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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
123
Citations
94607
World Ranking
85
National Ranking
6

Michel Loreau publications per year

1983: 3 publications 1984: 1 publications 1985: 2 publications 1986: 0 publications 1987: 5 publications 1988: 1 publications 1989: 4 publications 1990: 4 publications 1991: 2 publications 1992: 1 publications 1993: 2 publications 1994: 8 publications 1995: 5 publications 1996: 3 publications 1997: 4 publications 1998: 6 publications 1999: 12 publications 2000: 9 publications 2001: 13 publications 2002: 18 publications 2003: 5 publications 2004: 9 publications 2005: 13 publications 2006: 7 publications 2007: 12 publications 2008: 10 publications 2009: 17 publications 2010: 23 publications 2011: 11 publications 2012: 8 publications 2013: 12 publications 2014: 14 publications 2015: 20 publications 2016: 15 publications 2017: 19 publications 2018: 30 publications 2019: 24 publications 2020: 20 publications 2021: 35 publications 2022: 11 publications 2023: 29 publications 2024: 7 publications 2025: 14 publications
1983 2025

468 publications in total across all disciplines

Michel Loreau publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2027

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2027. The highlighted bar marks where Michel Loreau sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 422 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Michel Loreau D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2027

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2027. The highlighted bar marks where Michel Loreau sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 123 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in France Leader Award
  • 2013 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2010 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Michel Loreau is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. The main fields of their research encompass Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these fields, their work extends into important subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, and Ecological Modeling.

Their research often focuses on topics including Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Ecosystem Dynamics and Resilience, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management.

The scientist has contributed to numerous publications, frequently collaborating with coauthors such as Shaopeng Wang, Claire de Mazancourt, Forest Isbell, Matthieu Barbier, and Laura E. Dee.

Michel Loreau's recent published papers include:

  • Scaling-up biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research, 2020, Ecology Letters
  • Multispecies forest plantations outyield monocultures across a broad range of conditions, 2022, Science
  • Biodiversity as insurance: from concept to measurement and application, 2021, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • A model of Sustainable Development Goals: Challenges and opportunities in promoting human well-being and environmental sustainability, 2022, Ecological Modelling
  • Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people, 2022, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

The scientist has published frequently in venues such as Ecology Letters, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Ecology, Nature Communications, and the Journal of Ecology.

Michel Loreau is a recipient of several awards, including becoming a Member of Academia Europaea in 2013 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2010, under the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY ON ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: A CONSENSUS OF CURRENT KNOWLEDGE

    D. U. Hooper;F. S. Chapin;J. J. Ewel;A. Hector

  • Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

    Bradley J. Cardinale;J. Emmett Duffy;Andrew Gonzalez;David U. Hooper

  • Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Current Knowledge and Future Challenges

    M. Loreau;S. Naeem;P. Inchausti;J. Bengtsson

  • The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi-scale community ecology

    M. A. Leibold;M. Holyoak;N. Mouquet;N. Mouquet;P. Amarasekare

  • Partitioning selection and complementarity in biodiversity experiments

    Michel Loreau;Andy Hector

  • Biodiversity and ecosystem productivity in a fluctuating environment: The insurance hypothesis

    Shigeo Yachi;Michel Loreau

  • Plant diversity and productivity experiments in european grasslands

    A. Hector;Bernhard Schmid;Carl Beierkuhnlein;M. C. Caldeira

  • High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services

    Forest Isbell;Vincent Calcagno;Andy Hector;John Connolly

  • Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

    Forest Isbell;Dylan Craven;John Connolly;Michael Loreau

  • Impacts of plant diversity on biomass production increase through time because of species complementarity

    Bradley J. Cardinale;Justin P. Wright;Marc W. Cadotte;Ian T. Carroll

  • Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: recent theoretical advances

    Michel Loreau

  • Biodiversity and ecosystem stability: a synthesis of underlying mechanisms

    Michel Loreau;Claire de Mazancourt

  • The functional role of biodiversity in ecosystems: incorporating trophic complexity

    J. Emmett Duffy;Bradley J. Cardinale;Peter B. McIntyre

  • Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning : synthesis and perspectives

    Michel Loreau;Shahid Naeem;Pablo Inchausti

  • Community Patterns in Source‐Sink Metacommunities

    Nicolas Mouquet;Michel Loreau

  • Biodiversity as spatial insurance in heterogeneous landscapes

    Michel Loreau;Nicolas Mouquet;Andrew Gonzalez

  • Functional diversity of plant-pollinator interaction webs enhances the persistence of plant communities.

    Colin Fontaine;Isabelle Dajoz;Jacques Meriguet;Michel Loreau;Michel Loreau

  • Meta‐ecosystems: a theoretical framework for a spatial ecosystem ecology

    Michel Loreau;Nicolas Mouquet;Nicolas Mouquet;Robert D. Holt

  • Linking the influence and dependence of people on biodiversity across scales

    Forest Isbell;Andrew Gonzalez;Michael Loreau;Jane Cowles

  • Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: A mechanistic model

    Michel Loreau

  • Effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning: a consensus of current knowledge: Ecological Monog

    David Hooper;F. Stuart Chapin;John J. Ewel;Andy Hector

  • Biodiversity and ecosystem productivity in a fluctuating environment: The insurance hypothesis (stochastic dynamic modelyspecies richnessyecosystem processesytemporal variabilityyecosystem stability)

    Shigeo Yachi;Michel Loreau

Frequent Co-Authors

Andy Hector
Andy Hector University of Oxford
Andrew Gonzalez
Andrew Gonzalez McGill University
Nicolas Mouquet
Nicolas Mouquet University of Montpellier
Bernhard Schmid
Bernhard Schmid University of Zurich
Shahid Naeem
Shahid Naeem Columbia University
David A. Wardle
David A. Wardle Umeå University
Forest Isbell
Forest Isbell University of Minnesota
David Tilman
David Tilman University of Minnesota
Bradley J. Cardinale
Bradley J. Cardinale Pennsylvania State University
Charles Perrings
Charles Perrings Arizona State University

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