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Pierre Rasmont

Pierre Rasmont

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
50
Citations
8217
World Ranking
3895
National Ranking
54

Overview

Pierre Rasmont is affiliated with the University of Mons in Belgium. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these broader fields, their work focuses on subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Genetics, Plant Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's research topics cover a diverse range of biological and ecological studies, including Plant and Animal Studies, Insect and Pesticide Research, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Insect-Plant Interactions and Control, and Species Distribution and Climate Change.

Recent publications by Pierre Rasmont include:

  • "Global effects of extreme temperatures on wild bumblebees" (2020) published in Conservation Biology
  • "The wild bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of Morocco" (2020) published in Zootaxa
  • "The new annotated checklist of the wild bees of Europe (Hymenoptera: Anthophila)" (2023) published in Zootaxa
  • "Mating under climate change: Impact of simulated heatwaves on the reproduction of model pollinators" (2020) published in Functional Ecology
  • "Projected decline in European bumblebee populations in the twenty-first century" (2023) published in Nature

Frequent co-authors of Pierre Rasmont are:

  • Denis Michez
  • Stefanie Christmann
  • Baptiste Martinet
  • Guillaume Ghisbain
  • Thomas J. Wood

Their work is often published in venues such as Zootaxa, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N S ), Insect Conservation and Diversity, and Systematic Entomology. These publication venues reflect the diversity and interdisciplinary nature of their research focus.

Best Publications

  • Climate change impacts on bumblebees converge across continents

    Jeremy T. Kerr;Alana Pindar;Paul Galpern;Laurence Packer

  • Species richness declines and biotic homogenisation have slowed down for NW-European pollinators and plants

    Luísa Gigante Carvalheiro;Luísa Gigante Carvalheiro;William E. Kunin;Petr Keil;Petr Keil;Jesus Aguirre-Gutiérrez

  • Climatic Risk and Distribution Atlas of European Bumblebees

    Pierre Rasmont;Markus Franzén;Thomas Lecocq;Alexander Harpke

  • A simplified subgeneric classification of the bumblebees (genus Bombus)

    Paul H. Williams;Sydney A. Cameron;Heather M. Hines;Bjorn Cederberg

  • Ecological networks are more sensitive to plant than to animal extinction under climate change

    Matthias Schleuning;Jochen Fründ;Jochen Fründ;Oliver Schweiger;Erik Welk

  • How does pollen chemistry impact development and feeding behaviour of polylectic bees

    Maryse Vanderplanck;Romain Moerman;Pierre Rasmont;Georges Lognay

  • An overview of the Bombus terrestris (L. 1758) subspecies (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

    Pierre Rasmont;Audrey Coppee;Denis Michez;Thibaut De Meulemeester

  • Can vulnerability among British bumblebee (Bombus) species be explained by niche position and breadth

    Paul H. Williams;Miguel B. Araújo;Pierre Rasmont

  • Landmark based geometric morphometric analysis of wing shape in Sibiricobombus Vogt (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus Latreille)

    Murat A. Aytekin;Michaël Terzo;Pierre Rasmont;Neşe Çağatay

  • Born in an alien nest: how do social parasite male offspring escape from host aggression?

    Patrick Lhomme;Manfred Ayasse;Irena Valterová;Thomas Lecocq

  • Global effects of extreme temperatures on wild bumblebees.

    Baptiste Martinet;Baptiste Martinet;Simon Dellicour;Simon Dellicour;Guillaume Ghisbain;Kimberly Przybyla

  • The survey of wild bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) in Belgium and France

    Pierre Rasmont;Alain Pauly;Michael Terzo;Sebastien Patiny

  • Les bourdons du genre Bombus Latreille sensu stricto en Europe Occidentale et Centrale (Hymenoptera, Apidae)

    P Rasmont

  • Phylogeny and host-plant evolution in Melittidae s.l. (Hymenoptera: Apoidea)

    Denis Michez;Sébastien Patiny;Pierre Rasmont;Kim Timmermann

  • The interplay of climate and land use change affects the distribution of EU bumblebees

    Leon Marshall;Jacobus Christiaan Biesmeijer;Pierre Rasmont;Nicolas Vereecken

  • Data Fauna-Flora 1.0. Guide d’utilisation.

    Yvan Barbier;Pierre Rasmont;Marc Dufrêne;Jean-Marie Sibert

  • Patterns of genetic and reproductive traits differentiation in Mainland vs. Corsican populations of bumblebees.

    Thomas Lecocq;Nicolas Vereecken;Denis Michez;Simon Dellicour

  • Developing European conservation and mitigation tools for pollination services: approaches of the STEP (Status and Trends of European Pollinators) project

    Simon G Potts;Jacobus C Biesmeijer;Riccardo Bommarco;Antonio Felicioli

  • The new annotated checklist of the wild bees of Europe (Hymenoptera: Anthophila).

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  • Growth Rate of Bumblebee Larvae is Related to Pollen Amino Acids

    Romain Moerman;Maryse Vanderplanck;Nathalie N.R. Roger;Sylvain S.D. Declèves

  • Première estimation de la dérive faunique chez les bourdons de la Belgique (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

    P. Rasmont;P. Mersch

  • Early-diverging bumblebees from across the roof of the world: the high-mountain subgenus Mendacibombus revised from species' gene coalescents and morphology (Hymenoptera, Apidae).

    Paul H. Williams;Jiaxing Huang;Pierre Rasmont;Jiandong An

Frequent Co-Authors

Denis Michez
Denis Michez University of Mons
Oliver Schweiger
Oliver Schweiger Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Simon G. Potts
Simon G. Potts University of Reading
Stuart P. M. Roberts
Stuart P. M. Roberts Université Libre de Bruxelles
Jacobus C. Biesmeijer
Jacobus C. Biesmeijer Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Luísa G. Carvalheiro
Luísa G. Carvalheiro Universidade Federal de Goiás
Paul H. Williams
Paul H. Williams Natural History Museum
Nicolas Vereecken
Nicolas Vereecken Université Libre de Bruxelles
Cyrille Violle
Cyrille Violle Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Georges Lognay
Georges Lognay University of Liège

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