Frédéric Mèdail

8.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
131 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Frédéric Mèdail is a scholar working on Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Frédéric Mèdail has authored 131 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Plant Science, 59 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 49 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Frédéric Mèdail's work include Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna (52 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (49 papers) and Plant and animal studies (30 papers). Frédéric Mèdail is often cited by papers focused on Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna (52 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (49 papers) and Plant and animal studies (30 papers). Frédéric Mèdail collaborates with scholars based in France, Italy and Spain. Frédéric Mèdail's co-authors include Pierre Quézel, Katia Diadema, Régine Verlaque, Éric Vidal, Alex Baumel, Carey Suehs, Thierry Tatoni, Giuseppe Brundu, Philip E. Hulme and Laurence Affre and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Science of The Total Environment and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Frédéric Mèdail

124 papers receiving 6.2k 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.

Glacial refugia influence plant diversity patterns in the Mediterranean Basin

2009 926 citations Frédéric Mèdail, Katia Diadema Journal of Biogeography profile →
Hot-Spots Analysis for Conservation of Plant Biodiversity in the Mediterranean Basin

1997 817 citations Frédéric Mèdail, Pierre Quézel profile →
Biodiversity Hotspots in the Mediterranean Basin: Setting Global Conservation Priorities

1999 778 citations Frédéric Mèdail, Pierre Quézel profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Frédéric Mèdail	3.0k	2.6k	2.3k	1.3k	1.1k	131	6.5k
Walter Durka	2.0k 0.7×	3.0k 1.1×	2.7k 1.2×	1.5k 1.2×	1.6k 1.4×	172	6.0k
Ernesto Gianoli	2.7k 0.9×	3.3k 1.3×	3.1k 1.4×	1.5k 1.1×	636 0.6×	178	6.7k
Stephen D. Hopper	2.2k 0.7×	3.2k 1.2×	3.3k 1.5×	1.5k 1.1×	1.2k 1.1×	185	6.8k
Juan Arroyo	2.4k 0.8×	2.9k 1.1×	2.2k 0.9×	860 0.6×	809 0.7×	145	4.9k
Mary T. K. Arroyo	3.0k 1.0×	4.7k 1.8×	2.9k 1.3×	1.2k 0.9×	606 0.5×	147	7.2k
Oliver Bossdorf	3.5k 1.2×	3.4k 1.3×	3.2k 1.4×	1.7k 1.3×	1.6k 1.4×	94	7.7k
Ørjan Totland	2.9k 1.0×	3.7k 1.4×	3.1k 1.4×	819 0.6×	503 0.5×	103	5.4k
Joseph K. Bailey	2.2k 0.7×	3.1k 1.2×	3.5k 1.6×	2.5k 1.9×	1.3k 1.1×	119	7.6k
Jennifer A. Schweitzer	2.8k 0.9×	3.0k 1.1×	3.6k 1.6×	2.4k 1.8×	1.2k 1.0×	105	7.5k
José María Iriondo	2.0k 0.7×	1.9k 0.7×	1.9k 0.8×	695 0.5×	896 0.8×	137	4.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Mèdail, Frédéric & Salvatore Pasta. (2024). The Intermittent History of Exploitation of Terrestrial Biotic Resources on the Small Islands of the Western Mediterranean Basin. Human Ecology. 52(2). 397–408. 1 indexed citations

Mèdail, Frédéric, Alex Baumel, Arnoldo Santos Guerra, et al.. (2024). Historical human impact on the endangered, relict and iconic Canary Islands dragon tree (Dracaena draco (L.) L.) and its uncertain fate in the face of climate change. Biodiversity and Conservation. 34(3). 949–970.

