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48
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4107
National Ranking
174

Overview

Stéphane Dray is affiliated with Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 in France. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with 33 publications in this domain. Within this broad area, their work focuses on several subfields including Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecological Modeling.

The scientist's recent publications reflect a strong engagement with topics related to biodiversity, phylogenomics, and disease genetics. Notable papers include:

  • "The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset" (2022) published in Scientific Data
  • "Genetic and species-level biodiversity patterns are linked by demography and ecological opportunity" (2021) published in Evolution
  • "PhylteR: Efficient Identification of Outlier Sequences in Phylogenomic Datasets" (2023) published in Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • "Overcoming the Spurious Groups Problem in Between-Group PCA" (2021) published in Evolutionary Biology
  • "Mycobacterium tuberculosis genetic features associated with pulmonary tuberculosis severity" (2022) published in International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Their research covers a variety of main topics, including:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Sensory Analysis and Statistical Methods

Stéphane Dray frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Hervé Fritz, Vincent Mièle, Lisa Nicvert, Marion Valeix, and Gaspard Dussert. Collaboration counts range from 5 to 12 joint works, indicating ongoing cooperative research efforts.

The scholar's work has appeared in diverse venues, with the highest number of publications found in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). Other notable venues include Peer Community In Ecology, Peer Community Journal, Journal of Vegetation Science, and Methods in Ecology and Evolution.

Best Publications

  • The ade4 Package: Implementing the Duality Diagram for Ecologists

    Stéphane Dray;Anne Béatrice Dufour

  • The global spectrum of plant form and function

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

  • VARIATION PARTITIONING OF SPECIES DATA MATRICES: ESTIMATION AND COMPARISON OF FRACTIONS

    Pedro R. Peres-Neto;Pierre Legendre;Stéphane Dray;Daniel Borcard

  • Spatial modelling: a comprehensive framework for principal coordinate analysis of neighbour matrices (PCNM)

    Stéphane Dray;Pierre Legendre;Pedro R. Peres-Neto;Pedro R. Peres-Neto

  • How to measure and test phylogenetic signal

    Tamara Münkemüller;Sébastien Lavergne;Bruno Bzeznik;Stéphane Dray

  • Community ecology in the age of multivariate multiscale spatial analysis

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

  • CO-INERTIA ANALYSIS AND THE LINKING OF ECOLOGICAL DATA TABLES

    Stéphane Dray;Daniel Chessel;Jean Thioulouse

  • Testing the species traits-environment relationships: the fourth-corner problem revisited.

    Stéphane Dray;Pierre Legendre

  • Combining the fourth-corner and the RLQ methods for assessing trait responses to environmental variation.

    Stéphane Dray;Philippe Choler;Sylvain Dolédec;Pedro R. Peres-Neto

  • A guide for using functional diversity indices to reveal changes in assembly processes along ecological gradients

    Norman W.H. Mason;Francesco de Bello;David Mouillot;Sandrine Pavoine

  • adephylo: new tools for investigating the phylogenetic signal in biological traits

    Thibaut Jombart;François Balloux;Stéphane Dray

  • Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data with ade4

    Jean Thioulouse;Stéphane Dray;Anne-Béatrice Dufour;Aurélie Siberchicot

  • Assessing species and community functional responses to environmental gradients: which multivariate methods?

    Michael Kleyer;Stéphane Dray;Stéphane Dray;Francescode Bello;Jan Lepš

  • The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset

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  • The concept of animals' trajectories from a data analysis perspective

    Clément Calenge;Stéphane Dray;Manuela Royer-Carenzi

  • Responding to spatial and temporal variations in predation risk: space use of a game species in a changing landscape of fear

    V. Tolon;S. Dray;A. Loison;A. Zeileis

  • Principal component analysis with missing values: a comparative survey of methods

    Stéphane Dray;Julie Josse

  • Improved testing of species traits–environment relationships in the fourth‐corner problem

    Cajo J. F. ter Braak;Anouk Cormont;Stéphane Dray

  • Assessing the effects of spatial contingency and environmental filtering on metacommunity phylogenetics

    Pedro R. Peres-Neto;Pedro R. Peres-Neto;Mathew A. Leibold;Stéphane Dray

  • Functional analysis of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index curves reveals overwinter mule deer survival is driven by both spring and autumn phenology

    Mark A. Hurley;Mark Hebblewhite;Jean Michel Gaillard;Stéphane Dray

  • Linking trait variation to the environment: critical issues with community-weighted mean correlation resolved by the fourth-corner approach

    Pedro R. Peres-Neto;Stéphane Dray;Cajo J. F. ter Braak

  • Generating spatially-constrained null models for irregularly spaced data using Moran spectral randomization methods

    Helene H. Wagner;Stéphane Dray

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean Thioulouse
Jean Thioulouse Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Sandrine Pavoine
Sandrine Pavoine French National Museum of Natural History
Wilfried Thuiller
Wilfried Thuiller Grenoble Alpes University
Pedro R. Peres-Neto
Pedro R. Peres-Neto Concordia University
Pierre Legendre
Pierre Legendre University of Montreal
Hervé Fritz
Hervé Fritz Nelson Mandela University
Marion Valeix
Marion Valeix Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Raphaël Pélissier
Raphaël Pélissier University of Montpellier
Olivier Gimenez
Olivier Gimenez Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
François Munoz
François Munoz Grenoble Alpes University

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