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Vincent Devictor is affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France. Their primary field of study is Environmental Science, with a particular focus on subfields including Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main research topics addressed by Vincent Devictor span Species Distribution and Climate Change, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Ecosystem Dynamics and Resilience, Avian Ecology and Behavior, Scientometrics and Bibliometrics Research, and Fire Effects on Ecosystems.

Some recent publications by Vincent Devictor include:

  • Impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on biodiversity conservation (2020, Biological Conservation)
  • Farmland practices are driving bird population decline across Europe (2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Women and Global South strikingly underrepresented among top-publishing ecologists (2021, Conservation Letters)
  • Wintering bird communities are tracking climate change faster than breeding communities (2021, Journal of Animal Ecology)
  • Beyond taxonomic diversity: Revealing spatial mismatches in phylogenetic and functional diversity facets in Mediterranean tree communities in southern France (2020, Forest Ecology and Management)

Vincent Devictor has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Biological Conservation
  • Oikos
  • Journal of Biogeography
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent collaborators in their research include Vasilis Dakos, Stanislas Rigal, Aleksi Lehikoinen, Jukka T. Forsman, and Mira H. Kajanus.

Best Publications

  • Worldwide decline of specialist species: toward a global functional homogenization?

    Joanne Clavel;Romain Julliard;Vincent Devictor

  • Spatial mismatch and congruence between taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity: the need for integrative conservation strategies in a changing world

    Vincent Devictor;David Mouillot;Christine Meynard;Frédéric Jiguet

  • Distribution of specialist and generalist species along spatial gradients of habitat disturbance and fragmentation

    Vincent Devictor;Romain Julliard;Frédéric Jiguet

  • Differences in the climatic debts of birds and butterflies at a continental scale

    Vincent Devictor;Chris van Swaay;Tom Brereton;Lluı´s Brotons

  • Defining and measuring ecological specialization

    Vincent Devictor;Vincent Devictor;Joanne Clavel;Romain Julliard;Sébastien Lavergne

  • Phylogenetic diversity and nature conservation: where are we?

    Marten Winter;Vincent Devictor;Oliver Schweiger

  • Birds are tracking climate warming, but not fast enough.

    Vincent Devictor;Romain Julliard;Denis Couvet;Frédéric Jiguet

  • Beyond scarcity: citizen science programmes as useful tools for conservation biogeography

    Vincent Devictor;Vincent Devictor;Robert J. Whittaker;Coralie Beltrame

  • Spatial segregation of specialists and generalists in bird communities.

    Romain Julliard;Joanne Clavel;Vincent Devictor;Frédéric Jiguet

  • Functional biotic homogenization of bird communities in disturbed landscapes

    Vincent Devictor;Romain Julliard;Joanne Clavel;Frédéric Jiguet

  • Ecophylogenetics: advances and perspectives.

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

  • Farmland practices are driving bird population decline across Europe

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  • Functional Homogenization Effect of Urbanization on Bird Communities

    Vincent Devictor;Romain Julliard;Denis Couvet;Alexandre Lee

  • Impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on biodiversity conservation.

    Richard T. Corlett;Richard B. Primack;Vincent Devictor;Bea Maas

  • REVIEW: Predictive ecology in a changing world

    Nicolas Mouquet;Yvan Lagadeuc;Vincent Devictor;Luc Doyen

  • Beyond taxonomic diversity patterns: how do α, β and γ components of bird functional and phylogenetic diversity respond to environmental gradients across France?

    Christine N. Meynard;Christine N. Meynard;Vincent Devictor;David Mouillot;Wilfried Thuiller

  • Assessing biodiversity with sound: Do acoustic diversity indices reflect phylogenetic and functional diversities of bird communities?

    A. Gasc;J. Sueur;F. Jiguet;V. Devictor

  • French citizens monitoring ordinary birds provide tools for conservation and ecological sciences

    Frédéric Jiguet;Vincent Devictor;Romain Julliard;Denis Couvet

  • Bird population trends are linearly affected by climate change along species thermal ranges

    Frédéric Jiguet;Vincent Devictor;Richard Ottvall;Chris Van Turnhout

  • More and more generalists: two decades of changes in the European avifauna.

    Isabelle Le Viol;Frédéric Jiguet;Lluis Brotons;Sergi Herrando

  • Protected and Threatened Components of Fish Biodiversity in the Mediterranean Sea

    David Mouillot;David Mouillot;Camille Albouy;François Guilhaumon;François Guilhaumon;Frida Ben Rais Lasram

Frequent Co-Authors

Frédéric Jiguet
Frédéric Jiguet French National Museum of Natural History
Wilfried Thuiller
Wilfried Thuiller Grenoble Alpes University
Nicolas Mouquet
Nicolas Mouquet University of Montpellier
David Mouillot
David Mouillot University of Montpellier
Romain Julliard
Romain Julliard Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Åke Lindström
Åke Lindström Lund University
Richard B. Primack
Richard B. Primack Boston University
Denis Couvet
Denis Couvet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Christine N. Meynard
Christine N. Meynard Montpellier SupAgro
Sonia Kéfi
Sonia Kéfi University of Montpellier

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