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Olivier Broennimann

Olivier Broennimann

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
49
Citations
16611
World Ranking
3950
National Ranking
89

Overview

Olivier Broennimann is a researcher affiliated with the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Their primary field of study is Environmental Science, with extensive work in the subfields of Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Genetics, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The researcher's work predominantly addresses topics such as Species Distribution and Climate Change, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Plant and Animal Studies, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, and Protist Diversity and Phylogeny.

Olivier Broennimann has contributed significantly to a number of scholarly journals and venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Ecography
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Biogeography

The researcher has collaborated repeatedly with several co-authors, including Antoine Guisan, Loïc Pellissier, Antoine Adde, Pierre-Louis Rey, and Mathieu Chevalier.

Recent publications include the following:

  • "Bryophytes are predicted to lag behind future climate change despite their high dispersal capacities" (2020) published in Nature Communications
  • "Comparative analysis of diversity and environmental niches of soil bacterial, archaeal, fungal and protist communities reveal niche divergences along environmental gradients in the Alps" (2022) published in Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • "wallace 2: a shiny app for modeling species niches and distributions redesigned to facilitate expansion via module contributions" (2023) published in Ecography
  • "Intraspecific differentiation: Implications for niche and distribution modelling" (2020) published in Journal of Biogeography
  • "Integrating ecosystem services within spatial biodiversity conservation prioritization in the Alps" (2020) published in Ecosystem Services

Best Publications

  • Predicting species distributions for conservation decisions

    A. Guisan;R. Tingley;J. B. Baumgartner;I. Naujokaitis-Lewis

  • Measuring ecological niche overlap from occurrence and spatial environmental data

    Olivier Broennimann;Matthew C. Fitzpatrick;Peter B. Pearman;Blaise Petitpierre

  • Evidence of climatic niche shift during biological invasion

    Olivier Broennimann;Urs A. Treier;Urs A. Treier;Heinz Müller-Schärer;W. Thuiller

  • Niche dynamics in space and time

    Peter B. Pearman;Antoine Guisan;Olivier Broennimann;Christophe F. Randin

  • ecospat: an R package to support spatial analyses and modeling of species niches and distributions

    Valeria Di Cola;Olivier Broennimann;Blaise Petitpierre;Frank T. Breiner

  • Climatic niche shifts are rare among terrestrial plant invaders

    Blaise Petitpierre;Christoph Kueffer;Christoph Kueffer;Olivier Broennimann;Christophe Randin

  • Unifying niche shift studies: insights from biological invasions.

    Antoine Guisan;Blaise Petitpierre;Olivier Broennimann;Curtis Daehler

  • Using Niche-Based Models to Improve the Sampling of Rare Species

    Antoine Guisan;Olivier Broennimann;Robin Engler;Mathias Vust

  • Predicting current and future biological invasions: both native and invaded ranges matter

    Olivier Broennimann;Antoine Guisan

  • Vulnerability of African mammals to anthropogenic climate change under conservative land transformation assumptions

    Wilfried Thuiller;Olivier Broennimann;Greg Hughes;J. Robert M. Alkemade

  • Do geographic distribution, niche property and life form explain plants' vulnerability to global change?

    Olivier Broennimann;Wilfried Thuiller;Greg Hughes;Guy F. Midgley

  • Selecting predictors to maximize the transferability of species distribution models: lessons from cross-continental plant invasions

    Blaise Petitpierre;Olivier Broennimann;Christoph Kueffer;Curtis Daehler

  • Biological Flora of the British Isles: Ambrosia artemisiifolia.

    Franz Essl;Franz Essl;Krisztina Biró;Dietmar Brandes;Olivier Broennimann

  • Prediction of plant species distributions across six millennia.

    Peter B. Pearman;Christophe F. Randin;Olivier Broennimann;Pascal Vittoz

  • Building the niche through time: using 13,000 years of data to predict the effects of climate change on three tree species in Europe

    L. Maiorano;R. Cheddadi;N. E. Zimmermann;L. Pellissier

  • Shift in cytotype frequency and niche space in the invasive plant Centaurea maculosa

    Urs A. Treier;Urs A. Treier;Olivier Broennimann;Signe Normand;Antoine Guisan

  • Niche conservatism in non‐native birds in Europe: niche unfilling rather than niche expansion

    Diederik Strubbe;Olivier Broennimann;François Chiron;Erik Matthysen

  • Will climate change increase the risk of plant invasions into mountains

    Blaise Petitpierre;Keith McDougall;Tim Seipel;Olivier Broennimann

  • Measuring the relative effect of factors affecting species distribution model predictions

    Emeric Thibaud;Blaise Petitpierre;Olivier Broennimann;Anthony C. Davison

  • High diversity among feather-degrading bacteria from a dry meadow soil.

    F.S. Lucas;O. Broennimann;I. Febbraro;P. Heeb

Frequent Co-Authors

Antoine Guisan
Antoine Guisan University of Lausanne
Christophe F. Randin
Christophe F. Randin University of Lausanne
Niklaus E. Zimmermann
Niklaus E. Zimmermann Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Heinz Müller-Schärer
Heinz Müller-Schärer University of Fribourg
Wilfried Thuiller
Wilfried Thuiller Grenoble Alpes University
Pascal Vittoz
Pascal Vittoz University of Lausanne
Nicolas Salamin
Nicolas Salamin University of Lausanne
Yvonne M. Buckley
Yvonne M. Buckley Trinity College Dublin

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