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61
Citations
12324
World Ranking
2220
National Ranking
89

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  • 1999 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Jacques Blondel is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France and has contributed to multiple fields predominantly within Environmental Science and Social Sciences, with focuses extending into Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans a diverse range of topics including French Urban and Social Studies, Avian ecology and behavior, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Bird parasitology and diseases, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, and Botany and Plant Ecology Studies.

Their publication record includes recent papers such as:

  • Interaction of climate change with effects of conspecific and heterospecific density on reproduction, 2020, Oikos
  • Origin, diversification, and biogeography of forest birds across temperate forest regions in the Northern Hemisphere, 2021, Frontiers of Biogeography
  • The Białowieża Forest as a Key Area for Understanding the History of European Forest Bird Communities, 2022, Acta Ornithologica
  • À propos de l'ouvrage d'Alain Pavé Comprendre la biodiversité. Vrais problèmes et idées fausses, 2020, Natures Sciences Sociétés
  • Les multiples visages de la biodiversité, 2022, Études

Frequent coauthors in their research include:

  • Anders Pape Møller
  • Javier Balbontín
  • André A. Dhondt
  • Frank Adriaensen
  • A. V. Artemyev

Their work has appeared in a variety of scientific venues such as Oikos, Frontiers of Biogeography, Acta Ornithologica, Natures Sciences Sociétés, and Études.

Jacques Blondel has also published books through the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, including:

  • Biodiversité: un nouveau récit à écrire, 2020
  • La mésange et la chenille: 50 ans d'enquête évolutive, projected 2025

Their scholarly contributions have been recognized through awards such as membership in the Academia Europaea, granted in 1999.

Best Publications

  • Biology and Wildlife of the Mediterranean Region

    Jacques Blondel;James Aronson

  • The Mediterranean Region: Biological Diversity in Space and Time

    Jacques Blondel;James Aronson;Jean-Yves Bodiou;Boeuf Gilles

  • The ‘Design’ of Mediterranean Landscapes: A Millennial Story of Humans and Ecological Systems during the Historic Period

    Jacques Blondel

  • Guilds or functional groups: does it matter?

    Jacques Blondel

  • Energetic and fitness costs of mismatching resource supply and demand in seasonally breeding birds.

    Donald W. Thomas;Jacques Blondel;Philippe Perret;Marcel M. Lambrechts

  • Variable responses to large-scale climate change in European Parus populations

    ME Visser;F Adriaensen;JH Van Balen;J Blondel

  • Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function in the Mediterranean Basin: Human and Non-Human Determinants

    J. Blondel;J. Aronson

  • The effect of habitat quality on foraging patterns, provisioning rate and nestling growth in Corsican Blue Tits Parus caeruleus

    Isabelle Tremblay;Isabelle Tremblay;Donald Thomas;Donald Thomas;Jacques Blondel;Philippe Perret

  • Feeding ecology and life history variation of the blue tit in Mediterranean deciduous and sclerophyllous habitats.

    Jacques Blondel;Alain Dervieux;Marie Maistre;Philippe Perret

  • Habitat Heterogeneity and Life-History Variation of Mediterranean Blue Tits (Parus Caeruleus)

    Jacques Blondel;Dias Paula Cristina;Marie Maistre;Philippe Perret

  • Blue tits use selected plants and olfaction to maintain an aromatic environment for nestlings

    Cécile Petit;Martine Hossaert‐McKey;Philippe Perret;Jacques Blondel

  • AVIFAUNE ET VEGETATION. ESSAI D'ANALYSE DE LA DIVERSITE

    J Blondel;Ferry C;Frochot B

  • VARIATION IN BLUE TIT BREEDING PERFORMANCE ACROSS GRADIENTS IN HABITAT RICHNESS

    Isabelle Tremblay;Isabelle Tremblay;Donald W. Thomas;Donald W. Thomas;Marcel M. Lambrechts;Jacques Blondel

  • Selection-Based Biodiversity at a Small Spatial Scale in a Low-Dispersing Insular Bird

    Jacques Blondel;Paula C. Dias;Philippe Perret;Marie Maistre

  • A Thirty-Year Study of Phenotypic and Genetic Variation of Blue Tits in Mediterranean Habitat Mosaics

    Jacques Blondel;Donald W. Thomas;Anne Charmantier;Philippe Perret

  • Bird Species Impoverishment, Niche Expansion, and Density Inflation in Mediterranean Island Habitats

    Jacques Blondel;Daniel Chessel;Bernard Frochot

  • A Single Response Mechanism is Responsible for Evolutionary Adaptive Variation in a Bird's Laying Date

    Marcel M. Lambrechts;Jacques Blondel;Marie Maistre;Philippe Perret

  • Aromatic plants in nests of the blue tit Cyanistes caeruleus protect chicks from bacteria

    Adèle Mennerat;Adèle Mennerat;Pascal Mirleau;Pascal Mirleau;Pascal Mirleau;Jacques Blondel;Philippe Perret

  • High blowfly parasitic loads affect breeding success in a Mediterranean population of blue tits

    Sylvie Hurtrez-Boussès;Philippe Perret;François Renaud;Jacques Blondel

  • Habitat quality as a predictor of spatial variation in blue tit reproductive performance: a multi-plot analysis in a heterogeneous landscape.

    Marcel M. Lambrechts;Samuel Caro;Samuel Caro;Anne Charmantier;Nicolas Gross

  • Testing for microevolution in body size in three blue tit populations

    A. Charmantier;A. Charmantier;L. E. B. Kruuk;J. Blondel;M. M. Lambrechts

Frequent Co-Authors

Philippe Perret
Philippe Perret Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Marcel M. Lambrechts
Marcel M. Lambrechts Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Donald W. Thomas
Donald W. Thomas Université de Sherbrooke
Anne Charmantier
Anne Charmantier Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Mikko Mönkkönen
Mikko Mönkkönen University of Jyväskylä
Markku Orell
Markku Orell University of Oulu
Frank Adriaensen
Frank Adriaensen University of Antwerp
François Renaud
François Renaud University of Montpellier
Claire Doutrelant
Claire Doutrelant University of Montpellier
Santiago Merino
Santiago Merino Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales

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