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Tamara Münkemüller

Tamara Münkemüller

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
42
Citations
18389
World Ranking
5420
National Ranking
240

Overview

Tamara Münkemüller is affiliated with Grenoble Alpes University in France. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Within these broad fields, they have contributed to subfields such as nature and landscape conservation, ecology, ecological modeling, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and soil science.

The scientific work of Tamara Münkemüller spans key topics including ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, species distribution and climate change, plant and animal studies, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, microbial community ecology and physiology, environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, and peatlands and wetlands ecology.

Published papers reflect a varied engagement with community ecology, biodiversity, and environmental DNA. Notable recent publications include:

  • "On the Interpretations of Joint Modeling in Community Ecology" (2021) in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "Dos and don'ts when inferring assembly rules from diversity patterns" (2020) in Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "The diversity of biotic interactions complements functional and phylogenetic facets of biodiversity" (2022) in Current Biology
  • "Plant community impact on productivity: Trait diversity or key(stone) species effects?" (2022) in Ecology Letters
  • "Effects of soil preservation for biodiversity monitoring using environmental DNA" (2020) in Molecular Ecology

The scientist frequently publishes in journals such as Global Ecology and Biogeography, Ecography, SSRN Electronic Journal, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, and Ecology Letters.

Collaborative work has often involved co-authors including Wilfried Thuiller, Julien Renaud, Jérôme Poulenard, Ludovic Gielly, and Irene Calderón-Sanou.

Best Publications

  • Collinearity: a review of methods to deal with it and a simulation study evaluating their performance

    Carsten F. Dormann;Jane Elith;Sven Bacher;Carsten Buchmann

  • How to measure and test phylogenetic signal

    Tamara Münkemüller;Sébastien Lavergne;Bruno Bzeznik;Stéphane Dray

  • Ecophylogenetics: advances and perspectives.

    Nicolas Mouquet;Vincent Devictor;Christine N. Meynard;Francois Munoz

  • Predicting potential distributions of invasive species: where to go from here?

    Laure Gallien;Tamara Münkemüller;Cécile H. Albert;Isabelle Boulangeat

  • The virtual ecologist approach: simulating data and observers

    Damaris Zurell;Uta Berger;Juliano S. Cabral;Florian Jeltsch

  • Resolving Darwin’s naturalization conundrum: a quest for evidence

    Wilfried Thuiller;Laure Gallien;Isabelle Boulangeat;Francesco De Bello

  • The influence of interspecific interactions on species range expansion rates

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

  • Functional species pool framework to test for biotic effects on community assembly

    Francesco de Bello;Jodi N. Price;Tamara Münkemüller;Jaan Liira

  • A road map for integrating eco-evolutionary processes into biodiversity models.

    Wilfried Thuiller;Tamara Münkemüller;Sébastien Lavergne;David Mouillot;David Mouillot

  • Deleterious Mutations Can Surf to High Densities on the Wave Front of an Expanding Population

    Justin M. J. Travis;Justin M. J. Travis;Tamara Münkemüller;Tamara Münkemüller;Olivia J. Burton;Alex Best;Alex Best

  • The Latitudinal Diversity Gradient: Novel Understanding through Mechanistic Eco-evolutionary Models

    Mikael Pontarp;Lynsey Bunnefeld;Juliano Sarmento Cabral;Rampal S. Etienne

  • Benchmarking novel approaches for modelling species range dynamics

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

  • Does probability of occurrence relate to population dynamics

    Wilfried Thuiller;Wilfried Thuiller;Tamara Münkemüller;Tamara Münkemüller;Katja H. Schiffers;Katja H. Schiffers;Damien Georges;Damien Georges

  • Influence of tree shape and evolutionary time-scale on phylogenetic diversity metrics.

    Florent Mazel;T. Jonathan Davies;Laure Gallien;Julien Renaud

  • On the Interpretations of Joint Modeling in Community Ecology.

    Giovanni Poggiato;Giovanni Poggiato;Tamara Münkemüller;Daria Bystrova;Daria Bystrova;Julyan Arbel

  • Phylogenetic niche conservatism – common pitfalls and ways forward

    Tamara Münkemüller;Tamara Münkemüller;Florian C. Boucher;Florian C. Boucher;Florian C. Boucher;Wilfried Thuiller;Wilfried Thuiller;Sébastien Lavergne;Sébastien Lavergne

  • Dos and don'ts when inferring assembly rules from diversity patterns

    Tamara Münkemüller;Laure Gallien;Laura J. Pollock;Laura J. Pollock;Ceres Barros;Ceres Barros

  • The productivity-biodiversity relationship varies across diversity dimensions

    Philipp Brun;Niklaus E. Zimmermann;Catherine H. Graham;Sébastien Lavergne

  • From species distributions to meta-communities.

    Wilfried Thuiller;Wilfried Thuiller;Laura J. Pollock;Laura J. Pollock;Maya Gueguen;Maya Gueguen;Tamara Münkemüller;Tamara Münkemüller

  • From diversity indices to community assembly processes: a test with simulated data

    T. Münkemüller;F. de Bello;C. N. Meynard;D. Gravel

  • What it takes to invade grassland ecosystems: traits, introduction history and filtering processes.

    Marta Carboni;Marta Carboni;Tamara Münkemüller;Tamara Münkemüller;Sébastien Lavergne;Sébastien Lavergne;Philippe Choler;Philippe Choler

Frequent Co-Authors

Wilfried Thuiller
Wilfried Thuiller Grenoble Alpes University
Sébastien Lavergne
Sébastien Lavergne Grenoble Alpes University
Marta Carboni
Marta Carboni Roma Tre University
Björn Reineking
Björn Reineking Grenoble Alpes University
Stefan Dullinger
Stefan Dullinger University of Vienna
Dominique Gravel
Dominique Gravel Université de Sherbrooke
Karin Johst
Karin Johst Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Julien Renaud
Julien Renaud Laboratoire d'Écologie Alpine
Niklaus E. Zimmermann
Niklaus E. Zimmermann Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Philippe Choler
Philippe Choler Grenoble Alpes University

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