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50
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14476
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3751
National Ranking
158

Overview

Xavier Morin is affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France, specializing broadly in Environmental Science with a focus on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecological Modeling, and Ecology. Their research encompasses significant topics such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Forest Ecology and Management, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Tree-ring Climate Responses, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Forest Management and Policy, and Fire Effects on Ecosystems.

The scientist has authored several recent papers notable for their contribution to forest ecology and environmental monitoring. These include:

  • Monitoring biodiversity in the Anthropocene using remote sensing in species distribution models, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • The greater resilience of mixed forests to drought mainly depends on their composition: Analysis along a climate gradient across Europe, 2020, Forest Ecology and Management
  • Tackling unresolved questions in forest ecology: The past and future role of simulation models, 2021, Ecology and Evolution
  • Plant hydraulics at the heart of plant, crops and ecosystem functions in the face of climate change, 2023, New Phytologist
  • Climate-associated genetic variation in Fagus sylvatica and potential responses to climate change in the French Alps, 2020, Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Their work has been published across a variety of venues, with frequent publications in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Functional Ecology
  • Annals of Forest Science

Xavier Morin's collaborations include frequent co-authorship with Maude Toïgo, Hervé Jactel, François de Coligny, Marion Jourdan, and Harald Bugmann. These partnerships highlight interdisciplinary approaches within forest and ecological sciences.

Beyond journal articles, Morin has contributed to book publications, including a work published by the Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement titled Prospective scientifique pour la recherche française sur la biodiversité - 2023.

Best Publications

  • The homeobox gene Phox2b is essential for the development of autonomic neural crest derivatives

    Alexandre Pattyn;Xavier Morin;Harold Cremer;Christo Goridis

  • A protein trap strategy to detect GFP-tagged proteins expressed from their endogenous loci in Drosophila

    Xavier Morin;Richard Daneman;Michael Zavortink;William Chia

  • Correlation and process in species distribution models: bridging a dichotomy

    Carsten F. Dormann;Carsten F. Dormann;Stanislaus J. Schymanski;Juliano Cabral;Isabelle Chuine

  • Expression and interactions of the two closely related homeobox genes Phox2a and Phox2b during neurogenesis

    Alexandre Pattyn;Xavier Morin;Harold Cremer;Christo Goridis

  • Tree species richness promotes productivity in temperate forests through strong complementarity between species

    Xavier Morin;Lorenz Fahse;Michael Scherer-Lorenzen;Harald Bugmann

  • Comparing niche- and process-based models to reduce prediction uncertainty in species range shifts under climate change

    Xavier Morin;Xavier Morin;Wilfried Thuiller

  • The bHLH Protein NEUROGENIN 2 Is a Determination Factor for Epibranchial Placode–Derived Sensory Neurons

    Carol Fode;Gérard Gradwohl;Xavier Morin;Andrée Dierich

  • Mitotic spindle orientation in asymmetric and symmetric cell divisions during animal development.

    Xavier Morin;Xavier Morin;Xavier Morin;Yohanns Bellaïche;Yohanns Bellaïche;Yohanns Bellaïche

  • Defects in Sensory and Autonomic Ganglia and Absence of Locus Coeruleus in Mice Deficient for the Homeobox Gene Phox2a

    Xavier Morin;Harold Cremer;Marie Rose Hirsch;Raj P. Kapur

  • Analysis of partner of inscuteable, a Novel Player of Drosophila Asymmetric Divisions, Reveals Two Distinct Steps in Inscuteable Apical Localization

    Fengwei Yu;Xavier Morin;Yu Cai;Xiaohang Yang

  • Improving assessment and modelling of climate change impacts on global terrestrial biodiversity

    Sean M. McMahon;Sandy P. Harrison;W. Scott Armbruster;W. Scott Armbruster;W. Scott Armbruster;Patrick J. Bartlein

  • Leaf phenology in 22 North American tree species during the 21st century

    Xavier Morin;Xavier Morin;Martin J. Lechowicz;Carol K Augspurger;John O'keefe

  • Regulation of mitotic spindle orientation: an integrated view.

    Florencia di Pietro;Florencia di Pietro;Arnaud Echard;Arnaud Echard;Xavier Morin

  • REVIEW: Predictive ecology in a changing world

    Nicolas Mouquet;Yvan Lagadeuc;Vincent Devictor;Luc Doyen

  • PROCESS‐BASED MODELING OF SPECIES' DISTRIBUTIONS: WHAT LIMITS TEMPERATE TREE SPECIES' RANGE BOUNDARIES?

    Xavier Morin;Carol Augspurger;Isabelle Chuine

  • Tree species range shifts at a continental scale: new predictive insights from a process-based model

    Xavier Morin;David Viner;Isabelle Chuine

  • Changes in leaf phenology of three European oak species in response to experimental climate change

    Xavier Morin;Xavier Morin;Jacques Roy;Laurette Sonié;Isabelle Chuine

  • Control of planar divisions by the G-protein regulator LGN maintains progenitors in the chick neuroepithelium.

    Xavier Morin;Florence Jaouen;Pascale Durbec

  • Variation in cold hardiness and carbohydrate concentration from dormancy induction to bud burst among provenances of three European oak species

    Xavier Morin;Thierry Améglio;Rein Ahas;Cathy Kurz-Besson

  • Monitoring biodiversity in the Anthropocene using remote sensing in species distribution models

    Christophe F. Randin;Michael B. Ashcroft;Janine Bolliger;Jeannine Cavender-Bares

  • Warming, Photoperiods, and Tree Phenology

    Isabelle Chuine;Xavier Morin;Harald Bugmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Isabelle Chuine
Isabelle Chuine Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Harald Bugmann
Harald Bugmann ETH Zurich
Mikko Mönkkönen
Mikko Mönkkönen University of Jyväskylä
Martin J. Lechowicz
Martin J. Lechowicz McGill University
Hervé Jactel
Hervé Jactel University of Bordeaux
Christine Römermann
Christine Römermann Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Peter H. Verburg
Peter H. Verburg Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Seppo Rytkönen
Seppo Rytkönen University of Oulu
Claire Doutrelant
Claire Doutrelant University of Montpellier
Santiago Merino
Santiago Merino Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales

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