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Overview

Guillaume Decocq is affiliated with the University of Picardie Jules Verne in France and has contributed extensively to environmental science and related fields. Their research primarily focuses on areas within Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, encompassing a broad range of ecological and biological topics.

The main fields of study covered by their work include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Decocq's subfields of study illustrate a diverse engagement with ecological research:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Plant Science
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Insect Science

Their research topics further highlight specific interests, notably in vegetation dynamics and species-environment interactions:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance

Decocq has published research articles in several notable scientific journals. Among frequent publication venues are:

  • Journal of Vegetation Science
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Science
  • New Phytologist

Some recent scientific papers include:

  • Forest microclimates and climate change: Importance, drivers and future research agenda, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming, 2020, Science
  • Temperature and pH define the realised niche space of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, 2021, New Phytologist
  • Replacements of small- by large-ranged species scale up to diversity loss in Europe's temperate forest biome, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Buffering effects of soil seed banks on plant community composition in response to land use and climate, 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography

Decocq has also contributed to book publications, including works published by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Notable books include:

  • Historical Ecology. Learning from the Past to Understand the Present and Forecast the Future of Ecosystems, 2022
  • Livre blanc sur l'introduction d'essences exotiques en forêt, 2021

The scientist has collaborated extensively with a number of frequent co-authors, indicating sustained research partnerships. These collaborators include:

  • Jonathan Lenoir
  • Pieter De Frenne
  • Kris Verheyen
  • Jörg Brunet
  • Monika Wulf

Best Publications

  • Forest microclimates and climate change: Importance, drivers and future research agenda.

    Pieter De Frenne;Jonathan Lenoir;Miska Luoto;Brett R. Scheffers

  • Microclimate moderates plant responses to macroclimate warming

    Pieter De Frenne;Pieter De Frenne;Francisco Rodríguez-Sánchez;David Anthony Coomes;Lander Baeten

  • Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming

    Florian Zellweger;Florian Zellweger;Pieter De Frenne;Jonathan Lenoir;Pieter Vangansbeke

  • Latitudinal gradients as natural laboratories to infer species' responses to temperature

    Pieter De Frenne;Pieter De Frenne;Bente J. Graae;Francisco Rodríguez‐Sánchez;Annette Kolb

  • Plant diversity in a managed temperate deciduous forest: understorey response to two silvicultural systems

    Guillaume Decocq;Michaël Aubert;Frederic Dupont;Didier Alard;Didier Alard

  • Driving factors behind the eutrophication signal in understorey plant communities of deciduous temperate forests

    Kris Verheyen;Lander Baeten;Pieter De Frenne;Markus Bernhardt-Römermann

  • Local temperatures inferred from plant communities suggest strong spatial buffering of climate warming across Northern Europe

    Jonathan Lenoir;Bente Jessen Graae;Per Arild Aarrestad;Inger Greve Alsos

  • The concept of potential natural vegetation: an epitaph?

    Alessandro Chiarucci;Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo;Guillaume Decocq;Carl Beierkuhnlein

  • Temperature and pH define the realised niche space of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

    John Davison;Mari Moora;Marina Semchenko;Marina Semchenko;Sakeenah Binte Adenan

  • Temperature effects on forest herbs assessed by warming and transplant experiments along a latitudinal gradient

    Pieter De Frenne;Jörg Brunet;Anna Shevtsova;Annette Kolb

  • Drivers of temporal changes in temperate forest plant diversity vary across spatial scales

    Markus Bernhardt-Römermann;Lander Baeten;Dylan Craven;Pieter De Frenne

  • Functional response of soil microbial communities to tillage, cover crops and nitrogen fertilization

    Elodie Nivelle;Julien Verzeaux;Hazzar Habbib;Yakov Kuzyakov;Yakov Kuzyakov

  • Ecosystem Services from Small Forest Patches in Agricultural Landscapes

    Guillaume Decocq;Emilie Andrieu;Jörg Brunet;Olivier Chabrerie

  • When Oskar meets Alice: Does a lack of trade-off in r/K-strategies make Prunus serotina a successful invader of European forests?

    Déborah Closset-Kopp;Olivier Chabrerie;Bertille Valentin;Hermine Delachapelle

  • Global environmental change effects on plant community composition trajectories depend upon management legacies.

    Michael P. Perring;Michael P. Perring;Markus Bernhardt‐Römermann;Lander Baeten;Gabriele Midolo;Gabriele Midolo

  • Interregional variation in the floristic recovery of post‐agricultural forests

    Pieter De Frenne;Lander Baeten;Bente J. Graae;Jörg Brunet

  • Resilience of tropical dry forests – a meta‐analysis of changes in species diversity and composition during secondary succession

    Géraldine Derroire;Géraldine Derroire;Patricia Balvanera;Carolina Castellanos-Castro;Guillaume Decocq

  • Combining Biodiversity Resurveys across Regions to Advance Global Change Research

    Kris Verheyen;Pieter De Frenne;Lander Baeten;Donald M Waller

  • Unexpectedly high 20th century floristic losses in a rural landscape in northern France

    H Van Calster;R Vandenberghe;R Vandenberghe;M Ruysen;M Ruysen;Kris Verheyen

  • Replacements of small- by large-ranged species scale up to diversity loss in Europe’s temperate forest biome

    Ingmar R. Staude;Donald M. Waller;Markus Bernhardt-Römermann;Anne D. Bjorkman

  • Patterns of plant species and community diversity at different organization levels in a forested riparian landscape

    Guillaume Decocq

Frequent Co-Authors

Kris Verheyen
Kris Verheyen Ghent University
Jörg Brunet
Jörg Brunet Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Jonathan Lenoir
Jonathan Lenoir University of Picardie Jules Verne
Monika Wulf
Monika Wulf University of Potsdam
Martin Hermy
Martin Hermy KU Leuven
Martin Diekmann
Martin Diekmann University of Bremen
Pieter De Frenne
Pieter De Frenne Ghent University
Thilo Heinken
Thilo Heinken University of Potsdam
Olivier Chabrerie
Olivier Chabrerie University of Picardie Jules Verne
Sara A. O. Cousins
Sara A. O. Cousins Stockholm University

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