Blaise Petitpierre

6.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
41 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Blaise Petitpierre is a scholar working on Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Blaise Petitpierre has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Ecological Modeling, 23 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 19 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Blaise Petitpierre's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (30 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (23 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (12 papers). Blaise Petitpierre is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (30 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (23 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (12 papers). Blaise Petitpierre collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and United Kingdom. Blaise Petitpierre's co-authors include Antoine Guisan, Olivier Broennimann, Christoph Kueffer, Christophe F. Randin, Curtis C. Daehler, Loïc Pellissier, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Peter B. Pearman, Nigel G. Yoccoz and Marie‐Josée Fortin and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Blaise Petitpierre

39 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

Measuring ecological niche overlap from occurrence and sp... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 2016 2012 2014 400 800 1.2k
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. Measuring ecological niche overlap from occurrence and spatial environmental data
    2011 1.3k citations Olivier Broennimann, Blaise Petitpierre et al. profile →
  2. 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 →
  3. Climatic Niche Shifts Are Rare Among Terrestrial Plant Invaders
    2012 693 citations Blaise Petitpierre, Christoph Kueffer et al. Science profile →
  4. Unifying niche shift studies: insights from biological invasions
    2014 573 citations Antoine Guisan, Blaise Petitpierre et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Blaise Petitpierre Switzerland 23 3.2k 2.1k 1.8k 1.7k 1.0k 41 4.9k
Andrés Lira‐Noriega Mexico 26 2.7k 0.9× 2.1k 1.0× 1.5k 0.8× 1.2k 0.7× 977 1.0× 110 4.7k
Susanne A. Fritz Germany 29 2.0k 0.6× 2.3k 1.1× 2.3k 1.3× 2.2k 1.3× 955 0.9× 55 5.8k
Fabricio Villalobos Mexico 26 2.2k 0.7× 1.8k 0.9× 1.4k 0.8× 1.4k 0.8× 774 0.8× 127 4.1k
David C. Lees United Kingdom 27 1.8k 0.5× 1.9k 0.9× 1.4k 0.8× 2.2k 1.3× 1.7k 1.7× 79 5.0k
Jason P. Sexton United States 18 1.5k 0.5× 1.6k 0.8× 1.7k 0.9× 1.6k 0.9× 1.2k 1.2× 32 4.0k
Cléo Bertelsmeier Switzerland 25 1.9k 0.6× 2.1k 1.0× 1.5k 0.8× 1.8k 1.1× 1.1k 1.1× 61 5.0k
Jan Christian Habel Germany 33 1.7k 0.5× 1.5k 0.7× 1.9k 1.1× 2.5k 1.5× 1.7k 1.7× 162 5.0k
Boris Leroy France 33 1.8k 0.6× 2.8k 1.3× 1.8k 1.0× 1.3k 0.8× 697 0.7× 75 5.3k
Mark P. Robertson South Africa 41 1.4k 0.4× 1.6k 0.8× 1.9k 1.0× 1.4k 0.8× 913 0.9× 100 4.7k
Amy L. Angert United States 38 2.7k 0.8× 2.1k 1.0× 3.2k 1.8× 2.8k 1.7× 1.5k 1.5× 81 6.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Blaise Petitpierre

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Fields of papers citing papers by Blaise Petitpierre

