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Steeve D. Côté

Steeve D. Côté

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
69
Citations
15565
World Ranking
1456
National Ranking
85

Steeve D. Côté 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 Steeve D. Côté sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 266 publications — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Steeve D. Côté 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 Steeve D. Côté sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 69 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Steeve D. Côté is affiliated with Université Laval in Canada. Their research spans primarily across the fields of Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on the subfields of Ecology, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Ecological Modeling, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The main topics of their work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, Genetic diversity and population structure, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Indigenous Studies and Ecology, and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies.

Among recent publications, Steeve D. Côté has contributed to the following papers:

  • Mapping out a future for ungulate migrations, 2021, Science
  • Fluctuating optimum and temporally variable selection on breeding date in birds and mammals, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Genomic architecture of phenotypic extremes in a wild cervid, 2022, BMC Genomics
  • Methodology matters when estimating deer abundance: a global systematic review and recommendations for improvements, 2022, Journal of Wildlife Management
  • A Review of Ungulate Impacts on the Success of Climate-Adapted Forest Management Strategies, 2021, Current Forestry Reports

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Steeve D. Côté include:

  • Joëlle Taillon
  • Jean-Pierre Tremblay
  • Sandra Hamel
  • Claude Robert
  • Julien H. Richard

Steeve D. Côté has been published often in venues such as:

  • Journal of Wildlife Management
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Oikos
  • BMC Genomics
  • Ecology and Evolution

Best Publications

  • Ecological Impacts of Deer Overabundance

    Steeve D. Côté;Thomas P. Rooney;Jean-Pierre Tremblay;Christian Dussault

  • Of glaciers and refugia: a decade of study sheds new light on the phylogeography of northwestern North America.

    Aaron B. A. Shafer;Catherine I. Cullingham;Steeve D. Côté;David W. Coltman

  • EARLY ONSET OF VEGETATION GROWTH VS. RAPID GREEN-UP: IMPACTS ON JUVENILE MOUNTAIN UNGULATES

    Nathalie Pettorelli;Fanie Pelletier;Fanie Pelletier;Achaz von Hardenberg;Marco Festa-Bianchet

  • Birthdate, mass and survival in mountain goat kids: effects of maternal characteristics and forage quality

    Steeve D. Côté;Marco Festa-Bianchet

  • Individual variation in reproductive costs of reproduction: high‐quality females always do better

    Sandra Hamel;Steeve D. Côté;Jean-Michel Gaillard;Marco Festa-Bianchet

  • Spring Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) predicts annual variation in timing of peak faecal crude protein in mountain ungulates

    Sandra Hamel;Mathieu Garel;Marco Festa-Bianchet;Jean-Michel Gaillard

  • Variable age structure and apparent density dependence in survival of adult ungulates.

    Marco Festa-Bianchet;Jean-Michel Gaillard;Steeve D. Côté

  • Reproductive success in female mountain goats: the influence of age and social rank

    Steeve D. Côté;Marco Festa-Bianchet

  • Mountain Goats: Ecology, Behavior, and Conservation of an Alpine Ungulate

    Marco Festa-Bianchet;Steeve D. Côté

  • DOMINANCE HIERARCHIES IN FEMALE MOUNTAIN GOATS: STABILITY, AGGRESSIVENESS AND DETERMINANTS OF RANK

    Steeve D. Cote

  • Genetic diversity in caribou linked to past and future climate change

    Glenn Yannic;Loïc Pellissier;Loïc Pellissier;Joaquín Ortego;Joaquín Ortego;Nicolas Lecomte;Nicolas Lecomte

  • Individual quality, early-life conditions, and reproductive success in contrasted populations of large herbivores

    Sandra Hamel;Jean-Michel Gaillard;Marco Festa-Bianchet;Steeve D. Côté

  • Responses of woodland caribou to winter ecotourism in the Charlevoix Biosphere Reserve, Canada

    Mario Duchesne;Steeve D Côté;Cyrille Barrette

  • Long-term decline in white-tailed deer browse supply: can lichens and litterfall act as alternative food sources that preclude density-dependent feedbacks

    Jean-Pierre Tremblay;Isabel Thibault;Christian Dussault;Jean Huot

  • Trade-offs in activity budget in an alpine ungulate: contrasting lactating and nonlactating females

    Sandra Hamel;Steeve D. Côté

  • Maternal care in white-tailed deer : trade-off between maintenance and reproduction under food restriction

    Jean-François Therrien;Steeve D. Côté;Marco Festa-Bianchet;Jean-Pierre Ouellet

  • Impacts of climate change on the seasonal distribution of migratory caribou

    Sapna Sharma;Serge Couturier;Steeve D. Côté

  • Life-History Effects of Chemical Immobilization and Radiocollars on Mountain Goats

    Steeve D. Cote;Marco Festa-Bianchet;Francois Fournier

  • Father–offspring phenotypic correlations suggest intralocus sexual conflict for a fitness-linked trait in a wild sexually dimorphic mammal

    Julien Mainguy;Steeve D. Côté;Marco Festa-Bianchet;David W. Coltman

  • Mapping out a future for ungulate migrations.

    Matthew J. Kauffman;Francesca Cagnacci;Simon Chamaillé-Jammes;Mark Hebblewhite

  • Integrative use of spatial, genetic, and demographic analyses for investigating genetic connectivity between migratory, montane, and sedentary caribou herds.

    Marylène Boulet;Serge Couturier;Steeve D. Côté;Robert D. Otto

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Festa-Bianchet
Marco Festa-Bianchet Université de Sherbrooke
Christian Dussault
Christian Dussault Université Laval
Fanie Pelletier
Fanie Pelletier Université de Sherbrooke
David W. Coltman
David W. Coltman University of Western Ontario
Jean Huot
Jean Huot Université Laval
Louis Bernatchez
Louis Bernatchez Université Laval
Susan J. Kutz
Susan J. Kutz University of Calgary
Jean-Michel Gaillard
Jean-Michel Gaillard Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Hervé Fritz
Hervé Fritz Nelson Mandela University

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