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Christine N. Meynard

Christine N. Meynard

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Ecology and Evolution

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31
Citations
5742
World Ranking
8193
National Ranking
373

Overview

Christine N. Meynard is affiliated with Montpellier SupAgro in France, working primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research encompasses various aspects of ecology, species distribution, and climate change with a focus on modeling and understanding ecological dynamics in changing environments.

Their work addresses key topics such as:

  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant and Animal Studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics

Meynard has contributed extensively to research on ecological modeling, evolutionary processes, and insect science. Notable subfields include Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Some recent publications include:

  • "On the relative role of climate change and management in the current desert locust outbreak in East Africa," 2020, Global Change Biology
  • "Ecological and genomic vulnerability to climate change across native populations of Robusta coffee (Coffea canephora)," 2022, Global Change Biology
  • "A young age of subspecific divergence in the desert locust inferred by ABC random forest," 2020, Molecular Ecology
  • "Building integrated plant health surveillance: a proactive research agenda for anticipating and mitigating disease and pest emergence," 2024, CABI Agriculture and Bioscience
  • "Occurrence data for the two cryptic species of Cacopsylla pruni (Hemiptera: Psylloidea)," 2021, Biodiversity Data Journal

Their frequent coauthors include Guillaume Fried, Isis Poinas, Laura Henckel, Marie-Pierre Chapuis, and Cyril Piou. Meynard commonly publishes in venues such as SSRN Electronic Journal, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Global Change Biology, Ecography, and CABI Agriculture and Bioscience.

Best Publications

  • Spatial mismatch and congruence between taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity: the need for integrative conservation strategies in a changing world

    Vincent Devictor;David Mouillot;Christine Meynard;Frédéric Jiguet

  • Ecophylogenetics: advances and perspectives.

    Nicolas Mouquet;Vincent Devictor;Christine N. Meynard;Francois Munoz

  • 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

  • The virtual ecologist approach: simulating data and observers

    Damaris Zurell;Uta Berger;Juliano S. Cabral;Florian Jeltsch

  • The partitioning of diversity: showing Theseus a way out of the labyrinth

    Francesco De Bello;Sébastien Lavergne;Christine N. Meynard;Jan Lepš

  • Predicting species distributions: a critical comparison of the most common statistical models using artificial species

    Christine N. Meynard;Christine N. Meynard;James F. Quinn

  • 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

  • Beyond taxonomic diversity patterns: how do α, β and γ components of bird functional and phylogenetic diversity respond to environmental gradients across France?

    Christine N. Meynard;Christine N. Meynard;Vincent Devictor;David Mouillot;Wilfried Thuiller

  • Protected and Threatened Components of Fish Biodiversity in the Mediterranean Sea

    David Mouillot;David Mouillot;Camille Albouy;François Guilhaumon;François Guilhaumon;Frida Ben Rais Lasram

  • Disentangling the drivers of metacommunity structure across spatial scales

    Christine N. Meynard;Sébastien Lavergne;Isabelle Boulangeat;Luc Garraud

  • Disentangling the role of connectivity, environmental filtering, and spatial structure on metacommunity dynamics

    C. Moritz;C. N. Meynard;V. Devictor;K. Guizien

  • Asynchrony of taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity in birds

    Anne-Christine Monnet;Frédéric Jiguet;Christine N. Meynard;David Mouillot

  • From diversity indices to community assembly processes: a test with simulated data

    T. Münkemüller;F. de Bello;C. N. Meynard;D. Gravel

  • Representing taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity: new challenges for Mediterranean marine‐protected areas

    François Guilhaumon;François Guilhaumon;Camille Albouy;Camille Albouy;Joachim Claudet;Laure Velez

  • 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

  • Climate‐driven geographic distribution of the desert locust during recession periods: Subspecies’ niche differentiation and relative risks under scenarios of climate change

    Christine N. Meynard;Christine N. Meynard;Michel Lecoq;Antoine Foucart

  • Using virtual species to study species distributions and model performance

    Christine N. Meynard;David M. Kaplan

  • On the relative role of climate change and management in the current desert locust outbreak in East Africa

    Christine N. Meynard;Michel Lecoq;Marie Pierre Chapuis;Cyril Piou

  • BIRD METACOMMUNITIES IN TEMPERATE SOUTH AMERICAN FOREST: VEGETATION STRUCTURE, AREA, AND CLIMATE EFFECTS

    Christine N. Meynard;J. F. Quinn

  • Uncertainties in Predicting Species Distributions under Climate Change: A Case Study Using Tetranychus evansi (Acari: Tetranychidae), a Widespread Agricultural Pest

    Christine N. Meynard;Alain Migeon;Maria Navajas

  • A phylogenetic perspective on the evolution of Mediterranean teleost fishes.

    Christine N. Meynard;Christine N. Meynard;David Mouillot;Nicolas Mouquet;Emmanuel J. P. Douzery

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicolas Mouquet
Nicolas Mouquet University of Montpellier
David Mouillot
David Mouillot University of Montpellier
Camille Albouy
Camille Albouy ETH Zurich
Wilfried Thuiller
Wilfried Thuiller Grenoble Alpes University
Vincent Devictor
Vincent Devictor University of Montpellier
Boris Leroy
Boris Leroy French National Museum of Natural History
Céline Bellard
Céline Bellard University of Paris-Saclay
François Guilhaumon
François Guilhaumon University of Montpellier
Emmanuel J. P. Douzery
Emmanuel J. P. Douzery University of Montpellier
Neville Pillay
Neville Pillay University of the Witwatersrand

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