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Blaise Petitpierre

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Blaise Petitpierre. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Blaise Petitpierre based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Blaise Petitpierre. Blaise Petitpierre is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Adde, Antoine, Yohann Chauvier, Fabian Fopp, et al.. (2025). SDMapCH: a Comprehensive database of >7,500 modelled species habitat suitability maps for Switzerland. Scientific Data. 12(1). 1752–1752.
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Guisan, Antoine, Mathieu Chevalier, Antoine Adde, et al.. (2025). Spatially nested species distribution models (N‐ SDM ): An effective tool to overcome niche truncation for more robust inference and projections. Journal of Ecology. 113(7). 1588–1605. 6 indexed citations
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Adde, Antoine, et al.. (2025). Predicting current and future spatial patterns of nature’s contributions to people from species distribution models. Ecological Indicators. 175. 113528–113528. 1 indexed citations
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Adde, Antoine, Fabian Fopp, Philipp Brun, et al.. (2024). Projecting Untruncated Climate Change Effects on Species' Climate Suitability: Insights From an Alpine Country. Global Change Biology. 30(11). e17557–e17557. 6 indexed citations
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Adde, Antoine, Fabian Fopp, Anna K. Schweiger, et al.. (2024). SWECO25: a cross-thematic raster database for ecological research in Switzerland. Scientific Data. 11(1). 21–21. 13 indexed citations
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Adde, Antoine, Philipp Brun, Fabian Fopp, et al.. (2023). N‐SDM : a high‐performance computing pipeline for Nested Species Distribution Modelling. Ecography. 2023(6). 25 indexed citations
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Kägi, Christina, et al.. (2023). Fostering in situ conservation of wild relatives of forage crops. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14. 1287430–1287430. 2 indexed citations
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Vittoz, Pascal, et al.. (2023). Linking plant and vertebrate species to Nature’s Contributions to People in the Swiss Alps. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 7312–7312. 8 indexed citations
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Petitpierre, Blaise, C. Arnold, Leanne N. Phelps, & Antoine Guisan. (2023). A tale of three vines: current and future threats to wild Eurasian grapevine by vineyards and invasive rootstocks. Diversity and Distributions. 29(12). 1594–1608. 5 indexed citations
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Petitpierre, Blaise, et al.. (2022). Beyond topo-climatic predictors: Does habitats distribution and remote sensing information improve predictions of species distribution models?. Global Ecology and Conservation. 39. e02286–e02286. 9 indexed citations
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Broennimann, Olivier, Blaise Petitpierre, Mathieu Chevalier, et al.. (2021). Distance to native climatic niche margins explains establishment success of alien mammals. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2353–2353. 45 indexed citations
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Shackleton, Ross T., Blaise Petitpierre, Christian A. Kull, et al.. (2020). Integrated Methods for Monitoring the Invasive Potential and Management of Heracleum mantegazzianum (giant hogweed) in Switzerland. Environmental Management. 65(6). 829–842. 12 indexed citations
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Kaufmann, P., et al.. (2016). Numerical ragweed pollen forecasts using different source maps: a comparison for France. International Journal of Biometeorology. 61(1). 23–33. 23 indexed citations
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Mateo, Rubén G., Olivier Broennimann, Signe Normand, et al.. (2016). The mossy north: an inverse latitudinal diversity gradient in European bryophytes. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 25546–25546. 80 indexed citations
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Mateo, Rubén G., Olivier Broennimann, Blaise Petitpierre, et al.. (2014). From climatic niche conservatism to spatial predictions: what can invasive mosses tell us?. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège). 2 indexed citations
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Guisan, Antoine, Blaise Petitpierre, Olivier Broennimann, Curtis C. Daehler, & Christoph Kueffer. (2014). Unifying niche shift studies: insights from biological invasions. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 29(5). 260–269. 573 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mateo, Rubén G., Olivier Broennimann, Blaise Petitpierre, et al.. (2014). What is the potential of spread in invasive bryophytes?. Ecography. 38(5). 480–487. 45 indexed citations
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Petitpierre, Blaise, Christoph Kueffer, Olivier Broennimann, et al.. (2012). Climatic Niche Shifts Are Rare Among Terrestrial Plant Invaders. Science. 335(6074). 1344–1348. 693 indexed citations breakdown →
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Petitpierre, Blaise, Michael Campbell, Antoine Guisan, et al.. (2010). Multiple introductions boosted genetic diversity in the invasive range of black cherry (Prunus serotina; Rosaceae). Annals of Botany. 105(6). 881–890. 73 indexed citations
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Christin, Pascal‐Antoine, Blaise Petitpierre, Nicolas Salamin, Lucie Büchi, & Guillaume Besnard. (2008). Evolution of C4 Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase in Grasses, from Genotype to Phenotype. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 26(2). 357–365. 60 indexed citations

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