Michel Loreau

80.7k total citations · 22 hit papers
289 papers, 49.5k citations indexed

About

Michel Loreau is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michel Loreau has authored 289 papers receiving a total of 49.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 168 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 126 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 124 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Michel Loreau's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (161 papers), Plant and animal studies (115 papers) and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (71 papers). Michel Loreau is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (161 papers), Plant and animal studies (115 papers) and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (71 papers). Michel Loreau collaborates with scholars based in France, Canada and United States. Michel Loreau's co-authors include Andy Hector, Nicolas Mouquet, Andrew Gonzalez, Shigeo Yachi, David Tilman, David A. Wardle, David U. Hooper, Claire de Mazancourt, Pablo Inchausti and Bernhard Schmid and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Michel Loreau

282 papers receiving 47.5k citations

Hit Papers

EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY ON ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: A CONSE... 1999 2026 2008 2017 2005 2012 2004 2001 2001 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k 5.0k
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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.

  1. EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY ON ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: A CONSENSUS OF CURRENT KNOWLEDGE
    2005 5.7k citations Andy Hector, Michel Loreau et al. profile →
  2. Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity
    2012 4.9k citations Bradley J. Cardinale, Andrew Gonzalez et al. profile →
  3. The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi‐scale community ecology
    2004 3.9k citations Mathew A. Leibold, Marcel Holyoak et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  4. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Current Knowledge and Future Challenges
    2001 3.4k citations Michel Loreau, Andy Hector et al. Science profile →
  5. Partitioning selection and complementarity in biodiversity experiments
    2001 2.4k citations Michel Loreau, Andy Hector profile →
  6. Biodiversity and ecosystem productivity in a fluctuating environment: The insurance hypothesis
    1999 2.2k citations Michel Loreau et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  7. High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services
    2011 1.1k citations Forest Isbell, Andy Hector et al. profile →
  8. Impacts of plant diversity on biomass production increase through time because of species complementarity
    2007 1.1k citations Bradley J. Cardinale, Justin P. Wright et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  9. Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning : synthesis and perspectives
    2002 828 citations Michel Loreau et al. profile →
  10. Biodiversity and ecosystem stability: a synthesis of underlying mechanisms
    2013 809 citations Michel Loreau, Claire de Mazancourt Ecology Letters profile →
  11. Community Patterns in Source‐Sink Metacommunities
    2003 744 citations Nicolas Mouquet, Michel Loreau profile →
  12. The functional role of biodiversity in ecosystems: incorporating trophic complexity
    2007 741 citations Bradley J. Cardinale, Michel Loreau et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  13. Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: recent theoretical advances
    2000 731 citations Michel Loreau profile →
  14. Biodiversity as spatial insurance in heterogeneous landscapes
    2003 655 citations Michel Loreau, Nicolas Mouquet et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  15. Functional Diversity of Plant–Pollinator Interaction Webs Enhances the Persistence of Plant Communities
    2005 522 citations Michel Loreau et al. profile →
  16. Linking the influence and dependence of people on biodiversity across scales
    2017 490 citations Forest Isbell, Andrew Gonzalez et al. profile →
  17. Species Synchrony and Its Drivers: Neutral and Nonneutral Community Dynamics in Fluctuating Environments
    2008 489 citations Michel Loreau, Claire de Mazancourt profile →
  18. Scaling‐up biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning research
    2020 301 citations Andrew Gonzalez, Diane S. Srivastava et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  19. Species Richness and the Temporal Stability of Biomass Production: A New Analysis of Recent Biodiversity Experiments
    2013 292 citations Bradley J. Cardinale, Andrew Gonzalez et al. profile →
  20. Multispecies forest plantations outyield monocultures across a broad range of conditions
    2022 252 citations Bernhard Schmid, Michel Loreau et al. Science profile →
  21. Biodiversity as insurance: from concept to measurement and application
    2021 173 citations Michel Loreau, Matthieu Barbier et al. profile →
  22. A model of Sustainable Development Goals: Challenges and opportunities in promoting human well-being and environmental sustainability
    2022 173 citations Michel Loreau 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
Michel Loreau France 88 24.6k 20.9k 14.5k 14.2k 6.6k 289 49.5k
Pierre Legendre Canada 92 29.7k 1.2× 32.8k 1.6× 15.0k 1.0× 15.0k 1.1× 9.7k 1.5× 411 71.4k
Sandra Lavorel France 98 26.6k 1.1× 15.5k 0.7× 14.1k 1.0× 16.6k 1.2× 10.1k 1.5× 306 47.5k
Bernhard Schmid Switzerland 96 20.4k 0.8× 12.6k 0.6× 13.2k 0.9× 10.0k 0.7× 11.3k 1.7× 487 40.1k
David M. Lodge United States 79 18.1k 0.7× 27.0k 1.3× 7.3k 0.5× 10.4k 0.7× 4.1k 0.6× 236 43.5k
Daniel Simberloff United States 102 22.1k 0.9× 25.7k 1.2× 14.9k 1.0× 10.7k 0.7× 8.5k 1.3× 382 52.5k
Marti J. Anderson New Zealand 54 13.0k 0.5× 21.8k 1.0× 7.1k 0.5× 11.0k 0.8× 5.3k 0.8× 134 43.4k
John H. Lawton United Kingdom 101 21.1k 0.9× 21.6k 1.0× 18.0k 1.2× 9.2k 0.6× 7.4k 1.1× 280 47.8k
David A. Wardle Sweden 103 25.4k 1.0× 23.1k 1.1× 15.3k 1.1× 13.8k 1.0× 17.1k 2.6× 414 61.9k
Anne E. Magurran United Kingdom 74 15.3k 0.6× 14.7k 0.7× 13.0k 0.9× 8.1k 0.6× 3.7k 0.6× 241 34.9k
Mark Westoby Australia 98 26.7k 1.1× 11.4k 0.5× 17.1k 1.2× 12.6k 0.9× 14.7k 2.2× 282 43.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michel Loreau

