Walter Jetz

53.7k total citations · 26 hit papers
201 papers, 33.0k citations indexed

About

Walter Jetz is a scholar working on Ecological Modeling, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Walter Jetz has authored 201 papers receiving a total of 33.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 141 papers in Ecological Modeling, 129 papers in Ecology and 111 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Walter Jetz's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (141 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (106 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (78 papers). Walter Jetz is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (141 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (106 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (78 papers). Walter Jetz collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Walter Jetz's co-authors include Holger Kreft, Jana McPherson, Carsten Rahbek, Arne Ø. Mooers, Klaas Hartmann, Jeffrey B. Joy, Gavin H. Thomas, Jonathan Belmaker, Lauren B. Buckley and Allen H. Hurlbert and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Walter Jetz

197 papers receiving 32.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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 global diversity of birds in space and time

2012 2.7k citations Walter Jetz et al. profile →
Methods to account for spatial autocorrelation in the analysis of species distributional data: a review

2007 2.6k citations Walter Jetz et al. Ecography profile →
EltonTraits 1.0: Species‐level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals

2014 1.4k citations Jonathan Belmaker, Walter Jetz et al. profile →
Global patterns and predictors of marine biodiversity across taxa

2010 1.1k citations Walter Jetz et al. profile →
Terrestrial animal tracking as an eye on life and planet

2015 1.0k citations Roland Kays, Walter Jetz et al. profile →
Global patterns and determinants of vascular plant diversity

2007 990 citations Holger Kreft, Walter Jetz Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
A global assessment of endemism and species richness across island and mainland regions

2009 889 citations Gerold Kier, Holger Kreft et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Projected Impacts of Climate and Land-Use Change on the Global Diversity of Birds

2007 805 citations Walter Jetz et al. PLoS Biology profile →
Inferring the mammal tree: Species-level sets of phylogenies for questions in ecology, evolution, and conservation

2019 724 citations Walter Jetz et al. PLoS Biology profile →
Geographic Range Size and Determinants of Avian Species Richness

2002 561 citations Walter Jetz et al. profile →
A framework for delineating biogeographical regions based on species distributions

2010 537 citations Holger Kreft, Walter Jetz profile →
A suite of global, cross-scale topographic variables for environmental and biodiversity modeling

2018 534 citations Ajay Ranipeta, Jeremy Malczyk et al. profile →
Species richness, hotspots, and the scale dependence of range maps in ecology and conservation

2007 530 citations Allen H. Hurlbert, Walter Jetz Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Homage to Linnaeus: How many parasites? How many hosts?

2008 527 citations Walter Jetz et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Additive threats from pathogens, climate and land-use change for global amphibian diversity

2011 498 citations Walter Jetz et al. profile →
Global habitat loss and extinction risk of terrestrial vertebrates under future land-use-change scenarios

2019 454 citations Walter Jetz et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Global Distribution and Conservation of Evolutionary Distinctness in Birds

2014 443 citations Walter Jetz et al. profile →
The interplay of past diversification and evolutionary isolation with present imperilment across the amphibian tree of life

2018 411 citations Walter Jetz et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →
Integrating biodiversity distribution knowledge: toward a global map of life

2011 408 citations Walter Jetz, Robert Guralnick et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution profile →
COVID-19 lockdown allows researchers to quantify the effects of human activity on wildlife

2020 403 citations Christian Rutz, Matthias‐Claudio Loretto et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →
Global priorities for an effective information basis of biodiversity distributions

2015 387 citations Carsten Meyer, Holger Kreft et al. profile →
Fully-sampled phylogenies of squamates reveal evolutionary patterns in threat status

2016 335 citations Walter Jetz et al. profile →
Biodiversity impacts and conservation implications of urban land expansion projected to 2050

2022 317 citations Walter Jetz et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Essential biodiversity variables for mapping and monitoring species populations

2019 306 citations Walter Jetz, Mélodie A. McGeoch et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →
A high-resolution canopy height model of the Earth

2023 273 citations Walter Jetz et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →
Global elevational diversity and diversification of birds

