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Stéphanie Manel

Stéphanie Manel

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
61
Citations
18987
World Ranking
2142
National Ranking
83

Overview

Stéphanie Manel is affiliated with PSL University in France and has a research focus centered on environmental science with significant contributions to biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans several subfields including ecology, molecular biology, genetics, nature and landscape conservation, and global and planetary change.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Global determinants of freshwater and marine fish genetic diversity, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Opportunities and challenges of macrogenetic studies, 2021, Nature Reviews Genetics
  • Comparing environmental DNA metabarcoding and underwater visual census to monitor tropical reef fishes, 2020, Environmental DNA
  • Benchmarking bioinformatic tools for fast and accurate eDNA metabarcoding species identification, 2021, Molecular Ecology Resources
  • Reviewing the Ecosystem Services, Societal Goods, and Benefits of Marine Protected Areas, 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science

The main topics addressed in Stéphanie Manel's research include:

  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Identification and Quantification in Food
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Stéphanie Manel are:

  • David Mouillot
  • Alice Valentini
  • Camille Albouy
  • Loïc Pellissier
  • Virginie Marques

Publications are often featured in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Ecography
  • Environmental DNA

Stéphanie Manel has contributed a book published by the Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement, titled Méthode d'analyse des stratégies en faveur de la biodiversité. Analyse de la capacité à initier un changement transformateur. Application à la troisième stratégie nationale pour la biodiversité (SNB3) (2023).

Best Publications

  • Landscape genetics: combining landscape ecology and population genetics

    Stephanie Manel;Michael K. Schwartz;Gordon Luikart;Pierre Taberlet

  • Evaluating presence-absence models in ecology: the need to account for prevalence

    Stephanie Manel;H. Ceri Williams;Stephen James Ormerod

  • Assignment methods: matching biological questions with appropriate techniques

    Stephanie Manel;Oscar E. Gaggiotti;Robin S. Waples

  • Ten years of landscape genetics

    Stéphanie Manel;Rolf Holderegger

  • Statistical analysis of amplified fragment length polymorphism data: a toolbox for molecular ecologists and evolutionists.

    A. Bonin;D. Ehrich;S. Manel

  • Comparing discriminant analysis, neural networks and logistic regression for predicting species distributions: a case study with a Himalayan river bird

    Stéphanie Manel;Jean-Marie Dias;Steve J. Ormerod

  • Considering adaptive genetic variation in climate change vulnerability assessment reduces species range loss projections

    Orly Razgour;Orly Razgour;Brenna Forester;John B. Taggart;Michaël Bekaert

  • Applications of landscape genetics in conservation biology: concepts and challenges

    Gernot Segelbacher;Samuel A. Cushman;Bryan K. Epperson;Marie Josée Fortin

  • Alternative methods for predicting species distribution: an illustration with Himalayan river birds

    Stéphanie Manel;J.M. Dias;S.T. Buckton;S.J. Ormerod

  • Detecting selection along environmental gradients: analysis of eight methods and their effectiveness for outbreeding and selfing populations

    Stéphane De Mita;Anne-Céline Thuillet;Nourollah Ahmadi

  • Detecting wildlife poaching: Identifying the origin of individuals with Bayesian assignment tests and multilocus genotypes

    Stéphanie Manel;Pierre Berthier;Gordon Luikart

  • Perspectives on the use of landscape genetics to detect genetic adaptive variation in the field

    Stéphanie Manel;Stéphanie Manel;Stéphane Joost;Bryan K. Epperson;Rolf Holderegger

  • Environmental DNA illuminates the dark diversity of sharks

    Germain Boussarie;Germain Boussarie;Judith Bakker;Owen S. Wangensteen;Owen S. Wangensteen;Stefano Mariani

  • Adaptive Genetic Variation on the Landscape: Methods and Cases

    Sean D. Schoville;Aurélie Bonin;Olivier François;Stéphane Lobreaux

  • Utility of computer simulations in landscape genetics

    Bryan K Epperson;Brad H. McRae;Kim T. Scribner;Samuel A. Cushman

  • History or ecology? Substrate type as a major driver of spatial genetic structure in Alpine plants

    Nadir Alvarez;Conny Thiel-Egenter;Andreas Tribsch;Rolf Holderegger

  • Genetic diversity in widespread species is not congruent with species richness in alpine plant communities.

    Pierre Taberlet;Niklaus E. Zimmermann;Thorsten Englisch;Andreas Tribsch

  • Common factors drive adaptive genetic variation at different spatial scales in Arabis alpina

    Stéphanie Manel;Stéphanie Manel;B N Poncet;P Legendre;F Gugerli

  • Landscape genetics of plants

    Rolf Holderegger;Dominique Buehler;Felix Gugerli;Stéphanie Manel;Stéphanie Manel

  • Broad-scale adaptive genetic variation in alpine plants is driven by temperature and precipitation

    Stéphanie Manel;Stéphanie Manel;Felix Gugerli;Wilfried Thuiller;Nadir Alvarez

  • Comparison of Bayesian Clustering and Edge Detection Methods for Inferring Boundaries in Landscape Genetics

    Toni Safner;Mark P. Miller;Brad H. McRae;Marie-Josée Fortin

Frequent Co-Authors

David Mouillot
David Mouillot University of Montpellier
Pierre Taberlet
Pierre Taberlet Grenoble Alpes University
Felix Gugerli
Felix Gugerli Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Camille Albouy
Camille Albouy ETH Zurich
Wilfried Thuiller
Wilfried Thuiller Grenoble Alpes University
Marie-Josée Fortin
Marie-Josée Fortin University of Toronto
Ludovic Gielly
Ludovic Gielly Grenoble Alpes University

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