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Didier Pont

Didier Pont

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
50
Citations
11163
World Ranking
3796
National Ranking
25

Didier Pont 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 Didier Pont sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 105 publications — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Didier Pont 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 Didier Pont sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Didier Pont is affiliated with BOKU University in Austria and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research primarily focuses on the subfields of Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Molecular Biology, Biomaterials, and Aquatic Science.

The scientist's work covers multiple key topics such as Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Identification and Quantification in Food, Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Diversity and Ecology, and Diatoms and Algae Research.

Pont has published papers in several frequent venues including Ecological Indicators, The Science of The Total Environment, Molecular Ecology Resources, Biodiversity and Conservation, and Metabarcoding and Metagenomics.

Notable recent papers by Didier Pont include:

  • Quantitative monitoring of diverse fish communities on a large scale combining eDNA metabarcoding and qPCR (2022) in Molecular Ecology Resources
  • Predicting downstream transport distance of fish eDNA in lotic environments (2024) in Molecular Ecology Resources

Other impactful papers include:

  • Congruency between two traditional and eDNA-based sampling methods in characterising taxonomic and trait-based structure of fish communities and community-environment relationships in lentic environment (2021) in Ecological Indicators
  • Damn those damn dams: Fluvial longitudinal connectivity impairment for European diadromous fish throughout the 20th century (2020) in The Science of The Total Environment
  • A strategy for successful integration of DNA-based methods in aquatic monitoring (2022) in Metabarcoding and Metagenomics

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Tibor Erős
  • Paul Meulenbroek
  • Alice Valentini
  • Thomas Hein
  • María Teresa Ferreira

Best Publications

  • Next-generation monitoring of aquatic biodiversity using environmental DNA metabarcoding

    Alice Valentini;Pierre Taberlet;Pierre Taberlet;Claude Miaud;Raphaël Civade

  • The European Water Framework Directive at the age of 10: A critical review of the achievements with recommendations for the future

    Daniel Hering;Angel Borja;Jacob Carstensen;Laurence Carvalho

  • Assessing river biotic condition at a continental scale: a European approach using functional metrics and fish assemblages

    D. Pont;B. Hugueny;U. Beier;D. Goffaux

  • Implementation options for DNA-based identification into ecological status assessment under the European Water Framework Directive.

    Daniel Hering;Angel Borja;J.Iwan Jones;Didier Pont

  • Environmental DNA reveals quantitative patterns of fish biodiversity in large rivers despite its downstream transportation

    Didier Pont;Mathieu Rocle;Alice Valentini;Raphaël Civade

  • Development and validation of a fish-based index for the assessment of ‘river health’ in France

    Thierry Oberdorff;Didier Pont;Bernard Hugueny;Jean-Pierre Porcher

  • From Natural to Degraded Rivers and Back Again: A Test of Restoration Ecology Theory and Practice

    Christian K. Feld;Sebastian Birk;David C. Bradley;Daniel Hering

  • A probabilistic model characterizing fish assemblages of French rivers: a framework for environmental assessment

    Thierry Oberdorff;Didier Pont;Bernard Hugueny;Daniel Chessel

  • Impacts of sea-level rise on deltas in the Gulf of Mexico and the Mediterranean: The importance of pulsing events to sustainability

    John W. Day;Didier Pont;Philippe F. Hensel;Carlès Ibañez

  • Patterns in species richness and endemism of European freshwater fish

    Yorick Reyjol;Bernard Hugueny;Didier Pont;Pier Giorgio Bianco

  • Spatial Representativeness of Environmental DNA Metabarcoding Signal for Fish Biodiversity Assessment in a Natural Freshwater System.

    Raphaël Civade;Tony Dejean;Alice Valentini;Nicolas Roset

  • Ecological assessment of running waters: Do macrophytes, macroinvertebrates, diatoms and fish show similar responses to human pressures?

    Anahita Marzin;Virginie Archaimbault;Jérôme Belliard;Christian Chauvin

  • Medium-term changes in suspended sediment delivery to the ocean: Consequences of catchment heterogeneity and river management (Rhône River, France)

    D. Pont;J.-P. Simonnet;A.V. Walter

  • A review of existing fish assemblage indicators and methodologies

    N. Roset;G. Grenouillet;D. Goffaux;D. Pont

  • Effects of natural and anthropogenic environmental changes on riverine fish assemblages: a framework for ecological assessment of rivers

    Francisco Leonardo Tejerina-Garro;Mabel Maldonado;Carla Ibañez;Didier Pont

  • Within-basin fish assemblage structure: the relative influence of habitat versus stream spatial position on local species richness

    G Grenouillet;D Pont;C Hérissé

  • Abundance and species richness as a function of food resources and vegetation structure: juvenile fish assemblages in rivers

    Gaël Grenouillet;Didier Pont;Knut L. Seip

  • Characterization of the Ebre and Rhone estuaries: A basis for defining and classifying salt-wedge estuaries

    Carles Ibaňez;Didier Pont;Narcís Prat

  • Modelling habitat requirement of European fishes: do species have similar responses to local and regional environmental constraints?

    D Pont;B Hugueny;T Oberdorff

  • Development of a fish-based index for the assessment of river health in Europe: the European Fish Index

    D. Pont;Bernard Hugueny;C. Rogers

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernard Hugueny
Bernard Hugueny Paul Sabatier University
John W. Day
John W. Day Louisiana State University
Gaël Grenouillet
Gaël Grenouillet Paul Sabatier University
Stefan Schmutz
Stefan Schmutz BOKU University
Thierry Oberdorff
Thierry Oberdorff Paul Sabatier University
Pierre Taberlet
Pierre Taberlet Grenoble Alpes University
Pedro Segurado
Pedro Segurado University of Lisbon
Carles Ibáñez
Carles Ibáñez University of Barcelona

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