Daniel Borcard

42.8k total citations · 8 hit papers
50 papers, 16.1k citations indexed

About

Daniel Borcard is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel Borcard has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 16.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 19 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 17 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Daniel Borcard's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (23 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (13 papers) and Plant and animal studies (13 papers). Daniel Borcard is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (23 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (13 papers) and Plant and animal studies (13 papers). Daniel Borcard collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Switzerland and France. Daniel Borcard's co-authors include Pierre Legendre, Pierre Drapeau, François Gillet, Pedro R. Peres‐Neto, F. Guillaume Blanchet, Stéphane Dray, Hanna Tuomisto, Carol Avois-Jacquet, Marie‐Josée Fortin and U. Höfer and has published in prestigious journals such as Ecology, Limnology and Oceanography and Oecologia.

In The Last Decade

Daniel Borcard

50 papers receiving 15.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Partialling out the Spatial Component of Ecological Variation
    1992 3.7k citations Daniel Borcard, Pierre Legendre et al. Ecology profile →
  2. Numerical Ecology with R
    2011 2.5k citations Daniel Borcard, François Gillet et al. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) profile →
  3. VARIATION PARTITIONING OF SPECIES DATA MATRICES: ESTIMATION AND COMPARISON OF FRACTIONS
    2006 1.9k citations Pedro R. Peres‐Neto, Pierre Legendre et al. Ecology profile →
  4. FORWARD SELECTION OF EXPLANATORY VARIABLES
    2008 1.8k citations F. Guillaume Blanchet, Pierre Legendre et al. Ecology profile →
  5. All-scale spatial analysis of ecological data by means of principal coordinates of neighbour matrices
    2002 1.6k citations Daniel Borcard, Pierre Legendre Ecological Modelling profile →
  6. ANALYZING BETA DIVERSITY: PARTITIONING THE SPATIAL VARIATION OF COMMUNITY COMPOSITION DATA
    2005 1.0k citations Pierre Legendre, Daniel Borcard et al. profile →
  7. DISSECTING THE SPATIAL STRUCTURE OF ECOLOGICAL DATA AT MULTIPLE SCALES
    2004 787 citations Daniel Borcard, Pierre Legendre et al. Ecology profile →
  8. Numerical Ecology with R
    2018 497 citations Daniel Borcard, François Gillet et al. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Daniel Borcard 8.2k 7.5k 3.6k 3.0k 2.4k 50 16.1k
Pedro R. Peres‐Neto 8.2k 1.0× 8.1k 1.1× 3.4k 0.9× 3.0k 1.0× 3.3k 1.4× 110 16.8k
Mathew A. Leibold 8.2k 1.0× 7.1k 1.0× 4.4k 1.2× 2.1k 0.7× 2.5k 1.0× 87 14.7k
Diane S. Srivastava 7.2k 0.9× 7.0k 0.9× 4.5k 1.2× 4.1k 1.4× 2.5k 1.0× 116 16.3k
Stéphane Dray 6.5k 0.8× 6.0k 0.8× 4.3k 1.2× 2.5k 0.8× 2.4k 1.0× 90 15.5k
Nicolas Mouquet 8.2k 1.0× 7.8k 1.1× 5.3k 1.5× 3.0k 1.0× 3.4k 1.4× 117 15.6k
Eric W. Seabloom 7.9k 1.0× 6.6k 0.9× 3.7k 1.0× 2.9k 1.0× 1.2k 0.5× 176 17.5k
Elsa E. Cleland 7.2k 0.9× 7.1k 0.9× 4.4k 1.2× 4.8k 1.6× 3.1k 1.3× 79 17.4k
Stuart H. Hurlbert 7.5k 0.9× 5.6k 0.8× 3.3k 0.9× 3.4k 1.1× 1.1k 0.5× 82 15.5k
Jonathan B. Shurin 9.0k 1.1× 6.6k 0.9× 3.1k 0.9× 2.8k 0.9× 1.5k 0.6× 116 16.3k
W. Stanley Harpole 5.8k 0.7× 5.9k 0.8× 2.9k 0.8× 2.9k 1.0× 1.2k 0.5× 83 15.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Daniel Borcard

