Céline Bellard

13.7k total citations · 7 hit papers
63 papers, 8.3k citations indexed

About

Céline Bellard is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecological Modeling and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Céline Bellard has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 8.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Ecology, 33 papers in Ecological Modeling and 27 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Céline Bellard's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (33 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (23 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (20 papers). Céline Bellard is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (33 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (23 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (20 papers). Céline Bellard collaborates with scholars based in France, United Kingdom and Germany. Céline Bellard's co-authors include Franck Courchamp, Wilfried Thuiller, Cléo Bertelsmeier, Paul Leadley, Tim M. Blackburn, Boris Leroy, Phillip Cassey, Camille Leclerc, Piero Genovesi and Jonathan M. Jeschke and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Trends in Ecology & Evolution and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Céline Bellard

60 papers receiving 8.1k citations

Hit Papers

Impacts of climate change on the future of biodiversity 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 2016 2016 2013 2018 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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. Impacts of climate change on the future of biodiversity
    2012 2.9k citations Céline Bellard, Cléo Bertelsmeier et al. profile →
  2. Alien species as a driver of recent extinctions
    2016 904 citations Céline Bellard, Tim M. Blackburn et al. profile →
  3. Massive yet grossly underestimated global costs of invasive insects
    2016 583 citations Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Boris Leroy et al. Nature Communications profile →
  4. Will climate change promote future invasions?
    2013 504 citations Céline Bellard, Boris Leroy et al. Global Change Biology profile →
  5. Without quality presence–absence data, discrimination metrics such as TSS can be misleading measures of model performance
    2018 289 citations Boris Leroy, Bernard Hugueny et al. Journal of Biogeography profile →
  6. Alien versus native species as drivers of recent extinctions
    2019 265 citations Tim M. Blackburn, Céline Bellard et al. profile →
  7. Freshwater Fish Invasions: A Comprehensive Review
    2022 97 citations Camille Bernery, Céline Bellard et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Céline Bellard France 32 4.0k 3.3k 2.9k 2.2k 1.7k 63 8.3k
Mélodie A. McGeoch South Africa 47 4.2k 1.1× 2.5k 0.8× 3.3k 1.1× 2.8k 1.3× 1.6k 0.9× 208 8.4k
Paulo de Marco Júnior Brazil 47 3.8k 0.9× 3.2k 1.0× 3.3k 1.1× 2.1k 0.9× 1.2k 0.7× 229 7.6k
Joaquín Hortal Spain 47 4.4k 1.1× 5.0k 1.5× 4.6k 1.5× 3.1k 1.4× 1.3k 0.8× 171 9.5k
Pedro Cardoso Finland 45 2.9k 0.7× 2.8k 0.8× 2.9k 1.0× 2.8k 1.3× 1.1k 0.6× 221 7.7k
Piero Genovesi Italy 38 5.3k 1.3× 2.1k 0.6× 3.4k 1.2× 2.1k 1.0× 1.7k 1.0× 84 9.1k
Jonathan M. Jeschke Germany 50 5.6k 1.4× 2.2k 0.7× 4.5k 1.5× 3.1k 1.4× 2.0k 1.1× 176 10.6k
W. Daniel Kissling Netherlands 46 3.8k 0.9× 3.5k 1.0× 4.6k 1.6× 3.5k 1.6× 1.8k 1.1× 141 9.4k
Paulo A. V. Borges Portugal 42 2.8k 0.7× 2.4k 0.7× 2.8k 0.9× 3.2k 1.4× 964 0.6× 327 7.5k
Linda J. Beaumont Australia 32 3.9k 1.0× 5.3k 1.6× 3.7k 1.2× 2.5k 1.1× 2.6k 1.5× 79 9.8k
Michael Hoffmann United States 40 4.5k 1.1× 3.0k 0.9× 2.9k 1.0× 1.8k 0.8× 2.8k 1.6× 126 9.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Céline Bellard

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Fields of papers citing papers by Céline Bellard

