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Pierre Liancourt

Pierre Liancourt

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
38
Citations
6966
World Ranking
6564
National Ranking
344

Overview

Pierre Liancourt is affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

Their work spans several subfields, notably:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Ecological Modeling

Liancourt's research topics focus on:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Ecosystem dynamics and resilience

The scientist has contributed to several publications in key venues, with notable frequency in:

  • Journal of Ecology
  • Ecology
  • Functional Ecology
  • Nature Plants
  • Oikos

Some of the recent publications by Liancourt include:

  • "Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands" (2022) published in Science
  • "Linking Plant Functional Ecology to Island Biogeography" (2020) published in Trends in Plant Science
  • "Climate warming drives Himalayan alpine plant growth and recruitment dynamics" (2020) published in Journal of Ecology
  • "Functional traits and their plasticity shift from tolerant to avoidant under extreme drought" (2022) published in Ecology
  • "Unforeseen plant phenotypic diversity in a dry and grazed world" (2024) published in Nature

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Jiří Doležal
  • Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet
  • Hugo Sáiz
  • Nicolas Gross
  • Miguel Berdugo

Best Publications

  • Facilitation in plant communities: the past, the present, and the future

    Rob W. Brooker;Fernando T. Maestre;Ragan M. Callaway;Christopher L. Lortie

  • STRESS TOLERANCE AND COMPETITIVE-RESPONSE ABILITY DETERMINE THE OUTCOME OF BIOTIC INTERACTIONS

    Pierre Liancourt;Ragan M. Callaway;Richard Michalet

  • Functional trait diversity maximizes ecosystem multifunctionality.

    Nicolas Gross;Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet;Pierre Liancourt;Miguel Berdugo

  • Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands

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  • Testing the environmental filtering concept in global drylands

    Yoann Le Bagousse‐Pinguet;Yoann Le Bagousse‐Pinguet;Nicolas Gross;Nicolas Gross;Nicolas Gross;Fernando T. Maestre;Vincent Maire

  • Plant survival in relation to seed size along environmental gradients: a long-term study from semi-arid and Mediterranean annual plant communities

    Johannes Metz;Pierre Liancourt;Pierre Liancourt;Jaime Kigel;Danny Harel

  • Linking individual response to biotic interactions with community structure: a trait-based framework

    Nicolas Gross;Georges Kunstler;Pierre Liancourt;Francesco De Bello

  • Vegetation dynamics at the upper elevational limit of vascular plants in Himalaya.

    Jiri Dolezal;Jiri Dolezal;Miroslav Dvorsky;Martin Kopecky;Pierre Liancourt

  • Plant response to climate change varies with topography, interactions with neighbors, and ecotype.

    Pierre Liancourt;Laura A. Spence;Daniel S. Song;Ariuntsetseg Lkhagva

  • Linking Plant Functional Ecology to Island Biogeography.

    Gianluigi Ottaviani;Gunnar Keppel;Lars Götzenberger;Susan Harrison

  • Strain and vegetation effects on local limiting resources explain the outcomes of biotic interactions

    N. Gross;P. Liancourt;P. Choler;K.N. Suding

  • Indirect facilitation promotes macrophyte survival and growth in freshwater ecosystems threatened by eutrophication

    Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet;Pierre Liancourt;Nicolas Gross;Nicolas Gross;Dietmar Straile

  • Leaf-trait plasticity and species vulnerability to climate change in a Mongolian steppe.

    Pierre Liancourt;Pierre Liancourt;Bazartseren Boldgiv;Bazartseren Boldgiv;Daniel S. Song;Laura A. Spence;Laura A. Spence

  • Competition and a short growing season lead to ecotypic differentiation at the two extremes of the ecological range

    Pierre Liancourt;Katja Tielbörger

  • SGH: stress or strain gradient hypothesis? Insights from an elevation gradient on the roof of the world.

    Pierre Liancourt;Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet;Christian Rixen;Jiri Dolezal;Jiri Dolezal

  • Functional traits and their plasticity shift from tolerant to avoidant under extreme drought.

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  • Comment on “Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness”

    Jason D. Fridley;J. Philip Grime;Michael A. Huston;Simon Pierce

  • Importance and intensity of competition along a fertility gradient and across species

    Stééphanie Gaucherand;Pierre Liancourt;Pierre Liancourt;Sandra Lavorel

  • Temporal and spatial variation in how vegetation alters the soil moisture response to climate manipulation

    Pierre Liancourt;Anarmaa Sharkhuu;Lkhagva Ariuntsetseg;Lkhagva Ariuntsetseg;Bazartseren Boldgiv

  • Unforeseen plant phenotypic diversity in a dry and grazed world

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  • Stress tolerance abilities and competitive responses in a watering and fertilization field experiment

    P. Liancourt;P. Liancourt;E. Corcket;R. Michalet

  • The relative importance of competition for two dominant grass species as affected by environmental manipulations in the field

    Emmanuel Corcket;Pierre Liancourt;Ragan Callaway;Richard Michalet

  • Functional equivalence, competitive hierarchy and facilitation determine species coexistence in highly invaded grasslands

    Nicolas Gross;Nicolas Gross;Nicolas Gross;Pierre Liancourt;Robyn Butters;Richard P. Duncan

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicolas Gross
Nicolas Gross University of Clermont Auvergne
Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet
Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet King Juan Carlos University
Jiří Doležal
Jiří Doležal Czech Academy of Sciences
Francesco de Bello
Francesco de Bello Spanish National Research Council
Richard Michalet
Richard Michalet University of Bordeaux
Brenda B. Casper
Brenda B. Casper University of Pennsylvania
Peter S. Petraitis
Peter S. Petraitis University of Pennsylvania
Jan Altman
Jan Altman Czech Academy of Sciences
Katja Tielbörger
Katja Tielbörger University of Tübingen
Lars Götzenberger
Lars Götzenberger Czech Academy of Sciences

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