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Nigel Yoccoz
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6,685 Points

Contributions by role

Author 405
Preprint Author 70
Reviewer 140
Editor 6,070

Contributions by subject area

Biodiversity
Ecology
Plant Science
Animal Behavior
Anthropology
Evolutionary Studies
Zoology
Conservation Biology
Molecular Biology
Biogeography
Environmental Sciences
Statistics
Data Science
Microbiology
Soil Science
Climate Change Biology
Bioinformatics
Computational Biology
Mathematical Biology
Population Biology
Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science
Marine Biology
Ecosystem Science
Natural Resource Management
Forestry
Taxonomy
Biosphere Interactions
Entomology
Agricultural Science
Biochemistry
Environmental Impacts
Spatial and Geographic Information Science
Biophysics
Biotechnology
Freshwater Biology
Bronze Contributor

Nigel G. Yoccoz

PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer

Summary

Professor of Statistical Ecology at the Institute of Arctic and Marine Biology of UiT The Arctic University of Norway since 2003. Associate Editor of "Methods in Ecology and Evolution", "Ecography" and "Wildlife Biology", and former associate editors of Ecology and Ecology Letters.

Climate Change Biology Ecology Ecosystem Science Mathematical Biology Natural Resource Management

Editing Journals

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Work details

Professor

University of Tromsø
September 2003
Department of Arctic and Marine Biology

PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 3
  • Preprints 2
  • Edited 40
  • Reviewed 2
March 7, 2016
Analyzing the proximity to cover in a landscape of fear: a new approach applied to fine-scale habitat use by rabbits facing feral cat predation on Kerguelen archipelago
Pierrick Blanchard, Christine Lauzeral, Simon Chamaillé-Jammes, Nigel G. Yoccoz, Dominique Pontier
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1769 PubMed 26989615
March 5, 2015
Definition of sampling units begets conclusions in ecology: the case of habitats for plant communities
Martin A. Mörsdorf, Virve T. Ravolainen, Leif Einar Støvern, Nigel G. Yoccoz, Ingibjörg Svala Jónsdóttir, Kari Anne Bråthen
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.815 PubMed 25780767
April 17, 2014
The spectacular human nose: an amplifier of individual quality?
Åse Kristine Rognmo Mikalsen, Ivar Folstad, Nigel Gilles Yoccoz, Bruno Laeng
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.357 PubMed 24765588
October 28, 2014 - Version: 1
Definition of sampling units begets conclusions in ecology: the case of habitats for plant communities
Martin A Mörsdorf, Virve T. Ravolainen, Leif Einar Støvern, Nigel G. Yoccoz, Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir, Kari Anne Bråthen
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.563v1
March 4, 2014 - Version: 1
The spectacular human nose: an amplifier of individual quality?
Åse Rognmo Mikalsen, Ivar Folstad, Nigel G Yoccoz, Bruno Laeng
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.269v1

