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Hervé Bocherens

Hervé Bocherens

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
74
Citations
22113
World Ranking
1114
National Ranking
73

Overview

Hervé Bocherens is affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Social Sciences, with a strong emphasis on subfields including Ecology, Paleontology, Anthropology, Genetics, and Archeology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies.

Hervé Bocherens has contributed to multiple scientific publications, with a significant number appearing in these frequent venues:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Nature
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Quaternary International

Recent papers authored by or including Bocherens as co-author reflect a focus on ancient genomics, paleobiology, and evolutionary history. Some of these publications are:

  • Palaeogenomics of Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic European hunter-gatherers, 2023, Nature
  • Ancient West African foragers in the context of African population history, 2020, Nature
  • Grey wolf genomic history reveals a dual ancestry of dogs, 2022, Nature
  • Genomes of Pleistocene Siberian Wolves Uncover Multiple Extinct Wolf Lineages, 2020, Current Biology
  • Pre-extinction Demographic Stability and Genomic Signatures of Adaptation in the Woolly Rhinoceros, 2020, Current Biology

Frequent co-authors associated with Hervé Bocherens include:

  • Dorothée G. Drucker
  • Chris Baumann
  • Mietje Germonpré
  • Giuseppe Briatico
  • Mikhail Sablin

The breadth of Bocherens' research integrates data from ancient DNA studies, paleoecology, and isotopic analysis to provide insights into past ecosystems, organismal evolution, and human prehistory. Their academic output demonstrates interdisciplinary collaboration within paleontological, anthropological, and environmental sciences contexts.

Best Publications

  • A new hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, Central Africa

    Michel Brunet;Franck Guy;Franck Guy;David Pilbeam;Hassane Taisso Mackaye

  • The genetic history of Ice Age Europe

    Qiaomei Fu;Cosimo Posth;Cosimo Posth;Mateja Hajdinjak;Martin Petr

  • Trophic Level Isotopic Enrichment of Carbon and Nitrogen in Bone Collagen: Case Studies from Recent and Ancient Terrestrial Ecosystems

    H. Bocherens;D. Drucker

  • The genomic history of southeastern Europe

    Iain Mathieson;Songül Alpaslan-Roodenberg;Cosimo Posth;Cosimo Posth;Anna Szécsényi-Nagy

  • Oxygen isotope analyses of co-existing carbonate and phosphate in biogenic apatite: a way to monitor diagenetic alteration of bone phosphate?

    P. Iacumin;H. Bocherens;A. Mariotti;A. Longinelli

  • Diet, physiology and ecology of fossil mammals as inferred from stable carbon and nitrogen isotope biogeochemistry: implications for Pleistocene bears

    Hervé Bocherens;Marc Fizet;André Mariotti

  • Pleistocene Mitochondrial Genomes Suggest a Single Major Dispersal of Non-Africans and a Late Glacial Population Turnover in Europe

    Cosimo Posth;Gabriel Renaud;Alissa Mittnik;Alissa Mittnik;Dorothée G. Drucker

  • Isotopic biogeochemistry ( 13 C, 18 O) of mammalian enamel from African Pleistocene hominid sites

    Herve Bocherens;Paul L. Koch;Andre Mariotti;Denis Geraads

  • Isotopic biogeochemistry (13C,15N) of fossil vertebrate collagen: application to the study of a past food web including Neandertal man

    Herve´ Bocherens;Marc Fizet;Andre´ Mariotti;Brigitte Lange-Badre

  • Paleobiological Implications of the Isotopic Signatures (13C,15N) of Fossil Mammal Collagen in Scladina Cave (Sclayn, Belgium)

    Hervé Bocherens;Daniel Billiou;Marylène Patou-Mathis;Dominique Bonjean

  • Isotopic evidence for diet and subsistence pattern of the Saint-Cesaire I Neanderthal: review and use of a multi-source mixing model

    Hervé Bocherens;Dorothée G. Drucker;Daniel Billiou;Marylène Patou-Mathis

  • Can carbon-13 in large herbivores reflect the canopy effect in temperate and boreal ecosystems? Evidence from modern and ancient ungulates

    Dorothée G. Drucker;Dorothée G. Drucker;Anne Bridault;Keith A. Hobson;Elwira Szuma

  • Early Diagenetic Evolution of Bone Phosphate: An X-ray Diffractometry Analysis

    Alain Person;Alain Person;Hervé Bocherens;Jean-François Saliège;François Paris

  • Palaeoenvironmental and Palaeodietary Implications of Isotopic Biogeochemistry of Last Interglacial Neanderthal and Mammal Bones in Scladina Cave (Belgium)

    Hervé Bocherens;Daniel Billiou;André Mariotti;Marylène Patou-Mathis

  • Comparative performance of the BGISEQ-500 vs Illumina HiSeq2500 sequencing platforms for palaeogenomic sequencing

    Sarah Siu Tze Mak Mak;Shyam Sunder Gopalakrishnan;Christian Carøe;Christian Carøe;Chunyu Geng

  • Deeply divergent archaic mitochondrial genome provides lower time boundary for African gene flow into Neanderthals

    Cosimo Posth;Christoph Wißing;Keiko Kitagawa;Keiko Kitagawa;Luca Pagani;Luca Pagani

  • Effect of diet, physiology and climate on carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes of collagen in a late pleistocene anthropic palaeoecosystem: Marillac, Charente, France

    Marc Fizet;André Mariotti;Hervé Bocherens;Brigitte Lange-Badré

  • Palaeodietary Implications of Isotopic Variability in Eurasian Lacustrine Fish

    Elise Dufour;Hervé Bocherens;André Mariotti

  • Isotopic biogeochemistry and the palaeoecology of the mammoth steppe fauna

    H. Bocherens

  • Detection of dietary changes by intra-tooth carbon and nitrogen isotopic analysis: An experimental study of dentine collagen of cattle (Bos taurus)

    Marie Balasse;Marie Balasse;Hervé Bocherens;Hervé Bocherens;André Mariotti;André Mariotti;Stanley H. Ambrose;Stanley H. Ambrose

  • Carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes as tracers of change in diet breadth during Middle and Upper Palaeolithic in Europe

    D. Drucker;H. Bocherens

Frequent Co-Authors

Dorothée G. Drucker
Dorothée G. Drucker University of Tübingen
André Mariotti
André Mariotti Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Johannes Krause
Johannes Krause Max Planck Society
Johannes van der Plicht
Johannes van der Plicht University of Groningen
Nicholas J. Conard
Nicholas J. Conard University of Tübingen
M. Thomas P. Gilbert
M. Thomas P. Gilbert University of Copenhagen
Eske Willerslev
Eske Willerslev University of Copenhagen
Swapan Mallick
Swapan Mallick Harvard Medical School
Florent Rivals
Florent Rivals Rovira i Virgili University
Michel Brunet
Michel Brunet University of Poitiers

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