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3257
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133

Overview

Philippe Choler is affiliated with Grenoble Alpes University in France and is an active researcher in the fields of Environmental Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work primarily spans several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their research covers important topics such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Tree-ring Climate Responses, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Climate Change and Permafrost, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, and Species Distribution and Climate Change.

Recent publications by Philippe Choler include:

  • The tempo of greening in the European Alps: Spatial variations on a common theme, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Global maps of soil temperature, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Topsoil organic matter build-up in glacier forelands around the world, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Assessing the effects of earlier snow melt-out on alpine shrub growth: The sooner the better?, 2020, Ecological Indicators
  • A global database for metacommunity ecology, integrating species, traits, environment and space, 2020, Scientific Data

Philippe Choler frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including Arthur Bayle, Jérôme Poulenard, Simon Gascoin, Wilfried Thuiller, and Julien Renaud.

Their publications have appeared repeatedly in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), SSRN Electronic Journal, Global Change Biology, Scientific Data, and Environmental Research Letters.

Best Publications

  • Positive interactions among alpine plants increase with stress.

    Ragan M. Callaway;R. W. Brooker;Philippe Choler;Zaal Kikvidze

  • FACILITATION AND COMPETITION ON GRADIENTS IN ALPINE PLANT COMMUNITIES

    Philippe Choler;Richard Michalet;Ragan M. Callaway

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

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

  • Combining the fourth-corner and the RLQ methods for assessing trait responses to environmental variation.

    Stéphane Dray;Philippe Choler;Sylvain Dolédec;Pedro R. Peres-Neto

  • The importance of importance

    Rob Brooker;Zaal Kikvidze;Francisco I. Pugnaire;Ragan M. Callaway

  • Long livestock farming history and human landscape shaping revealed by lake sediment DNA

    Charline Giguet-Covex;Johan Pansu;Fabien Arnaud;Pierre-Jérôme Rey

  • Soil sampling and isolation of extracellular DNA from large amount of starting material suitable for metabarcoding studies.

    Pierre Taberlet;Sophie M. Prud’Homme;Etienne Campione;Julien Roy

  • Partitioning of functional diversity reveals the scale and extent of trait convergence and divergence

    Francesco De Bello;Francesco De Bello;Wilfried Thuiller;Jan Lepš;Jan Lepš;Philippe Choler

  • Early stage litter decomposition across biomes

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

  • LINKING PATTERNS AND PROCESSES IN ALPINE PLANT COMMUNITIES: A GLOBAL STUDY

    Zaal Kikvidze;Francisco I. Pugnaire;Robin W. Brooker;Philippe Choler

  • Genetic diversity in widespread species is not congruent with species richness in alpine plant communities.

    Pierre Taberlet;Niklaus E. Zimmermann;Thorsten Englisch;Andreas Tribsch

  • Consistent Shifts in Alpine Plant Traits along a Mesotopographical Gradient

    Philippe Choler

  • Direct and indirect control by snow cover over decomposition in alpine tundra along a snowmelt gradient

    Florence Baptist;Nigel G. Yoccoz;Philippe Choler

  • The rich sides of mountain summits – a pan-European view on aspect preferences of alpine plants

    Manuela Winkler;Andrea Lamprecht;Klaus Steinbauer;Karl Hülber

  • Microbial diversity in alpine tundra soils correlates with snow cover dynamics.

    Lucie Zinger;Bahar Shahnavaz;Florence Baptist;Roberto A Geremia

  • Contrasting Diversity Patterns of Crenarchaeal, Bacterial and Fungal Soil Communities in an Alpine Landscape

    Lucie Zinger;David P. H. Lejon;Florence Baptist;Abderrahim Bouasria

  • Reconstructing long-term human impacts on plant communities: an ecological approach based on lake sediment DNA.

    Johan Pansu;Johan Pansu;Charline Giguet-Covex;Gentile Francesco Ficetola;Gentile Francesco Ficetola;Ludovic Gielly;Ludovic Gielly

  • Observed long-term greening of alpine vegetation—a case study in the French Alps

    Bradley Z Carlson;Monica C Corona;Cédric Dentant;Richard Bonet

  • Small-scale plant species distribution in snowbeds and its sensitivity to climate change

    Christian Schöb;Peter M. Kammer;Philippe Choler;Heinz Veit

  • Genetic introgression as a potential to widen a species' niche: Insights from alpine Carex curvula

    P. Choler;B. Erschbamer;A. Tribsch;L. Gielly

  • The role of biomass allocation strategy in diversity loss due to fertilization

    Kechang Niu;Yanjiang Luo;Philippe Choler;Guozhen Du

Frequent Co-Authors

Wilfried Thuiller
Wilfried Thuiller Grenoble Alpes University
Lucie Zinger
Lucie Zinger École Normale Supérieure
Pierre Taberlet
Pierre Taberlet Grenoble Alpes University
Ludovic Gielly
Ludovic Gielly Grenoble Alpes University
Jérôme Poulenard
Jérôme Poulenard Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Emmanuel J. P. Douzery
Emmanuel J. P. Douzery University of Montpellier
Julien Renaud
Julien Renaud Laboratoire d'Écologie Alpine
Fabien Arnaud
Fabien Arnaud Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Richard Michalet
Richard Michalet University of Bordeaux
François Munoz
François Munoz Grenoble Alpes University

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