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Louis-Félix Bersier

Louis-Félix Bersier

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
36
Citations
6381
World Ranking
7058
National Ranking
134

Overview

Louis-Félix Bersier is affiliated with the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

Bersier's work addresses various topics within ecology and plant and animal studies, with a focus on:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services

Their subfields cover Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, Plant Science, and Genetics.

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Bersier, key publications include:

  • Invasion risk assessment using trait-environment and species distribution modelling techniques in an arid protected area: Towards conservation prioritization (2021, Ecological Indicators)
  • Trait-Environment Relationships Reveal the Success of Alien Plants Invasiveness in an Urbanized Landscape (2021, Plants)
  • Potential extinction risk of Juniperus phoenicea under global climate change: Towards conservation planning (2023, Global Ecology and Conservation)
  • Contrasting alien effects on native diversity along biotic and abiotic gradients in an arid protected area (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • Combining food web theory and population dynamics to assess the impact of invasive species (2022, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution)

Frequent publication venues for Bersier's work include:

  • Global Ecology and Conservation
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Ecological Indicators
  • Plants
  • Frontiers in Plant Science

Louis-Félix Bersier collaborates regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Reham F. El-Barougy
  • Mohammed A. Dakhil
  • Sarah M. Gray
  • Abdel-Hamid A. Khedr
  • Ali El-Keblawy

Best Publications

  • CONSUMER–RESOURCE BODY-SIZE RELATIONSHIPS IN NATURAL FOOD WEBS

    Ulrich Brose;Tomas Jonsson;Eric L. Berlow;Eric L. Berlow;Philip Warren

  • QUANTITATIVE DESCRIPTORS OF FOOD-WEB MATRICES

    Louis-Félix Bersier;Carolin Banašek-Richter;Marie-France Cattin

  • Sown wildflower strips for insect conservation: a review

    Christine Haaland;Russell E. Naisbit;Louis-Félix Bersier

  • Ecophylogenetics: advances and perspectives.

    Nicolas Mouquet;Vincent Devictor;Christine N. Meynard;Francois Munoz

  • Phylogenetic constraints and adaptation explain food-web structure

    Marie-France Cattin;Louis-Félix Bersier;Louis-Félix Bersier;Carolin Banašek-Richter;Richard Baltensperger

  • Predator traits determine food-web architecture across ecosystems

    Ulrich Brose;Phillippe Archambault;Andrew D. Barnes;Andrew D. Barnes;Louis-Felix Bersier

  • Predicted correspondence between species abundances and dendrograms of niche similarities

    George Sugihara;Louis-Félix Bersier;T. Richard E. Southwood;Stuart L. Pimm

  • The impact of mowing as a management strategy for wet meadows on spider (Araneae) communities

    Marie-France Cattin;Gilles Blandenier;Carolin Banašek-Richter;Louis-Félix Bersier

  • Sampling effects and the robustness of quantitative and qualitative food-web descriptors

    Carolin Banašek-Richter;Marie-France Cattin;Louis-Félix Bersier

  • BODY SIZES OF CONSUMERS AND THEIR RESOURCES

    Ulrich Brose;Lara Cushing;Eric L. Berlow;Tomas Jonsson

  • Complexity in quantitative food webs

    Carolin Banasek-Richter;Louis-Félix Bersier;Marie-France Cattin;Richard Baltensperger

  • Paradoxes in the logistic equation

    Jean-Pierre Gabriel;Francis Saucy;Louis-Félix Bersier

  • Bird assemblages in mosaic forests: the relative importance of vegetation structure and floristic composition along the successional gradient

    L.-F. Bersier;D. R. Meyer

  • Modeling food webs: exploring unexplained structure using latent traits.

    Rudolf Philippe Rohr;Heike Scherer;Patrik Kehrli;Christian Mazza

  • Spatial organization of a herpetofauna on an elevational gradient revealed by null model tests

    Ulrich Hofer;Louis-Félix Bersier;Daniel Borcard

  • The signature of phylogenetic constraints on food-web structure

    Louis-Félix Bersier;Patrik Kehrli

  • Phylogeny versus body size as determinants of food web structure

    Russell E. Naisbit;Rudolf P. Rohr;Axel G. Rossberg;Patrik Kehrli

  • The importance of landscape and spatial structure for hymenopteran-based food webs in an agro-ecosystem.

    Yvonne Fabian;Nadine Sandau;Odile T. Bruggisser;Alex Aebi

  • Parasitism and developmental plasticity in Alpine swift nestlings

    Pierre Bize;Alexandre Roulin;Louis-Felix Bersier;Dominik Pfluger

  • An experimental test of the nature of predation: neither prey- nor ratio-dependent

    Dominique Schenk;Louis-Félix Bersier;Sven Bacher

Frequent Co-Authors

George Sugihara
George Sugihara University of California, San Diego
Alexandre Roulin
Alexandre Roulin University of Lausanne
Björn C. Rall
Björn C. Rall University of Konstanz
Sven Bacher
Sven Bacher University of Fribourg
Dominique Gravel
Dominique Gravel Université de Sherbrooke
Guy Woodward
Guy Woodward Imperial College London
Heinz Richner
Heinz Richner University of Bern
Daniel Borcard
Daniel Borcard University of Montreal
Ulrich Brose
Ulrich Brose Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Neo D. Martinez
Neo D. Martinez Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory

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