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Christophe F. Randin

Christophe F. Randin

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Ecology and Evolution

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49
Citations
16198
World Ranking
3952
National Ranking
90

Overview

Christophe F. Randin is affiliated with the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research spans several main fields, including Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on various subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, and Ecological Modeling.

Their recent published papers include:

  • Monitoring biodiversity in the Anthropocene using remote sensing in species distribution models, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • The tempo of greening in the European Alps: Spatial variations on a common theme, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Climate change impacts on water resources in the Mediterranean, 2020, Regional Environmental Change
  • Toward a definition of Essential Mountain Climate Variables, 2021, One Earth
  • Process-based models outcompete correlative models in projecting spring phenology of trees in a future warmer climate, 2020, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Christophe F. Randin are:

  • Antoine Guisan
  • Davnah Urbach
  • Daphné Asse
  • Christine Moos
  • Emmanuel Reynard

Their work has appeared repeatedly in several publication venues, including:

  • Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Journal of Vegetation Science
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Global Change Biology

Christophe F. Randin has also contributed to book publications with WSL-Berichte/WSL Berichte, including two titles released in 2023: "+4 °C und mehr: Schweizer Landschaften im Klimawandel" and "+4 °C et plus: les paysages suisses face au changement climatique."

Best Publications

  • Measuring ecological niche overlap from occurrence and spatial environmental data

    Olivier Broennimann;Matthew C. Fitzpatrick;Peter B. Pearman;Blaise Petitpierre

  • Evaluating the ability of habitat suitability models to predict species presences

    Alexandre H. Hirzel;Alexandre H. Hirzel;Gwenaëlle Le Lay;Véronique Helfer;Christophe Randin

  • Niche dynamics in space and time

    Peter B. Pearman;Antoine Guisan;Olivier Broennimann;Christophe F. Randin

  • ecospat: an R package to support spatial analyses and modeling of species niches and distributions

    Valeria Di Cola;Olivier Broennimann;Blaise Petitpierre;Frank T. Breiner

  • Climatic niche shifts are rare among terrestrial plant invaders

    Blaise Petitpierre;Christoph Kueffer;Christoph Kueffer;Olivier Broennimann;Christophe Randin

  • Are niche-based species distribution models transferable in space?

    Christophe F. Randin;Thomas Dirnböck;Stefan Dullinger;Niklaus E. Zimmermann

  • 21st century climate change threatens mountain flora unequally across Europe

    Robin Engler;Christophe F. Randin;Wilfried Thuiller;Stefan Dullinger

  • Outstanding Challenges in the Transferability of Ecological Models.

    Katherine L. Yates;Katherine L. Yates;Phil J. Bouchet;M Julian Caley;Kerrie Mengersen

  • Climate change and plant distribution: local models predict high-elevation persistence

    Christophe F. Randin;Robin Engler;Signe Normand;Massimiliano Zappa

  • Modelling ecological niches with support vector machines

    John M. Drake;Christophe Randin;Antoine Guisan

  • Predicting future distributions of mountain plants under climate change: does dispersal capacity matter?

    Robin Engler;Christophe F. Randin;Pascal Vittoz;Thomas Czáka

  • Overcoming the rare species modelling paradox: a novel hierarchical framework applied to an Iberian endemic plant.

    A. Lomba;L. Pellissier;C. Randin;J. Vicente

  • Importance of abiotic stress as a range‐limit determinant for European plants: insights from species responses to climatic gradients

    Signe Normand;Urs A. Treier;Christophe Randin;Pascal Vittoz

  • Monitoring biodiversity in the Anthropocene using remote sensing in species distribution models

    Christophe F. Randin;Michael B. Ashcroft;Janine Bolliger;Jeannine Cavender-Bares

  • Where, why and how? Explaining the low-temperature range limits of temperate tree species

    Christian Körner;David Basler;Günter Hoch;Chris Kollas;Chris Kollas

  • Prediction of plant species distributions across six millennia.

    Peter B. Pearman;Christophe F. Randin;Olivier Broennimann;Pascal Vittoz

  • Temperature variation among mangrove latitudinal range limits worldwide

    Katrien Quisthoudt;Nele Schmitz;Nele Schmitz;Christophe F. Randin;Farid Dahdouh-Guebas;Farid Dahdouh-Guebas

  • Very high resolution digital elevation models : Do they improve models of plant species distribution?

    Thierry Lassueur;Stéphane Joost;Christophe F. Randin

  • The accuracy of plant assemblage prediction from species distribution models varies along environmental gradients

    Julien Pottier;Anne Dubuis;Loïc Pellissier;Luigi Maiorano

  • Species distribution models reveal apparent competitive and facilitative effects of a dominant species on the distribution of tundra plants

    Loïc Pellissier;Kari Anne Bråthen;Julien Pottier;Christophe F. Randin

Frequent Co-Authors

Antoine Guisan
Antoine Guisan University of Lausanne
Niklaus E. Zimmermann
Niklaus E. Zimmermann Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Yann Vitasse
Yann Vitasse Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Pascal Vittoz
Pascal Vittoz University of Lausanne
Elena Conti
Elena Conti University of Zurich
Stefan Dullinger
Stefan Dullinger University of Vienna
Olivier Broennimann
Olivier Broennimann University of Lausanne
Christian Körner
Christian Körner University of Basel
Joana R. Vicente
Joana R. Vicente University of Porto

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