Antoine Guisan

81.7k total citations · 27 hit papers
334 papers, 49.4k citations indexed

About

Antoine Guisan is a scholar working on Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Antoine Guisan has authored 334 papers receiving a total of 49.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 230 papers in Ecological Modeling, 212 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 129 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Antoine Guisan's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (230 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (203 papers) and Plant and animal studies (95 papers). Antoine Guisan is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (230 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (203 papers) and Plant and animal studies (95 papers). Antoine Guisan collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, France and United States. Antoine Guisan's co-authors include Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Wilfried Thuiller, Olivier Broennimann, Christophe F. Randin, Miguel B. Araújo, Robin Engler, Trevor Hastie, Jean‐Paul Theurillat, Loïc Pellissier and Thomas C. Edwards and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Antoine Guisan

327 papers receiving 47.5k citations

Hit Papers

Predictive habitat distribution models in ecology 1999 2026 2008 2017 2000 2005 2008 2002 2006 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k 5.0k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Predictive habitat distribution models in ecology
    2000 5.7k citations Antoine Guisan, Niklaus E. Zimmermann profile →
  2. Predicting species distribution: offering more than simple habitat models
    2005 5.0k citations Antoine Guisan et al. profile →
  3. Effects of sample size on the performance of species distribution models
    2008 1.9k citations Antoine Guisan et al. Diversity and Distributions profile →
  4. Generalized linear and generalized additive models in studies of species distributions: setting the scene
    2002 1.8k citations Antoine Guisan et al. profile →
  5. Five (or so) challenges for species distribution modelling
    2006 1.4k citations Antoine Guisan et al. Journal of Biogeography profile →
  6. Measuring ecological niche overlap from occurrence and spatial environmental data
    2011 1.3k citations Olivier Broennimann, Blaise Petitpierre et al. profile →
  7. Evaluating the ability of habitat suitability models to predict species presences
    2006 1.1k citations Antoine Guisan et al. profile →
  8. Habitat Suitability and Distribution Models
    2017 957 citations Antoine Guisan, Niklaus E. Zimmermann et al. profile →
  9. Predicting global change impacts on plant species’ distributions: Future challenges
    2007 955 citations Antoine Guisan, Niklaus E. Zimmermann et al. profile →
  10. Evidence of climatic niche shift during biological invasion
    2007 913 citations Olivier Broennimann, Antoine Guisan et al. profile →
  11. ecospat: an R package to support spatial analyses and modeling of species niches and distributions
    2016 866 citations Olivier Broennimann, Blaise Petitpierre et al. Ecography profile →
  12. Niche dynamics in space and time
    2008 814 citations Antoine Guisan, Olivier Broennimann et al. profile →
  13. An improved approach for predicting the distribution of rare and endangered species from occurrence and pseudo‐absence data
    2004 787 citations Antoine Guisan et al. Journal of Applied Ecology profile →
  14. Standards for distribution models in biodiversity assessments
    2019 718 citations Antoine Guisan, Niklaus E. Zimmermann et al. profile →
  15. Ecological assembly rules in plant communities—approaches, patterns and prospects
    2011 704 citations Anne Dubuis, Antoine Guisan et al. profile →
  16. Potential Impact of Climate Change on Vegetation in the European Alps: A Review
    2001 702 citations Antoine Guisan et al. profile →
  17. Climatic Niche Shifts Are Rare Among Terrestrial Plant Invaders
    2012 693 citations Blaise Petitpierre, Olivier Broennimann et al. profile →
  18. GLM versus CCA spatial modeling of plant species distribution
    1999 690 citations Antoine Guisan et al. profile →
  19. Are niche‐based species distribution models transferable in space?
    2006 627 citations Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Antoine Guisan et al. Journal of Biogeography profile →
  20. Unifying niche shift studies: insights from biological invasions
    2014 573 citations Antoine Guisan, Blaise Petitpierre et al. profile →
  21. Spatial modelling of biodiversity at the community level
    2006 560 citations Antoine Guisan et al. Journal of Applied Ecology profile →
  22. Making better biogeographical predictions of species’ distributions
    2006 539 citations Antoine Guisan, Anthony Lehmann et al. Journal of Applied Ecology profile →
  23. Tree line shifts in the Swiss Alps: Climate change or land abandonment?
    2007 512 citations Antoine Guisan, Niklaus E. Zimmermann et al. profile →
  24. Climate change and plant distribution: local models predict high‐elevation persistence
    2009 458 citations Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Pascal Vittoz et al. Global Change Biology profile →
  25. What do we gain from simplicity versus complexity in species distribution models?
    2014 442 citations Antoine Guisan, Niklaus E. Zimmermann et al. Ecography profile →
  26. Overcoming limitations of modelling rare species by using ensembles of small models
    2015 374 citations Antoine Guisan et al. profile →
  27. From white to green: Snow cover loss and increased vegetation productivity in the European Alps
    2022 123 citations Carmen Cianfrani, Antoine Guisan et al. profile →

