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Elisa Thébault

Elisa Thébault

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
42
Citations
11278
World Ranking
5439
National Ranking
242

Overview

Elisa Thébault is affiliated with Sorbonne University in France and has contributed extensively to environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their research primarily focuses on ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics, with interests spanning diverse subfields including ecology, genetics, nature and landscape conservation, and plant science.

The main topics in Thébault's work include plant and animal studies, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, isotope analysis in ecology, species distribution and climate change, insect and pesticide research, and plant parasitism and resistance.

Thébault has published multiple papers in reputable journals covering a range of ecological and biological themes. Recent notable papers include:

  • Urbanization and agricultural intensification destabilize animal communities differently than diversity loss, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Long-term effects of global change on occupancy and flight period of wild bees in Belgium, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Relative effects of anthropogenic pressures, climate, and sampling design on the structure of pollination networks at the global scale, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Seasonal dynamics of competition between honey bees and wild bees in a protected Mediterranean scrubland, 2022, Oikos
  • Species richness and food-web structure jointly drive community biomass and its temporal stability in fish communities, 2021, Ecology Letters

Thébault frequently collaborates with several researchers in their field. Among the frequent co-authors are Colin Fontaine, Marianne Élias, Lise Ropars, Laurence Affre, and Benoît Geslin. These collaborations have contributed to advancing knowledge in ecological interactions and community dynamics.

The scientist's work has appeared in a variety of publication venues. The most frequent include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Ecology Letters
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Oikos
  • Global Change Biology

Best Publications

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

    Elisa Thébault;Elisa Thébault;Colin Fontaine;Colin Fontaine

  • The functional role of biodiversity in ecosystems: incorporating trophic complexity

    J. Emmett Duffy;Bradley J. Cardinale;Peter B. McIntyre

  • Intensive agriculture reduces soil biodiversity across Europe

    Maria A. Tsiafouli;Elisa Thébault;Stefanos P. Sgardelis;Peter C. de Ruiter

  • Soil food web properties explain ecosystem services across European land use systems

    Franciska T. de Vries;Franciska T. de Vries;Elisa Thébault;Elisa Thébault;Mira Liiri;Klaus Birkhofer

  • Ecophylogenetics: advances and perspectives.

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

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

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

  • Impacts of Invasive Species on Food Webs: A Review of Empirical Data

    Patrice David;Elisa Thebault;Orlane Anneville;Pierre-François Duyck

  • Island Species Richness Increases with Habitat Diversity

    Joaquín Hortal;Kostas A. Triantis;Shai Meiri;Elisa Thébault

  • Food-web constraints on biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships

    Elisa Thébault;Michel Loreau

  • Plant Pollinator Networks along a Gradient of Urbanisation

    Benoît Geslin;Benoit Gauzens;Elisa Thébault;Isabelle Dajoz

  • Advancing our understanding of ecological stability.

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

  • Trophic interactions and the relationship between species diversity and ecosystem stability.

    Elisa Thébault;Michel Loreau

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

    Benoît Geslin;Benoit Gauzens;Mathilde Baude;Isabelle Dajoz

  • Trophic redundancy reduces vulnerability to extinction cascades.

    Dirk Sanders;Elisa Thébault;Rachel Kehoe;F J Frank van Veen

  • The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in food webs

    Elisa Thébault;Michel Loreau

  • Predicting the consequences of species loss using size-structured biodiversity approaches.

    Ulrich Brose;Julia L. Blanchard;Anna Eklöf;Nuria Galiana

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

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

  • Integrating ecosystem engineering and food webs

    Dirk Sanders;Clive G. Jones;Elisa Thébault;Tjeerd J. Bouma

  • Functionally and phylogenetically diverse plant communities key to soil biota

    Alexandru Milcu;Alexandru Milcu;Eric Allan;Christiane Roscher;Christiane Roscher;Tania Jenkins

  • Interactions between the green and brown food web determine ecosystem functioning

    Kejun Zou;Elisa Thébault;Gérard Lacroix;Gérard Lacroix;Sébastien Barot

Frequent Co-Authors

Colin Fontaine
Colin Fontaine French National Centre for Scientific Research
Michel Loreau
Michel Loreau Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Peter C. de Ruiter
Peter C. de Ruiter University of Amsterdam
Colleen L. Seymour
Colleen L. Seymour University of Cape Town
Jan Frouz
Jan Frouz Charles University
Sébastien Barot
Sébastien Barot Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences Paris
Kostas A. Triantis
Kostas A. Triantis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Wim H. van der Putten
Wim H. van der Putten Netherlands Institute of Ecology
Richard D. Bardgett
Richard D. Bardgett Lancaster University
Alexandru Milcu
Alexandru Milcu Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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