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Overview

Daniel Borcard is affiliated with the University of Montreal in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with particular attention to subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Plant Science.

The scientist's work covers main topics including Plant and Animal Studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, and Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies.

Among their recent scholarly contributions is the paper titled "Rarity and Sparseness in Plant Communities: Impact of Minor Species Removal on Beta Diversity and Canonical Ordination", published in 2025 in the Journal of Vegetation Science.

Daniel Borcard has collaborated frequently with other researchers, including:

  • François Gillet
  • Pierre Legendre
  • Adeline Rouzet

Their publications have appeared notably in the Journal of Vegetation Science, which is the primary venue listed in their recent works.

In addition to articles, Daniel Borcard has authored a book published by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique entitled L'écologie numérique en R, which was released in 2025.

Best Publications

  • Partialling out the spatial component of ecological variation

    Daniel Borcard;Pierre Legendre;Pierre Drapeau

  • Numerical Ecology with R

    Daniel Borcard;François Gillet;Pierre Legendre

  • VARIATION PARTITIONING OF SPECIES DATA MATRICES: ESTIMATION AND COMPARISON OF FRACTIONS

    Pedro R. Peres-Neto;Pierre Legendre;Stéphane Dray;Daniel Borcard

  • FORWARD SELECTION OF EXPLANATORY VARIABLES

    F. Guillaume Blanchet;Pierre Legendre;Daniel Borcard

  • All-scale spatial analysis of ecological data by means of principal coordinates of neighbour matrices

    Daniel Borcard;Pierre Legendre

  • ANALYZING BETA DIVERSITY: PARTITIONING THE SPATIAL VARIATION OF COMMUNITY COMPOSITION DATA

    Pierre Legendre;Daniel Borcard;Pedro R. Peres-Neto

  • DISSECTING THE SPATIAL STRUCTURE OF ECOLOGICAL DATA AT MULTIPLE SCALES

    Daniel Borcard;Pierre Legendre;Carol Avois-Jacquet;Carol Avois-Jacquet;Hanna Tuomisto

  • Numerical Ecology with R. Second Edition

    Daniel Borcard;François Gillet;Pierre Legendre

  • Should the Mantel test be used in spatial analysis

    Pierre Legendre;Marie‐Josée Fortin;Daniel Borcard

  • Environmental control and spatial structure in ecological communities: an example using oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatei)

    Daniel Borcard;Pierre Legendre

  • Modelling directional spatial processes in ecological data

    F. Guillaume Blanchet;F. Guillaume Blanchet;Pierre Legendre;Daniel Borcard

  • Explaining variation in tropical plant community composition : influence of environmental and spatial data quality

    Mirkka M. Jones;Hanna Tuomisto;Daniel Borcard;Pierre Legendre

  • Is the Mantel correlogram powerful enough to be useful in ecological analysis? A simulation study

    Daniel Borcard;Pierre Legendre

  • Spider, bee, and bird communities in cities are shaped by environmental control and high stochasticity.

    T. Sattler;D. Borcard;Raphaël Arlettaz;F. Bontadina

  • Modelling Wetland Bird Response to Water Level Changes in the Lake Ontario – St. Lawrence River Hydrosystem

    Jean-Luc Desgranges;Joel Ingram;Bruno Drolet;Jean Morin

  • Variation partitioning involving orthogonal spatial eigenfunction submodels.

    Pierre Legendre;Daniel Borcard;David W. Roberts

  • ANALYZING OR EXPLAINING BETA DIVERSITY? COMMENT

    Pierre Legendre;Daniel Borcard;Pedro R. Peres-Neto

  • Horizontal distribution patterns of Testate amoebae (Protozoa) in a Sphagnum magellanicum carpet

    Edward A. D. Mitchell;Daniel Borcard;Alexandre J. Buttler;Philippe Grosvernier

  • Multiscale spatial distribution of a littoral fish community in relation to environmental variables

    Anik Brind'Amour;Daniel Boisclair;Pierre Legendre;Daniel Borcard

  • Community surveys through space and time: testing the space—time interaction in the absence of replication

    Pierre Legendre;Miquel De Cáceres;Daniel Borcard

  • Partialling out the spatial component of ecological variation: questions and propositions in the linear modelling framework

    Alain Meot;Pierre Legendre;Daniel Borcard

Frequent Co-Authors

Pierre Legendre
Pierre Legendre University of Montreal
François Gillet
François Gillet University of Franche-Comté
Marco Moretti
Marco Moretti Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Yves Bergeron
Yves Bergeron Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Louis-Félix Bersier
Louis-Félix Bersier University of Fribourg
Raphaël Arlettaz
Raphaël Arlettaz University of Bern
Pedro R. Peres-Neto
Pedro R. Peres-Neto Concordia University
Sylvie Gauthier
Sylvie Gauthier Natural Resources Canada
Hanna Tuomisto
Hanna Tuomisto University of Helsinki
Stéphane Dray
Stéphane Dray Claude Bernard University Lyon 1

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