Nicolas Barbier

6.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
86 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Nicolas Barbier is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicolas Barbier has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 39 papers in Ecology and 39 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Nicolas Barbier's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (35 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (33 papers) and Forest ecology and management (28 papers). Nicolas Barbier is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (35 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (33 papers) and Forest ecology and management (28 papers). Nicolas Barbier collaborates with scholars based in France, Belgium and United Kingdom. Nicolas Barbier's co-authors include Pierre Couteron, Vincent Deblauwe, Olivier Lejeune, Jan Bogaert, Yadvinder Malhi, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão, Liana O. Anderson, Pierre Ploton, Raphaël Pélissier and Pierre Couteron and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Nicolas Barbier

78 papers receiving 3.0k citations

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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.

Spatial validation reveals poor predictive performance of large-scale ecological mapping models

2020 371 citations Pierre Ploton, Frédéric Mortier et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicolas Barbier France	26	1.8k	1.5k	1.3k	1.1k	318	86	3.1k
Eileen H. Helmer United States	27	2.5k 1.4×	1.8k 1.3×	1.9k 1.5×	1.2k 1.1×	506 1.6×	50	4.9k
Shaun R. Levick Australia	34	1.6k 0.9×	1.8k 1.2×	1.7k 1.3×	1.3k 1.2×	515 1.6×	78	4.0k
Matthew L. Clark United States	29	1.8k 1.0×	817 0.6×	2.1k 1.7×	1.2k 1.1×	330 1.0×	53	3.8k
James R. Kellner United States	25	1.3k 0.7×	1.6k 1.1×	1.9k 1.5×	1.7k 1.5×	258 0.8×	55	3.6k
Valéry Gond France	31	1.5k 0.9×	563 0.4×	1.3k 1.0×	665 0.6×	280 0.9×	92	2.7k
Sylvie Gourlet‐Fleury France	31	1.8k 1.0×	1.8k 1.2×	956 0.7×	526 0.5×	233 0.7×	107	3.5k
Joseph J. O’Brien United States	39	3.0k 1.7×	1.8k 1.2×	1.5k 1.2×	860 0.8×	542 1.7×	124	4.4k
Margaret Kalácska Canada	31	930 0.5×	670 0.5×	1.6k 1.3×	724 0.7×	203 0.6×	99	2.9k
Raphaël Pélissier France	31	1.2k 0.7×	2.2k 1.5×	1.3k 1.0×	823 0.7×	192 0.6×	73	3.8k
Maxime Réjou‐Méchain France	23	697 0.4×	978 0.7×	790 0.6×	758 0.7×	119 0.4×	42	2.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicolas Barbier

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20 of 20 papers shown

Barbier, Nicolas, Pierre Ploton, Gaëlle Viennois, et al.. (2025). Monitoring tropical forests with light drones: ensuring spatial and temporal consistency in stereophotogrammetric products. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 19. 100114–100114.

Schmitt, Sylvain, Fabian Jörg Fischer, James Ball, et al.. (2025). TROLL 4.0: representing water and carbon fluxes, leaf phenology, and intraspecific trait variation in a mixed-species individual-based forest dynamics model – Part 2: Model evaluation for two Amazonian sites. Geoscientific model development. 18(16). 5205–5243. 2 indexed citations

Muledi, Jonathan Ilunga, Stéphane Momo Takoudjou, Pierre Ploton, et al.. (2025). Allometric Equations for Aboveground Biomass Estimation in Wet Miombo Forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Using Terrestrial LiDAR. Environments. 12(8). 260–260.