Fernández‐Palacios, José María, Rüdiger Otto, Jorge Capelo, et al.. (2024). In defence of the entity of Macaronesia as a biogeographical region. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 99(6). 2060–2081. 10 indexed citations

Baumel, Alex, et al.. (2023). Germination niche of the endangered dragon tree Dracaena draco (L.) L. subsp. draco of the Macaronesian Islands. Flora. 308. 152405–152405. 2 indexed citations

Leriche, Agathe, et al.. (2023). Tree biodiversity of warm drylands is likely to decline in a drier world. Global Change Biology. 29(13). 3707–3722. 10 indexed citations

Gravendeel, Barbara, Frédéric Mèdail, Michael F. Fay, et al.. (2023). Genomic, spatial and morphometric data for discrimination of four species in the Mediterranean Tamus clade of yams (Dioscorea, Dioscoreaceae). Annals of Botany. 131(4). 635–654. 5 indexed citations

Taudière, Adrien, Julien Andrieu, Yildiz Aumeeruddy‐Thomas, et al.. (2023). Time to refine the geography of biodiversity hotspots by integrating molecular data: The Mediterranean Basin as a case study. Biological Conservation. 284. 110162–110162. 10 indexed citations

Baumel, Alex, Gonzalo Nieto Feliner, Frédéric Mèdail, et al.. (2022). Genome‐wide footprints in the carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua) unveil a new domestication pattern of a fruit tree in the Mediterranean. Molecular Ecology. 31(15). 4095–4111. 14 indexed citations

Casazza, Gabriele, Davide Dagnino, Marianick Juin, et al.. (2021). When ecological marginality is not geographically peripheral: exploring genetic predictions of the centre-periphery hypothesis in the endemic plant Lilium pomponium. PeerJ. 9. e11039–e11039. 8 indexed citations

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Mèdail, Frédéric, et al.. (2020). New insights on the conservation status of the Endangered coastal endemic plant Astragalus berytheus (Fabaceae) in Lebanon. Oryx. 55(4). 519–521. 3 indexed citations

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Viruel, Juan, Samuel Pironon, Gonzalo Nieto Feliner, et al.. (2019). A strong east–west Mediterranean divergence supports a new phylogeographic history of the carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua, Leguminosae) and multiple domestications from native populations. Journal of Biogeography. 47(2). 460–471. 32 indexed citations

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Mèdail, Frédéric & Pierre Quézel. (2018). Biogéographie de la flore du Sahara. IRD Éditions eBooks. 9 indexed citations

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Viruel, Juan, Anne Haguenauer, Marianick Juin, et al.. (2018). Advances in genotyping microsatellite markers through sequencing and consequences of scoring methods for Ceratonia siliqua (Leguminosae). Applications in Plant Sciences. 6(12). e01201–e01201. 21 indexed citations

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Baumel, Alex, Pascal Mirleau, Juan Viruel, et al.. (2018). Assessment of plant species diversity associated with the carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua, Fabaceae) at the Mediterranean scale. Plant Ecology and Evolution. 151(2). 185–193. 26 indexed citations

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Andrieu‐Ponel, Valérie, Frédéric Mèdail, Nick Marriner, et al.. (2016). 7300 years of vegetation history and climate for NW Malta: a Holocene perspective. Climate of the past. 12(2). 273–297. 25 indexed citations

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Mèdail, Frédéric & Katia Diadema. (2009). Glacial refugia influence plant diversity patterns in the Mediterranean Basin. Journal of Biogeography. 36(7). 1333–1345. 926 indexed citations breakdown →

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Breton, Catherine, Frédéric Mèdail, Christian Pinatel, & A. Bervillé. (2006). De l’olivier à l’oléastre : origine et domestication de l’Olea europaea L. dans le Bassin méditerranéen. Cahiers Agricultures. 15(4). 329–336. 18 indexed citations

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Mèdail, Frédéric. (2004). Atlas y libro rojo de la flora vascular amenazada de España, A. Bañares, G. Blanca, J. Güemes , J. C. Moreno & S. Ortiz (eds.), General de Conservación de la Naturaleza, Madrid (2003). Ecologia mediterranea. 30(2). 247–247. 14 indexed citations

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Mèdail, Frédéric. (1997). Flore analytique des plantes introduites en Corse, par A. Natali & D. Jeanmonod. Compléments au Prodrome de la flore Corse. (1996). Ecologia mediterranea. 23(3). 95–96. 2 indexed citations

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Mèdail, Frédéric. (1997). Biological invasions, par M. Williamson. Chapman & Hall, London, (1996). Ecologia mediterranea. 23(3). 95–95. 1 indexed citations

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