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39
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6530
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6344
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285

Philippe Grandcolas publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Philippe Grandcolas sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 181 publications — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Philippe Grandcolas D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Philippe Grandcolas sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Philippe Grandcolas is affiliated with the French National Museum of Natural History in France and has focused their research primarily within the Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within this broad field, their work spans several subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Sociology and Political Science, and Molecular Biology.

The researcher has contributed to key topics such as Plant and Animal Studies, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Fossil Insects in Amber, Plant Diversity and Evolution, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, French Urban and Social Studies, and Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Philippe Grandcolas include:

  • Urbanization Effects on Biodiversity Revealed by a Two-Scale Analysis of Species Functional Uniqueness vs. Redundancy, 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Insect decline: immediate action is needed, 2021, Comptes Rendus Biologies
  • Revising dating estimates and the antiquity of eusociality in termites using the fossilized birth-death process, 2021, Systematic Entomology
  • Covid-19: natural or anthropic origin?, 2020, Mammalia
  • Assessing support for Blaberoidea phylogeny suggests optimal locus quality, 2020, Systematic Entomology

Philippe Grandcolas frequently collaborates with several colleagues, including:

  • Frédéric Legendre
  • André Nel
  • Romain Garrouste
  • Corentin Jouault
  • Hervé Jactel

Their works are commonly published in venues such as HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Comptes Rendus Biologies, Systematic Entomology, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Philippe Grandcolas has also contributed to book publications, mainly under the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, with titles including:

  • Tout comprendre (ou presque) sur la biodiversité, 2023
  • La puissance de la biodiversité, 2023
  • Fake or not - Biodiversité, 2024
  • Musée et écologie, missions, engagements et pratiques, 2026

Additionally, they have authored a book with the Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement titled Prospective scientifique pour la recherche française sur la biodiversité - 2023.

Best Publications

  • Taxonomic bias in biodiversity data and societal preferences

    Julien Troudet;Philippe Grandcolas;Amandine Blin;Régine Vignes-Lebbe

  • New Caledonia: a very old Darwinian island?

    Philippe Grandcolas;Jérôme Murienne;Tony Robillard;Laure Desutter-Grandcolas

  • The phylogeny of termites (Dictyoptera: Isoptera) based on mitochondrial and nuclear markers: Implications for the evolution of the worker and pseudergate castes, and foraging behaviors

    Frédéric Legendre;Michael F. Whiting;Christian Bordereau;Eliana M. Cancello

  • The phylogeny of cockroach families: a cladistic appraisal of morpho-anatomical data

    Philippe Grandcolas

  • Phylogeny of Dictyoptera: Dating the Origin of Cockroaches, Praying Mantises and Termites with Molecular Data and Controlled Fossil Evidence.

    Frédéric Legendre;André Nel;Gavin J. Svenson;Tony Robillard

  • Assessing biodiversity with sound: Do acoustic diversity indices reflect phylogenetic and functional diversities of bird communities?

    A. Gasc;J. Sueur;F. Jiguet;V. Devictor

  • Relict species: a relict concept?

    Philippe Grandcolas;Romain Nattier;Steve Trewick

  • Traits and evolution of wing venation pattern in paraneopteran insects

    André Nel;Jakub Prokop;Patricia Nel;Patricia Nel;Philippe Grandcolas

  • Biodiversity Sampling Using a Global Acoustic Approach: Contrasting Sites with Microendemics in New Caledonia

    Amandine Gasc;Jérôme Sueur;Sandrine Pavoine;Roseli Pellens

  • Acoustic indices for biodiversity assessments: Analyses of bias based on simulated bird assemblages and recommendations for field surveys

    A. Gasc;S. Pavoine;S. Pavoine;L. Lellouch;P. Grandcolas

  • Laying the foundations of evolutionary and systematic studies in crickets (Insecta, Orthoptera): a multilocus phylogenetic analysis

    Ioana C. Chintauan-Marquier;Frédéric Legendre;Sylvain Hugel;Tony Robillard

  • Temporal and spatial variability of animal sound within a neotropical forest

    Alexandra Rodriguez;Amandine Gasc;Sandrine Pavoine;Sandrine Pavoine;Philippe Grandcolas

  • Evolution on a shaky piece of Gondwana: is local endemism recent in New Caledonia?

    Jérôme Murienne;Philippe Grandcolas;Maria Dolors Piulachs;Xavier Bellés

  • Phylogenetics and Ecology: As Many Characters as Possible Should Be Included in the Cladistic Analysis

    Philippe Grandcolas;Pierre Deleporte;Laure Desutter-Grandcolas;Christophe Daugeron

  • Phylogenetic systematics of the subfamily Polyphaginae, with the assignment of Cryptocercus Scudder, 1862 to this taxon (Blattaria, Blaberoidea, Poiyphagidae)

    Philippe Grandcolas

  • Species' diversity in the New Caledonian endemic genera Cephalidiosus and Nobarnus (Insecta: Heteroptera: Tingidae), an approach using phylogeny and species' distribution modelling

    J. Murienne;J. Murienne;E. Guilbert;P. Grandcolas

  • The evolutionary transition from subsocial to eusocial behaviour in Dictyoptera: phylogenetic evidence for modification of the "shift-in-dependent-care" hypothesis with a new subsocial cockroach.

    Roseli Pellens;Cyrille A. D’Haese;Cyrille A. D’Haese;Xavier Bellés;Maria-Dolors Piulachs

  • A complete insect from the Late Devonian period

    Romain Garrouste;Gaël Clément;Patricial Nel;Michael S. Engel

  • Reconciling the concepts and measures of diversity, rarity and originality in ecology and evolution.

    Anna Kondratyeva;Philippe Grandcolas;Sandrine Pavoine

  • Testing adaptation with phylogeny: how to account for phylogenetic pattern and selective value together

    Philippe Grandcolas;Cyrille D’Haese

  • Biodiversity and Evolution

    Philippe Grandcolas;Marie-Christine Maurel

Frequent Co-Authors

Laure Desutter-Grandcolas
Laure Desutter-Grandcolas French National Museum of Natural History
Tony Robillard
Tony Robillard French National Museum of Natural History
Sandrine Pavoine
Sandrine Pavoine French National Museum of Natural History
Jérôme Murienne
Jérôme Murienne Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Michael F. Whiting
Michael F. Whiting Brigham Young University
Arnaud Couloux
Arnaud Couloux French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Xavier Bellés
Xavier Bellés Pompeu Fabra University
Ward C. Wheeler
Ward C. Wheeler American Museum of Natural History
Hervé Jactel
Hervé Jactel University of Bordeaux
Joan van Baaren
Joan van Baaren University of Rennes

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