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Boris Leroy is affiliated with the French National Museum of Natural History in France. Their research mainly focuses on environmental science, particularly addressing ecological and economic aspects of biological invasions and species distribution.

Their primary fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Ecology
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

The main topics explored in Leroy's work cover a range of ecological dynamics and invasive species impacts:

  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Forest Insect Ecology and Management
  • Plant and Animal Studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Biological Control of Invasive Species
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies

Leroy has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Franck Courchamp
  • Christophe Diagne
  • Ross N. Cuthbert
  • Phillip J. Haubrock
  • Melina Kourantidou

Their published work appears most commonly in the following journals and venues:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • NeoBiota
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Biological Invasions
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Some of Leroy's recent papers include:

  • "High and rising economic costs of biological invasions worldwide," 2021, Nature
  • "Global economic costs of aquatic invasive alien species," 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "InvaCost, a public database of the economic costs of biological invasions worldwide," 2020, Scientific Data
  • "Economic costs of invasive alien species across Europe," 2021, NeoBiota
  • "Freshwater Fish Invasions: A Comprehensive Review," 2022, Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Best Publications

  • High and rising economic costs of biological invasions worldwide

    Christophe Diagne;Boris Leroy;Anne Charlotte Vaissière;Rodolphe E. Gozlan

  • Massive yet grossly underestimated global costs of invasive insects

    Corey J.A. Bradshaw;Boris Leroy;Boris Leroy;Céline Bellard;Céline Bellard;David Roiz

  • Will climate change promote future invasions

    Celine Bellard;Wilfried Thuiller;Boris Leroy;Piero Genovesi

  • Vulnerability of biodiversity hotspots to global change

    Céline Bellard;Camille Leclerc;Boris Leroy;Boris Leroy;Michel Bakkenes

  • Without quality presence–absence data, discrimination metrics such as TSS can be misleading measures of model performance

    Boris Leroy;Robin Delsol;Robin Delsol;Bernard Hugueny;Christine N. Meynard

  • Global economic costs of aquatic invasive alien species

    Ross N. Cuthbert;Zarah Pattison;Nigel G. Taylor;Laura Verbrugge

  • virtualspecies, an R package to generate virtual species distributions

    Boris Leroy;Boris Leroy;Christine N. Meynard;Christine N. Meynard;Céline Bellard;Céline Bellard;Franck Courchamp;Franck Courchamp

  • InvaCost, a public database of the economic costs of biological invasions worldwide

    C. Diagne;B. Leroy;Rodolphe Gozlan;A.-C. Vaissière

  • Economic costs of invasive alien species across Europe

    Phillip J. Haubrock;Anna J. Turbelin;Ross N. Cuthbert;Ana Novoa

  • A global picture of biological invasion threat on islands.

    Céline Bellard;Jean-François Rysman;Jean-François Rysman;Boris Leroy;Chantal Claud

  • Insights from modeling studies on how climate change affects invasive alien species geography.

    Celine Bellard;Jonathan M. Jeschke;Jonathan M. Jeschke;Boris Leroy;Georgina M. Mace

  • Major drivers of invasion risks throughout the world

    C. Bellard;B. Leroy;B. Leroy;B. Leroy;W. Thuiller;W. Thuiller;J.‐F. Rysman;J.‐F. Rysman

  • Freshwater Fish Invasions: A Comprehensive Review

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  • Present and future distribution of three aquatic plants taxa across the world: decrease in native and increase in invasive ranges

    Morgane Gillard;Gabrielle Thiébaut;Carole Deleu;Boris Leroy

  • Detailed assessment of the reported economic costs of invasive species in Australia

    Corey J.A. Bradshaw;Andrew J. Hoskins;Phillip J. Haubrock;Ross N. Cuthbert

  • Knowledge gaps in economic costs of invasive alien fish worldwide.

    Phillip J. Haubrock;Phillip J. Haubrock;Camille Bernery;Ross N. Cuthbert;Ross N. Cuthbert;Chunlong Liu;Chunlong Liu

  • Economic costs of biological invasions within North America

    Robert Crystal-Ornelas;Emma J. Hudgins;Ross N. Cuthbert;Phillip J. Haubrock

  • Testing methods in species distribution modelling using virtual species: what have we learnt and what are we missing?

    Christine N. Meynard;Boris Leroy;David M. Kaplan

  • Global biogeographical regions of freshwater fish species

    Boris Leroy;Murilo S. Dias;Murilo S. Dias;Emilien Giraud;Bernard Hugueny

  • Forecasted climate and land use changes, and protected areas: the contrasting case of spiders

    Boris Leroy;Boris Leroy;Céline Bellard;Nicolas Dubos;Arthur Colliot

  • Twenty years of observed and predicted changes in subtidal red seaweed assemblages along a biogeographical transition zone: inferring potential causes from environmental data

    Régis K. Gallon;Marine Robuchon;Boris Leroy;Boris Leroy;Line Le Gall

  • European small pelagic fish distribution under global change scenarios

    Alexandre Schickele;Eric Goberville;Boris Leroy;Gregory Beaugrand

Frequent Co-Authors

Franck Courchamp
Franck Courchamp University of Paris-Saclay
Céline Bellard
Céline Bellard University of Paris-Saclay
Ross N. Cuthbert
Ross N. Cuthbert Queen's University Belfast
Elena Angulo
Elena Angulo Spanish National Research Council
Bernard Hugueny
Bernard Hugueny Paul Sabatier University
Christine N. Meynard
Christine N. Meynard Montpellier SupAgro
Fabien Leprieur
Fabien Leprieur University of Montpellier
Wilfried Thuiller
Wilfried Thuiller Grenoble Alpes University
Corey J. A. Bradshaw
Corey J. A. Bradshaw Flinders University
Nathalie Niquil
Nathalie Niquil Université de Caen Normandie

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