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Julien Renaud is affiliated with the Laboratoire d'Écologie Alpine in France, focusing on research in environmental and biological sciences. Their work spans the main fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions to various subfields including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their research covers several main topics, notably Species Distribution and Climate Change, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Botany and Plant Ecology Studies, and Mediterranean and Iberian Flora and Fauna.

Renaud has published frequently in several scientific venues, with multiple papers appearing in Global Ecology and Biogeography, Journal of Ecology, Global Change Biology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Nature Communications.

Notable recent papers by Renaud include:

  • Global distribution and conservation status of ecologically rare mammal and bird species, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Influence of climate, soil, and land cover on plant species distribution in the European Alps, 2020, Ecological Monographs
  • Balancing conservation priorities for nature and for people in Europe, 2021, Science
  • Climate-associated genetic variation in Fagus sylvatica and potential responses to climate change in the French Alps, 2020, Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  • Seed dispersal distance classes and dispersal modes for the European flora, 2023, Global Ecology and Biogeography

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Renaud include Wilfried Thuiller, Maya Guéguen, Luigi Maiorano, Amélie Saillard, and Tamara Münkemüller.

Best Publications

  • Rare species support vulnerable functions in high-diversity ecosystems

    David Mouillot;David Mouillot;David R. Bellwood;Christopher Baraloto;Christopher Baraloto;Jerome Chave

  • Uncertainty in ensembles of global biodiversity scenarios.

    Wilfried Thuiller;Maya Guéguen;Julien Renaud;Dirk N. Karger

  • Influence of tree shape and evolutionary time-scale on phylogenetic diversity metrics.

    Florent Mazel;T. Jonathan Davies;Laure Gallien;Julien Renaud

  • Multifaceted diversity-area relationships reveal global hotspots of mammalian species, trait and lineage diversity.

    Florent Mazel;François Guilhaumon;Nicolas Mouquet;Vincent Devictor

  • Global distribution and conservation status of ecologically rare mammal and bird species.

    Nicolas Loiseau;Nicolas Mouquet;Nicolas Casajus;Matthias Grenié

  • 1914–2014: A revised worldwide catalogue of cushion plants 100 years after Hauri and Schröter

    Serge Aubert;Florian Boucher;Sébastien Lavergne;Julien Renaud

  • Influence of climate, soil, and land cover on plant species distribution in the European Alps

    Yohann Chauvier;Wilfried Thuiller;Philipp Brun;Sébastien Lavergne

  • Spatial scale and intraspecific trait variability mediate assembly rules in alpine grasslands

    Loïc Chalmandrier;Loïc Chalmandrier;Tamara Münkemüller;Tamara Münkemüller;Marie-Pascale Colace;Marie-Pascale Colace;Julien Renaud;Julien Renaud

  • Spatial mismatch of phylogenetic diversity across three vertebrate groups and protected areas in Europe.

    Laure Zupan;Mar Cabeza;Luigi Maiorano;Cristina Roquet

  • Conserving the functional and phylogenetic trees of life of European tetrapods

    Wilfried Thuiller;Wilfried Thuiller;Luigi Maiorano;Florent Mazel;François Guilhaumon

  • Balancing conservation priorities for nature and for people in Europe

    Louise M. J. O’Connor;Laura J. Pollock;Laura J. Pollock;Julien Renaud;Willem Verhagen;Willem Verhagen

  • Are different facets of plant diversity well protected against climate and land cover changes? A test study in the French Alps.

    Wilfried Thuiller;Maya Guéguen;Damien Georges;Richard Bonet

  • Reconstructing the geographic and climatic origins of long‐distance bird migrations

    Paul Dufour;Sébastien Descamps;Stéphane Chantepie;Julien Renaud

  • Scale decisions can reverse conclusions on community assembly processes

    Tamara Münkemüller;Laure Gallien;Sébastien Lavergne;Julien Renaud

  • The European functional tree of bird life in the face of global change

    Wilfried Thuiller;Samuel Pironon;Achilleas Psomas;Morgane Barbet-Massin

  • Seed dispersal distance classes and dispersal modes for the European flora

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  • A new westward migration route in an Asian passerine bird.

    Paul Dufour;Christophe de Franceschi;Paul Doniol-Valcroze;Frédéric Jiguet

  • Climate-associated genetic variation in Fagus sylvatica and potential responses to climate change in the French Alps

    Thibaut Capblancq;Xavier Morin;Maya Gueguen;Julien Renaud

  • Contrasting the effects of environment, dispersal and biotic interactions to explain the distribution of invasive plants in alpine communities

    Laure Gallien;Laure Gallien;Florent Mazel;Florent Mazel;Sébastien Lavergne;Sébastien Lavergne;Julien Renaud;Julien Renaud

  • Modelling snow cover duration improves predictions of functional and taxonomic diversity for alpine plant communities

    Bradley Z. Carlson;Philippe Choler;Julien Renaud;Jean-Pierre Dedieu

  • Global patterns of β‐diversity along the phylogenetic time‐scale: The role of climate and plate tectonics

    Florent Mazel;Rafael O. Wüest;Jean‐Philippe Lessard;Julien Renaud

  • Tree cover at fine and coarse spatial grains interacts with shade tolerance to shape plant species distributions across the Alps.

    Diego Nieto-Lugilde;Jonathan Lenoir;Jonathan Lenoir;Sylvain Abdulhak;David Aeschimann

  • PART OF A SPECIAL ISSUE ON PLANTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE Modelling snow cover duration improves predictions of functional and taxonomic diversity for alpine plant communities

    Bradley Z. Carlson;Philippe Choler;Julien Renaud;Jean-Pierre Dedieu

Frequent Co-Authors

Wilfried Thuiller
Wilfried Thuiller Grenoble Alpes University
Sébastien Lavergne
Sébastien Lavergne Grenoble Alpes University
Philippe Choler
Philippe Choler Grenoble Alpes University
Niklaus E. Zimmermann
Niklaus E. Zimmermann Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
David Mouillot
David Mouillot University of Montpellier
Gentile Francesco Ficetola
Gentile Francesco Ficetola University of Milan
Tamara Münkemüller
Tamara Münkemüller Grenoble Alpes University
Nicolas Mouquet
Nicolas Mouquet University of Montpellier
Luigi Maiorano
Luigi Maiorano Sapienza University of Rome
Sandra Lavorel
Sandra Lavorel Grenoble Alpes University

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