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Ecology and Evolution
Switzerland
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
109
Citations
99972
World Ranking
181
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Antoine Guisan is affiliated with the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and specializes in Environmental Science, with a research portfolio comprising 244 publications. Their primary subfields of study include Ecology, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main topics explored in their work include:

  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Genetic diversity and population structure

Some of Guisan's recent papers include:

  • A standard protocol for reporting species distribution models (2020) published in Ecography
  • Monitoring biodiversity in the Anthropocene using remote sensing in species distribution models (2020) published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • From white to green: Snow cover loss and increased vegetation productivity in the European Alps (2022) published in Science
  • Bryophytes are predicted to lag behind future climate change despite their high dispersal capacities (2020) published in Nature Communications
  • Fine-scale tundra vegetation patterns are strongly related to winter thermal conditions (2020) published in Nature Climate Change

Frequent co-authors of Antoine Guisan include:

  • Olivier Broennimann
  • Antoine Adde
  • Blaise Petitpierre
  • Loïc Pellissier
  • Christophe F. Randin

Guisan's work is published frequently in the following venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Ecography
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Biogeography
  • Journal of Ecology

In addition to journal publications, Antoine Guisan has contributed to book publications through WSL-Berichte/WSL Berichte, with titles focusing on climate change impacts in Switzerland, including:

  • +4 °C und mehr: Schweizer Landschaften im Klimawandel (2023)
  • +4 °C et plus: les paysages suisses face au changement climatique (2023)

Best Publications

  • Novel methods improve prediction of species' distributions from occurrence data

    Jane Elith;Catherine H. Graham;Robert P. Anderson;Miroslav Dudík

  • Predictive habitat distribution models in ecology

    Antoine Guisan;Niklaus E. Zimmermann

  • Predicting species distribution: offering more than simple habitat models.

    Antoine Guisan;Wilfried Thuiller

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • Generalized linear and generalized additive models in studies of species distributions: setting the scene

    Antoine Guisan;Thomas C Edwards;Trevor Hastie

  • Effects of sample size on the performance of species distribution models

    Mary Wisz;R. J. Hijmans;J. Li;A. T. Peterson

  • Five (or so) challenges for species distribution modelling

    Miguel B. Araújo;Antoine Guisan

  • Predicting species distributions for conservation decisions

    A. Guisan;R. Tingley;J. B. Baumgartner;I. Naujokaitis-Lewis

  • The role of biotic interactions in shaping distributions and realised assemblages of species: implications for species distribution modelling

    Mary Susanne Wisz;Julien Pottier;W. Daniel Kissling;Loïc Pellissier

  • Measuring ecological niche overlap from occurrence and spatial environmental data

    Olivier Broennimann;Matthew C. Fitzpatrick;Peter B. Pearman;Blaise Petitpierre

  • Evaluating the ability of habitat suitability models to predict species presences

    Alexandre H. Hirzel;Alexandre H. Hirzel;Gwenaëlle Le Lay;Véronique Helfer;Christophe Randin

  • Predicting global change impacts on plant species' distributions: Future challenges

    Wilfried Thuiller;Cécile Albert;Miguel B. Araújo;Pam M. Berry

  • Evidence of climatic niche shift during biological invasion

    Olivier Broennimann;Urs A. Treier;Urs A. Treier;Heinz Müller-Schärer;W. Thuiller

  • An improved approach for predicting the distribution of rare and endangered species from occurrence and pseudo-absence data

    Robin Engler;Antoine Guisan;Luca Rechsteiner

  • Niche dynamics in space and time

    Peter B. Pearman;Antoine Guisan;Olivier Broennimann;Christophe F. Randin

  • ecospat: an R package to support spatial analyses and modeling of species niches and distributions

    Valeria Di Cola;Olivier Broennimann;Blaise Petitpierre;Frank T. Breiner

  • Habitat Suitability and Distribution Models

    Antoine Guisan;Wilfried Thuiller;Niklaus E. Zimmermann

  • GLM versus CCA spatial modeling of plant species distribution

    Antoine Guisan;Stuart B. Weiss;Andrew D. Weiss

  • Potential impact of climate change on vegetation in the European Alps: A review

    Jean-Paul Theurillat;Antoine Guisan

  • Ecological assembly rules in plant communities--approaches, patterns and prospects.

    Lars Götzenberger;Francesco de Bello;Kari Anne Bråthen;John Davison

Frequent Co-Authors

Niklaus E. Zimmermann
Niklaus E. Zimmermann Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Olivier Broennimann
Olivier Broennimann University of Lausanne
Wilfried Thuiller
Wilfried Thuiller Grenoble Alpes University
Pascal Vittoz
Pascal Vittoz University of Lausanne
Christophe F. Randin
Christophe F. Randin University of Lausanne
Nicolas Salamin
Nicolas Salamin University of Lausanne
Miguel B. Araújo
Miguel B. Araújo University of Évora
Luigi Maiorano
Luigi Maiorano Sapienza University of Rome
Jonathan Lenoir
Jonathan Lenoir University of Picardie Jules Verne

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