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Sandra Lavorel 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 Sandra Lavorel sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 393 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sandra Lavorel 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 Sandra Lavorel sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 133 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists 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
  • 2020 - Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology, Generalitat de Catalunya
  • 2020 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2020 - BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
  • 2017 - Marsh Award for Ecology, British Ecological Society
  • 2012 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • Honorary Member of the British Ecological Society
  • Honorary Member of the British Ecological Society
  • Honorary Member of the British Ecological Society
  • Honorary Member of the British Ecological Society

Overview

Sandra Lavorel is affiliated with Grenoble Alpes University in France and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research encompasses a range of subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Ecology.

The major topics addressed in their work include:

  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations are Bruno Locatelli, Enora Bruley, Ignacio Palomo, Karl Grigulis, and Daniel R. Richards.

Their publications often appear in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Ecosystems and People, Regional Environmental Change, Sustainability Science, and the SSRN Electronic Journal.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Combatting global grassland degradation, 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Ten facts about land systems for sustainability, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Functional trait effects on ecosystem stability: assembling the jigsaw puzzle, 2021, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • IPBES-IPCC co-sponsored workshop report on biodiversity and climate change, 2021, Wageningen University and Researchcenter Publications (Wageningen University & Research)
  • Assessing nature-based solutions for transformative change, 2021, One Earth

Sandra Lavorel has also published books with notable publishers including the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) eBooks and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, with titles such as "Adaptation in ropocenethe Anth: How we can support ecosystems to enable our response to change" (2020) and "Les écosystèmes, un bien commun" (2024).

Their work has received recognition through awards and honors including the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2020), membership in the National Academy of Sciences (2020), the Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology from Generalitat de Catalunya (2020), the Marsh Award for Ecology from the British Ecological Society (2017), membership in Academia Europaea (2012), and an Honorary Membership in the British Ecological Society.

Best Publications

  • EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY ON ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: A CONSENSUS OF CURRENT KNOWLEDGE

    D. U. Hooper;F. S. Chapin;J. J. Ewel;A. Hector

  • Consequences of changing biodiversity

    F. Stuart Chapin Iii;Erika S. Zavaleta;Valerie T. Eviner;Rosamond L. Naylor

  • A handbook of protocols for standardised and easy measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

    J. H. C. Cornelissen;S. Lavorel;E. Garnier;S. Diaz

  • New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

    N. Pérez-Harguindeguy;S. Díaz;E. Garnier;S. Lavorel

  • Predicting changes in community composition and ecosystem functioning from plant traits: revisiting the Holy Grail

    S. Lavorel;E. Garnier

  • Corrigendum to: New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

    N. Pérez-Harguindeguy;S. Díaz;E. Garnier;S. Lavorel

  • The global spectrum of plant form and function

    Sandra Myrna Díaz;Jens Kattge;Johannes H. C. Cornelissen;Ian J. Wright

  • Climate change threats to plant diversity in Europe.

    W Thuiller;S Lavorel;M B Araujo;Martin Sykes

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

    J. Kattge;S. Díaz;S. Lavorel;I. C. Prentice

  • Assessing nature's contributions to people

    Sandra Diaz;Unai Pascual;Marie Stenseke;Berta Martin-Lopez

  • The IPBES Conceptual Framework - connecting nature and people

    Sandra Díaz;Sebsebe Demissew;Julia Carabias;Carlos Joly

  • Mechanisms underlying the impacts of exotic plant invasions

    Jonathan M Levine;Montserrat Vilà;Carla M D'Antonio;Jeffrey S Dukes

  • Ecosystem Service Supply and Vulnerability to Global Change in Europe

    Dagmar Schröter;Wolfgang Cramer;Rik Leemans;I. Colin Prentice

  • Incorporating plant functional diversity effects in ecosystem service assessments

    Sandra Myrna Díaz;Sandra Lavorel;Francesco de Bello;Fabien Quétier

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Plant functional classifications: from general groups to specific groups based on response to disturbance

    S. Lavorel;S. McIntyre;J. Landsberg;T.D.A. Forbes

  • Scaling environmental change through the community-level: a trait-based response-and-effect framework for plants

    Katharine N. Suding;Sandra Lavorel;F. S. Chapin;Johannes H. Cornelissen

  • Plant trait responses to grazing – a global synthesis

    Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel;Sue McINTYRE;Valeria Falczuk

  • Combatting global grassland degradation.

    Richard D. Bardgett;James M. Bullock;Sandra Lavorel;Peter Manning

  • Towards an assessment of multiple ecosystem processes and services via functional traits

    Francesco de Bello;Sandra Lavorel;Sandra Myrna Diaz;Richard Harrington

  • Effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning: a consensus of current knowledge: Ecological Monog

    David Hooper;F. Stuart Chapin;John J. Ewel;Andy Hector

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Christophe Clément
Jean-Christophe Clément Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Sandra Díaz
Sandra Díaz National University of Córdoba
Wilfried Thuiller
Wilfried Thuiller Grenoble Alpes University
Eric Garnier
Eric Garnier University of Montpellier
Matthew J. Colloff
Matthew J. Colloff Australian National University
Bruno Locatelli
Bruno Locatelli Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
Francesco de Bello
Francesco de Bello Spanish National Research Council
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Jens Kattge
Jens Kattge Max Planck Society
Sue McIntyre
Sue McIntyre Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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