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1743
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70

Overview

Nicolas Mouquet is affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France and specializes primarily in Environmental Science. Their research covers multiple subfields including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Social Psychology, and Ecological Modeling.

The scientist's scholarly output focuses on a range of topics within ecology and environmental studies. These include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Marine Animal Studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Marine and Coastal Plant Biology, and Animal and Plant Science Education.

Among recent publications, the following papers stand out:

  • "The dimensionality and structure of species trait spaces" (2021, Ecology Letters)
  • "Global distribution and conservation status of ecologically rare mammal and bird species" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "Plant community impact on productivity: Trait diversity or key(stone) species effects?" (2022, Ecology Letters)
  • "A functional vulnerability framework for biodiversity conservation" (2022, Nature Communications)
  • "How community adaptation affects biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships" (2020, Ecology Letters)

In terms of collaboration, Nicolas Mouquet frequently works with several co-authors including:

  • David Mouillot
  • Nicolas Loiseau
  • Nicolas Casajus
  • Cyrille Violle
  • Wilfried Thuiller

Their publications are often found in notable scientific venues such as:

  • Ecology Letters
  • Nature Communications
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • PLoS Biology
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Best Publications

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

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

  • Community Patterns in Source‐Sink Metacommunities

    Nicolas Mouquet;Michel Loreau

  • Biodiversity as spatial insurance in heterogeneous landscapes

    Michel Loreau;Nicolas Mouquet;Andrew Gonzalez

  • Spatial mismatch and congruence between taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity: the need for integrative conservation strategies in a changing world

    Vincent Devictor;David Mouillot;Christine Meynard;Frédéric Jiguet

  • Rare species support vulnerable functions in high-diversity ecosystems

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

  • Defining and measuring ecological specialization

    Vincent Devictor;Vincent Devictor;Joanne Clavel;Romain Julliard;Sébastien Lavergne

  • Biodiversity and Climate Change: Integrating Evolutionary and Ecological Responses of Species and Communities

    Nicolas Mouquet;Wilfried Thuiller;Oph ´ elie Ronce

  • Empirical approaches to metacommunities: a review and comparison with theory

    Jürg Brendan Logue;Nicolas Mouquet;Hannes Peter;Helmut Hillebrand

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

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

  • Islands as model systems in ecology and evolution: prospects fifty years after MacArthur‐Wilson

    Ben H. Warren;Ben H. Warren;Ben H. Warren;Daniel Simberloff;Robert E. Ricklefs;Robin Aguilée

  • Coexistence in metacommunities: the regional similarity hypothesis.

    Nicolas Mouquet;Michel Loreau

  • Ecophylogenetics: advances and perspectives.

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

  • The dissimilarity of species interaction networks

    Timothée Poisot;Elsa Canard;Elsa Canard;David Mouillot;David Mouillot;Nicolas Mouquet

  • Functional Rarity: The Ecology of Outliers

    Cyrille Violle;Wilfried Thuiller;Nicolas Mouquet;Nicolas Mouquet;François Munoz;François Munoz

  • Immigration and the Maintenance of Local Species Diversity

    Michel Loreau;Nicolas Mouquet

  • REVIEW: Predictive ecology in a changing world

    Nicolas Mouquet;Yvan Lagadeuc;Vincent Devictor;Luc Doyen

  • Linking community and ecosystem dynamics through spatial ecology

    François Massol;Dominique Gravel;Dominique Gravel;Nicolas Mouquet;Marc W. Cadotte

  • Trophic theory of island biogeography.

    Dominique Gravel;François Massol;Elsa Canard;David Mouillot;David Mouillot

  • Beyond taxonomic diversity patterns: how do α, β and γ components of bird functional and phylogenetic diversity respond to environmental gradients across France?

    Christine N. Meynard;Christine N. Meynard;Vincent Devictor;David Mouillot;Wilfried Thuiller

  • Coexistence in a metacommunity: the competition-colonization trade-off is not dead.

    Vincent Calcagno;Nicolas Mouquet;Philippe Jarne;P. David

Frequent Co-Authors

Dominique Gravel
Dominique Gravel Université de Sherbrooke
David Mouillot
David Mouillot University of Montpellier
Wilfried Thuiller
Wilfried Thuiller Grenoble Alpes University
Michel Loreau
Michel Loreau Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Christine N. Meynard
Christine N. Meynard Montpellier SupAgro
Vincent Devictor
Vincent Devictor University of Montpellier
François Massol
François Massol University of Lille
Philippe Jarne
Philippe Jarne University of Montpellier
Mathew A. Leibold
Mathew A. Leibold University of Florida
Thomas E. Miller
Thomas E. Miller Florida State University

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