24 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Peter Leimgruber's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (92 papers), Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (27 papers) and Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation (26 papers). Peter Leimgruber is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (92 papers), Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (27 papers) and Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation (26 papers). Peter Leimgruber collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Peter Leimgruber's co-authors include Thomas Mueller, William F. Fagan, Justin M. Calabrese, Melissa Songer, Kirk A. Olson, Christen H. Fleming, William J. McShea, Myint Aung, Todd K. Fuller and John H. Rappole and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Peter Leimgruber

124 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Rigorous home range estimation with movement data: a new autocorrelated kernel density estimator

2015 304 citations Thomas Mueller, Peter Leimgruber et al. Ecology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter Leimgruber United States	39	3.8k	1.1k	910	875	680	125	4.8k
Nils Bunnefeld United Kingdom	37	3.3k 0.9×	1.4k 1.2×	845 0.9×	950 1.1×	574 0.8×	113	5.1k
Matthew Linkie United Kingdom	31	3.4k 0.9×	906 0.8×	877 1.0×	670 0.8×	470 0.7×	72	4.3k
Hawthorne L. Beyer Australia	37	3.8k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	658 0.7×	1.1k 1.3×	457 0.7×	65	5.2k
Thomas Mueller Germany	40	4.2k 1.1×	893 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	1.3k 1.4×	465 0.7×	92	6.1k
Stephanie Kramer‐Schadt Germany	40	3.4k 0.9×	922 0.8×	983 1.1×	703 0.8×	278 0.4×	138	4.6k
Simon Thirgood United Kingdom	35	3.9k 1.0×	725 0.7×	580 0.6×	1.1k 1.3×	697 1.0×	94	4.8k
Du Toit South Africa	43	3.8k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	420 0.5×	1.6k 1.8×	950 1.4×	152	6.1k
John Gross United States	30	2.4k 0.6×	930 0.8×	559 0.6×	1.1k 1.2×	497 0.7×	68	3.8k
Evelyn H. Merrill Canada	45	6.6k 1.7×	1.1k 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	1.8k 2.1×	609 0.9×	113	7.7k
David Saltz Israel	34	4.0k 1.1×	919 0.8×	651 0.7×	1.6k 1.8×	386 0.6×	118	5.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Leimgruber

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Songer, Melissa, et al.. (2025). Coexistence between Przewalski's horse and Asiatic wild ass in the desert: The importance of people. Journal of Applied Ecology. 62(5). 1078–1090. 1 indexed citations

Leimgruber, Peter, et al.. (2024). Identification of landscape features structuring movement connectivity for Namibian elephants. Landscape Ecology. 39(8). 3 indexed citations

Chiaravalloti, Rafael Morais, Walfrido Moraes Tomás, Thomas S. Akre, et al.. (2023). Achieving conservation through cattle ranching: The case of the Brazilian Pantanal. Conservation Science and Practice. 7(7). 5 indexed citations

Prado, Natalia A., Ellie E. Armstrong, Janine L. Brown, et al.. (2023). Genomic resources for Asian ( Elephas maximus ) and African savannah elephant ( Loxodonta africana ) conservation and health research. Journal of Heredity. 114(5). 529–538. 4 indexed citations

Silva, Shermin de, et al.. (2023). Land-use change is associated with multi-century loss of elephant ecosystems in Asia. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 5996–5996. 26 indexed citations

Leimgruber, Peter & Melissa Songer. (2021). Conservation: Where can elephants roam in the Anthropocene?. Current Biology. 31(11). R714–R716. 2 indexed citations

Stabach, Jared A., Qiongyu Huang, Marcelo B. Labruna, et al.. (2020). Habitat selection in natural and human-modified landscapes by capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris), an important host for Amblyomma sculptum ticks. PLoS ONE. 15(8). e0229277–e0229277. 14 indexed citations

Xu, Wenjing, Qiongyu Huang, Jared A. Stabach, Buho Hoshino, & Peter Leimgruber. (2019). Railway underpass location affects migration distance in Tibetan antelope (Pantholops hodgsonii). PLoS ONE. 14(2). e0211798–e0211798. 19 indexed citations

Horning, Ned, et al.. (2017). Losing a jewel—Rapid declines in Myanmar’s intact forests from 2002-2014. PLoS ONE. 12(5). e0176364–e0176364. 92 indexed citations

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Jenks, Kate E., Ellen O. Aikens, Nucharin Songsasen, et al.. (2015). Comparative movement analysis for a sympatric dhole and golden jackal in a human-dominated landscape. The Raffles bulletin of zoology. 63. 546–554. 10 indexed citations

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Pastorini, Jennifer, et al.. (2015). Elephant GPS tracking collars: Is there a best?. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 43. 15–25. 9 indexed citations

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Rubenstein, Daniel I., Melissa Songer, Peter Leimgruber, et al.. (2015). Water Use Patterns of Sympatric Przewalski’s Horse and Khulan: Interspecific Comparison Reveals Niche Differences. PLoS ONE. 10(7). e0132094–e0132094. 28 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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Suarez‐Rubio, Marcela, Scott Wilson, Peter Leimgruber, & Todd R. Lookingbill. (2013). Threshold Responses of Forest Birds to Landscape Changes around Exurban Development. PLoS ONE. 8(6). e67593–e67593. 42 indexed citations

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Leimgruber, Peter, et al.. (2009). Short Communication A mega-herd of more than 200,000 Mongolian gazelles Procapra gutturosa: a consequence of habitat quality. Oryx. 43(1). 3 indexed citations

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Campos‐Arceiz, Ahimsa, Asier R. Larrinaga, Seiki Takatsuki, et al.. (2008). BEHAVIOR RATHER THAN DIET MEDIATES SEASONAL DIFFERENCES IN SEED DISPERSAL BY ASIAN ELEPHANTS. Ecology. 89(10). 2684–2691. 89 indexed citations

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Rappole, John H., Bradley W. Compton, Peter Leimgruber, et al.. (2006). Modeling Movement of West Nile Virus in the Western Hemisphere. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. 6(2). 128–139. 44 indexed citations

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Leimgruber, Peter, et al.. (2005). The Impact of Landsat Satellite Monitoring on Conservation Biology. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 106(1-3). 81–101. 43 indexed citations

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Aung, Myint, et al.. (2004). The environmental history of Chatthin Wildlife Sanctuary, a protected area in Myanmar (Burma). Journal of Environmental Management. 72(4). 205–216. 27 indexed citations

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Leimgruber, Peter, William J. McShea, & Gary D. Schnell. (2002). Effects of Scale and Logging on Landscape Structure in a Forest Mosaic. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 74(2). 141–166. 8 indexed citations

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