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Michel Loreau. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Michel Loreau 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 Michel Loreau. Michel Loreau 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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Liang, Maowei, Qi Yang, Jonathan M. Chase, et al.. (2025). Unifying spatial scaling laws of biodiversity and ecosystem stability. Science. 387(6740). eadl2373–eadl2373. 5 indexed citations
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Wang, Shaopeng, Forest Isbell, Pubin Hong, et al.. (2021). How complementarity and selection affect the relationship between ecosystem functioning and stability. Ecology. 102(6). e03347–e03347. 74 indexed citations
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Montoya, Daniel, Bart Haegeman, Sabrina Gaba, Claire de Mazancourt, & Michel Loreau. (2021). Habitat fragmentation and food security in crop pollination systems. Journal of Ecology. 109(8). 2991–3006. 18 indexed citations
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Yang, Xian, et al.. (2021). Consistently positive effect of species diversity on ecosystem, but not population, temporal stability. Ecology Letters. 24(10). 2256–2266. 104 indexed citations
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Galiana, Núria, et al.. (2020). Can biomass distribution across trophic levels predict trophic cascades?. Ecology Letters. 24(3). 464–476. 13 indexed citations
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Barbier, Matthieu & Michel Loreau. (2018). Pyramids and cascades: a synthesis of food chain functioning and stability. Ecology Letters. 22(2). 405–419. 61 indexed citations
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Loreau, Michel, et al.. (2018). The relationship between the spatial scaling of biodiversity and ecosystem stability. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 27(4). 439–449. 27 indexed citations
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Barbier, Matthieu, Jean‐François Arnoldi, Guy Bunin, & Michel Loreau. (2018). Generic assembly patterns in complex ecological communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(9). 2156–2161. 107 indexed citations
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Fussmann, Gregor F., et al.. (2018). The mechanics of predator–prey interactions: First principles of physics predict predator–prey size ratios. Functional Ecology. 33(2). 323–334. 51 indexed citations
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Gonzalez, Andrew, Patrick L. Thompson, & Michel Loreau. (2017). Spatial ecological networks: planning for sustainability in the long-term. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 29. 187–197. 57 indexed citations
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Hatton, Ian, Kevin S. McCann, John M. Fryxell, et al.. (2015). The predator-prey power law: Biomass scaling across terrestrial and aquatic biomes. Science. 349(6252). aac6284–aac6284. 235 indexed citations
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Wang, Shaopeng & Michel Loreau. (2014). Ecosystem stability in space: α, β and γ variability. Ecology Letters. 17(8). 891–901. 194 indexed citations
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Loreau, Michel & Claire de Mazancourt. (2013). Biodiversity and ecosystem stability: a synthesis of underlying mechanisms. Ecology Letters. 16(s1). 106–115. 809 indexed citations breakdown →
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Haegeman, Bart & Michel Loreau. (2013). General relationships between consumer dispersal, resource dispersal and metacommunity diversity. Ecology Letters. 17(2). 175–184. 43 indexed citations
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Turnbull, Lindsay A., Jonathan M. Levine, Michel Loreau, & Andy Hector. (2012). Coexistence, niches and biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning. Ecology Letters. 16(s1). 116–127. 132 indexed citations
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Fussmann, Gregor F., Michel Loreau, & Peter A. Abrams. (2007). Eco‐evolutionary dynamics of communities and ecosystems. Functional Ecology. 21(3). 465–477. 408 indexed citations
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Cardinale, Bradley J., Justin P. Wright, Marc W. Cadotte, et al.. (2007). Impacts of plant diversity on biomass production increase through time because of species complementarity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(46). 18123–18128. 1107 indexed citations breakdown →
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Leibold, Mathew A., Marcel Holyoak, Nicolas Mouquet, et al.. (2004). The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi‐scale community ecology. Ecology Letters. 7(7). 601–613. 3866 indexed citations breakdown →
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Loreau, Michel, et al.. (1993). Occupation of space by the carabid beetle Abax ater. Acta Oecologica. 14(2). 247–258. 27 indexed citations
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Loreau, Michel. (1991). Species abundance patterns and the structure of ground-beetle communities. Annales Zoologici Fennici. 28(2). 49–56. 47 indexed citations

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