François Rigal

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
82 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

François Rigal is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, François Rigal has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 36 papers in Ecology and 31 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in François Rigal's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (34 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (30 papers) and Plant and animal studies (21 papers). François Rigal is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (34 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (30 papers) and Plant and animal studies (21 papers). François Rigal collaborates with scholars based in France, Portugal and Finland. François Rigal's co-authors include Pedro Cardoso, Paulo A. V. Borges, José C. Carvalho, Robert J. Whittaker, Kostas A. Triantis, Thomas J. Matthews, Sofia Terzopoulou, Monte S. Buchsbaum, Richard Coppola and Simone Fattorini and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

François Rigal

81 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

BAT – Biodiversity Assessment Tools, an R package for the measurement and estimation of alpha and beta taxon, phylogenetic and functional diversity

2014 332 citations Pedro Cardoso, François Rigal et al. Methods in Ecology and Evolution profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
François Rigal France	23	912	839	672	575	282	82	2.1k
Peter C. le Roux South Africa	28	1.3k 1.4×	1.0k 1.2×	817 1.2×	887 1.5×	398 1.4×	86	2.6k
Dénes Schmera Hungary	28	1.9k 2.1×	1.8k 2.2×	748 1.1×	600 1.0×	398 1.4×	108	3.1k
Christopher Hassall United Kingdom	29	1.5k 1.7×	892 1.1×	856 1.3×	892 1.6×	700 2.5×	89	3.1k
Adam C. Algar United Kingdom	22	863 0.9×	609 0.7×	628 0.9×	885 1.5×	545 1.9×	51	1.8k
Terry L. Erwin United States	16	930 1.0×	1.3k 1.6×	1.0k 1.5×	704 1.2×	898 3.2×	35	3.0k
Marco Isaia Italy	31	756 0.8×	501 0.6×	766 1.1×	599 1.0×	540 1.9×	137	2.6k
Abraham Addo‐Bediako South Africa	17	1.3k 1.4×	302 0.4×	695 1.0×	512 0.9×	253 0.9×	48	2.2k
Szabolcs Lengyel Hungary	29	1.5k 1.6×	1.5k 1.7×	936 1.4×	952 1.7×	552 2.0×	104	3.2k
Dror Hawlena Israel	24	1.2k 1.3×	696 0.8×	1.2k 1.8×	267 0.5×	682 2.4×	65	2.4k
Scott A. Wissinger United States	27	1.5k 1.6×	1.2k 1.4×	867 1.3×	369 0.6×	545 1.9×	58	2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by François Rigal

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of François Rigal

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Pozsgai, Gábor, Noëlline Tsafack, Pedro Cardoso, et al.. (2025). Threats and conservation status of the endemic terrestrial arthropods of the Azores. Biological Conservation. 309. 111282–111282. 2 indexed citations

Cardoso, Pedro, François Rigal, Mário Boieiro, et al.. (2025). Species traits may predict extinction risk of Azorean endemic arthropods. Insect Conservation and Diversity. 18(4). 545–551. 4 indexed citations

Pozsgai, Gábor, Isabel R. Amorim, Mário Boieiro, et al.. (2024). The BALA project: A pioneering monitoring of Azorean forest invertebrates over two decades (1999–2022). Scientific Data. 11(1). 368–368. 10 indexed citations

Cardoso, Pedro, Thomas Guillerme, Thomas J. Matthews, et al.. (2024). Calculating functional diversity metrics using neighbor‐joining trees. Ecography. 2024(7). 9 indexed citations

Rigal, François, et al.. (2024). The drivers of plant turnover change across spatial scales in the Azores. Ecography. 2024(6). 1 indexed citations

Cardoso, Pedro, François Rigal, Mário Boieiro, et al.. (2024). Arthropod traits as proxies for abundance trends in the Azorean Islands. Ecography. 2024(12). 3 indexed citations

Rigal, François, Andrew J. Plumptre, Panayiotis Trigas, et al.. (2024). KBAscope: key biodiversity area identification in R. Ecography. 2024(9). 2 indexed citations

Πρόιος, Κωνσταντίνος, François Rigal, Thomas J. Matthews, et al.. (2023). Functional diversity and community convergence of land snails in the Aegean Sea islands. Journal of Biogeography. 51(9). 1632–1645.

Cardoso, Pedro, et al.. (2023). Island spider origins show complex vertical stratification patterns in Macaronesia. Insect Conservation and Diversity. 16(6). 886–895. 7 indexed citations

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Cébron, Aurélie, François Rigal, Christine Cagnon, et al.. (2023). Functional redundancy in response to runoff input upholds microbial community in hydrocarbon-contaminated land-sea continuum. Environmental Pollution. 335. 122330–122330. 1 indexed citations

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Triantis, Kostas A., François Rigal, Robert J. Whittaker, et al.. (2022). Deterministic assembly and anthropogenic extinctions drive convergence of island bird communities. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 31(9). 1741–1755. 13 indexed citations

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Cardoso, Pedro, Mário Boieiro, Jagoba Malumbres‐Olarte, et al.. (2022). SLAM Project - Long Term Ecological Study of the Impacts of Climate Change in the natural forest of Azores: IV - The spiders of Terceira and Pico Islands (2019-2021) and general diversity patterns after ten years of sampling. ZooKeys. 10. e96442–e96442. 9 indexed citations

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Duran, Robert, et al.. (2022). New insights into microbial community coalescence in the land-sea continuum. Microbiological Research. 267. 127259–127259. 8 indexed citations

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Cardoso, Pedro, Mário Boieiro, Lucas Lamelas-López, et al.. (2022). SLAM Project - Long Term Ecological Study of the Impacts of Climate Change in the natural forests of Azores: V - New records of terrestrial arthropods after ten years of SLAM sampling. ZooKeys. 10. e97952–e97952. 9 indexed citations

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Borges, Paulo A. V., Lucas Lamelas-López, Enesima P. Mendonca, et al.. (2021). Monitoring Arthropods in Azorean Agroecosystems: the project AGRO-ECOSERVICES. ZooKeys. 9. 9 indexed citations

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Matthews, Thomas J., François Rigal, Konstantinos Kougioumoutzis, Panayiotis Trigas, & Kostas A. Triantis. (2020). Unravelling the small‐island effect through phylogenetic community ecology. Journal of Biogeography. 47(11). 2341–2352. 28 indexed citations

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Malumbres‐Olarte, Jagoba, Mário Boieiro, Pedro Cardoso, et al.. (2020). Standardised inventories of spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of Macaronesia II: The native forests and dry habitats of Madeira archipelago (Madeira and Porto Santo islands). ZooKeys. 8. e47502–e47502. 9 indexed citations

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Matthews, Thomas J., François Rigal, Kostas A. Triantis, & Robert J. Whittaker. (2019). A global model of island species–area relationships. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(25). 12337–12342. 59 indexed citations

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Boieiro, Mário, Thomas J. Matthews, Carla Rêgo, et al.. (2018). A comparative analysis of terrestrial arthropod assemblages from a relict forest unveils historical extinctions and colonization differences between two oceanic islands. PLoS ONE. 13(4). e0195492–e0195492. 16 indexed citations

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Matthews, Thomas J., Michael K. Borregaard, Colin S. Gillespie, et al.. (2018). Extension of the gambin model to multimodal species abundance distributions. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 10(3). 432–437. 8 indexed citations

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