Academic Editor on

March 1, 2023
Effects of habitat factors on the plant diversity on naturally-restored wind farm slopes
Pengcheng Wang, Hai Yu, Henglin Xiao, Juan Wan, Qiang Ma, Gaoliang Tao, Qin Wang, Weiwei Jiang, Li Ma
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14912 PubMed 36879910
January 6, 2023
A more reliable species richness estimator based on the Gamma–Poisson model
Chun-Huo Chiu
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14540 PubMed 36632143
May 12, 2022
Linking multi-level population dynamics: state, role, and population
Nao Takashina
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13315 PubMed 35582614
April 19, 2022
The management success of the invasive late goldenrod (Solidago gigantea Aiton.) in a nature conservation area is strongly related to site, control measures and environmental factors
Rea Maria Hall, Bernhard Urban, Hans-Peter Kaul
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13161 PubMed 35462761
April 8, 2022
Times and partners are a-changin’: relationships between declining food abundance, breeding success, and divorce in a monogamous seabird species
David Pelletier, Magella Guillemette
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13073 PubMed 35419215
November 23, 2021
A decrease in reports on road-killed animals based on citizen science during COVID-19 lockdown
Daniel Dörler, Florian Heigl
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12464 PubMed 34900421
August 26, 2021
Issues of under-representation in quantitative DNA metabarcoding weaken the inference about diet of the tundra vole Microtus oeconomus
Magne Neby, Stefaniya Kamenova, Olivier Devineau, Rolf A. Ims, Eeva M. Soininen
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11936 PubMed 34527438
June 16, 2021
Factors affecting livestock depredation by snow leopards (Panthera uncia) in the Himalayan region of Nepal
Ajay Karki, Saroj Panthi
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11575 PubMed 34178460
May 11, 2021
Experimental indications of gardeners’ anecdotes that snails interfere with invasive slugs
Daniel Dörler, Verena Dorn, Theresia Widhalm, Micha Horacek, Florian Heigl, Pia Euteneuer, Friedrich Leisch, Thomas Frank, Johann G. Zaller
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11309 PubMed 34026350
May 11, 2021
Mahalanobis distances for ecological niche modelling and outlier detection: implications of sample size, error, and bias for selecting and parameterising a multivariate location and scatter method
Thomas R. Etherington
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11436 PubMed 34026369
May 4, 2021
Bootstrap methods can help evaluate monitoring program performance to inform restoration as part of an adaptive management program
Jennifer F. Moore, William E. Pine III
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11378 PubMed 33987035
April 8, 2021
Changes in the analysis of temporal community dynamics data: a 29-year literature review
Hannah L. Buckley, Nicola J. Day, Gavin Lear, Bradley S. Case
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11250 PubMed 33889452
February 5, 2021
Assessing red deer hunting management in the Iberian Peninsula: the importance of longitudinal studies
Antonio José Carpio Camargo, Jose Barasona, Pelayo Acevedo, Yolanda Fierro, Christian Gortazar, Carlos Vigal, Ángel Moreno, Joaquin Vicente
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10872 PubMed 33604198
July 29, 2020
A novel curation system to facilitate data integration across regional citizen science survey programs
Dana L. Campbell, Anne E. Thessen, Leslie Ries
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9219 PubMed 32821528
July 29, 2020
The diet of otters (Lutra lutra) on the Agri river system, one of the most important presence sites in Italy: a molecular approach
Maria Buglione, Simona Petrelli, Claudia Troiano, Tommaso Notomista, Eleonora Rivieccio, Domenico Fulgione
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9606 PubMed 32821542
June 23, 2020
Assessing bias in demographic estimates from joint live and dead encounter models
Mitch D. Weegman, Scott Wilson, Ray T. Alisauskas, Dana K. Kellett
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9382 PubMed 32612891
June 18, 2020
Spatial patterns of bat diversity overlap with woodpecker abundance
Dorota Kotowska, Marcin Zegarek, Grzegorz Osojca, Andrzej Satory, Tomas Pärt, Michał Żmihorski
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9385 PubMed 32596056
June 16, 2020
State-space modeling of the dynamics of temporal plant cover using visually determined class data
Hiroki Itô
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9383 PubMed 32587805
May 6, 2020
Predicting the consequences of global warming on Gentiana lutea germination at the edge of its distributional and ecological range
Alba Cuena-Lombraña, Marco Porceddu, Caterina Angela Dettori, Gianluigi Bacchetta
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8894 PubMed 32411511
February 28, 2020
Citizen science in the marine environment: estimating common dolphin densities in the north-east Atlantic
James R. Robbins, Lucy Babey, Clare B. Embling
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8335 PubMed 32161687
February 25, 2020
Full-annual demography and seasonal cycles in a resident vertebrate
Murilo Guimarães, Decio T. Correa, Marília Palumbo Gaiarsa, Marc Kéry
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8658 PubMed 32140310
August 21, 2019
Diet and wild ungulate preferences of wolves in northwestern Anatolia during winter