Peers

Antoine Guisan
Comparison fields: 5 of 185
  • Ecological Modeling 31.4k
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation 23.9k
  • Ecology 23.8k
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 12.5k
  • Global and Planetary Change 9.6k
Replace Miguel B. Araújo with:
Miguel B. Araújo Spain
Wilfried Thuiller France
A. Townsend Peterson United States
Chris D. Thomas United Kingdom
Niklaus E. Zimmermann Switzerland
Robert J. Hijmans United States
Camille Parmesan United States
Jens‐Christian Svenning Denmark
Steven J. Phillips United States
Walter Jetz United States
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
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SDMapCH: a Comprehensive database of >7,500 modelled species habitat suitability maps for Switzerland
2025 ·Scientific Data ·Antoine Adde, (unknown), (unknown), Yohann Chauvier, Fabian Fopp, (unknown), Olivier Broennimann, Blaise Petitpierre, Nicolas Strebel, Andrin Gross, (unknown), Anthony Lehmann, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Loïc Pellissier, Antoine Guisan, Florian Altermatt
0
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Spatially nested species distribution models (N‐ SDM ): An effective tool to overcome niche truncation for more robust inference and projections
2025 ·Journal of Ecology ·Antoine Guisan, Mathieu Chevalier, Antoine Adde, Alejandra Zarzo‐Arias, (unknown), Olivier Broennimann, Blaise Petitpierre, Daniel Scherrer, (unknown), Flavien Collart, Federico Riva, (unknown), Rubén G. Mateo
6
3
On the emergence of ecosystem decay: A critical assessment of patch area effects across spatial scales
2024 ·Biological Conservation ·Federico Riva, (unknown), Antoine Guisan
4
4
A cautionary message on combining physiological thermal limits with macroclimatic data to predict species distribution
2024 ·Ecosphere ·Mathieu Chevalier, (unknown), Olivier Broennimann, Antoine Guisan
4
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Projecting Untruncated Climate Change Effects on Species' Climate Suitability: Insights From an Alpine Country
2024 ·Global Change Biology ·Antoine Adde, (unknown), (unknown), Fabian Fopp, Philipp Brun, Olivier Broennimann, Anthony Lehmann, Blaise Petitpierre, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Loïc Pellissier, Florian Altermatt, Antoine Guisan
6
6
Habitat suitability models reveal the spatial signal of environmental DNA in riverine networks
2024 ·Ecography ·Jeanine Brantschen, Fabian Fopp, Antoine Adde, François Keck, Antoine Guisan, Loïc Pellissier, Florian Altermatt
6
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Taxonomic and functional biogeographies of soil bacterial communities across the Tibet plateau are better explained by abiotic conditions than distance and plant community composition
2023 ·Molecular Ecology ·(unknown), Heidi K. Mod, (unknown), Beibei Ma, (unknown), Beibei Chen, Wei Qi, Zhigang Zhao, Guozhen Du, Antoine Guisan, Xiaojun Ma, Xavier Le Roux
2
8
Mainstreaming remotely sensed ecosystem functioning in ecological niche models
2022 ·Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation ·Adrián Regos, João Gonçalves, Salvador Arenas‐Castro, Domingo Alcaraz‐Segura, Antoine Guisan, João P. Honrado
23
9
Temporal variability is key to modelling the climatic niche
2020 ·Diversity and Distributions ·(unknown), Olivier Broennimann, Miguel Ángel Esteve Selma, (unknown), Francisca Carreño, Antoine Guisan, Francisco Lloret
27
10
Bryophytes are predicted to lag behind future climate change despite their high dispersal capacities
2020 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), (unknown), Flavien Collart, Olivier Broennimann, Rubén G. Mateo, Beáta Papp, Jesús Muñoz, Denis Baurain, Antoine Guisan, Alain Vanderpoorten
63
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Soil protist diversity in the Swiss western Alps is better predicted by topo‐climatic than by edaphic variables
2019 ·Journal of Biogeography ·Christophe V. W. Seppey, Olivier Broennimann, Aline Buri, Erika Yashiro, Eric Pinto‐Figueroa, David Singer, Quentin Blandenier, Edward A. D. Mitchell, Hélène Niculita‐Hirzel, Antoine Guisan, Enrique Lara
34
12
Generalizing soil properties in geographic space: Approaches used and ways forward
2018 ·PLoS ONE ·Carmen Cianfrani, Aline Buri, Eric Verrecchia, Antoine Guisan
17
13
Trade‐offs and synergies between bird conservation and wildfire suppression in the face of global change
2018 ·Journal of Applied Ecology ·Adrián Regos, Virgilio Hermoso, Manuela D‘Amen, Antoine Guisan, (unknown)
20
14
RechAlp.vd - Une nouvelle plateforme UNIL de support pour la recherche transdisciplinaire dans les Alpes vaudoises
2014 ·IRIS ·(unknown), Antoine Guisan, (unknown)
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15
From climatic niche conservatism to spatial predictions: what can invasive mosses tell us?
2014 ·Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège) ·Rubén G. Mateo, Olivier Broennimann, Blaise Petitpierre, Jesús Muñoz, Jacques van Rooy, Antoine Guisan, Alain Vanderpoorten
2
16
Quels facteurs influencent la richesse en orthoptères des Préalpes vaudoises?
2013 ·IRIS ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Antoine Guisan
6
17
Understanding the concepts of community phylogenetics
2013 ·Evolutionary ecology research ·Charlotte Ndiribe, Nicolas Salamin, Antoine Guisan
12
18
Diversity of bumblebees (Bombus Latreille, Apidae) in the alps of the canton Vaud (Switzerland)
2011 ·IRIS ·Jean‐Nicolas Pradervand, Loïc Pellissier, (unknown), Anne Dubuis, Antoine Guisan, Daniel Cherix
6
19
Improving generalized regression analysis for the spatial prediction of forest communities
2006 ·Journal of Biogeography ·Ramona Maggini, Anthony Lehmann, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Antoine Guisan
154
20
Flore alpine et réchauffement climatique: observation de trois sommets valaisans à travers le XXe siècle
2006 ·IRIS ·Pascal Vittoz, (unknown), Antoine Guisan
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