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Overview

Cyrille Violle is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research spans multiple domains within Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with significant focus on plant science, ecology, and conservation.

The main fields of study include:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Their subfields of study elaborate on specialized areas within these domains:

  • Plant Science
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Genetics

The primary topics covered by this scientist's work are diverse and include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services

Cyrille Violle has contributed to publishing research in several well-recognized venues, with multiple publications in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • New Phytologist
  • Nature Communications
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • François Vasseur
  • Florian Fort
  • Brian J. Enquist
  • François Munoz
  • Denis Vile

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Cyrille Violle include:

  • "Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water," 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life," 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Land-use history impacts functional diversity across multiple trophic groups," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "The dimensionality and structure of species trait spaces," 2021, Ecology Letters

Best Publications

  • Let the concept of trait be functional

    Cyrille Violle;Marie-Laure Navas;Denis Vile;Elena Kazakou

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

    J. Kattge;S. Díaz;S. Lavorel;I. C. Prentice

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology

    Cyrille Violle;Cyrille Violle;Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. McGill;Lin Jiang

  • Intraspecific variability and trait‐based community assembly

    Vincent Jung;Cyrille Violle;Cyrille Violle;Cédric Mondy;Lucien Hoffmann

  • The n‐dimensional hypervolume

    Benjamin Blonder;Benjamin Blonder;Benjamin Blonder;Christine Lamanna;Christine Lamanna;Cyrille Violle;Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist

  • The emergence and promise of functional biogeography

    Cyrille Violle;Peter B. Reich;Peter B. Reich;Stephen W. Pacala;Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist

  • A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities

    Andrew Siefert;Cyrille Violle;Loïc Chalmandrier;Loïc Chalmandrier;Cécile H Albert

  • When and how should intraspecific variability be considered in trait-based plant ecology?

    Cécile H. Albert;Cécile H. Albert;Fabrice Grassein;Fabrice Grassein;Frankl M. Schurr;Ghislain Vieilledent

  • Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

    Helge Bruelheide;Jürgen Dengler;Jürgen Dengler;Oliver Purschke;Jonathan Lenoir

  • A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities

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  • Increasing crop heterogeneity enhances multitrophic diversity across agricultural regions

    Clélia Sirami;Clélia Sirami;Nicolas Gross;Aliette Bosem Baillod;Aliette Bosem Baillod;Colette Bertrand;Colette Bertrand;Colette Bertrand

  • Phylogenetic limiting similarity and competitive exclusion

    Cyrille Violle;Cyrille Violle;Cyrille Violle;Diana R. Nemergut;Diana R. Nemergut;Zhichao Pu;Lin Jiang

  • Community assembly along a soil depth gradient: contrasting patterns of plant trait convergence and divergence in a Mediterranean rangeland

    Maud Bernard-Verdier;Marie-Laure Navas;Marie-Laure Navas;Mark Vellend;Cyrille Violle

  • Scaling from Traits to Ecosystems: Developing a General Trait Driver Theory via Integrating Trait-Based and Metabolic Scaling Theories

    Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Jon Norberg;Stephen P. Bonser;Cyrille Violle;Cyrille Violle

  • Functional Rarity: The Ecology of Outliers

    Cyrille Violle;Wilfried Thuiller;Nicolas Mouquet;Nicolas Mouquet;François Munoz;François Munoz

  • Functional trait space and the latitudinal diversity gradient.

    Christine Lamanna;Benjamin Blonder;Benjamin Blonder;Cyrille Violle;Nathan J.B. Kraft

  • The BIEN R package: A tool to access the Botanical Information and Ecology Network (BIEN) database

    Brian S. Maitner;Brad Boyle;Nathan Casler;Rick Condit

  • A global Fine-Root Ecology Database to address below-ground challenges in plant ecology.

    Colleen M. Iversen;M. Luke McCormack;A. Shafer Powell;Christopher B. Blackwood

  • Climate, soil and plant functional types as drivers of global fine-root trait variation

    Grégoire T. Freschet;Oscar J. Valverde‐Barrantes;Caroline M. Tucker;Joseph M. Craine

  • Intraspecific trait variability mediates the response of subalpine grassland communities to extreme drought events

    Vincent Jung;Cécile H. Albert;Cécile H. Albert;Cyrille Violle;Cyrille Violle;Georges Kunstler

  • Towards a trait-based quantification of species niche

    Cyrille Violle;Lin Jiang

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian J. Enquist
Brian J. Enquist University of Arizona
Benjamin Blonder
Benjamin Blonder University of California, Berkeley
François Munoz
François Munoz Grenoble Alpes University
Jens-Christian Svenning
Jens-Christian Svenning Aarhus University
Eric Garnier
Eric Garnier University of Montpellier
Jens Kattge
Jens Kattge Max Planck Society
Brian J. McGill
Brian J. McGill University of Maine
Nathan J. B. Kraft
Nathan J. B. Kraft University of California, Los Angeles
Robert K. Peet
Robert K. Peet University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Denis Vile
Denis Vile Montpellier SupAgro

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