Silke Bauer

5.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
78 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Silke Bauer is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Silke Bauer has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Ecology, 32 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 29 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Silke Bauer's work include Avian ecology and behavior (52 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (29 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (25 papers). Silke Bauer is often cited by papers focused on Avian ecology and behavior (52 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (29 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (25 papers). Silke Bauer collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Silke Bauer's co-authors include Bethany J. Hoye, Steffen Hahn, Marcel Klaassen, Félix Liechti, Jesper Madsen, Tamara Emmenegger, Simeon Lisovski, Bart A. Nolet, Zoltán Barta and John M. McNamara and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Silke Bauer

76 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

Migratory Animals Couple Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning Worldwide

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Silke Bauer Switzerland	32	2.8k	1.0k	1.0k	830	561	78	3.6k
Steffen Hahn Switzerland	33	2.8k 1.0×	1.1k 1.1×	932 0.9×	555 0.7×	375 0.7×	113	3.3k
Joël Bêty Canada	40	3.7k 1.3×	1.3k 1.2×	838 0.8×	717 0.9×	686 1.2×	123	4.5k
Sergio A. Lambertucci Argentina	38	2.9k 1.1×	893 0.9×	496 0.5×	773 0.9×	445 0.8×	158	4.1k
Brett K. Sandercock United States	40	3.5k 1.3×	1.2k 1.1×	672 0.7×	1.0k 1.2×	708 1.3×	154	4.4k
Henk P. van der Jeugd Netherlands	34	2.3k 0.9×	1.1k 1.1×	684 0.7×	738 0.9×	498 0.9×	122	3.7k
Raymond H. G. Klaassen Netherlands	34	3.8k 1.4×	1.7k 1.6×	1.3k 1.3×	827 1.0×	532 0.9×	80	4.5k
Niclas Jonzén Sweden	33	1.9k 0.7×	829 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	979 1.2×	676 1.2×	71	2.9k
Philip W. Atkinson United Kingdom	32	3.1k 1.1×	866 0.8×	828 0.8×	1.3k 1.6×	842 1.5×	111	4.3k
José A. Sánchez‐Zapata Spain	44	4.8k 1.7×	1.1k 1.1×	898 0.9×	1.4k 1.7×	710 1.3×	171	5.8k
Keith L. Bildstein United States	35	3.7k 1.3×	1.0k 1.0×	861 0.8×	886 1.1×	796 1.4×	157	4.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Silke Bauer

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Silke Bauer

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bauer, Silke, Lesley T. Lancaster, & Niklaus E. Zimmermann. (2025). Towards a sustainable energy transition. Journal of Applied Ecology. 62(7). 1570–1578.

Desmet, Peter, Judy Shamoun‐Baranes, Bart Kranstauber, et al.. (2025). Biological data derived from European weather radars. Scientific Data. 12(1). 361–361.

Klink, Roel van, et al.. (2024). Towards a toolkit for global insect biodiversity monitoring. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 379(1904). 20230101–20230101. 17 indexed citations

Haest, Birgen, Félix Liechti, Will L. S. Hawkes, et al.. (2024). Continental-scale patterns in diel flight timing of high-altitude migratory insects. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 379(1904). 20230116–20230116. 16 indexed citations

Bauer, Silke, et al.. (2024). Monitoring aerial insect biodiversity: a radar perspective. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 379(1904). 20230113–20230113. 12 indexed citations

Kranstauber, Bart, Silke Bauer, & Judy Shamoun‐Baranes. (2023). Geographic barriers and season shape the nightly timing of avian migration. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 32(11). 1928–1936. 7 indexed citations

Howard, Christine, Tom H. E. Mason, Stephen R. Baillie, et al.. (2023). Explaining and predicting animal migration under global change. Diversity and Distributions. 30(2). 5 indexed citations

Nussbaumer, Raphaël, Baptiste Schmid, Silke Bauer, & Félix Liechti. (2022). Favorable winds speed up bird migration in spring but not in autumn. Ecology and Evolution. 12(8). e9146–e9146. 11 indexed citations

Lisovski, Simeon, Roland P. Neumann, Tomáš Albrecht, et al.. (2021). The Indo‐European flyway: Opportunities and constraints reflected by Common Rosefinches breeding across Europe. Journal of Biogeography. 48(6). 1255–1266. 21 indexed citations

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Nussbaumer, Raphaël, Silke Bauer, Lionel Benoît, et al.. (2021). Quantifying year-round nocturnal bird migration with a fluid dynamics model. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 18(179). 20210194–20210194. 18 indexed citations

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Haest, Birgen, Phillip M. Stepanian, Charlotte E. Wainwright, Félix Liechti, & Silke Bauer. (2020). Climatic drivers of (changes in) bat migration phenology at Bracken Cave (USA). Global Change Biology. 27(4). 768–780. 18 indexed citations

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Emmenegger, Tamara, Staffan Bensch, Steffen Hahn, et al.. (2020). Effects of blood parasite infections on spatiotemporal migration patterns and activity budgets in a long‐distance migratory passerine. Ecology and Evolution. 11(2). 753–762. 24 indexed citations

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Bauer, Silke, John M. McNamara, & Zoltán Barta. (2020). Environmental variability, reliability of information and the timing of migration. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1926). 20200622–20200622. 31 indexed citations

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Briedis, Martins, Silke Bauer, Peter Adamík, et al.. (2020). Broad‐scale patterns of the Afro‐Palaearctic landbird migration. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 29(4). 722–735. 58 indexed citations

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Lisovski, Simeon, Silke Bauer, Martins Briedis, et al.. (2019). Light‐level geolocator analyses: A user's guide. Journal of Animal Ecology. 89(1). 221–236. 139 indexed citations

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Briedis, Martins, Silke Bauer, Peter Adamík, et al.. (2019). A full annual perspective on sex-biased migration timing in long-distance migratory birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1897). 20182821–20182821. 59 indexed citations

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Emmenegger, Tamara, et al.. (2018). Blood parasites prevalence of migrating passerines increases over the spring passage period. Journal of Zoology. 306(1). 23–27. 19 indexed citations

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Bauer, Silke, Judy Shamoun‐Baranes, Cecilia Nilsson, et al.. (2018). The grand challenges of migration ecology that radar aeroecology can help answer. Ecography. 42(5). 861–875. 68 indexed citations

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Bauer, Silke, et al.. (2018). Shooting may aggravate rather than alleviate conflicts between migratory geese and agriculture. Journal of Applied Ecology. 55(6). 2653–2662. 17 indexed citations

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Lameris, Thomas K., et al.. (2017). Potential for an Arctic‐breeding migratory bird to adjust spring migration phenology to Arctic amplification. Global Change Biology. 23(10). 4058–4067. 39 indexed citations

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