Elsa Bonnaud

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
44 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Elsa Bonnaud is a scholar working on Ecology, Genetics and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Elsa Bonnaud has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Ecology, 21 papers in Genetics and 7 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Elsa Bonnaud's work include Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (35 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (30 papers) and Human-Animal Interaction Studies (12 papers). Elsa Bonnaud is often cited by papers focused on Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (35 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (30 papers) and Human-Animal Interaction Studies (12 papers). Elsa Bonnaud collaborates with scholars based in France, Spain and United States. Elsa Bonnaud's co-authors include Éric Vidal, Manuel Nogales, Félix M. Medina, Bernie R. Tershy, Erika S. Zavaleta, Franck Courchamp, Bradford S. Keitt, Matthieu Le Corre, C. Josh Donlan and Céline Bellard and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Elsa Bonnaud

43 papers receiving 1.8k citations

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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.

A global review of the impacts of invasive cats on island endangered vertebrates

2011 463 citations Félix M. Medina, Elsa Bonnaud et al. Global Change Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Elsa Bonnaud France	19	1.4k	805	291	282	231	44	1.9k
Bradford S. Keitt United States	18	1.7k 1.2×	743 0.9×	297 1.0×	231 0.8×	168 0.7×	29	1.9k
Karl J. Campbell Ecuador	20	1.2k 0.8×	522 0.6×	387 1.3×	211 0.7×	179 0.8×	42	1.6k
Félix M. Medina Spain	20	1.2k 0.9×	737 0.9×	325 1.1×	237 0.8×	309 1.3×	63	1.7k
Ella Vázquez‐Domínguez Mexico	24	928 0.7×	707 0.9×	399 1.4×	409 1.5×	402 1.7×	102	1.8k
Philippe Gaubert France	23	1.2k 0.8×	692 0.9×	255 0.9×	415 1.5×	345 1.5×	93	1.9k
Gregg R. Howald United States	16	1.4k 1.0×	613 0.8×	273 0.9×	151 0.5×	122 0.5×	31	1.6k
Laurent Schley United Kingdom	15	1.1k 0.8×	655 0.8×	238 0.8×	170 0.6×	231 1.0×	29	1.7k
Mattia Menchetti Italy	24	836 0.6×	478 0.6×	566 1.9×	471 1.7×	508 2.2×	80	1.6k
Richard P. Reading United States	26	1.5k 1.1×	728 0.9×	306 1.1×	270 1.0×	221 1.0×	80	2.1k
Michael J. Somers South Africa	29	2.1k 1.5×	661 0.8×	419 1.4×	396 1.4×	347 1.5×	125	2.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Elsa Bonnaud

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Bull, Sarah, Sarah Cubaynes, Katrina Davis, et al.. (2025). Understanding and Predicting Population Response to Anthropogenic Disturbance: Current Approaches and Novel Opportunities. Ecology Letters. 28(8). e70198–e70198.

Bonnaud, Elsa, et al.. (2025). Pinpointing bird species vulnerability to free-ranging domestic cats using trait-based predictive models. Ecological Indicators. 174. 113434–113434. 1 indexed citations

Bradshaw, Corey J. A., Irene Castañeda, John Llewelyn, et al.. (2024). Differential predation patterns of free‐ranging cats among continents. Ecography. 2025(4). 4 indexed citations

Ahmed, Danish A., Sergei Petrovskii, Michael B. Bonsall, et al.. (2023). Simulating capture efficiency of pitfall traps based on sampling strategy and the movement of ground‐dwelling arthropods. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14(11). 2827–2843. 4 indexed citations

Bonnaud, Elsa, et al.. (2023). Pet cat personality linked to owner‐reported predation frequency. Ecology and Evolution. 13(1). 4 indexed citations

Caut, Stéphane, et al.. (2023). Recovery of insular seabird populations years after rodent eradication. Conservation Biology. 37(3). e14042–e14042. 9 indexed citations

Castañeda, Irene, et al.. (2023). Intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of home range size in owned domestic cats Felis catus : Insights from a French suburban study. Conservation Science and Practice. 6(1). 2 indexed citations

Lepczyk, Christopher A., et al.. (2023). A global synthesis and assessment of free-ranging domestic cat diet. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7809–7809. 29 indexed citations

Sausse, Christophe, Alice Baux, Michel Bertrand, et al.. (2021). Contemporary challenges and opportunities for the management of bird damage at field crop establishment. Crop Protection. 148. 105736–105736. 25 indexed citations

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Castañeda, Irene, et al.. (2020). Feeding behaviour of red fox and domestic cat populations in suburban areas in the south of Paris. Urban Ecosystems. 23(4). 731–743. 16 indexed citations

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Millon, Alexandre, et al.. (2020). Rapid recolonisation of feral cats following intensive culling in a semi-isolated context. NeoBiota. 63. 177–200. 22 indexed citations

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Jourdan, Hervé, et al.. (2020). A conservation paradox: endangered and iconic flightless kagu (Rhynochetos jubatus) apparently escape feral cat predation. New Zealand Journal of Ecology. 44(1). 3 indexed citations

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Jourdan, Hervé, et al.. (2017). Feral cats threaten the outstanding endemic fauna of the New Caledonia biodiversity hotspot. Biological Conservation. 214. 250–259. 35 indexed citations

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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

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Russell, James C., Holly P. Jones, Doug P. Armstrong, et al.. (2015). Importance of lethal control of invasive predators for island conservation. Conservation Biology. 30(3). 670–672. 48 indexed citations

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Nogales, Manuel, Aarón González‐Castro, Patrícia Marrero, Elsa Bonnaud, & Anna Traveset. (2013). Contrasting Selective Pressures on Seed Traits of Two Congeneric Species by Their Main Native Guilds of Dispersers on Islands. PLoS ONE. 8(5). e63266–e63266. 8 indexed citations

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Bonnaud, Elsa, et al.. (2012). Predation by cats could lead to the extinction of the Mediterranean endemic Yelkouan Shearwater Puffinus yelkouan at a major breeding site. Ibis. 154(3). 566–577. 25 indexed citations

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Watari, Yuya, Stéphane Caut, Elsa Bonnaud, Karen Bourgeois, & Franck Courchamp. (2011). Recovery of both a mesopredator and prey in an insular ecosystem after the eradication of rodents: a preliminary study. 42. 4 indexed citations

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Medina, Félix M., Elsa Bonnaud, Éric Vidal, et al.. (2011). A global review of the impacts of invasive cats on island endangered vertebrates. Global Change Biology. 17(11). 3503–3510. 463 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bonnaud, Elsa, et al.. (2008). Measuring rodent incisors from scats can increase accuracy of predator diet studies. An illustration based on island cats and rats. Comptes Rendus Biologies. 331(9). 686–691. 6 indexed citations

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