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Benoit Guénard

Benoit Guénard

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
37
Citations
7081
World Ranking
6794
National Ranking
138

Overview

Benoit Guénard is affiliated with the University of Hong Kong in China and focuses on research predominantly in the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields, including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Ecological Modeling, Social Psychology, and Ecology.

The scientist's research covers key topics such as Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Plant and Animal Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Animal and Plant Science Education, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, and Insect and Pesticide Research.

Benoit Guénard has contributed to numerous scientific publications, with recent papers including:

  • The abundance, biomass, and distribution of ants on Earth (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • The global distribution of known and undiscovered ant biodiversity (2022, Science Advances)
  • The global spread and invasion capacities of alien ants (2023, Current Biology)
  • Mangroves are an overlooked hotspot of insect diversity despite low plant diversity (2021, BMC Biology)
  • The impact of land use on non-native species incidence and number in local assemblages worldwide (2023, Nature Communications)

Frequent co-authors with whom Benoit Guénard has published include:

  • Evan P. Economo (32 collaborations)
  • Mark K. L. Wong (10 collaborations)
  • Jamie M. Kass (9 collaborations)
  • Chi-Man Leong (9 collaborations)
  • Toby P. N. Tsang (8 collaborations)

Publications frequently appear in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 9 publications
  • ZooKeys with 4 publications
  • Ecography with 4 publications
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences with 3 publications
  • European Journal of Taxonomy with 3 publications

Best Publications

  • The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems

    Jos Barlow;Filipe França;Filipe França;Toby A. Gardner;Christina C. Hicks

  • 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

  • Global hotspots and correlates of alien species richness across taxonomic groups

    Wayne Dawson;Dietmar Moser;Mark van Kleunen;Mark van Kleunen;Holger Kreft

  • Visualizing and interacting with large-volume biodiversity data using client–server web-mapping applications: The design and implementation of antmaps.org

    Julia Janicki;Nitish Narula;Matt Ziegler;Benoit Guénard;Benoit Guénard

  • Climatic drivers of hemispheric asymmetry in global patterns of ant species richness

    Robert R. Dunn;Donat Agosti;Alan N. Andersen;Xavier Arnan;Xavier Arnan

  • The abundance, biomass, and distribution of ants on Earth

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  • The Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics (GABI) database: synthesizing data on the geographic distribution of ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

    BS Guenard;Weiser;K Gomez;N Narula

  • Trait-based ecology of terrestrial arthropods.

    Mark K. L. Wong;Benoit Guénard;Owen T. Lewis

  • Macroecology and macroevolution of the latitudinal diversity gradient in ants.

    Evan P. Economo;Nitish Narula;Nicholas R. Friedman;Michael D. Weiser

  • The global distribution of known and undiscovered ant biodiversity

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  • Remoteness promotes biological invasions on islands worldwide.

    Dietmar Moser;Bernd Lenzner;Patrick Weigelt;Wayne Dawson

  • Relative roles of climatic suitability and anthropogenic influence in determining the pattern of spread in a global invader

    Núria Roura-Pascual;Cang Hui;Takayoshi Ikeda;Gwénaël G R Leday

  • Urban areas may serve as habitat and corridors for dry-adapted, heat tolerant species; an example from ants

    Sean B. Menke;Benoît S. Guénard;Joseph O. Sexton;Michael D. Weiser

  • An updated checklist of the ants of India with their specific distributions in Indian states (Hymenoptera, Formicidae).

    Himender Bharti;Benoit Guénard;Meenakshi Bharti;Evan P. Economo

  • Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences

    Luis M.P. Ceríaco;Luis M.P. Ceríaco;Eliécer E. Gutiérrez;Eliécer E. Gutiérrez;Alain Dubois;Cristian Simón Abdala

  • Global diversity in light of climate change: the case of ants

    Clinton Neil Jenkins;Nathan J. Sanders;Nathan J. Sanders;Alan N. Andersen;Xavier Arnan

  • Global models of ant diversity suggest regions where new discoveries are most likely are under disproportionate deforestation threat.

    Benoît S. Guénard;Michael D. Weiser;Robert R. Dunn

  • New records of ant species from Yunnan, China.

    Cong Liu;Benoit Guénard;Francisco Hita Garcia;Seiki Yamane

  • A checklist of the ants of China

    Benoît S. Guénard;Robert R. Dunn

  • Introduced Pheidole of the world: taxonomy, biology and distribution

    Eli М. Sarnat;Georg Fischer;Benoit Guénard;Evan P. Economo

  • Tracing the rise of ants - out of the ground.

    Andrea W. Lucky;Andrea W. Lucky;Michelle D. Trautwein;Michelle D. Trautwein;Benoît S. Guénard;Benoît S. Guénard;Michael D. Weiser;Michael D. Weiser

  • A New (Old), Invasive Ant in the Hardwood Forests of Eastern North America and Its Potentially Widespread Impacts

    Benoît S. Guénard;Robert R. Dunn

  • Global phylogenetic structure of the hyperdiverse ant genus Pheidole reveals the repeated evolution of macroecological patterns

    Evan P. Economo;Evan P. Economo;Pavel Klimov;Pavel Klimov;Eli M. Sarnat;Benoit Guénard

Frequent Co-Authors

Evan P. Economo
Evan P. Economo Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Robert R. Dunn
Robert R. Dunn North Carolina State University
Michael D. Weiser
Michael D. Weiser University of Oklahoma
Nathan J. Sanders
Nathan J. Sanders University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Brian L. Fisher
Brian L. Fisher California Academy of Sciences
Catherine L. Parr
Catherine L. Parr University of Liverpool
Petr Pyšek
Petr Pyšek Czech Academy of Sciences
Jonathan Majer
Jonathan Majer Curtin University
Aaron M. Ellison
Aaron M. Ellison Harvard University
Tim M. Blackburn
Tim M. Blackburn University College London

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