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D-Index
37
Citations
8132
World Ranking
6768
National Ranking
306

Colin Fontaine 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 Colin Fontaine sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 83 publications — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Colin Fontaine 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 Colin Fontaine sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 37 D-Index — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Colin Fontaine is affiliated with the French National Centre for Scientific Research in France. Their research spans Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a particular emphasis on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Ecological Modeling; Genetics; Ecology; and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their work covers several main topics including Plant and animal studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Insect and Pesticide Research, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, and the Impact of Light on Environment and Health.

Fontaine's recent publications include:

  • Urbanization and agricultural intensification destabilize animal communities differently than diversity loss (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • Not just honeybees: predatory habits of Vespa velutina (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in France (2021), published in Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N S )
  • Impact of artificial light at night on diurnal plant-pollinator interactions (2021), published in Nature Communications
  • Long-term effects of global change on occupancy and flight period of wild bees in Belgium (2020), published in Global Change Biology
  • Relative effects of anthropogenic pressures, climate, and sampling design on the structure of pollination networks at the global scale (2020), published in Global Change Biology

Frequent co-authors of Fontaine include Élisa Thébault, Marianne Élias, Emmanuelle Porcher, François Duchenne, and Maël Doré. The collaboration counts range from 8 to 19 publications with these colleagues.

Frequently chosen venues for their publications encompass Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Global Change Biology, and Ecology Letters.

Best Publications

  • Stability of Ecological Communities and the Architecture of Mutualistic and Trophic Networks

    Elisa Thébault;Elisa Thébault;Colin Fontaine;Colin Fontaine

  • Functional diversity of plant-pollinator interaction webs enhances the persistence of plant communities.

    Colin Fontaine;Isabelle Dajoz;Jacques Meriguet;Michel Loreau;Michel Loreau

  • Ecophylogenetics: advances and perspectives.

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

  • Artificial light at night as a new threat to pollination

    Eva Knop;Leana Zoller;Remo Ryser;Christopher Gerpe

  • The ecological and evolutionary implications of merging different types of networks

    Colin Fontaine;Paulo R. Guimarães;Sonia Kéfi;Nicolas Loeuille;Nicolas Loeuille

  • Large-scale trade-off between agricultural intensification and crop pollination services

    Nicolas Deguines;Clémentine Jono;Mathilde Baude;Mathilde Baude;Mickaël Henry

  • Advancing our understanding of ecological stability.

    Sonia Kéfi;Virginia Domínguez-García;Ian Donohue;Colin Fontaine

  • Generalist foraging of pollinators: diet expansion at high density

    Colin Fontaine;Colin Fontaine;Carine L. Collin;Isabelle Dajoz

  • Massively Introduced Managed Species and Their Consequences for Plant–Pollinator Interactions

    Benoît Geslin;Benoit Gauzens;Mathilde Baude;Isabelle Dajoz

  • Functional homogenization of flower visitor communities with urbanization.

    Nicolas Deguines;Nicolas Deguines;Romain Julliard;Mathieu de Flores;Colin Fontaine

  • Structure–stability relationships in networks combining mutualistic and antagonistic interactions

    Alix M. C. Sauve;Colin Fontaine;Elisa Thébault

  • The Whereabouts of Flower Visitors: Contrasting Land-Use Preferences Revealed by a Country-Wide Survey Based on Citizen Science

    Nicolas Deguines;Romain Julliard;Mathieu de Flores;Colin Fontaine

  • New Species in the Old World: Europe as a Frontier in Biodiversity Exploration, a Test Bed for 21st Century Taxonomy

    Benoît Fontaine;Kees van Achterberg;Miguel Angel Alonso-Zarazaga;Rafael Araujo

  • Wild pollinator activity negatively related to honey bee colony densities in urban context

    Lise Ropars;Lise Ropars;Isabelle Dajoz;Colin Fontaine;Audrey Muratet

  • Which 2 : 1 clay minerals are involved in the soil potassium reservoir? Insights from potassium addition or removal experiments on three temperate grassland soil clay assemblages

    Pierre Barré;Pierre Barré;Bruce Velde;Colin Fontaine;Colin Fontaine;Nicole Catel

  • Are insect pollinators more generalist than insect herbivores

    Colin Fontaine;Elisa Thébault;Isabelle Dajoz

  • Altitudinal, temporal and trophic partitioning of flower-visitors in Alpine communities.

    Vincent Lefebvre;Claire Villemant;Colin Fontaine;Christophe Daugeron

  • Phenological shifts alter the seasonal structure of pollinator assemblages in Europe

    François Duchenne;E. Thébault;D Michez;M Elias

  • How plants connect pollination and herbivory networks and their contribution to community stability.

    Alix Marianne Carine Sauve;Elisa Thébault;Michael J. O. Pocock;Colin Fontaine

  • 10 years later: Revisiting priorities for science and society a decade after the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

    Christian Mulder;Elena M. Bennett;David A. Bohan;Michael Bonkowski

  • REVIEW A ND SYNTHESIS The ecological and evolutionary implications of merging different types of networks

    Colin Fontaine;R Paulo;Jane Memmott

Frequent Co-Authors

Elisa Thébault
Elisa Thébault Sorbonne University
Romain Julliard
Romain Julliard Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jane Memmott
Jane Memmott University of Bristol
Hendrik Segers
Hendrik Segers Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Louis Deharveng
Louis Deharveng French National Museum of Natural History
Henrik Enghoff
Henrik Enghoff University of Copenhagen
Mark S. Harvey
Mark S. Harvey Australian Museum
Maria Balsamo
Maria Balsamo University of Urbino
David A. Bohan
David A. Bohan INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Ruud A. Bank
Ruud A. Bank University Medical Center Groningen

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