Réjou‐Méchain, Maxime, Nick Rowe, Vivien Rossi, et al.. (2025). Local Forest Structure and Host Specificity Influence Liana Community Composition in a Moist Central African Forest. Ecology and Evolution. 15(3). e71075–e71075. 1 indexed citations

Ploton, Pierre, Moses B. Libalah, Gilles Dauby, et al.. (2024). Interactions between soil and other environmental variables modulate forest expansion and ecotone dynamics in humid savannas of Central Africa. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2033). 20241120–20241120. 1 indexed citations

Barbier, Nicolas, et al.. (2023). UAV‐Lidar reveals that canopy structure mediates the influence of edge effects on forest diversity, function and microclimate. Journal of Ecology. 111(7). 1411–1427. 10 indexed citations

Zébazé, Donatien, Jean‐François Gillet, Nicolas Barbier, et al.. (2023). Natural regeneration in tropical forests along a disturbance gradient in South-East Cameroon. Forest Ecology and Management. 547. 121402–121402. 7 indexed citations

Brede, Benjamin, Louise Terryn, Nicolas Barbier, et al.. (2022). Non-destructive estimation of individual tree biomass: Allometric models, terrestrial and UAV laser scanning. Remote Sensing of Environment. 280. 113180–113180. 85 indexed citations

Viennois, Gaëlle, François Bétard, Vincent Freycon, Nicolas Barbier, & Pierre Couteron. (2022). Automated landform classification and mapping using a combined textural-morphometric approach: the Congo basin and surroundings. Agritrop (Cirad). 5 indexed citations

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Renson, Patricia, Céline Deblanc, Mireille Le Dimna, et al.. (2021). Concomitant Swine Influenza A Virus Infection Alters PRRSV1 MLV Viremia in Piglets but Does Not Interfere with Vaccine Protection in Experimental Conditions. Vaccines. 9(4). 356–356. 8 indexed citations

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Pillot, Benjamin, Thibault Catry, Laurent Demagistri, et al.. (2021). Fast Unsupervised Multi-Scale Characterization of Urban Landscapes Based on Earth Observation Data. Remote Sensing. 13(12). 2398–2398. 3 indexed citations

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Ploton, Pierre, Frédéric Mortier, Maxime Réjou‐Méchain, et al.. (2020). Spatial validation reveals poor predictive performance of large-scale ecological mapping models. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4540–4540. 371 indexed citations breakdown →

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Libalah, Moses B., Vincent Droissart, Bonaventure Sonké, et al.. (2020). Additive influences of soil and climate gradients drive tree community composition of Central African rain forests. Journal of Vegetation Science. 31(6). 1154–1167. 5 indexed citations

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Libalah, Moses B., et al.. (2020). Multiple Stable Dominance States in the Congo Basin Forests. Forests. 11(5). 553–553. 5 indexed citations

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Réjou‐Méchain, Maxime, Nicolas Barbier, Pierre Couteron, et al.. (2019). Upscaling Forest Biomass from Field to Satellite Measurements: Sources of Errors and Ways to Reduce Them. Surveys in Geophysics. 40(4). 881–911. 88 indexed citations

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Viennois, Gaëlle, Nicolas Barbier, Isabelle Fabre, & Pierre Couteron. (2013). Multiresolution quantification of deciduousness in West-Central African forests. Biogeosciences. 10(11). 6957–6967. 16 indexed citations

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Barbier, Nicolas, et al.. (2012). Very-high-resolution diameter, biomass and carbon stock mapping on the two-thousand hectare mangroves of the Cameroon estuary. VLIZ Special Publication. 57. 129. 1 indexed citations

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Barima, Yao Sadaiou Sabas, et al.. (2010). Relation entre la composition floristique et des indicateurs de la fragmentation du paysage dans une région de transition forêt-savane ivoirienne. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6 indexed citations

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Leféver, R., Nicolas Barbier, Pierre Couteron, & Olivier Lejeune. (2009). Deeply gapped vegetation patterns: On crown/root allometry, criticality and desertification. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 261(2). 194–209. 67 indexed citations

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Leféver, R., Nicolas Barbier, Pierre Couteron, Vincent Deblauwe, & Olivier Lejeune. (2002). Les paysages tigrés et tachetés. Dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles). 44. 2–5. 1 indexed citations

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