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Wilfried Thuiller

Wilfried Thuiller

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Ecology and Evolution
France
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
144
Citations
103977
World Ranking
39
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in France Leader Award
  • 2014 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Wilfried Thuiller is affiliated with Grenoble Alpes University in France and specializes in environmental science. Their research encompasses various subfields, including ecology, ecological modeling, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and global and planetary change.

The primary focus areas of Thuiller's work include species distribution and climate change, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant and animal studies, environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, wildlife ecology and conservation, microbial community ecology and physiology, and land use and ecosystem services.

Thuiller has contributed to several recent papers such as:

  • A standard protocol for reporting species distribution models (2020, Ecography)
  • Protecting Biodiversity (in All Its Complexity): New Models and Methods (2020, Trends in Ecology & Evolution)
  • Global trends and scenarios for terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services from 1900 to 2050 (2024, Science)
  • On the Interpretations of Joint Modeling in Community Ecology (2021, Trends in Ecology & Evolution)
  • Dos and don'ts when inferring assembly rules from diversity patterns (2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography)

The scientist frequently publishes in venues including bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Global Ecology and Biogeography, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Ecology Letters, and arXiv (Cornell University). Their collaborations involve coauthors such as Julien Renaud, Tamara Münkemüller, Ludovic Gielly, Sara Si-Moussi, and Pierre Gaüzère.

Wilfried Thuiller was elected as a Member of Academia Europaea in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Predicting species distribution: offering more than simple habitat models.

    Antoine Guisan;Wilfried Thuiller

  • Impacts of climate change on the future of biodiversity.

    Céline Bellard;Cleo Bertelsmeier;Paul Leadley;Wilfried Thuiller

  • Climate change threats to plant diversity in Europe.

    W Thuiller;S Lavorel;M B Araujo;Martin Sykes

  • Selecting pseudo-absences for species distribution models: how, where and how many?

    Morgane Barbet-Massin;Frédéric Jiguet;Cécile Hélène Albert;Cécile Hélène Albert;Wilfried Thuiller

  • BIOMOD – a platform for ensemble forecasting of species distributions

    Wilfried Thuiller;Bruno Lafourcade;Robin Engler;Miguel B. Araújo

  • Ecosystem Service Supply and Vulnerability to Global Change in Europe

    Dagmar Schröter;Wolfgang Cramer;Rik Leemans;I. Colin Prentice

  • Validation of species-climate impact models under climate change

    Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo;Richard G. Pearson;Richard G. Pearson;Wilfried Thuiller;Markus Erhard

  • Cross-validation strategies for data with temporal, spatial, hierarchical, or phylogenetic structure

    David R. Roberts;Volker Bahn;Simone Ciuti;Mark S. Boyce

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Measuring ecological niche overlap from occurrence and spatial environmental data

    Olivier Broennimann;Matthew C. Fitzpatrick;Peter B. Pearman;Blaise Petitpierre

  • Alien species in a warmer world: risks and opportunities

    Gian Reto Walther;Alain Roques;Philip E. Hulme;Martin T. Sykes

  • Evaluation of consensus methods in predictive species distribution modelling

    Mathieu Marmion;Miia Parviainen;Miska Luoto;Risto K. Heikkinen

  • Predicting global change impacts on plant species' distributions: Future challenges

    Wilfried Thuiller;Cécile Albert;Miguel B. Araújo;Pam M. Berry

  • Climate warming and the decline of amphibians and reptiles in Europe

    M. B. Araújo;M. B. Araújo;M. B. Araújo;W. Thuiller;W. Thuiller;R. G. Pearson;R. G. Pearson

  • Evidence of climatic niche shift during biological invasion

    Olivier Broennimann;Urs A. Treier;Urs A. Treier;Heinz Müller-Schärer;W. Thuiller

  • BIOMOD – optimizing predictions of species distributions and projecting potential future shifts under global change

    Wilfried Thuiller

  • Methods and uncertainties in bioclimatic envelope modelling under climate change

    Risto K. Heikkinen;Miska Luoto;Miguel B. Araújo;Raimo Virkkala

  • Model-based uncertainty in species range prediction

    Richard G. Pearson;Wilfried Thuiller;Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo;Enrique Martinez-Meyer

  • Habitat Suitability and Distribution Models

    Antoine Guisan;Wilfried Thuiller;Niklaus E. Zimmermann

  • Niche‐based modelling as a tool for predicting the risk of alien plant invasions at a global scale

    Wilfried Thuiller;David M. Richardson;Petr Pyšek;Petr Pyšek;Guy F. Midgley

  • Presence-absence versus presence-only modelling methods for predicting bird habitat suitability

    Lluís Brotons;Wilfried Thuiller;Miguel B. Araújo;Alexandre H. Hirzel

  • How to measure and test phylogenetic signal

    Tamara Münkemüller;Sébastien Lavergne;Bruno Bzeznik;Stéphane Dray

  • Climate change threatens European conservation areas

    Miguel B. Araújo;Diogo Alagador;Diogo Alagador;Mar Cabeza;Mar Cabeza;David Nogués-Bravo;David Nogués-Bravo

Frequent Co-Authors

Niklaus E. Zimmermann
Niklaus E. Zimmermann Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Antoine Guisan
Antoine Guisan University of Lausanne
Miguel B. Araújo
Miguel B. Araújo University of Évora
Sébastien Lavergne
Sébastien Lavergne Grenoble Alpes University
Tamara Münkemüller
Tamara Münkemüller Grenoble Alpes University
Sandra Lavorel
Sandra Lavorel Grenoble Alpes University
David Mouillot
David Mouillot University of Montpellier
Julien Renaud
Julien Renaud Laboratoire d'Écologie Alpine
Guy F. Midgley
Guy F. Midgley Stellenbosch University
Gentile Francesco Ficetola
Gentile Francesco Ficetola University of Milan

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