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57
Citations
17569
World Ranking
2649
National Ranking
78

Overview

Yann Hautier is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands and focuses their research on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and plant science.

The scientist's research addresses diverse topics, including:

  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species distribution and climate change
  • Land use and ecosystem services
  • Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
  • Rangeland management and livestock ecology
  • Soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics

Yann Hautier has published extensively in scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Nature Communications (12 publications)
  • Global Change Biology (10 publications)
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution (7 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (7 publications)
  • Ecology Letters (5 publications)

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by the scientist feature key ecological and biodiversity topics:

  • "Biodiversity promotes ecosystem functioning despite environmental change," 2021, Ecology Letters
  • "Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people," 2022, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • "Light competition drives herbivore and nutrient effects on plant diversity," 2022, Nature
  • "Diversity and asynchrony in soil microbial communities stabilizes ecosystem functioning," 2021, eLife
  • "Biodiversity-productivity relationships are key to nature-based climate solutions," 2021, Nature Climate Change

The scientist's research collaborations include frequent co-authors such as Elizabeth T. Borer, Eric W. Seabloom, Carly J. Stevens, Nico Eisenhauer, and Jonathan D. Bakker, reflecting interdisciplinary teamwork in their scientific endeavors.

Best Publications

  • Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

    Forest Isbell;Dylan Craven;John Connolly;Michael Loreau

  • Competition for light causes plant biodiversity loss after eutrophication

    Yann Hautier;Pascal A. Niklaus;Pascal A. Niklaus;Andy Hector

  • Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

    Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom;Daniel S. Gruner;W. Stanley Harpole

  • Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

    James B. Grace;T. Michael Anderson;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer

  • Anthropogenic environmental changes affect ecosystem stability via biodiversity

    Yann Hautier;Yann Hautier;Yann Hautier;David Tilman;Forest Isbell;Eric W. Seabloom

  • Plant diversity predicts beta but not alpha diversity of soil microbes across grasslands worldwide

    Suzanne M. Prober;Jonathan W. Leff;Scott T. Bates;Elizabeth T. Borer

  • Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness

    Peter B. Adler;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Helmut Hillebrand

  • Grassland productivity limited by multiple nutrients

    Philip A. Fay;Suzanne M. Prober;W. Stanley Harpole;Johannes M. H. Knops

  • Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands

    Yann Hautier;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Peter B. Adler

  • General stabilizing effects of plant diversity on grassland productivity through population asynchrony and overyielding

    Andy Hector;Yann Hautier;Philippe Saner;Lukas Wacker

  • Addition of multiple limiting resources reduces grassland diversity

    W. Stanley Harpole;W. Stanley Harpole;Lauren L. Sullivan;Eric M. Lind;Jennifer Firn

  • Multiple facets of biodiversity drive the diversity–stability relationship

    Dylan Craven;Nico Eisenhauer;William D. Pearse;Yann Hautier

  • Diverse pollinator communities enhance plant reproductive success

    Matthias Albrecht;Bernhard Schmid;Yann Hautier;Christine B. Müller

  • African Wild Ungulates Compete with or Facilitate Cattle Depending on Season

    Wilfred O. Odadi;Moses K. Karachi;Shaukat A. Abdulrazak;Truman P. Young

  • Local loss and spatial homogenization of plant diversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality

    Yann Hautier;Forest Isbell;Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom

  • Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people

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  • Light competition drives herbivore and nutrient effects on plant diversity

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  • Plant diversity effects on grassland productivity are robust to both nutrient enrichment and drought

    Dylan Craven;Forest Isbell;Pete Manning;John Connolly

  • Biodiversity promotes ecosystem functioning despite environmental change.

    Pubin Hong;Bernhard Schmid;Frederik De Laender;Nico Eisenhauer

  • Life-history constraints in grassland plant species : a growth-defence trade-off is the norm

    Eric M. Lind;Elizabeth Borer;Eric Seabloom;Peter Adler

  • Life‐history constraints in grassland plant species: a growth‐defence trade‐off is the norm

    Eric M. Lind;Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom;Peter B. Adler

  • Diversity and asynchrony in soil microbial communities stabilizes ecosystem functioning

    Cameron Wagg;Cameron Wagg;Yann Hautier;Sarah Pellkofer;Samiran Banerjee

  • Plant species’ origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands

    Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Yvonne M. Buckley;Elsa E. Cleland

  • Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition predicts local grassland primary production worldwide

    Carly J. Stevens;Eric M. Lind;Yann Hautier;Yann Hautier;W. Stanley Harpole

  • Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

    James B. Grace;T. Michael Andersen;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth T. Borer
Elizabeth T. Borer University of Minnesota
Eric W. Seabloom
Eric W. Seabloom University of Minnesota
W. Stanley Harpole
W. Stanley Harpole Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Andy Hector
Andy Hector University of Oxford
Jennifer Firn
Jennifer Firn Queensland University of Technology
Carly J. Stevens
Carly J. Stevens Lancaster University
Jonathan D. Bakker
Jonathan D. Bakker University of Washington
Peter B. Adler
Peter B. Adler Utah State University
Anita C. Risch
Anita C. Risch Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Andrew S. MacDougall
Andrew S. MacDougall University of Guelph

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