2026 Yves Roisin: Ecology and Evolution Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Ecology and Evolution	40	6039	5827	78	77	302	7666

Overview

Yves Roisin is affiliated with the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. Their research spans agricultural and biological sciences as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The scientist has contributed significantly to the subfields of ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics; genetics; insect science; nature and landscape conservation; and sociology and political science.

Their work mainly covers topics including insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, plant and animal studies, animal behavior and reproduction, insect and pesticide research, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, fossil insects in amber, and insect symbiosis and bacterial influences.

Among their recent publications are:

The functional evolution of termite gut microbiota, 2022, Microbiome
Integrative omics analysis of the termite gut system adaptation to Miscanthus diet identifies lignocellulose degradation enzymes, 2020, Communications Biology
Compositional and functional characterisation of biomass-degrading microbial communities in guts of plant fibre- and soil-feeding higher termites, 2020, Microbiome
Genomic data provide insights into the classification of extant termites, 2024, Nature Communications
Phylogeny, biogeography and classification of Teletisoptera (Blattaria: Isoptera), 2022, Systematic Entomology

Yves Roisin has collaborated frequently with researchers such as Thomas Bourguignon, Simon Hellemans, Jan Šobotník, David Sillam-Dussès, and Rudolf H. Scheffrahn.

The scientist frequently publishes in venues including bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Systematic Entomology, Insectes Sociaux, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and ZooKeys.

Best Publications

Arthropod diversity in a tropical forest

Yves Basset;Yves Basset;Yves Basset;Lukas Cizek;Lukas Cizek;Philippe Cuenoud;Raphael K. Didham

680
Citations
Biology of Termites: A Modern Synthesis

David Edward Bignell;Yves Roisin;Nathan Lo

512
Citations
Diversity and evolution of caste patterns

Yves Roisin

345
Citations
The Evolutionary History of Termites as Inferred from 66 Mitochondrial Genomes

Thomas Bourguignon;Nathan Lo;Stephen L. Cameron;Jan Šobotník

334
Citations
Arthropod distribution in a tropical rainforest: Tackling a four dimensional puzzle

Yves Basset;Yves Basset;Yves Basset;Lukas Cizek;Lukas Cizek;Philippe Cuenoud;Raphael K. Didham

207
Citations
Evolution of Termite Symbiosis Informed by Transcriptome-Based Phylogenies

Ales Bucek;Ales Bucek;Jan Šobotník;Shulin He;Shulin He;Mang Shi

155
Citations
Mitochondrial phylogenomics resolves the global spread of higher termites, ecosystem engineers of the tropics

Thomas Bourguignon;Thomas Bourguignon;Thomas Bourguignon;Nathan Lo;Jan Šobotník;Simon Y. W. Ho

149
Citations
Rampant Host Switching Shaped the Termite Gut Microbiome

Thomas Bourguignon;Thomas Bourguignon;Thomas Bourguignon;Nathan Lo;Carsten Dietrich;Carsten Dietrich;Jan Šobotník

138
Citations
The functional evolution of termite gut microbiota

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126
Citations
Social organisation and the status of workers in termites

Yves Roisin;Judith Korb

118
Citations
Explosive backpacks in old termite workers.

Jan Šobotník;Thomas Bourguignon;Thomas Bourguignon;Robert Hanus;Robert Hanus;Zuzana Demianová

115
Citations
Scale dependence of diversity measures in a leaf-litter ant assemblage

Maurice Leponce;Laurence Theunis;Jacques H. C. Delabie;Yves Roisin

112
Citations
( E,E )-α-Farnesene, an Alarm Pheromone of the Termite Prorhinotermes canalifrons

Jan Šobotník;Jan Šobotník;Robert Hanus;Blanka Kalinová;Rafal Piskorski

112
Citations
Feeding ecology and phylogenetic structure of a complex neotropical termite assemblage, revealed by nitrogen stable isotope ratios

Thomas Bourguignon;Jan Sobotnik;Gilles Lepoint;Jean Michel Martin

107
Citations
Vertical stratification of the termite assemblage in a neotropical rainforest

Yves Roisin;Alain Dejean;Bruno Corbara;Jerôme Orivel

103
Citations
Molecular Phylogeny and Biogeography of the Nasute Termite Genus Nasutitermes (Isoptera: Termitidae) in the Pacific Tropics

Toru Miura;Yves Roisin;Tadao Matsumoto

101
Citations
Caste-dependent reactions to soldier defensive secretion and chiral alarm/recruitment pheromone inNasutitermes princeps.

Yves Roisin;Claude Everaerts;Jacques Pasteels;Odile Bonnard

96
Citations
Oceanic dispersal, vicariance and human introduction shaped the modern distribution of the termites Reticulitermes, Heterotermes and Coptotermes.

Thomas Bourguignon;Nathan Lo;Jan Šobotník;David Sillam-Dussès

90
Citations
Revisiting Coptotermes (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae): a global taxonomic road map for species validity and distribution of an economically important subterranean termite genus

Thomas Chouvenc;Hou-Feng Li;James Austin;Christian Bordereau

85
Citations
Morphology, development and evolutionary significance of the working stages in the caste system of Prorhinotermes (Insecta, Isoptera)*

Yves Roisin

80
Citations
Characterizing termite assemblages in fragmented forests: A test case in the Argentinian Chaco

Yves Roisin;Maurice Leponce

79
Citations
Integrative omics analysis of the termite gut system adaptation to Miscanthus diet identifies lignocellulose degradation enzymes.

Magdalena Calusinska;Martyna Marynowska;Marie Bertucci;Boris Untereiner

71
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Šobotník Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Jacques Pasteels Université Libre de Bruxelles

Jérôme Orivel Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

Bruno Corbara University of Clermont Auvergne

Alain Dejean Paul Sabatier University

Yves Basset Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Jacques H. C. Delabie State University of Santa Cruz

Vojtech Novotny Czech Academy of Sciences

Roger L. Kitching Griffith University

David W. Roubik Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

External Links

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