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D-Index
47
Citations
7072
World Ranking
4491
National Ranking
192

Christophe Bonenfant 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 Christophe Bonenfant sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 121 publications — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Christophe Bonenfant 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 Christophe Bonenfant sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Christophe Bonenfant is affiliated with Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 in France and focuses their research mainly within the field of Environmental Science. Their work is distributed across several subfields including Ecology, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Genetics, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their noteworthy research addresses a variety of topics such as Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation, Genetic and Phenotypic Traits in Livestock, and Avian Ecology and Behavior.

Recent significant publications by Bonenfant include:

  • Temporal correlations among demographic parameters are ubiquitous but highly variable across species, 2022, Ecology Letters
  • Revisiting animal photo-identification using deep metric learning and network analysis, 2021, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Comparison of environmental, biological and anthropogenic causes of wildlife-vehicle collisions among three large herbivore species, 2020, Population Ecology
  • Quantifying fixed individual heterogeneity in demographic parameters: Performance of correlated random effects for Bernoulli variables, 2021, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Revisiting animal photo-identification using deep metric learning and network analysis, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Bonenfant often collaborates with several researchers, including Simon Chamaillé-Jammes, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Lucie Thel, Annaëlle Bénard, and Thierry Lengagne, reflecting frequently repeated coauthorship in their work.

The scientist's articles are commonly published in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Population Ecology, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Ecology Letters.

Best Publications

  • Empirical Evidence of Density- Dependence in Populations of Large Herbivores

    C. Bonenfant;J.M. Gaillard;T. Coulson;M. Festa-Bianchet

  • Temporal and spatial development of red deer harvesting in Europe: biological and cultural factors

    Jos M. Milner;Jos M. Milner;Christophe Bonenfant;Christophe Bonenfant;Atle Mysterud;Jean‐Michel Gaillard

  • Early-late life trade-offs and the evolution of ageing in the wild

    Jean-François Lemaître;Vérane Berger;Christophe Bonenfant;Mathieu Douhard

  • Generation time: a reliable metric to measure life-history variation among mammalian populations.

    Jean‐Michel Gaillard;Nigel G. Yoccoz;Jean‐Dominique Lebreton;Christophe Bonenfant

  • Mismatch between birth date and vegetation phenology slows the demography of roe deer.

    Floriane Plard;Jean-Michel Gaillard;Tim Coulson;A. J. Mark Hewison

  • Seasonality, weather and climate affect home range size in roe deer across a wide latitudinal gradient within Europe

    Nicolas Morellet;Christophe Bonenfant;Luca Börger;Federico Ossi;Federico Ossi

  • Fitness costs of reproduction depend on life speed: empirical evidence from mammalian populations.

    Sandra Hamel;Jean-Michel Gaillard;Nigel Gilles Yoccoz;Anne Loison

  • Lifetime reproductive success and composition of the home range in a large herbivore.

    P. D. McLoughlin;J.-M. Gaillard;M. S. Boyce;C. Bonenfant

  • Functional analysis of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index curves reveals overwinter mule deer survival is driven by both spring and autumn phenology

    Mark A. Hurley;Mark Hebblewhite;Jean Michel Gaillard;Stéphane Dray

  • Climate predictability and breeding phenology in red deer: timing and synchrony of rutting and calving in Norway and France

    L. E. Loe;C. Bonenfant;A. Mysterud;J.-M. Gaillard

  • Diet of the wild boar in the French Alps

    Eric Baubet;Christophe Bonenfant;Serge Brandt

  • Sex‐ and age‐dependent effects of population density on life history traits of red deer Cervus elaphus in a temperate forest

    Christophe Bonenfant;Jean-Michel Gaillard;François Klein;Anne Loison

  • Multiple causes of sexual segregation in European red deer: enlightenments from varying breeding phenology at high and low latitude.

    Christophe Bonenfant;Leif E. Loe;Leif E. Loe;Atle Mysterud;Rolf Langvatn

  • Archiving primary data: Solutions for long-term studies

    James A. Mills;Céline Teplitsky;Beatriz Arroyo;Anne Charmantier

  • How does climate change influence demographic processes of widespread species? Lessons from the comparative analysis of contrasted populations of roe deer

    Jean-Michel Gaillard;A. J. Mark Hewison;François Klein;Floriane Plard

  • Activity pattern of arctic reindeer in a predator-free environment: no need to keep a daily rhythm

    Leif Egil Loe;Christophe Bonenfant;Christophe Bonenfant;Atle Mysterud;Torbjørn Severinsen

  • Fitness consequences of environmental conditions at different life stages in a long-lived vertebrate

    Mathieu Douhard;Mathieu Douhard;Floriane Plard;Jean-Michel Gaillard;Gilles Capron

  • Habitat selection by a large herbivore at multiple spatial and temporal scales is primarily governed by food resources

    Claudia Dupke;Christophe Bonenfant;Björn Reineking;Björn Reineking;Robert Hable

  • Importance of a pilot study for non-invasive genetic sampling: genotyping errors and population size estimation in red deer

    Nathaniel Valière;Christophe Bonenfant;Carole Toïgo;Gordon Luikart

  • Testing five hypotheses of sexual segregation in an arctic ungulate

    Leif Egil Loe;R. Justin Irvine;Christophe Bonenfant;Audun Stien

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Michel Gaillard
Jean-Michel Gaillard Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Leif Egil Loe
Leif Egil Loe Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Atle Mysterud
Atle Mysterud University of Oslo
Anne Loison
Anne Loison Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Simon Chamaillé-Jammes
Simon Chamaillé-Jammes Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Nils Chr. Stenseth
Nils Chr. Stenseth University of Oslo
Rolf Langvatn
Rolf Langvatn Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Tim Coulson
Tim Coulson University of Oxford
Nigel G. Yoccoz
Nigel G. Yoccoz University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
A. J. Mark Hewison
A. J. Mark Hewison Comportement et Ecologie de la Faune Sauvage

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