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Overview

Céline Bellard is affiliated with the University of Paris-Saclay in France and has contributed extensively to the field of environmental science. Their research focuses on various subfields including ecology, ecological modeling, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and global and planetary change.

The scientist's work covers a range of key topics related to species distribution and climate change, wildlife ecology and conservation, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, animal ecology and behavior studies, plant and animal studies, fish ecology and management studies, and isotope analysis in ecology.

Among recent publications, notable papers include:

  • Freshwater Fish Invasions: A Comprehensive Review (2022) published in Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics
  • Ranking threats to biodiversity and why it doesn't matter (2022) published in Nature Communications
  • Economic costs of invasive alien ants worldwide (2022) published in Biological Invasions
  • What Will the Future Bring for Biological Invasions on Islands? An Expert-Based Assessment (2020) published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Reproducibility in ecology and evolution: Minimum standards for data and code (2023) published in Ecology and Evolution

Frequent coauthors in their research include Franck Courchamp, Clara Marino, Camille Bernery, Boris Leroy, and Bernd Lenzner.

Common venues for publishing their work are Global Change Biology, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Conservation Biology, Diversity and Distributions, and Nature Communications.

Best Publications

  • Impacts of climate change on the future of biodiversity.

    Céline Bellard;Cleo Bertelsmeier;Paul Leadley;Wilfried Thuiller

  • Alien species as a driver of recent extinctions

    Céline Bellard;Phillip Cassey;Tim M. Blackburn

  • A mid-term analysis of progress toward international biodiversity targets

    Derek P. Tittensor;Derek P. Tittensor;Matt Walpole;Samantha L. L. Hill;Daniel G. Boyce;Daniel G. Boyce

  • 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

  • Terrestrial and Inland Water Systems

    Josef Settele;Robert Scholes;Richard A Betts;Stuart Bunn

  • 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

  • Alien versus native species as drivers of recent extinctions

    Tim M Blackburn;Tim M Blackburn;Tim M Blackburn;Céline Bellard;Anthony Ricciardi;Anthony Ricciardi

  • Invasion Biology: Specific Problems and Possible Solutions

    Franck Courchamp;Alice Fournier;Céline Bellard;Cleo Bertelsmeier

  • 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

  • The 100th of the world’s worst invasive alien species

    Gloria M. Luque;Céline Bellard;Cleo Bertelsmeier;Elsa Bonnaud

  • Global patterns in threats to vertebrates by biological invasions.

    C. Bellard;P. Genovesi;J. M. Jeschke

  • Progress towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets: an assessment of biodiversity trends, policy scenarios and key actions

    Paul W. Leadley;Cornelia B. Krug;Rob Alkemade;Henrique M. Pereira

  • Climate change, sea-level rise, and conservation: keeping island biodiversity afloat

    Franck Courchamp;Benjamin D. Hoffmann;James C. Russell;Camille Leclerc

  • 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

  • Impact of sea level rise on the 10 insular biodiversity hotspots

    Céline Bellard;Camille Leclerc;Franck Courchamp

  • 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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  • Improving invasive ant eradication as a conservation tool: A review

    Benjamin D. Hoffmann;Gloria M. Luque;Céline Bellard;Nick D. Holmes

Frequent Co-Authors

Franck Courchamp
Franck Courchamp University of Paris-Saclay
Boris Leroy
Boris Leroy French National Museum of Natural History
Jonathan M. Jeschke
Jonathan M. Jeschke Freie Universität Berlin
Wilfried Thuiller
Wilfried Thuiller Grenoble Alpes University
Tim M. Blackburn
Tim M. Blackburn University College London
Paul W. Leadley
Paul W. Leadley University of Paris-Saclay
Carlo Rondinini
Carlo Rondinini Sapienza University of Rome
James C. Russell
James C. Russell University of Auckland
Christine N. Meynard
Christine N. Meynard Montpellier SupAgro
Piero Visconti
Piero Visconti International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

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