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40
Citations
9277
World Ranking
5999
National Ranking
270

Overview

Daniel Sabatier is affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France. Their academic work primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with a strong focus on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, as well as Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their research topics cover a range of areas including Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Plant Diversity and Evolution, Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Insect Utilization and Effects, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology.

Recent publications by Daniel Sabatier include:

  • Amazon tree dominance across forest strata, 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Using black soldier fly larvae reared on fruits and vegetables waste as a sustainable dietary source of provitamin A carotenoids, 2021, Food Chemistry
  • More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia, 2023, Science
  • Mapping density, diversity and species-richness of the Amazon tree flora, 2023, Communications Biology
  • One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains, 2024, Nature Ecology & Evolution

The scientist frequently publishes in several academic venues including Nature Ecology & Evolution, Communications Biology, Journal of Insects as Food and Feed, Scientific Reports, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Collaborations are a notable aspect of Daniel Sabatier's work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Jean-François Molino
  • Julien Engel
  • Oliver L. Phillips
  • John Terborgh
  • Flávia R. C. Costa

Their subfields emphasize Ecology, Evolution, Behavior, and Systematics, while also engaging with topics in paleontology and history relevant to Amazonian contexts.

Best Publications

  • Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

    Hans Ter Steege;Hans Ter Steege;Nigel C.A. Pitman;Daniel Sabatier;Christopher Baraloto

  • Continental-scale patterns of canopy tree composition and function across Amazonia

    Hans ter Steege;Nigel C. A. Pitman;Oliver L. Phillips;Jerome Chave

  • Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition

    C. Levis;F. R. C. Costa;F. Bongers;M. Peña-Claros

  • Tree Diversity in Tropical Rain Forests: A Validation of the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis

    Jean-François Molino;Daniel Sabatier

  • A spatial model of tree α-diversity and tree density for the Amazon

    Hans Ter Steege;Nigel Pitman;Daniel Sabatier;Hernan Castellanos

  • An analysis of the floristic composition and diversity of Amazonian forests including those of the Guiana Shield

    Hans Ter Steege;Daniel Sabatier;Hernan Castellanos;Tinde Van Andel

  • Using functional traits and phylogenetic trees to examine the assembly of tropical tree communities

    Christopher Baraloto;Christopher Baraloto;Olivier J. Hardy;C. E. Timothy Paine;C. E. Timothy Paine;Kyle G. Dexter

  • The discovery of the Amazonian tree flora with an updated checklist of all known tree taxa

    Hans ter Steege;Hans ter Steege;Rens W. Vaessen;Rens W. Vaessen;Dairon Cárdenas-López;Daniel Sabatier

  • Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species

    Hans ter Steege;Hans ter Steege;Nigel C. A. Pitman;Timothy J. Killeen;William F. Laurance

  • Species distribution modelling: Contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data

    Vitor H.F. Gomes;Vitor H.F. Gomes;Stéphanie D. Ijff;Niels Raes;Iêda Leão Amaral

  • The influence of soil cover organization on the floristic and structural heterogeneity of a Guianan rain forest

    Daniel Sabatier;Michel Grimaldi;Marie Francoise Prevost;Julie Guillaume

  • Diet of the red howler monkey (Alouatta seniculus) in French Guiana

    C. Julliot;D. Sabatier

  • Interspecific variability of δ13C among trees in rainforests of French Guiana: functional groups and canopy integration.

    Damien Bonal;Daniel Sabatier;Pierre Montpied;D. Tremeaux

  • Saisonnalité et déterminisme du pic de fructification en forêt guyanaise

    D. Sabatier

  • Food choice and food competition among the three major primate species of French Guiana

    M. Guillotin;G. Dubost;D. Sabatier

  • Contrasting taxonomic and functional responses of a tropical tree community to selective logging

    Christopher Baraloto;Christopher Baraloto;Bruno Hérault;C. E. Timothy Paine;C. E. Timothy Paine;Hélène Massot

  • Diets of some French guianan primates: Food composition and food choices

    Bruno Simmen;Daniel Sabatier

  • Comparative diet of the two forest cervids of the genus Mazama in French Guiana

    Marc Gayot;Olivier Henry;Gérard Dubost;Daniel Sabatier

  • Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora.

    Hans ter Steege;Hans ter Steege;Paulo I. Prado;Renato A.F.de Lima;Renato A.F.de Lima;Edwin Pos

  • Unveiling the diet of elusive rainforest herbivores in next generation sequencing era? The tapir as a case study

    Fabrice Hibert;Pierre Taberlet;Jérôme Chave;Caroline Scotti-Saintagne

  • Diet of the Lowland Tapir (Tapirus terrestris L.) in French Guiana1

    Olivier Henry;François Feer;Daniel Sabatier

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans ter Steege
Hans ter Steege Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Nigel C. A. Pitman
Nigel C. A. Pitman Field Museum of Natural History
Christopher Baraloto
Christopher Baraloto Florida International University
Raphaël Pélissier
Raphaël Pélissier University of Montpellier
Rafael P. Salomão
Rafael P. Salomão Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Jérôme Chave
Jérôme Chave Paul Sabatier University
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter
John Terborgh
John Terborgh Duke University
David A. Neill
David A. Neill Missouri Botanical Garden

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