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Christophe Thébaud

Christophe Thébaud

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
40
Citations
6959
World Ranking
6074
National Ranking
271

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Christophe Thébaud is affiliated with Paul Sabatier University in France and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans several subfields including Genetics, Ecology, Ecological Modeling, Molecular Biology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their research topics focus extensively on genetic diversity and population structure, species distribution and climate change, genomics and phylogenetic studies, as well as ecology and vegetation dynamics. Additional areas of study include evolution and paleontology, animal ecology and behavior, and amphibian and reptile biology.

Thébaud has published multiple papers in prominent venues. Recent works include:

  • A simple dynamic model explains the diversity of island birds worldwide (2020, Nature)
  • Island songbirds as windows into evolution in small populations (2021, Current Biology)
  • Large-scale DNA-based survey of frogs in Amazonia suggests a vast underestimation of species richness and endemism (2020, Journal of Biogeography)
  • Threatened and extinct island endemic birds of the world: Distribution, threats and functional diversity (2022, Journal of Biogeography)
  • Deterministic assembly and anthropogenic extinctions drive convergence of island bird communities (2022, Global Ecology and Biogeography)

Their frequent co-authors include Borja Milá, Thibault Leroy, Benoît Nabholz, Antoine Fouquet, and Hidayat Ashari.

Thébaud has regularly contributed to several publication venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Biogeography, Molecular Ecology, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, and Frontiers of Biogeography.

In 2014, Thébaud was recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea.

Best Publications

  • Islands as model systems in ecology and evolution: prospects fifty years after MacArthur‐Wilson

    Ben H. Warren;Ben H. Warren;Ben H. Warren;Daniel Simberloff;Robert E. Ricklefs;Robin Aguilée

  • Chelex without boiling, a rapid and easy technique to obtain stable amplifiable DNA from small amounts of ethanol-stored spiders.

    Juliane Casquet;Christophe Thebaud;Christophe Thebaud;Rosemary G. Gillespie

  • Identification of Amazonian Trees with DNA Barcodes

    Mailyn Adriana Gonzalez;Christopher Baraloto;Julien Engel;Scott A. Mori

  • Revealing the demographic histories of species using DNA sequences

    Brent C. Emerson;Emmanuel Paradis;Christophe Thébaud

  • Are plants really larger in their introduced ranges

    Christophe Thébaud;Daniel Simberloff

  • Why does the biota of the Madagascar region have such a strong Asiatic flavour

    Ben H. Warren;Dominique Strasberg;J. Henrich Bruggemann;Robert P. Prys-Jones

  • Evolutionary paths underlying flower color variation in Antirrhinum.

    Annabel C. Whibley;Nicholas B. Langlade;Christophe Andalo;Andrew I. Hanna

  • Assessing Why Two Introduced Conyza Differ in Their Ability to Invade Mediterranean Old Fields

    Christophe Thebaud;Adrien C. Finzi;Laurence Affre;Max Debussche

  • Effects of alien plant invasions on native vegetation remnants on La Réunion (Mascarene Islands, Indian Ocean).

    Ian A.W. Macdonald;Christophe Thébaud;Wendy A. Strahm;Dominique Strasberg

  • Characterization of invasive Conyza species (Asteraceae) in Europe: quantitative trait and isozyme analysis

    Christophe Thébaud;Christophe Thébaud;Richard J. Abbott;Richard J. Abbott

  • Evolution through genetically controlled allometry space

    Nicolas B. Langlade;Xianzhong Feng;Tracy Dransfield;Lucy Copsey

  • Rapid invasion of Fraxinus ornus L. along the Herault River system in southern France: the importance of seed dispersal by water

    Christophe Thebaud;Max Debussche

  • Biogeography of the Monimiaceae (Laurales): a role for East Gondwana and long‐distance dispersal, but not West Gondwana

    Susanne S. Renner;Joeri S. Strijk;Dominique Strasberg;Christophe Thébaud

  • A simple dynamic model explains the diversity of island birds worldwide.

    Luis Valente;Albert B. Phillimore;Martim Melo;Martim Melo;Ben H. Warren

  • Molecular phylogeography reveals island colonization history and diversification of western Indian Ocean sunbirds (Nectarinia: Nectariniidae)

    Ben H Warren;Eldredge Bermingham;Rauri C.K Bowie;Robert P Prys-Jones

  • Archiving primary data: Solutions for long-term studies

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

  • Global Island Monitoring Scheme (GIMS): a proposal for the long‐term coordinated survey and monitoring of native island forest biota

    Paulo A. V. Borges;Paulo A. V. Borges;Pedro Cardoso;Pedro Cardoso;Pedro Cardoso;Holger Kreft;Robert J. Whittaker;Robert J. Whittaker

  • Immigration, species radiation and extinction in a highly diverse songbird lineage: white-eyes on Indian Ocean islands.

    Ben H. Warren;Eldredge Bermingham;Robert P. Prys-Jones;Christophe Thébaud

  • Island songbirds as windows into evolution in small populations.

    Thibault Leroy;Thibault Leroy;Marjolaine Rousselle;Marjolaine Rousselle;Marie-Ka Tilak;Aude E. Caizergues

  • The geographic scale of diversification on islands: genetic and morphological divergence at a very small spatial scale in the Mascarene grey white-eye (Aves: Zosterops borbonicus )

    Borja Milá;Ben H Warren;Philipp Heeb;Christophe Thébaud

  • Evolution of sexual size dimorphism in birds: test of hypotheses using blue tits in contrasted Mediterranean habitats

    J. Blondel;P. Perret;M.-C. Anstett;C. Thébaud;C. Thébaud

Frequent Co-Authors

Borja Milá
Borja Milá Spanish National Research Council
Dominique Strasberg
Dominique Strasberg University of La Réunion
Brent C. Emerson
Brent C. Emerson Spanish National Research Council
Pedro Cardoso
Pedro Cardoso University of Lisbon
Jérôme Chave
Jérôme Chave Paul Sabatier University
Paulo A. V. Borges
Paulo A. V. Borges University of the Azores
José María Fernández-Palacios
José María Fernández-Palacios University of La Laguna
Franck Courchamp
Franck Courchamp University of Paris-Saclay
Simone Fattorini
Simone Fattorini University of L'Aquila
Thomas J. Matthews
Thomas J. Matthews University of Birmingham

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