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Signe Normand

Signe Normand

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
46
Citations
13163
World Ranking
4543
National Ranking
62

Overview

Signe Normand is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark and has contributed extensively to environmental and earth sciences. Their academic work spans various fields, with a primary focus on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Their research covers several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, and Environmental Engineering.

They have engaged deeply with multiple topics, notably:

  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Some of the notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Signe Normand include:

  • "Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic," 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • "CHELSA-TraCE21k - high-resolution (1 km) downscaled transient temperature and precipitation data since the Last Glacial Maximum," 2023, Climate of the past
  • "Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Microclimate, an important part of ecology and biogeography," 2024, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "The Spectral Species Concept in Living Color," 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences

Frequent co-authors working alongside Signe Normand include:

  • Urs A. Treier
  • Jakob J. Assmann
  • Anne D. Bjorkman
  • Bo Elberling
  • Jonathan von Oppen

Their publications have appeared regularly in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Nature Communications

Signe Normand has also contributed to book publications, notably with TemaNord for the title Nordic Crop Wild Relative (CWR) Conservation for a More Resilient Agriculture, scheduled for 2025.

Best Publications

  • The role of biotic interactions in shaping distributions and realised assemblages of species: implications for species distribution modelling

    Mary Susanne Wisz;Julien Pottier;W. Daniel Kissling;Loïc Pellissier

  • Accelerated increase in plant species richness on mountain summits is linked to warming

    Manuel J. Steinbauer;Manuel J. Steinbauer;John-Arvid Grytnes;Gerald Jurasinski;Aino Kulonen

  • Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic

    Isla H. Myers-Smith;Jeffrey T. Kerby;Gareth K. Phoenix;Jarle W. Bjerke

  • 21st century climate change threatens mountain flora unequally across Europe

    Robin Engler;Christophe F. Randin;Wilfried Thuiller;Stefan Dullinger

  • What do we gain from simplicity versus complexity in species distribution models

    Cory Merow;Cory Merow;Cory Merow;Matthew J. Smith;Thomas C. Edwards;Antoine Guisan

  • Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

    Anne D. Bjorkman;Anne D. Bjorkman;Isla H. Myers-Smith;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Signe Normand

  • Climate change and plant distribution: local models predict high-elevation persistence

    Christophe F. Randin;Robin Engler;Signe Normand;Massimiliano Zappa

  • Glacial refugia of temperate trees in Europe: insights from species distribution modelling

    Jens-Christian Svenning;Signe Normand;Masa Kageyama

  • Applications of species distribution modeling to paleobiology

    Jens-Christian Svenning;Camilla Fløjgaard;Katharine A. Marske;David Nógues-Bravo

  • Postglacial migration supplements climate in determining plant species ranges in Europe

    Signe Normand;Robert E. Ricklefs;Flemming Skov;Jesper Bladt

  • The influence of paleoclimate on present-day patterns in biodiversity and ecosystems

    Jens-Christian Svenning;Wolf L. Eiserhardt;Signe Normand;Alejandro Ordonez

  • Postglacial dispersal limitation of widespread forest plant species in nemoral Europe

    Jens-Christian Svenning;Signe Normand;Flemming Skov

  • The influence of interspecific interactions on species range expansion rates

    Jens-Christian Svenning;Dominique Gravel;Robert D. Holt;Frank M. Schurr;Frank M. Schurr

  • Importance of abiotic stress as a range‐limit determinant for European plants: insights from species responses to climatic gradients

    Signe Normand;Urs A. Treier;Christophe Randin;Pascal Vittoz

  • Environmental and historical imprints on beta diversity: insights from variation in rates of species turnover along gradients

    Matthew C. Fitzpatrick;Nathan J. Sanders;Signe Normand;Jens-Christian Svenning

  • Status and trends in Arctic vegetation: Evidence from experimental warming and long-term monitoring

    Anne D. Bjorkman;Mariana García Criado;Isla H. Myers-Smith;Virve Ravolainen

  • Benchmarking novel approaches for modelling species range dynamics

    Damaris Zurell;Wilfried Thuiller;Wilfried Thuiller;Jörn Pagel;Juliano S. Cabral

  • Shift in cytotype frequency and niche space in the invasive plant Centaurea maculosa

    Urs A. Treier;Urs A. Treier;Olivier Broennimann;Signe Normand;Antoine Guisan

  • Past and future range shifts and loss of diversity in dwarf willow (Salix herbacea L.) inferred from genetics, fossils and modelling

    Inger Greve Alsos;Torbjørn Alm;Signe Normand;Christian Brochmann

  • CHELSA-TraCE21k – high-resolution (1 km) downscaled transient temperature and precipitation data since the Last Glacial Maximum

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  • Macroecology in the age of Big Data – Where to go from here?

    Rafael O. Wüest;Niklaus E. Zimmermann;Damaris Zurell;Jake M. Alexander

Frequent Co-Authors

Jens-Christian Svenning
Jens-Christian Svenning Aarhus University
Niklaus E. Zimmermann
Niklaus E. Zimmermann Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Anne D. Bjorkman
Anne D. Bjorkman University of Gothenburg
Brody Sandel
Brody Sandel Santa Clara University
Antoine Guisan
Antoine Guisan University of Lausanne
Sarah C. Elmendorf
Sarah C. Elmendorf Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Isla H. Myers-Smith
Isla H. Myers-Smith University of Edinburgh
Wilfried Thuiller
Wilfried Thuiller Grenoble Alpes University
Anu Eskelinen
Anu Eskelinen University of Oulu
Bruce C. Forbes
Bruce C. Forbes University of Lapland

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