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60
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2255
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94

Overview

Alain Roques is affiliated with INRAE (Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement) in France. Their research spans across several domains within agricultural and biological sciences, with a focus on environmental science. The primary fields of study include ecology, insect science, and ecological modeling, among others.

The scientist's work covers key topics related to forest insect ecology and management, plant and animal studies, and insect-plant interactions and control. Additional areas of focus involve species distribution and climate change, insect and pesticide research, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, and ecology and vegetation dynamics studies.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • NeoBiota
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Diversity and Distributions
  • Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • Insects

Alain Roques has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, including:

  • Marie-Anne Auger-Rozenberg (13 joint publications)
  • Andrew M. Liebhold (12 joint publications)
  • Eckehard G. Brockerhoff (11 joint publications)
  • Rebecca M. Turner (10 joint publications)
  • Marc Kenis (9 joint publications)

Selected recent publications illustrate the range of their research interests:

  • "Applying the Convention on Biological Diversity Pathway Classification to alien species in Europe," 2020, NeoBiota
  • "Early Monitoring of Forest Wood-Boring Pests with Remote Sensing," 2022, Annual Review of Entomology
  • "Return of the moth: rethinking the effect of climate on insect outbreaks," 2020, Oecologia
  • "Historical plant introductions predict current insect invasions," 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Bark beetles and pinhole borers recently or newly introduced to France (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae and Platypodinae)," 2020, Zootaxa

Through these works, they have contributed to understanding invasive species pathways, pest monitoring techniques, climate impacts on insect outbreaks, and the dynamics of insect introductions in forest ecosystems.

Best Publications

  • No saturation in the accumulation of alien species worldwide.

    Hanno Seebens;Hanno Seebens;Tim M. Blackburn;Ellie E. Dyer;Ellie E. Dyer;Piero Genovesi

  • Alien species in a warmer world: risks and opportunities

    Gian Reto Walther;Alain Roques;Philip E. Hulme;Martin T. Sykes

  • How well do we understand the impacts of alien species on ecosystem services? A pan-European, cross-taxa assessment

    Montserrat Vila;Corina Basnou;Petr Pysek;Melanie Josefsson

  • Grasping at the routes of biological invasions: a framework for integrating pathways into policy

    P. E. Hulme;S. Bacher;M. Kenis;S. Klotz

  • Ecological effects of invasive alien insects

    Marc Kenis;Marie-Anne Auger-Rozenberg;Alain Roques;Laura Timms

  • EXPANSION OF GEOGRAPHIC RANGE IN THE PINE PROCESSIONARY MOTH CAUSED BY INCREASED WINTER TEMPERATURES

    Andrea Battisti;Michael Stastny;Sigrid Netherer;Christelle Robinet

  • Disentangling the role of environmental and human pressures on biological invasions across Europe

    Petr Pysek;Vojtech Jarosík;Philip E Hulme;Ingolf Kühn

  • Global rise in emerging alien species results from increased accessibility of new source pools.

    Hanno Seebens;Tim M. Blackburn;Tim M. Blackburn;Tim M. Blackburn;Ellie E. Dyer;Ellie E. Dyer;Piero Genovesi

  • Socioeconomic legacy yields an invasion debt

    Franz Essl;Stefan Dullinger;Wolfgang Rabitsch;Philip E. Hulme

  • Direct impacts of recent climate warming on insect populations.

    Christelle Robinet;Alain Roques

  • Forest Insects and Climate Change

    Deepa S. Pureswaran;Alain Roques;Andrea Battisti

  • Alien Terrestrial Invertebrates of Europe

    Alain Roques;Wolfgang Rabitsch;Jean-Yves Rasplus;Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde

  • Crossing Frontiers in Tackling Pathways of Biological Invasions

    Franz Essl;Sven Bacher;Tim M. Blackburn;Olaf Booy

  • Contrasting patterns in the invasions of European terrestrial and freshwater habitats by alien plants, insects and vertebrates

    Petr Pyšek;Petr Pyšek;Sven Bacher;Milan Chytrý;Vojtěch Jarošík;Vojtěch Jarošík

  • How can alien species inventories and interception data help us prevent insect invasions

    M. Kenis;W. Rabitsch;M.-A. Auger-Rozenberg;A. Roques

  • Developing a framework of minimum standards for the risk assessment of alien species

    Helen E. Roy;Wolfgang Rabitsch;Riccardo Scalera;Alan Stewart

  • Insect Fauna of Coniferous Seed Cones: Diversity, Host Plant Interactions, and Management

    J. J. Turgeon;A. Roques;P. de Groot

  • Developing a list of invasive alien species likely to threaten biodiversity and ecosystems in the European Union

    Helen E. Roy;Sven Bacher;Franz Essl;Franz Essl;Tim Adriaens

  • Temporal and interspecific variation in rates of spread for insect species invading Europe during the last 200 years

    Alain Roques;Marie-Anne Auger-Rozenberg;Tim M. Blackburn;Jeffrey R. Garnas

  • Role of Human-Mediated Dispersal in the Spread of the Pinewood Nematode in China

    Christelle Robinet;Alain Roques;Hongyang Pan;Guofei Fang

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc Kenis
Marc Kenis CAB International
Wolfgang Rabitsch
Wolfgang Rabitsch Umweltbundesamt, Austria
Petr Pyšek
Petr Pyšek Czech Academy of Sciences
Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde
Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Andrea Battisti
Andrea Battisti University of Padua
David C. Lees
David C. Lees Natural History Museum
Jean-Yves Rasplus
Jean-Yves Rasplus INRA Biology Center for Population Management (CBGP)
David B. Roy
David B. Roy UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Franz Essl
Franz Essl University of Vienna
Ingolf Kühn
Ingolf Kühn Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

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