Deniz Mengüllüoğlu, Eylül İlaslan, Hasan Emir, Anne Berger
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7446 PubMed 31497386
August 9, 2019
Functional group based marine ecosystem assessment for the Bay of Biscay via elasticity analysis
Geoffrey R. Hosack, Verena M. Trenkel
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7422 PubMed 31413929
September 18, 2017
Asymmetric responses to simulated global warming by populations of Colobanthus quitensis along a latitudinal gradient
Ian S. Acuña-Rodríguez, Cristian Torres-Díaz, Rasme Hereme, Marco A. Molina-Montenegro
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3718 PubMed 28948096
September 4, 2017
How long should the fully hillside-closed forest protection be implemented on the Loess Plateau, Shaanxi, China?
Lin Hou, Sijia Hou
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3764 PubMed 28890857
July 31, 2017
Landscape metrics as functional traits in plants: perspectives from a glacier foreland
Tommaso Sitzia, Matteo Dainese, Bertil O. Krüsi, Duncan McCollin
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3552 PubMed 28785514
March 14, 2017
MaxEnt’s parameter configuration and small samples: are we paying attention to recommendations? A systematic review
Narkis S. Morales, Ignacio C. Fernández, Victoria Baca-González
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3093 PubMed 28316894
December 22, 2016
Effects of wind energy generation and white-nose syndrome on the viability of the Indiana bat
Richard A. Erickson, Wayne E. Thogmartin, Jay E. Diffendorfer, Robin E. Russell, Jennifer A. Szymanski
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2830 PubMed 28028486
December 22, 2016
Simplified large African carnivore density estimators from track indices
Christiaan W. Winterbach, Sam M. Ferreira, Paul J. Funston, Michael J. Somers
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2662 PubMed 28028454
October 4, 2016
Performance of maximum likelihood mixture models to estimate nursery habitat contributions to fish stocks: a case study on sea bream Sparus aurata
Edwin J. Niklitschek, Audrey M. Darnaude
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2415 PubMed 27761305
August 16, 2016
Effect of wetland management: are lentic wetlands refuges of plant-species diversity in the Andean–Orinoco Piedmont of Colombia?
Johanna I. Murillo-Pacheco, Matthias Rös, Federico Escobar, Francisco Castro-Lima, José R. Verdú, Germán M. López-Iborra
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2267 PubMed 27602263
May 24, 2016
Conditions during adulthood affect cohort-specific reproductive success in an Arctic-nesting goose population
Mitch D. Weegman, Stuart Bearhop, Geoff M. Hilton, Alyn Walsh, Anthony David Fox
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2044 PubMed 27257539
April 25, 2016
Development of a stem taper equation and modelling the effect of stand density on taper for Chinese fir plantations in Southern China
Aiguo Duan, Sensen Zhang, Xiongqing Zhang, Jianguo Zhang
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1929 PubMed 27168964
December 7, 2015
Large-scale structure of brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) populations in England: effects on rodenticide resistance
Mohd Z.H. Haniza, Sally Adams, Eleanor P. Jones, Alan MacNicoll, Eamonn B. Mallon, Robert H. Smith, Mark S. Lambert
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1458 PubMed 26664802
August 13, 2015
Mammalian cycles: internally defined periods and interaction-driven amplitudes
LR Ginzburg, CJ Krebs
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1180 PubMed 26339557
July 21, 2015
A comparison of observation-level random effect and Beta-Binomial models for modelling overdispersion in Binomial data in ecology & evolution
Xavier A. Harrison
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1114 PubMed 26244118
June 18, 2015
How reproducible are the measurements of leaf fluctuating asymmetry?
Mikhail V. Kozlov
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1027 PubMed 26157612
February 19, 2015
Spatial patterning and floral synchrony among trillium populations with contrasting histories of herbivory
Christopher R. Webster, Michael A. Jenkins, Aaron J. Poznanovic
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.782 PubMed 25737821
January 6, 2015
Male emergence schedule and dispersal behaviour are modified by mate availability in heterogeneous landscapes: evidence from the orange-tip butterfly
W James Davies, Ilik J. Saccheri
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.707 PubMed 25648908
September 23, 2014
Livestock as a potential biological control agent for an invasive wetland plant
Brian R. Silliman, Thomas Mozdzer, Christine Angelini, Jennifer E. Brundage, Peter Esselink, Jan P. Bakker, Keryn B. Gedan, Johan van de Koppel, Andrew H. Baldwin
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.567 PubMed 25276502

Signed reviews submitted for articles published in PeerJ Note that some articles may not have the review itself made public unless authors have made them open as well.

April 29, 2022
The influencing factors for distribution patterns of resident and migrant bird species richness along elevational gradients
Jin-Yong Kim, Jongmin Yoon, Yu-Seong Choi, Soo Hyung Eo
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13258 PubMed 35509964
January 14, 2022
Devil in the details: how can we avoid potential pitfalls of CATS regression when our data do not follow a Poisson distribution?
Zoltán Botta-Dukát
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12763 PubMed 35174013