2018 249 citations Walter Jetz et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	No species left behind: borrowing strength to map data-deficient species 2025 ·Trends in Ecology & Evolution ·Shubhi Sharma, Kevin Winner, Laura J. Pollock, James T. Thorson, (unknown), Cory Merow, Eric J. Pedersen, (unknown), (unknown), Fabiola Iannarilli, Sara Beery, (unknown), Walter Jetz	0
2	A theoretical framework for scaling ecological niches from individuals to species 2025 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Kevin Winner, Jeremy M. Cohen, Diego Ellis‐Soto, Shubhi Sharma, (unknown), Walter Jetz	0
3	Data coverage, biases, and trends in a global citizen‐science resource for monitoring avian diversity 2024 ·Diversity and Distributions ·Frank A. La Sorte, Jeremy M. Cohen, Walter Jetz	5
4	Measuring the evolution of n ‐dimensional environmental niches 2024 ·Ecography ·Shubhi Sharma, Kevin Winner, (unknown), Walter Jetz	0
5	Diverse strategies for tracking seasonal environmental niches at hemispheric scale 2023 ·Global Ecology and Biogeography ·Jeremy M. Cohen, Walter Jetz	5
6	Scale-sensitivity in the measurement and interpretation of environmental niches 2023 ·Trends in Ecology & Evolution ·(unknown), Walter Jetz	26
7	Invasion trends: An interpretable measure of change is needed to support policy targets 2023 ·Conservation Letters ·Mélodie A. McGeoch, Yehezkel Buba, (unknown), Jonathan Belmaker, David A. Clarke, Walter Jetz, Richard Li, Hanno Seebens, Franz Essl, Quentin Groom, Emili García‐Berthou, Bernd Lenzner, Carsten Meyer, Joana R. Vicente, John R. Wilson, Marten Winter	13
8	Integrated species distribution models to account for sampling biases and improve range‐wide occurrence predictions 2023 ·Global Ecology and Biogeography ·(unknown), Cory Merow, Walter Jetz	7
9	Animal-borne sensors as a biologically informed lens on a changing climate 2023 ·Nature Climate Change ·Diego Ellis‐Soto, Martin Wikelski, Walter Jetz	14
10	A vision for incorporating human mobility in the study of human–wildlife interactions 2023 ·Nature Ecology & Evolution ·Diego Ellis‐Soto, Ruth Y. Oliver, Vanessa Brum-Bastos, Urška Demšar, Brett R. Jesmer, Jed Long, Francesca Cagnacci, Federico Ossi, Nuno Queiroz, Mark A. Hindell, Roland Kays, Matthias‐Claudio Loretto, Thomas Mueller, (unknown), David Sims, Marlee A. Tucker, Yan Ropert‐Coudert, Christian Rutz, Walter Jetz	15
11	A unifying framework for quantifying and comparing n‐dimensional hypervolumes 2021 ·Methods in Ecology and Evolution ·(unknown), Kevin Winner, Walter Jetz	22
12	A cloud-based toolbox for the versatile environmental annotation of biodiversity data 2021 ·PLoS Biology ·Richard Li, Ajay Ranipeta, John H. Wilshire, Jeremy Malczyk, (unknown), Robert Guralnick, Adam M. Wilson, Walter Jetz	7
13	Include biodiversity representation indicators in area-based conservation targets 2021 ·Nature Ecology & Evolution ·Walter Jetz, Jennifer McGowan, D. Scott Rinnan, Hugh P. Possingham, Piero Visconti, Brian F. O’Donnell, María Cecilia Londoño	45
14	Simulation-based reconstruction of global bird migration over the past 50,000 years. 2020 ·Apollo (University of Cambridge) ·Marius Somveille, Martin Wikelski, Robert Beyer, Ana S. L. Rodrigues, Andrea Manica, Walter Jetz	1
15	Integrating occurrence data and expert maps for improved species range predictions 2016 ·Global Ecology and Biogeography ·Cory Merow, Adam M. Wilson, Walter Jetz	84
16	A global assessment of endemism and species richness across island and mainland regions breakdown → 2009 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Gerold Kier, Holger Kreft, Tien Ming Lee, Walter Jetz, Pierre L. Ibisch, (unknown), Jens Mutke, Wilhelm Barthlott	889
17	Future battlegrounds for conservation under global change 2008 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Tien Ming Lee, Walter Jetz	125
18	Linking global turnover of species and environments 2008 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Lauren B. Buckley, Walter Jetz	239
19	Species richness, hotspots, and the scale dependence of range maps in ecology and conservation breakdown → 2007 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Allen H. Hurlbert, Walter Jetz	530
20	Sexual plumage differences and the outcome of game bird (Aves: Galliformes) introductions on oceanic islands 2004 ·Evolutionary ecology research ·(unknown), Michael P. Moulton, Ronald F. Labisky, Walter Jetz	5

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