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2026

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Ecology and Evolution

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136
Citations
82799
World Ranking
53
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in France Leader Award
  • 2014 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Pierre Taberlet is affiliated with Grenoble Alpes University in France. Their research centers on environmental DNA and its application to biodiversity studies, with a significant focus on molecular ecology and ecological modeling. They have contributed to the understanding of species distribution, climate change impacts, microbial community ecology, and genetic diversity through molecular techniques.

The main fields of study for Pierre Taberlet include Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Within these disciplines, their work spans several subfields: ecology, molecular biology, ecological modeling, genetics, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The scientist's primary research topics cover:

  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Identification and Quantification in Food
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny

Pierre Taberlet's recent papers illustrate the scope of their work and include the following:

  • "Lake Sedimentary DNA Research on Past Terrestrial and Aquatic Biodiversity: Overview and Recommendations," 2021, Quaternary
  • "Environmental DNA for biomonitoring," 2021, Molecular Ecology
  • "High resolution ancient sedimentary DNA shows that alpine plant diversity is associated with human land use and climate change," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "The generality of cryptic dietary niche differences in diverse large-herbivore assemblages," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Comparison of markers for the monitoring of freshwater benthic biodiversity through DNA metabarcoding," 2020, Molecular Ecology

The researcher frequently collaborates with other scientists, including:

  • Éric Coissac
  • Frédéric Boyer
  • Aurélie Bonin
  • Gentile Francesco Ficetola
  • Ludovic Gielly

Pierre Taberlet has published extensively in well-known scientific journals and venues such as:

  • Molecular Ecology
  • Molecular Ecology Resources
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Forest Ecology and Management

In recognition of their scientific contributions, Pierre Taberlet became a member of the Academia Europaea in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Universal primers for amplification of three non-coding regions of chloroplast DNA

    Pierre Taberlet;Ludovic Gielly;Guy Pautou;Jean Bouvet

  • Comparative phylogeography and postglacial colonization routes in Europe

    Pierre Taberlet;Luca Fumagalli;Anne‐Gabrielle Wust‐Saucy;Jean‐François Cosson

  • Landscape genetics: combining landscape ecology and population genetics

    Stephanie Manel;Michael K. Schwartz;Gordon Luikart;Pierre Taberlet

  • Towards next‐generation biodiversity assessment using DNA metabarcoding

    Pierre Taberlet;Eric Coissac;François Pompanon;Christian Brochmann

  • Species detection using environmental DNA from water samples.

    Gentile Francesco Ficetola;Claude Miaud;François Pompanon;Pierre Taberlet

  • Reliable Genotyping of Samples with Very Low DNA Quantities Using PCR

    Pierre Taberlet;Sally Griffin;Benoît Goossens;Sophie Questiau

  • How to track and assess genotyping errors in population genetics studies.

    A. Bonin;E. Bellemain;P. Bronken Eidesen;F. Pompanon

  • Estimating the probability of identity among genotypes in natural populations: cautions and guidelines

    Lisette P. Waits;Gordon Luikart;Pierre Taberlet

  • The power and promise of population genomics: from genotyping to genome typing

    Gordon Luikart;Phillip R. England;David Tallmon;Steve Jordan

  • Environmental DNA: ENVIRONMENTAL DNA

    Pierre Taberlet;Eric Coissac;Mehrdad Hajibabaei;Loren H. Rieseberg

  • Genotyping errors: causes, consequences and solutions.

    François Pompanon;Aurélie Bonin;Eva Bellemain;Pierre Taberlet

  • Noninvasive genetic sampling: look before you leap

    Pierre Taberlet;Lisette P. Waits;Gordon Luikart

  • Power and limitations of the chloroplast trnL(UAA) intron for plant DNA barcoding

    Pierre Taberlet;Eric Coissac;François Pompanon;Ludovic Gielly

  • Who is eating what: diet assessment using next generation sequencing.

    Francois Pompanon;Bruce E. Deagle;Bruce E. Deagle;William Oliver Christian Symondson;David Steven Brown

  • DNA barcoding for ecologists

    Alice Valentini;François Pompanon;Pierre Taberlet

  • Next-generation monitoring of aquatic biodiversity using environmental DNA metabarcoding

    Alice Valentini;Pierre Taberlet;Pierre Taberlet;Claude Miaud;Raphaël Civade

  • ITS as an environmental DNA barcode for fungi: an in silico approach reveals potential PCR biases

    Eva Bellemain;Tor Carlsen;Christian Brochmann;Eric Coissac

  • obitools: a unix-inspired software package for DNA metabarcoding.

    Frédéric Boyer;Céline Mercier;Aurélie Bonin;Yvan Le Bras

  • Critical considerations for the application of environmental DNA methods to detect aquatic species

    Caren S. Goldberg;Cameron R. Turner;Kristy Deiner;Katy E. Klymus

  • Persistence of environmental DNA in freshwater ecosystems.

    Tony Dejean;Alice Valentini;Antoine Duparc;Stéphanie Pellier-Cuit

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Coissac
Eric Coissac Grenoble Alpes University
Ludovic Gielly
Ludovic Gielly Grenoble Alpes University
François Pompanon
François Pompanon Grenoble Alpes University
Christian Miquel
Christian Miquel Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Gordon Luikart
Gordon Luikart University of Montana
Gentile Francesco Ficetola
Gentile Francesco Ficetola University of Milan
Fabien Arnaud
Fabien Arnaud Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Jérôme Poulenard
Jérôme Poulenard Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Luca Fumagalli
Luca Fumagalli University of Lausanne

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