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Raphaël Pélissier

Raphaël Pélissier

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
41
Citations
10855
World Ranking
5701
National Ranking
258

Raphaël Pélissier 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 Raphaël Pélissier sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 127 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Raphaël Pélissier 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 Raphaël Pélissier sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Raphaël Pélissier is affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France. Their academic focus spans Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with numerous contributions across key subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Environmental Engineering, and Ecological Modeling.

Their research covers a range of topics related to forest ecology, species distribution, and remote sensing applications. Central themes in their work include:

  • Forest ecology and management
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Pélissier has authored papers published in high-impact venues. Recent papers include:

  • Spatial validation reveals poor predictive performance of large-scale ecological mapping models, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Unveiling African rainforest composition and vulnerability to global change, 2021, Nature
  • Tallo: A global tree allometry and crown architecture database, 2022, Global Change Biology
  • Identifying uncertainties in scenarios and models of socio-ecological systems in support of decision-making, 2021, One Earth
  • Pantropical variability in tree crown allometry, 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography

Frequent co-authors associated with Pélissier's work include Pierre Ploton, Nicolas Barbier, Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury, Maxime Réjou-Méchain, and Jean-Louis Doucet. These collaborations reflect ongoing research networks in ecological and environmental science domains.

Key publication venues where Pélissier has appeared multiple times include Nature Communications, Scientific Data, Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Nature.

In terms of scholarly output beyond articles, Pélissier has contributed to book publications such as "On the Edge of the Sixth Mass Extinction in Biodiversity Hotspots: Facts, needs, solutions and opportunities in Thailand and adjacent countries," published by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Improved allometric models to estimate the aboveground biomass of tropical trees

    Jérôme Chave;Maxime Réjou‐Méchain;Alberto Búrquez;Emmanuel Chidumayo

  • Community ecology in the age of multivariate multiscale spatial analysis

    S. Dray;Raphaël Pélissier;Raphaël Pélissier;Pierre Couteron;M. J. Fortin

  • Spatial validation reveals poor predictive performance of large-scale ecological mapping models.

    Pierre Ploton;Frédéric Mortier;Maxime Rejou-Mechain;Nicolas Barbier

  • BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

    Maria Dornelas;Laura H. Antão;Laura H. Antão;Faye Moyes;Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates

  • Avoiding misinterpretation of biotic interactions with the intertype K12-function: population independence vs. random labelling hypotheses

    F. Goreaud;R. Pélissier

  • The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project

    Lawrence N. Hudson;Tim Newbold;Tim Newbold;Sara Contu;Samantha L.L. Hill;Samantha L.L. Hill

  • On explicit formulas of edge effect correction for Ripley's K‐function

    François Goreaud;Raphaël Pélissier

  • Structure and floristic composition of a tropical evergreen forest in south-west India

    Jean-Pierre Pascal;Raphael Pelissier

  • Unveiling African rainforest composition and vulnerability to global change

    Maxime Rejou-Mechain;Frédéric Mortier;Jean-François Bastin;Guillaume Cornu

  • Predicting tropical forest stand structure parameters from Fourier transform of very high‐resolution remotely sensed canopy images

    Pierre Couteron;Raphaël Pélissier;Eric-André Nicolini;Dominique Paget

  • Sampling strategies for the assessment of tree species diversity

    Clémentine Gimaret-Carpentier;Raphaël Pélissier;Jean-Pierre Pascal;François Houllier

  • A practical approach to the study of spatial structure in simple cases of heterogeneous vegetation

    Raphaël Pélissier;François Goreaud

  • Seeing Central African forests through their largest trees

    J. F. Bastin;Nicolas Barbier;Maxime Réjou-Méchain;A. Fayolle

  • Using terrestrial laser scanning data to estimate large tropical trees biomass and calibrate allometric models: A comparison with traditional destructive approach

    Stephane Momo Takoudjou;Stephane Momo Takoudjou;Pierre Ploton;Bonaventure Sonké;Jan Hackenberg;Jan Hackenberg

  • Environmental susceptibility model for predicting forest fire occurrence in the Western Ghats of India

    Quentin Renard;Raphaël Pélissier;Raphaël Pélissier;B. R. Ramesh;Narendran Kodandapani

  • Assessing aboveground tropical forest biomass using Google Earth canopy images

    Pierre Ploton;Pierre Ploton;Raphaël Pélissier;Christophe Proisy;Théo Flavenot

  • Climate seasonality limits leaf carbon assimilation and wood productivity in tropical forests

    Fabien H. Wagner;Bruno Hérault;Damien Bonal;Clément Stahl;Clément Stahl

  • Upscaling Forest Biomass from Field to Satellite Measurements: Sources of Errors and Ways to Reduce Them

    Maxime Réjou-Méchain;Nicolas Barbier;Pierre Couteron;Pierre Ploton

  • Phylogenetic turnover in tropical tree communities: impact of environmental filtering, biogeography and mesoclimatic niche conservatism

    Olivier J. Hardy;Pierre Couteron;François Munoz;B. R. Ramesh

  • Tallo: A global tree allometry and crown architecture database

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  • Tree spatial patterns in three contrasting plots of a southern Indian tropical moist evergreen forest

    Raphaël Pélissier

  • ANALYZING OR EXPLAINING BETA DIVERSITY? COMMENT

    Raphaël Pélissier;Pierre Couteron;Stéphane Dray

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicolas Barbier
Nicolas Barbier University of Montpellier
Pierre Couteron
Pierre Couteron Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Maxime Réjou-Méchain
Maxime Réjou-Méchain Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Bonaventure Sonké
Bonaventure Sonké Université de Yaoundé I
Daniel Sabatier
Daniel Sabatier University of Montpellier
François Munoz
François Munoz Grenoble Alpes University
Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury
Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
Jérôme Chave
Jérôme Chave Paul Sabatier University
Jean-Louis Doucet
Jean-Louis Doucet Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
Uta Berger
Uta Berger TU Dresden

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