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5545
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298

François Munoz 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 François Munoz sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 203 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

François Munoz 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 François Munoz sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

François Munoz is affiliated with Grenoble Alpes University in France and conducts research primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research spans several subfields, including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their scholarly work addresses a range of topics such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation.

François Munoz has contributed to multiple publication venues, with the most frequent being Ecology Letters, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Peer Community In Ecology, Journal of Biogeography, and Ecography.

Some of their recent papers include:

  • The dimensionality and structure of species trait spaces, 2021, Ecology Letters
  • Convolutional neural networks improve species distribution modelling by capturing the spatial structure of the environment, 2021, PLoS Computational Biology
  • Assessing metacommunity processes through signatures in spatiotemporal turnover of community composition, 2020, Ecology Letters
  • Plant community impact on productivity: Trait diversity or key(stone) species effects?, 2022, Ecology Letters
  • How citizen scientists contribute to monitor protected areas thanks to automatic plant identification tools, 2020, Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Munoz include Cyrille Violle, Alexis Joly, Wilfried Thuiller, Pierre Bonnet, and Maximilien Servajean.

In addition to journal articles, François Munoz has published books. Notably, they have a publication with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique titled On the Edge of the Sixth Mass Extinction in Biodiversity Hotspots: Facts, needs, solutions and opportunities in Thailand and adjacent countries, scheduled for 2024.

Best Publications

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Community ecology in the age of multivariate multiscale spatial analysis

    S. Dray;Raphaël Pélissier;Raphaël Pélissier;Pierre Couteron;M. J. Fortin

  • Ecophylogenetics: advances and perspectives.

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

  • Functional Rarity: The Ecology of Outliers

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

  • The role of epiphytism in architecture and evolutionary constraint within mycorrhizal networks of tropical orchids

    Florent Martos;François Munoz;Thierry Pailler;Ingrid Kottke

  • The dimensionality and structure of species trait spaces.

    David Mouillot;Nicolas Loiseau;Matthias Grenié;Adam C. Algar

  • Mechanisms of ecological succession: insights from plant functional strategies

    Valérie Raevel;Cyrille Violle;François Munoz

  • funrar: An R package to characterize functional rarity

    Matthias Grenié;Pierre Denelle;Caroline M. Tucker;Caroline M. Tucker;François Munoz;François Munoz

  • Phylogenetic turnover in tropical tree communities: impact of environmental filtering, biogeography and mesoclimatic niche conservatism

    Olivier J. Hardy;Pierre Couteron;François Munoz;B. R. Ramesh

  • What it takes to invade grassland ecosystems: traits, introduction history and filtering processes.

    Marta Carboni;Marta Carboni;Tamara Münkemüller;Tamara Münkemüller;Sébastien Lavergne;Sébastien Lavergne;Philippe Choler;Philippe Choler

  • Teachers' conceptions of nature and environment in 16 countries

    François Munoz;Franz Bogner;Pierre Clément;Graça Simões de Carvalho

  • Convolutional neural networks improve species distribution modelling by capturing the spatial structure of the environment.

    Benjamin Deneu;Benjamin Deneu;Maximilien Servajean;Maximilien Servajean;Pierre Bonnet;Christophe Botella;Christophe Botella

  • What makes a weed a weed? A large- scale evaluation of arable weeds through a functional lens

    Bérenger Bourgeois;Bérenger Bourgeois;François Munoz;Guillaume Fried;Lucie Mahaut

  • Plant community impact on productivity: Trait diversity or key(stone) species effects?

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  • Continental-scale patterns of Cecropia reproductive phenology: evidence from herbarium specimens

    Paul-Camilo Zalamea;François Munoz;Pablo R. Stevenson;C. E. Timothy Paine

  • How to design trait-based analyses of community assembly mechanisms: Insights and guidelines from a literature review

    Rémi Perronne;Rémi Perronne;François Munoz;Benjamin Borgy;Benjamin Borgy;Xavier Reboud

  • Assessing metacommunity processes through signatures in spatiotemporal turnover of community composition

    Franck Jabot;Fabien Laroche;François Massol;François Massol;Florent Arthaud

  • A deep learning approach to species distribution modelling

    Christophe Botella;Alexis Joly;Pierre Bonnet;Pascal Monestiez

  • Two dimensions define the variation of fine root traits across plant communities under the joint influence of ecological succession and annual mowing

    Amandine Erktan;Amandine Erktan;Catherine Roumet;Diane Bouchet;Alexia Stokes

  • ESTIMATING PARAMETERS OF NEUTRAL COMMUNITIES: FROM ONE SINGLE LARGE TO SEVERAL SMALL SAMPLES

    François Munoz;Pierre Couteron;B. R. Ramesh;Rampal S. Etienne

  • Allee Effect and Self-Fertilization in Hermaphrodites: Reproductive Assurance in a Structured Metapopulation

    Antoine Dornier;François Munoz;Pierre-Olivier Cheptou

  • Recent declines and range changes of orchids in Western Europe (France, Belgium and Luxembourg)

    Hélène Vogt-Schilb;François Munoz;François Munoz;Franck Richard;Bertrand Schatz

Frequent Co-Authors

Cyrille Violle
Cyrille Violle Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Alexis Joly
Alexis Joly French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA
Raphaël Pélissier
Raphaël Pélissier University of Montpellier
Pierre Couteron
Pierre Couteron Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Wilfried Thuiller
Wilfried Thuiller Grenoble Alpes University
Philippe Choler
Philippe Choler Grenoble Alpes University
Nicolas Mouquet
Nicolas Mouquet University of Montpellier
David Mouillot
David Mouillot University of Montpellier
Jonathan Storkey
Jonathan Storkey Rothamsted Research
Pierre-Olivier Cheptou
Pierre-Olivier Cheptou Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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