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14852
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3080
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77

Overview

Pascal Vittoz is affiliated with the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and focuses primarily on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their research spans several subfields, including ecology, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, atmospheric science, and ecological modeling.

The scientist's work encompasses diverse topics such as:

  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Species distribution and climate change
  • Geology and paleoclimatology research
  • Remote sensing and LiDAR applications
  • 3D surveying and cultural heritage
  • Remote sensing in agriculture
  • Botany and plant ecology studies

Recent publications by Pascal Vittoz include:

  • Directional turnover towards larger-ranged plants over time and across habitats, 2021, Ecology Letters
  • Seed dispersal distance classes and dispersal modes for the European flora, 2023, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Climate Change Affects Vegetation Differently on Siliceous and Calcareous Summits of the European Alps, 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • A common soil temperature threshold for the upper limit of alpine grasslands in European mountains, 2021, Alpine Botany
  • Linking plant and vertebrate species to Nature's Contributions to People in the Swiss Alps, 2023, Scientific Reports

Pascal Vittoz frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Jean-Paul Theurillat
  • Brigitta Erschbamer
  • Lena Nicklas
  • Klaus Steinbauer
  • Harald Pauli

The scientist's work is often published in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Ecology Letters
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • Continent-wide response of mountain vegetation to climate change

    Michael Gottfried;Harald Pauli;Andreas Futschik;Maia Akhalkatsi

  • Ecological assembly rules in plant communities--approaches, patterns and prospects.

    Lars Götzenberger;Francesco de Bello;Kari Anne Bråthen;John Davison

  • Recent Plant Diversity Changes on Europe’s Mountain Summits

    Harald Pauli;Michael Gottfried;Stefan Dullinger;Otari Abdaladze

  • Accelerated increase in plant species richness on mountain summits is linked to warming

    Manuel J. Steinbauer;Manuel J. Steinbauer;John-Arvid Grytnes;Gerald Jurasinski;Aino Kulonen

  • Extinction debt of high-mountain plants under twenty-first-century climate change

    Stefan Dullinger;Andreas Gattringer;Wilfried Thuiller;Dietmar Moser

  • 21st century climate change threatens mountain flora unequally across Europe

    Robin Engler;Christophe F. Randin;Wilfried Thuiller;Stefan Dullinger

  • Climate change and plant distribution: local models predict high-elevation persistence

    Christophe F. Randin;Robin Engler;Signe Normand;Massimiliano Zappa

  • Seed dispersal distances: a typology based on dispersal modes and plant traits

    Pascal Vittoz;Robin Engler

  • Going against the flow: potential mechanisms for unexpected downslope range shifts in a warming climate

    Jonathan Lenoir;Jean-Claude Gégout;Antoine Guisan;Pascal Vittoz

  • Predicting future distributions of mountain plants under climate change: does dispersal capacity matter?

    Robin Engler;Christophe F. Randin;Pascal Vittoz;Thomas Czáka

  • Early stage litter decomposition across biomes

    Ika Djukic;Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas;Inger Kappel Schmidt;Klaus Steenberg Larsen

  • Assessment of climate change effects on mountain ecosystems through a cross-site analysis in the Alps and Apennines.

    M. Rogora;L. Frate;M. L. Carranza;M. Freppaz

  • Importance of abiotic stress as a range‐limit determinant for European plants: insights from species responses to climatic gradients

    Signe Normand;Urs A. Treier;Christophe Randin;Pascal Vittoz

  • Improving the prediction of plant species distribution and community composition by adding edaphic to topo-climatic variables

    Anne Dubuis;Sara Giovanettina;Loïc Pellissier;Julien Pottier

  • 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

  • SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature

    Jonas J. Lembrechts;Juha Aalto;Juha Aalto;Michael B. Ashcroft;Michael B. Ashcroft;Pieter De Frenne

  • How reliable is the monitoring of permanent vegetation plots? A test with multiple observers

    Pascal Vittoz;Antoine Guisan

  • The accuracy of plant assemblage prediction from species distribution models varies along environmental gradients

    Julien Pottier;Anne Dubuis;Loïc Pellissier;Luigi Maiorano

  • Species distribution models reveal apparent competitive and facilitative effects of a dominant species on the distribution of tundra plants

    Loïc Pellissier;Kari Anne Bråthen;Julien Pottier;Christophe F. Randin

Frequent Co-Authors

Antoine Guisan
Antoine Guisan University of Lausanne
Niklaus E. Zimmermann
Niklaus E. Zimmermann Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Harald Pauli
Harald Pauli BOKU University
Jean-Paul Theurillat
Jean-Paul Theurillat University of Geneva
Stefan Dullinger
Stefan Dullinger University of Vienna
Jonathan Lenoir
Jonathan Lenoir University of Picardie Jules Verne
Manuela Winkler
Manuela Winkler BOKU University
Jens-Christian Svenning
Jens-Christian Svenning Aarhus University
Christophe F. Randin
Christophe F. Randin University of Lausanne

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