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Alain Vanderpoorten

Alain Vanderpoorten

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
52
Citations
7263
World Ranking
3519
National Ranking
50

Alain Vanderpoorten publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alain Vanderpoorten sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 218 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Alain Vanderpoorten D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alain Vanderpoorten sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 52 D-Index — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Alain Vanderpoorten is affiliated with the University of Liège in Belgium and has contributed extensively to the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work spans subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecology.

The primary topics of their research include:

  • Bryophyte Studies and Records
  • Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
  • Lichen and fungal ecology
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology

Vanderpoorten has published articles in several prominent venues, including:

  • Journal of Bryology
  • Annals of Botany
  • Journal of Biogeography
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Ecography

Recent publications include:

  • "Macaronesia as a Fruitful Arena for Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology" (2021), published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Bryophytes are predicted to lag behind future climate change despite their high dispersal capacities" (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • "Intraspecific differentiation: Implications for niche and distribution modelling" (2020), published in Journal of Biogeography
  • "Spatial resolution impacts projected plant responses to climate change on topographically complex islands" (2023), published in Diversity and Distributions
  • "Unveiling the nature of a miniature world: a horizon scan of fundamental questions in bryology" (2022), published in Journal of Bryology

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Flavien Collart
  • Jairo Patiño
  • Antoine Guisan
  • Olivier Broennimann
  • Bernard Goffinet

Best Publications

  • Introduction to Bryophytes

    Alain Vanderpoorten;Bernard Goffinet

  • Extant diversity of bryophytes emerged from successive post-Mesozoic diversification bursts

    B. Laenen;B. Laenen;B. Shaw;H. Schneider;B. Goffinet

  • Bryophyte Biogeography

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  • Resolution of the ordinal phylogeny of mosses using targeted exons from organellar and nuclear genomes.

    Yang Liu;Matthew G. Johnson;Cymon J. Cox;Rafael Medina

  • The mossy north: an inverse latitudinal diversity gradient in European bryophytes

    Rubén G. Mateo;Rubén G. Mateo;Rubén G. Mateo;Olivier Broennimann;Signe Normand;Blaise Petitpierre

  • Phylogeny and morphological evolution of the amblystegiaceae (Bryopsida).

    Alain Vanderpoorten;Lars Hedenäs;Cymon J Cox;A.Jonathan Shaw

  • Does Macaronesia exist? Conflicting signal in the bryophyte and pteridophyte floras

    Alain Vanderpoorten;F. J. Rumsey;M. A. Carine

  • Origin and evolution of the northern hemisphere disjunction in the moss genus Homalothecium (Brachytheciaceae).

    Sanna Huttunen;Lars Hedenäs;Michael S. Ignatov;Nicolas Devos

  • How far and how fast do bryophytes travel at the landscape scale

    Virginie Hutsemekers;Claude Dopagne;Alain Vanderpoorten

  • Macaronesia as a Fruitful Arena for Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology

    Margarita Florencio;Jairo Patiño;Jairo Patiño;Jairo Patiño;Sandra Nogué;Anna Traveset

  • Approximate Bayesian Computation Reveals the Crucial Role of Oceanic Islands for the Assembly of Continental Biodiversity

    Jairo Patiño;Jairo Patiño;Jairo Patiño;Mark Carine;Patrick Mardulyn;Nicolas Devos

  • Oceanic islands are not sinks of biodiversity in spore-producing plants

    Virginie Hutsemékers;Péter Szövényi;A. Jonathan Shaw;Juana-María González-Mancebo

  • Geography and host biogeography matter for understanding the phylogeography of a parasite.

    Caroline Nieberding;Marie-Claude Durette-Desset;Alain Vanderpoorten;Juan Carlos Casanova

  • Out of Africa: north-westwards Pleistocene expansions of the heather Erica arborea

    Aurélie Désamoré;Benjamin Laenen;Nicolas Devos;Magnus Popp

  • Bryophytes are predicted to lag behind future climate change despite their high dispersal capacities.

    Florian Zanatta;Robin Engler;Flavien Collart;Olivier Broennimann

  • The ghosts of Gondwana and Laurasia in modern liverwort distributions.

    Alain Vanderpoorten;S. Robbert Gradstein;Mark A. Carine;Nicolas Devos

  • Disentangling knots of rapid evolution: origin and diversification of the moss order Hypnales

    Sanna Huttunen;Neil Bell;Vera K Bobrova;Volker Buchbender

  • Baker’s law and the island syndromes in bryophytes

    Jairo Patiño;Jairo Patiño;Jairo Patiño;Irene Bisang;Lars Hedenäs;Gerard Dirkse

  • The barriers to oceanic island radiation in bryophytes: insights from the phylogeography of the moss Grimmia montana

    Alain Vanderpoorten;Nicolas Devos;Bernard Goffinet;Olivier J. Hardy

  • Cryptic taxa should have names: Reflections in the glasswort genus Salicornia (Amaranthaceae)

    Gudrun Kadereit;Mikko Piirainen;Jacques Lambinon;Alain Vanderpoorten

  • How do temperate bryophytes face the challenge of a changing environment? Lessons from the past and predictions for the future

    Aurélie Désamoré;Benjamin Laenen;Michael Stech;Beata Papp

  • When morphology and molecules tell us different stories: a case-in-point with Leptodon corsicus, a new and unique endemic moss species from Corsica

    André Sotiaux;Johannes Enroth;Sanna Olsson;Dietmar Quandt

  • Introduction to Bryophytes: Preface

    Alain Vanderpoorten;Bernard Goffinet

Frequent Co-Authors

Jairo Patiño
Jairo Patiño Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología
Bernard Goffinet
Bernard Goffinet University of Connecticut
A. Jonathan Shaw
A. Jonathan Shaw Duke University
Lars Hedenäs
Lars Hedenäs Swedish Museum of Natural History
Cymon J. Cox
Cymon J. Cox University of Algarve
S. Robbert Gradstein
S. Robbert Gradstein University of Göttingen
Olivier J. Hardy
Olivier J. Hardy Université Libre de Bruxelles
Dietmar Quandt
Dietmar Quandt University of Bonn
Antoine Guisan
Antoine Guisan University of Lausanne
Anne-Laure Jacquemart
Anne-Laure Jacquemart Université Catholique de Louvain

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