Taal Levi

9.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
96 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Taal Levi is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Taal Levi has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Ecology, 20 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 19 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Taal Levi's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (57 papers), Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (21 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (19 papers). Taal Levi is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (57 papers), Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (21 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (19 papers). Taal Levi collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Brazil. Taal Levi's co-authors include Christopher C. Wilmers, Carlos A. Peres, William J. Ripple, Christopher Wolf, Matthew G. Betts, Richard S. Ostfeld, Mauro Galetti, Douglas W. Yu, Glenn H. Shepard and A. Marm Kilpatrick and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Taal Levi

88 papers receiving 5.0k 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.

Collapse of the world’s largest herbivores

2015 779 citations Taal Levi, John Terborgh et al. Science Advances profile →
Global forest loss disproportionately erodes biodiversity in intact landscapes

2017 415 citations Adam Duarte, Taal Levi et al. profile →
Bushmeat hunting and extinction risk to the world's mammals

2016 404 citations Taal Levi, Carlos A. Peres et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Taal Levi United States	32	3.2k	1.2k	1.1k	804	721	96	5.2k
Robbie A. McDonald United Kingdom	46	4.4k 1.4×	1.1k 0.9×	739 0.7×	647 0.8×	998 1.4×	207	7.0k
Hillary S. Young United States	32	3.7k 1.2×	2.0k 1.7×	1.4k 1.3×	1.2k 1.4×	1.2k 1.7×	101	6.5k
Scott R. Loss United States	34	2.9k 0.9×	584 0.5×	845 0.8×	642 0.8×	802 1.1×	112	5.3k
Thomas R. Raffel United States	32	1.6k 0.5×	543 0.5×	1.7k 1.6×	741 0.9×	925 1.3×	65	3.9k
Lisa K. Belden United States	37	1.4k 0.5×	587 0.5×	2.8k 2.5×	979 1.2×	1.1k 1.6×	114	5.7k
Michael D. Samuel United States	42	3.4k 1.1×	596 0.5×	831 0.7×	527 0.7×	840 1.2×	150	6.9k
Valerie J. McKenzie United States	30	1.6k 0.5×	475 0.4×	1.5k 1.4×	434 0.5×	566 0.8×	47	4.6k
Jorge Ahumada United States	29	2.0k 0.6×	788 0.7×	554 0.5×	937 1.2×	731 1.0×	62	3.7k
Víctor Sánchez‐Cordero Mexico	36	2.0k 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	617 0.6×	1.9k 2.4×	1.1k 1.6×	138	4.6k
Johannes Foufopoulos United States	29	1.3k 0.4×	456 0.4×	999 0.9×	587 0.7×	1.2k 1.7×	70	3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Taal Levi

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Fields of papers citing papers by Taal Levi

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Taal Levi

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20 of 20 papers shown

Hartman, Jennifer L., et al.. (2025). Describing Diet of Imperiled Sierra Nevada Red Foxes and a Carnivoran Competitor Using DNA Metabarcoding. Ecology and Evolution. 15(7). e71605–e71605.

Appel, Cara L., et al.. (2025). Decoding Owl Calls: Refining Occupancy Inference From Passive Acoustic Monitoring. Ecology and Evolution. 15(10). e72255–e72255.

Appel, Cara L., et al.. (2025). Developing custom computer vision models with Njobvu‐AI: A collaborative, user‐friendly platform for ecological research. Ecological Applications. 35(6). e70096–e70096. 1 indexed citations

Massey, Aimee, Jennifer M. Allen, Gustavo Rodrigues Canale, et al.. (2025). Using iDNA to determine impacts of Amazonian deforestation on Leishmania hosts, vectors, and their interactions. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 19(3). e0012925–e0012925. 1 indexed citations

Lesmeister, Damon B., et al.. (2024). Western spotted skunk spatial ecology in the temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest. Ecosphere. 15(8).

Li, Yuanheng, Christian Devenish, Mingjie Luo, et al.. (2024). Combining environmental DNA and remote sensing for efficient, fine-scale mapping of arthropod biodiversity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 379(1904). 20230123–20230123. 6 indexed citations

Sabal, Megan C., et al.. (2023). Warm oceans exacerbate Chinook salmon bycatch in the Pacific hake fishery driven by thermal and diel depth‐use behaviours. Fish and Fisheries. 24(6). 910–923. 9 indexed citations

Appel, Cara L., et al.. (2023). Using passive acoustic monitoring to estimate northern spotted owl landscape use and pair occupancy. Ecosphere. 14(2). 13 indexed citations

Penaluna, Brooke E., Jennifer M. Allen, Iván Arismendi, et al.. (2021). Better boundaries: identifying the upper extent of fish distributions in forested streams using eDNA and electrofishing. Ecosphere. 12(1). 26 indexed citations

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Adams, Megan S., et al.. (2021). Local Values and Data Empower Culturally Guided Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management of the Wuikinuxv Bear–Salmon–Human System. Marine and Coastal Fisheries. 13(4). 362–378. 20 indexed citations

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Eriksson, Charlotte E., Joel Ruprecht, & Taal Levi. (2020). More affordable and effective noninvasive single nucleotide polymorphism genotyping using high‐throughput amplicon sequencing. Molecular Ecology Resources. 20(6). 1505–1516. 33 indexed citations

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Selker, J. S., et al.. (2020). PolyWAG (Water Acquired Genomics) System: A Field Programmable and Customizable Auto-sampler for eDNA. 6 indexed citations

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Levi, Taal, Jennifer M. Allen, Donovan A. Bell, et al.. (2018). Environmental DNA for the enumeration and management of Pacific salmon. Molecular Ecology Resources. 19(3). 597–608. 82 indexed citations

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Levi, Taal, et al.. (2018). Tropical forests can maintain hyperdiversity because of enemies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(2). 581–586. 45 indexed citations

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Adams, Megan S., Christina N. Service, Andrew W. Bateman, et al.. (2017). Intrapopulation diversity in isotopic niche over landscapes: Spatial patterns inform conservation of bear–salmon systems. Ecosphere. 8(6). 33 indexed citations

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Antunes, André Pinassi, Rachel M. Fewster, Eduardo Martins Venticinque, et al.. (2016). Empty forest or empty rivers? A century of commercial hunting in Amazonia. Science Advances. 2(10). e1600936–e1600936. 124 indexed citations

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Wool, David, et al.. (2013). Dynamics of re-migration of sexuparae to their primary hosts in the gall-forming Fordinae (Homoptera: Aphidoidea: Pemphigidae). European Journal of Entomology. 91(1). 103–108. 3 indexed citations

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Levi, Taal, A. Marm Kilpatrick, Marc Mangel, & Christopher C. Wilmers. (2012). Deer, predators, and the emergence of Lyme disease. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(27). 10942–10947. 235 indexed citations

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Levi, Taal, Flora Lu, Douglas W. Yu, & Marc Mangel. (2011). The behaviour and diet breadth of central-place foragers: an application to human hunters and Neotropical game management. Evolutionary ecology research. 13(2). 171–185. 23 indexed citations

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Levi, Taal & Christopher C. Wilmers. (2011). Wolves–coyotes–foxes: a cascade among carnivores. Ecology. 93(4). 921–929. 211 indexed citations

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