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Richard Michalet

Richard Michalet

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
56
Citations
16461
World Ranking
2792
National Ranking
116

Overview

Richard Michalet is affiliated with the University of Bordeaux in France and specializes in environmental science, with significant contributions to agricultural and biological sciences. Their research work spans several interconnected subfields including nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, plant science, global and planetary change, and earth-surface processes.

The main topics of Michalet's work focus on ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant and animal studies, species distribution and climate change, plant parasitism and resistance, aeolian processes and effects, soil erosion and sediment transport, and plant water relations and carbon dynamics.

Michalet has coauthored publications with several frequent collaborators, notably Florian Delerue, David Nemer, Hugo Randé, Xiangtai Wang, and Bruno Castelle.

They have contributed to a range of academic journals with repeated publications in key venues such as the Journal of Vegetation Science, Oikos, Journal of Ecology, Ecology, and The Science of The Total Environment.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Michalet include:

  • "Are complementarity effects of species richness on productivity the strongest in species-rich communities?" (2021, Journal of Ecology)
  • "Network motifs involving both competition and facilitation predict biodiversity in alpine plant communities" (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Morphological and ecological responses of a managed coastal sand dune to experimental notches" (2021, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • "150 years of foredune initiation and evolution driven by human and natural processes" (2020, Geomorphology)
  • "Disentangling Large- and Small-Scale Abiotic and Biotic Factors Shaping Soil Microbial Communities in an Alpine Cushion Plant System" (2020, Frontiers in Microbiology)

Their research covers topics such as biodiversity patterns in alpine plant communities, ecological impacts of landscape management on coastal dunes, and factors influencing soil microbial communities in alpine ecosystems.

Best Publications

  • Positive interactions among alpine plants increase with stress.

    Ragan M. Callaway;R. W. Brooker;Philippe Choler;Zaal Kikvidze

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

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

  • FACILITATION AND COMPETITION ON GRADIENTS IN ALPINE PLANT COMMUNITIES

    Philippe Choler;Richard Michalet;Ragan M. Callaway

  • Do biotic interactions shape both sides of the humped-back model of species richness in plant communities?

    Richard Michalet;Robin W. Brooker;Lohengrin A. Cavieres;Zaal Kikvidze

  • Rethinking plant community theory

    Christopher J. Lortie;Rob W. Brooker;Phillipe Choler;Zaal Kikvidze

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

    Pierre Liancourt;Ragan M. Callaway;Richard Michalet

  • Leaf phenology sensitivity to temperature in European trees: do within-species populations exhibit similar responses?

    Yann Vitasse;Yann Vitasse;Sylvain Delzon;Sylvain Delzon;Eric Dufrêne;Eric Dufrêne;Jean-Yves Pontailler;Jean-Yves Pontailler

  • The importance of importance

    Rob Brooker;Zaal Kikvidze;Francisco I. Pugnaire;Ragan M. Callaway

  • Altitudinal differentiation in growth and phenology among populations of temperate-zone tree species growing in a common garden

    Yann VitasseY. Vitasse;Sylvain DelzonS. Delzon;Caroline C. BressonC.C. Bresson;Richard MichaletR. Michalet

  • Facilitative plant interactions and climate simultaneously drive alpine plant diversity

    Lohengrin A. Cavieres;Rob W. Brooker;Bradley J. Butterfield;Bradley J. Cook

  • Responses of canopy duration to temperature changes in four temperate tree species: relative contributions of spring and autumn leaf phenology.

    Yann Vitasse;Annabel Josée Porté;Antoine Kremer;Richard Michalet

  • LINKING PATTERNS AND PROCESSES IN ALPINE PLANT COMMUNITIES: A GLOBAL STUDY

    Zaal Kikvidze;Francisco I. Pugnaire;Robin W. Brooker;Philippe Choler

  • Quantifying phenological plasticity to temperature in two temperate tree species

    Yann Vitasse;Caroline C. Bresson;Antoine Kremer;Richard Michalet

  • Two alternatives to the stress-gradient hypothesis at the edge of life: the collapse of facilitation and the switch from facilitation to competition

    Richard Michalet;Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet;Jean-Paul Maalouf;Christopher J. Lortie

  • Alpine cushion plants inhibit the loss of phylogenetic diversity in severe environments

    B. J. Butterfield;L. A. Cavieres;R. M. Callaway;B. J. Cook

  • Changes in radial tree growth for Picea abies, Larix decidua, Pinus cembra and Pinus uncinata near the alpine timberline since 1750

    Christian Rolland;Véronique Petitcolas;R. Michalet

  • Partitioning net interactions among plants along altitudinal gradients to study community responses to climate change

    Richard Michalet;Christian Schöb;Christopher J. Lortie;Rob W. Brooker

  • Low-Cost UAV for High-Resolution and Large-Scale Coastal Dune Change Monitoring Using Photogrammetry

    Quentin Laporte-Fauret;Vincent Marieu;Bruno Castelle;Richard Michalet

  • Is facilitation in arid environments the result of direct or complex interactions

    Richard Michalet

  • Facilitation of Quercus ilex in Mediterranean shrubland is explained by both direct and indirect interactions mediated by herbs

    Bárbara Cuesta;Pedro Villar-Salvador;Jaime Puértolas;José M. Rey Benayas

  • PERSPECTIVE Do biotic interactions shape both sides of the humped-back model of species richness in plant communities?

    Richard Michalet;Lohengrin A. Cavieres;Zaal Kikvidze;Francisco I. Pugnaire

Frequent Co-Authors

Ragan M. Callaway
Ragan M. Callaway University of Montana
Christopher J. Lortie
Christopher J. Lortie York University
Francisco I. Pugnaire
Francisco I. Pugnaire Spanish National Research Council
Zaal Kikvidze
Zaal Kikvidze Ilia State University
Rob W. Brooker
Rob W. Brooker James Hutton Institute
Lohengrin A. Cavieres
Lohengrin A. Cavieres University of Concepción
Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet
Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet King Juan Carlos University
Pierre Liancourt
Pierre Liancourt University of Tübingen
Vincent Marieu
Vincent Marieu University of Bordeaux

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