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Jean-François Guégan

Jean-François Guégan

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
61
Citations
17150
World Ranking
2154
National Ranking
84

Overview

Jean-François Guégan is affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France and specializes in the field of Medicine, with a focus on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Agronomy and Crop Science, and Microbiology. Their research extensively covers topics related to zoonotic diseases and public health, Mycobacterium research and diagnosis, animal disease management and epidemiology, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, tuberculosis research and epidemiology, bacterial infections and vaccines, and climate change and health impacts.

Some of the recent papers associated with their work include:

  • Forests and emerging infectious diseases: unleashing the beast within, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • World forests, global change, and emerging pests and pathogens, 2023, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Jean-François Guégan has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, notably:

  • Christine Chevillon (11 publications)
  • M. Eric Benbow (11 publications)
  • Kayla M. Fast (10 publications)
  • Jennifer L. Pechal (10 publications)
  • Magdalene Dogbe (10 publications)

Their research has been disseminated through various publication venues, including:

  • Preprints.org (3 publications)
  • Peer Community In Infections (3 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (3 publications)
  • BMC Infectious Diseases (2 publications)
  • Infectious Diseases of Poverty (2 publications)

Jean-François Guégan's work addresses intersecting issues of environment and infectious diseases, covering perspectives on animal health in the context of artificial intelligence, the dynamics of forests and emerging diseases, and global changes affecting pests and pathogens.

Best Publications

  • ENERGY, WATER, AND BROAD-SCALE GEOGRAPHIC PATTERNS OF SPECIES RICHNESS

    Bradford A. Hawkins;Richard Field;Howard V. Cornell;David J. Currie

  • Predictions and tests of climate‐based hypotheses of broad‐scale variation in taxonomic richness

    David J. Currie;Gary G. Mittelbach;Howard V. Cornell;Richard Field

  • Artificial neural networks as a tool in ecological modelling, an introduction

    S. Lek;Jean-François Guégan

  • Spatial species-richness gradients across scales: a meta-analysis

    Richard Field;Bradford A. Hawkins;Howard V. Cornell;David J. Currie

  • Ecology drives the worldwide distribution of human diseases.

    Vanina Guernier;Michael E. Hochberg;Michael E. Hochberg;Jean François Guégan

  • Pathogen-Driven Selection and Worldwide HLA Class I Diversity

    Franck Prugnolle;Andrea Manica;Marie Charpentier;Jean François Guégan

  • Energy availability and habitat heterogeneity predict global riverine fish diversity

    Jean-François Guégan;Sovan Lek;Thierry Oberdorff

  • Global scale patterns of fish species richness in rivers

    Thierry Oberdoff;Jean‐François Guégan;Bernard Hugueny

  • Climate Drives the Meningitis Epidemics Onset in West Africa

    Benjamin Sultan;Karima Labadi;Jean-François Guégan;Serge Janicot

  • Artificial Neuronal Networks: Application To Ecology And Evolution

    Sovan Lek;Jean-Francois Guegan

  • Parasitism and Ecosystems

    Frédéric Thomas;François Renaud;Jean-François Guégan

  • Globalization of human infectious disease.

    Katherine F. Smith;Dov F. Sax;Steven D. Gaines;Vanina Guernier

  • The use of artificial neural networks to assess fish abundance and spatial occupancy in the littoral zone of a mesotrophic lake

    Sébastien Brosse;Jean-François Guegan;Jean-Nöel Tourenq;Sovan Lek

  • Can host body size explain the parasite species richness in tropical freshwater fishes

    Jean-François Guégan;Alain Lambert;Christian Lévêque;Claude Combes

  • Disease ecology, health and the environment: a framework to account for ecological and socio-economic drivers in the control of neglected tropical diseases

    A. Garchitorena;A. Garchitorena;S. H. Sokolow;B. Roche;C. N. Ngonghala

  • Determinants of parasite species richness in Mediterranean marine fishes

    P. Sasal;S. Morand;Jean-François Guégan

  • Water-borne transmission drives avian influenza dynamics in wild birds: the case of the 2005-2006 epidemics in the Camargue area.

    Benjamin Roche;Camille Lebarbenchon;Michel Gauthier-Clerc;Chung-Ming Chang;Chung-Ming Chang

  • A nested parasite species subset pattern in tropical fish: host as major determinant of parasite infracommunity structure

    Jean-François Guégan;Bernard Hugueny

  • Is there an influence of historical events on contemporary fish species richness in rivers? Comparisons between Western Europe and North America

    Thierry Oberdorff;Bernard Hugueny;Jean‐François Guégan

  • Parasites and ecosystem engineering : what roles could they play?

    F. Thomas;R. Poulin;T. De Meeüs;J.-F. Guegan

  • Are there general laws in parasite community ecology ? : the emergence of spatial parasitology and epidemiology

    Jean-François Guégan;Serge Morand;R. Poulin

Frequent Co-Authors

Frédéric Thomas
Frédéric Thomas University of Montpellier
François Renaud
François Renaud University of Montpellier
Sovan Lek
Sovan Lek Paul Sabatier University
Pejman Rohani
Pejman Rohani University of Georgia
Thierry Oberdorff
Thierry Oberdorff Paul Sabatier University
Sam P. Brown
Sam P. Brown Georgia Institute of Technology
Bernard Hugueny
Bernard Hugueny Paul Sabatier University
Robert Poulin
Robert Poulin University of Otago
Serge Morand
Serge Morand Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Michael E. Hochberg
Michael E. Hochberg University of Montpellier

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