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Daniel Borcard

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Daniel Borcard. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Daniel Borcard 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 Daniel Borcard. Daniel Borcard 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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Gillet, François, et al.. (2025). Rarity and Sparseness in Plant Communities: Impact of Minor Species Removal on Beta Diversity and Canonical Ordination. Journal of Vegetation Science. 36(1). 1 indexed citations
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Perrin, William, Marco Moretti, Alan Vergnes, Daniel Borcard, & Pierre Jay‐Robert. (2019). Response of dung beetle assemblages to grazing intensity in two distinct bioclimatic contexts. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 289. 106740–106740. 18 indexed citations
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Borcard, Daniel, François Gillet, & Pierre Legendre. (2018). Numerical Ecology with R. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 497 indexed citations breakdown →
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Grondin, Pierre, Julie C. Aleman, Adam A. Ali, et al.. (2018). Using paleoecology to improve reference conditions for ecosystem-based management in western spruce-moss subdomain of Québec. Forest Ecology and Management. 430. 157–165. 13 indexed citations
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Legendre, Pierre, Marie‐Josée Fortin, & Daniel Borcard. (2015). Should the Mantel test be used in spatial analysis?. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 6(11). 1239–1247. 271 indexed citations
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Grondin, Pierre, et al.. (2013). A new approach to ecological land classification for the Canadian boreal forest that integrates disturbances. Landscape Ecology. 29(1). 1–16. 50 indexed citations
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Borcard, Daniel & Pierre Legendre. (2012). Is the Mantel correlogram powerful enough to be useful in ecological analysis? A simulation study. Ecology. 93(6). 1473–1481. 155 indexed citations
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Borcard, Daniel, François Gillet, & Pierre Legendre. (2011). Numerical Ecology with R. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 2465 indexed citations breakdown →
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Legendre, Pierre, Daniel Borcard, & David W. Roberts. (2011). Variation partitioning involving orthogonal spatial eigenfunction submodels. Ecology. 93(5). 1234–1240. 96 indexed citations
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Sattler, Thomas, Daniel Borcard, Raphaël Arlettaz, et al.. (2010). Spider, bee, and bird communities in cities are shaped by environmental control and high stochasticity. Ecology. 91(11). 3343–3353. 120 indexed citations
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Legendre, Pierre, Miquel De Cáceres, & Daniel Borcard. (2010). Community surveys through space and time: testing the space–time interaction in the absence of replication. Ecology. 91(1). 262–272. 74 indexed citations
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Blanchet, F. Guillaume, Pierre Legendre, & Daniel Borcard. (2008). FORWARD SELECTION OF EXPLANATORY VARIABLES. Ecology. 89(9). 2623–2632. 1770 indexed citations breakdown →
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Legendre, Pierre, Daniel Borcard, & Pedro R. Peres‐Neto. (2008). ANALYZING OR EXPLAINING BETA DIVERSITY? COMMENT. Ecology. 89(11). 3238–3244. 75 indexed citations
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Rhainds, Marc, Jacques Brodeur, Daniel Borcard, & Pierre Legendre. (2008). Toward management guidelines for soybean aphid, Aphis glycines, in Quebec. II. Spatial distribution of aphid populations in commercial soybean fields. The Canadian Entomologist. 140(2). 219–234. 9 indexed citations
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Jones, Mirkka M., Hanna Tuomisto, Daniel Borcard, et al.. (2007). Explaining variation in tropical plant community composition: influence of environmental and spatial data quality. Oecologia. 155(3). 593–604. 180 indexed citations
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DesGranges, Jean-Luc, et al.. (2006). Modelling Wetland Bird Response to Water Level Changes in the Lake Ontario – St. Lawrence River Hydrosystem. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 113(1-3). 329–365. 82 indexed citations
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Peres‐Neto, Pedro R., Pierre Legendre, Stéphane Dray, & Daniel Borcard. (2006). VARIATION PARTITIONING OF SPECIES DATA MATRICES: ESTIMATION AND COMPARISON OF FRACTIONS. Ecology. 87(10). 2614–2625. 1902 indexed citations breakdown →
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Borcard, Daniel & Pierre Legendre. (2002). All-scale spatial analysis of ecological data by means of principal coordinates of neighbour matrices. Ecological Modelling. 153(1-2). 51–68. 1608 indexed citations breakdown →
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Borcard, Daniel, et al.. (1997). Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) of a primary peat bog-pasture transition in the Swiss Jura mountains. Ecoscience. 4(4). 470–479. 23 indexed citations
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Borcard, Daniel. (1996). Typology of the Oribatid mite species assemblages of the peat-bog Le Cachot (Swiss Jura mountains): Indicator species or characteristic species groups?. 119. 63–73. 1 indexed citations

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