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Christian Miquel 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 Christian Miquel sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 54 publications — 1st percentile

1% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Christian Miquel 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 Christian Miquel sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 31 D-Index — 3rd percentile

3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Christian Miquel is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science with a strong emphasis on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Genetics, Global and Planetary Change, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist has contributed to various topics, including:

  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Identification and Quantification in Food
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Helminth infection and control
  • Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
  • Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics

Recent publications by Christian Miquel span from 2020 to 2024 and cover multiple research areas:

  • Unravelling large-scale patterns and drivers of biodiversity in dry rivers, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Comprehensive coverage of human last meal components revealed by a forensic DNA metabarcoding approach, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Individual genotypes from environmental DNA: Fingerprinting snow tracks of three large carnivore species, 2023, Molecular Ecology Resources
  • Conservation genetics of native and European-introduced Chinese water deer (Hydropotes inermis), 2020, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • Vegetation structure and climate shape mountain arthropod distributions across trophic levels, 2024, Journal of Animal Ecology

Christian Miquel has published in several scientific venues, including:

  • Nature Communications
  • Scientific Reports
  • Molecular Ecology Resources
  • Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Peer Community Journal

Frequent co-authors in Christian Miquel's work include Frédéric Boyer, Delphine Rioux, Pierre Taberlet, Arnaud Foulquier, and Thibault Datry. Collaborations with these researchers have been repeated on multiple projects, indicating ongoing scientific partnerships.

Best Publications

  • Power and limitations of the chloroplast trnL(UAA) intron for plant DNA barcoding

    Pierre Taberlet;Eric Coissac;François Pompanon;Ludovic Gielly

  • Improved detection of an alien invasive species through environmental DNA barcoding: the example of the American bullfrog Lithobates catesbeianus

    Tony Dejean;Alice Valentini;Christian Miquel;Pierre Taberlet

  • DNA metabarcoding multiplexing and validation of data accuracy for diet assessment: application to omnivorous diet

    M. De Barba;C. Miquel;F. Boyer;C. Mercier

  • New perspectives in diet analysis based on DNA barcoding and parallel pyrosequencing: the trnL approach

    Alice Valentini;Christian Miquel;Muhammad Ali Nawaz;Eva Bellemain

  • Carnivore diet analysis based on next-generation sequencing: application to the leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) in Pakistan.

    Wasim Shehzad;Tiayyba Riaz;Muhammad A. Nawaz;Christian Miquel

  • Soil sampling and isolation of extracellular DNA from large amount of starting material suitable for metabarcoding studies.

    Pierre Taberlet;Sophie M. Prud’Homme;Etienne Campione;Julien Roy

  • Analysing diet of small herbivores: the efficiency of DNA barcoding coupled with high-throughput pyrosequencing for deciphering the composition of complex plant mixtures

    Eeva M Soininen;Alice Valentini;Eric Coissac;Christian Miquel

  • DNA from soil mirrors plant taxonomic and growth form diversity

    N. G. Yoccoz;K. A. Bråthen;L. Gielly;J. Haile;J. Haile

  • Influence of management practices on large herbivore diet—Case of European bison in Białowieża Primeval Forest (Poland)

    Rafał Kowalczyk;Pierre Taberlet;Eric Coissac;Alice Valentini

  • From the Apennines to the Alps: colonization genetics of the naturally expanding Italian wolf (Canis lupus) population

    Elena Fabbri;Christian Miquel;Vittorio Lucchini;Alberto Santini

  • Long-distance wolf recolonization of France and Switzerland inferred from non-invasive genetic sampling over a period of 10 years

    Nathaniel Valière;Luca Fumagalli;Ludovic Gielly;Christian Miquel

  • Divergent mtDNA lineages of goats in an Early Neolithic site, far from the initial domestication areas.

    Helena Fernández;Sandrine Hughes;Jean-Denis Vigne;Daniel Helmer

  • Tracking earthworm communities from soil DNA.

    Friederike Bienert;Sébastien De Danieli;Christian Miquel;Eric Coissac

  • A DNA metabarcoding study of a primate dietary diversity and plasticity across its entire fragmented range.

    Erwan Quéméré;Erwan Quéméré;Fabrice Hibert;Christian Miquel;Emeline Lhuillier

  • Estimating population size and trends of the Swedish brown bear Ursus arctos population

    Jonas Kindberg;Jon E. Swenson;Göran Ericsson;Eva Bellemain

  • Long-Term Evolutionary Stability of Bacterial Endosymbiosis in Curculionoidea: Additional Evidence of Symbiont Replacement in the Dryophthoridae Family

    Cyrille Conord;Laurence Despres;Agnès Vallier;Séverine Balmand

  • Quality indexes to assess the reliability of genotypes in studies using noninvasive sampling and multiple‐tube approach

    C. Miquel;E. Bellemain;E. Bellemain;C. Poillot;J. Bessière

  • High-throughput microsatellite genotyping in ecology: improved accuracy, efficiency, standardization and success with low-quantity and degraded DNA.

    M. De Barba;M. De Barba;C. Miquel;C. Miquel;S. Lobréaux;S. Lobréaux;P. Y. Quenette

  • Importance of Accounting for Detection Heterogeneity When Estimating Abundance: the Case of French Wolves

    Sarah Cubaynes;Roger Pradel;Rémi Choquet;Christophe Duchamp

  • Buccal swabs as a non-destructive tissue sampling method for DNA analysis in amphibians

    Nathalie Pidancier;Christian Miquel;Claude Miaud

  • DNA Barcoding for Honey Biodiversity

    Alice Valentini;Christian Miquel;Pierre Taberlet

  • Major histocompatibility complex class II compatibility, but not class I, predicts mate choice in a bird with highly developed olfaction

    Maria Strandh;Helena Westerdahl;Mikael Pontarp;Björn Canbäck

  • Universal DNA-based methods for assessing the diet of grazing livestock and wildlife from feces.

    Anthony Pegard;Christian Miquel;Alice Valentini;Eric Coissac

  • New insights on diet variability revealed by DNA barcoding and high-throughput pyrosequencing: chamois diet in autumn as a case study

    Gilles Rayé;Christian Miquel;Eric Coissac;Claire Redjadj;Claire Redjadj

  • Plant functional traits reveal the relative contribution of habitat and food preferences to the diet of grasshoppers.

    Sébastien Ibanez;Olivier Manneville;Christian Miquel;Pierre Taberlet

Frequent Co-Authors

Pierre Taberlet
Pierre Taberlet Grenoble Alpes University
Eric Coissac
Eric Coissac Grenoble Alpes University
Olivier Gimenez
Olivier Gimenez Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
François Pompanon
François Pompanon Grenoble Alpes University
Ludovic Gielly
Ludovic Gielly Grenoble Alpes University
Jon E. Swenson
Jon E. Swenson Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Luca Fumagalli
Luca Fumagalli University of Lausanne
Gordon Luikart
Gordon Luikart University of Montana
Claude Miaud
Claude Miaud University of Montpellier

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