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Céline Bellard

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Céline Bellard. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Céline Bellard 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 Céline Bellard. Céline Bellard 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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Arbieu, Ugo, Céline Bellard, Corey J. A. Bradshaw, et al.. (2025). Wildlife Diversity in Global Team Sport Branding. BioScience. 76(2). 179–187.
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Soto, Ismael, Pierre Courtois, Enrico Tordoni, et al.. (2025). Using species ranges and macroeconomic data to fill the gap in costs of biological invasions. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(6). 1021–1030. 5 indexed citations
3.
Liu, Chunlong, Céline Bellard, & Jonathan M. Jeschke. (2025). Understanding biological invasions through the lens of environmental niches. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 40(4). 385–394. 3 indexed citations
4.
Bellard, Céline, Nathalie Butt, José María Fernández‐Palacios, et al.. (2025). A framework to quantify the vulnerability of insular biota to global changes. Peer Community Journal. 5. 1 indexed citations
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Robuchon, Marine, Camille Bernery, Ana Cristina Cardoso, et al.. (2025). Conservation paradoxes and challenges in invasive alien species with economic costs. Biological Conservation. 305. 111041–111041.
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Pacifici, Michela, Mattia Falaschi, Céline Bellard, et al.. (2024). Global Distribution of Alien Mammals Under Climate Change. Global Change Biology. 30(11). e17560–e17560. 11 indexed citations
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Bernery, Camille, Céline Bellard, Franck Courchamp, Sébastien Brosse, & Boris Leroy. (2024). A global analysis of the introduction pathways and characteristics associated with non-native fish species introduction, establishment, and impacts. Ecological Processes. 13(1). 12 indexed citations
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Soares, Filipa C., et al.. (2024). Conservation priorities for functionally unique and specialized terrestrial vertebrates threatened by biological invasions. Conservation Biology. 39(2). e14401–e14401. 1 indexed citations
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Bernery, Camille, et al.. (2023). Relative importance of exotic species traits in determining invasiveness across levels of establishment: Example of freshwater fish. Functional Ecology. 37(9). 2358–2370. 10 indexed citations
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Leroy, Boris, Céline Bellard, Murilo S. Dias, et al.. (2023). Major shifts in biogeographic regions of freshwater fishes as evidence of the Anthropocene epoch. Science Advances. 9(46). eadi5502–eadi5502. 12 indexed citations
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Angulo, Elena, Benjamin D. Hoffmann, Liliana Ballesteros‐Mejia, et al.. (2022). Economic costs of invasive alien ants worldwide. Biological Invasions. 24(7). 2041–2060. 64 indexed citations
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Bellard, Céline, et al.. (2022). Ranking threats to biodiversity and why it doesn’t matter. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2616–2616. 79 indexed citations
13.
Jarić, Ivan, Céline Bellard, Ricardo A. Correia, et al.. (2021). Invasion Culturomics and iEcology. Conservation Biology. 35(2). 447–451. 36 indexed citations
14.
Leclerc, Camille, Franck Courchamp, & Céline Bellard. (2020). Future climate change vulnerability of endemic island mammals. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4943–4943. 40 indexed citations
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Jarić, Ivan, Céline Bellard, Franck Courchamp, et al.. (2020). Societal attention toward extinction threats: a comparison between climate change and biological invasions. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 11085–11085. 20 indexed citations
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Leroy, Boris, Bernard Hugueny, Christine N. Meynard, et al.. (2018). Without quality presence–absence data, discrimination metrics such as TSS can be misleading measures of model performance. Journal of Biogeography. 45(9). 1994–2002. 289 indexed citations breakdown →
17.
Leclerc, Camille, Franck Courchamp, & Céline Bellard. (2018). Insular threat associations within taxa worldwide. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 6393–6393. 60 indexed citations
18.
Courchamp, Franck, Alice Fournier, Céline Bellard, et al.. (2016). Invasion Biology: Specific Problems and Possible Solutions. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 32(1). 13–22. 218 indexed citations
19.
Bellard, Céline, Camille Leclerc, & Franck Courchamp. (2015). Combined impacts of global changes on biodiversity across the USA. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 11828–11828. 19 indexed citations
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Leadley, Paul, Cornelia B. Krug, Rob Alkemade, et al.. (2014). Progress towards the Aichi biodiversity targets: An assessment of biodiversity trends, policy scenarios and key actions. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 18(6). 2903–14. 100 indexed citations

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