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78
Citations
32899
World Ranking
894
National Ranking
32

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - William S. Cooper Award, The Ecological Society of America Disturbance is the key to plant invasions in cold environments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 113:14061–14066.

Overview

Jonathan Lenoir is affiliated with the University of Picardie Jules Verne in France. Their research spans environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a focus on nature and landscape conservation, ecological modeling, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and global and planetary change.

They have contributed extensively to the study of ecology and vegetation dynamics, species distribution and climate change, plant and animal studies, botany and plant ecology, wildlife ecology and conservation, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, and land use and ecosystem services.

Jonathan Lenoir has coauthored numerous publications with several frequent collaborators, including Pieter De Frenne, Milan Chytrý, Jonas J. Lembrechts, Idoia Biurrun, and Jörg Brunet.

Their work has appeared in a variety of scientific venues, with many publications featured in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Global Ecology and Biogeography, Journal of Vegetation Science, Global Change Biology, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Recent notable papers include:

  • "Species better track climate warming in the oceans than on land," 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "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
  • "Monitoring biodiversity in the Anthropocene using remote sensing in species distribution models," 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Phenological and elevational shifts of plants, animals and fungi under climate change in the European Alps," 2021, Biological Reviews

Jonathan Lenoir was awarded the William S. Cooper Award by The Ecological Society of America in 2018 for work on disturbance as a key factor to plant invasions in cold environments.

Best Publications

  • Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: impacts on ecosystems and human well-being

    Gretta T. Pecl;Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo;Johann D. Bell;Johann D. Bell;Julia Blanchard

  • A Significant Upward Shift in Plant Species Optimum Elevation During the 20th Century

    J. Lenoir;J. C. Gégout;P. A. Marquet;P. de Ruffray

  • The role of biotic interactions in shaping distributions and realised assemblages of species: implications for species distribution modelling

    Mary Susanne Wisz;Julien Pottier;W. Daniel Kissling;Loïc Pellissier

  • Climate-related range shifts – a global multidimensional synthesis and new research directions

    J. Lenoir;J.-C. Svenning

  • Changes in plant community composition lag behind climate warming in lowland forests.

    Romain Bertrand;Romain Bertrand;Jonathan Lenoir;Christian Piedallu;Christian Piedallu;Gabriela Riofrío-Dillon;Gabriela Riofrío-Dillon

  • Accelerated increase in plant species richness on mountain summits is linked to warming

    Manuel J. Steinbauer;Manuel J. Steinbauer;John-Arvid Grytnes;Gerald Jurasinski;Aino Kulonen

  • Extinction debt of high-mountain plants under twenty-first-century climate change

    Stefan Dullinger;Andreas Gattringer;Wilfried Thuiller;Dietmar Moser

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

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

  • Species better track climate warming in the oceans than on land

    Jonathan Lenoir;Romain Bertrand;Lise Comte;Lise Comte;Luana Bourgeaud

  • Global buffering of temperatures under forest canopies

    Pieter De Frenne;Florian Zellweger;Francisco Rodríguez-Sánchez;Brett R. Scheffers

  • Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming

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

  • Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

    Helge Bruelheide;Jürgen Dengler;Jürgen Dengler;Oliver Purschke;Jonathan Lenoir

  • 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

  • Lags in the response of mountain plant communities to climate change

    Jake M. Alexander;Jake M. Alexander;Loïc Chalmandrier;Jonathan Lenoir;Treena I. Burgess

  • Going against the flow: potential mechanisms for unexpected downslope range shifts in a warming climate

    Jonathan Lenoir;Jean-Claude Gégout;Antoine Guisan;Pascal Vittoz

  • European Vegetation Archive (EVA): an integrated database of European vegetation plots

    Milan Chytrý;Stephan M. Hennekens;Borja Jiménez‐Alfaro;Ilona Knollová

  • Climatic microrefugia under anthropogenic climate change: implications for species redistribution

    Jonathan Lenoir;Tarek Hattab;Guillaume Pierre

  • Advances in Microclimate Ecology Arising from Remote Sensing

    Florian Zellweger;Pieter De Frenne;Jonathan Lenoir;Duccio Rocchini;Duccio Rocchini

  • Incorporating microclimate into species distribution models

    Jonas J. Lembrechts;Ivan Nijs;Jonathan Lenoir

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Guillaume Decocq
Guillaume Decocq University of Picardie Jules Verne
Duccio Rocchini
Duccio Rocchini University of Bologna
Jörg Brunet
Jörg Brunet Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Pieter De Frenne
Pieter De Frenne Ghent University
Kris Verheyen
Kris Verheyen Ghent University
Jens-Christian Svenning
Jens-Christian Svenning Aarhus University
Martin Diekmann
Martin Diekmann University of Bremen
Monika Wulf
Monika Wulf University of Potsdam
Jürgen Dengler
Jürgen Dengler Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Milan Chytrý
Milan Chytrý Masaryk University

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