Olivier Broennimann

15.4k total citations · 6 hit papers
83 papers, 9.6k citations indexed

About

Olivier Broennimann is a scholar working on Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Olivier Broennimann has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 9.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Ecological Modeling, 47 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 34 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Olivier Broennimann's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (61 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (47 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (21 papers). Olivier Broennimann is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (61 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (47 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (21 papers). Olivier Broennimann collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, France and United States. Olivier Broennimann's co-authors include Antoine Guisan, Blaise Petitpierre, Christophe F. Randin, Wilfried Thuiller, Peter B. Pearman, Christoph Kueffer, Curtis C. Daehler, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Heinz Müller‐Schärer and Loïc Pellissier and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Olivier Broennimann

82 papers receiving 9.4k citations

Hit Papers

Measuring ecological niche overlap from occurrence and sp... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2011 2007 2016 2008 2012 400 800 1.2k
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.

  1. Measuring ecological niche overlap from occurrence and spatial environmental data
    2011 1.3k citations Olivier Broennimann, Blaise Petitpierre et al. profile →
  2. Evidence of climatic niche shift during biological invasion
    2007 913 citations Olivier Broennimann, Heinz Müller‐Schärer et al. profile →
  3. ecospat: an R package to support spatial analyses and modeling of species niches and distributions
    2016 866 citations Olivier Broennimann, Blaise Petitpierre et al. Ecography profile →
  4. Niche dynamics in space and time
    2008 814 citations Antoine Guisan, Olivier Broennimann et al. profile →
  5. Climatic Niche Shifts Are Rare Among Terrestrial Plant Invaders
    2012 693 citations Blaise Petitpierre, Olivier Broennimann et al. profile →
  6. Unifying niche shift studies: insights from biological invasions
    2014 573 citations Antoine Guisan, Blaise Petitpierre 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
Olivier Broennimann Switzerland 40 6.3k 4.2k 3.9k 3.1k 1.8k 83 9.6k
Christophe F. Randin Switzerland 42 6.3k 1.0× 4.3k 1.0× 4.5k 1.2× 2.8k 0.9× 1.4k 0.8× 71 9.9k
Loïc Pellissier Switzerland 52 4.7k 0.7× 4.5k 1.1× 4.8k 1.2× 4.2k 1.3× 1.8k 1.0× 258 11.2k
Colin J. Yates Australia 41 5.3k 0.9× 5.1k 1.2× 5.5k 1.4× 3.0k 1.0× 1.7k 1.0× 144 11.3k
Dan L. Warren United States 28 5.3k 0.8× 3.9k 0.9× 2.5k 0.7× 3.0k 1.0× 2.6k 1.5× 64 9.9k
Joaquín Hortal Spain 47 5.0k 0.8× 4.4k 1.0× 4.6k 1.2× 3.1k 1.0× 1.2k 0.7× 171 9.5k
Enrique Martínez‐Meyer Mexico 39 5.4k 0.9× 4.1k 1.0× 3.4k 0.9× 1.9k 0.6× 1.3k 0.7× 137 8.4k
Andrés Baselga Spain 37 2.7k 0.4× 4.9k 1.2× 5.0k 1.3× 3.2k 1.0× 1.0k 0.6× 103 9.5k
Sébastien Lavergne France 54 3.4k 0.5× 3.6k 0.8× 5.6k 1.4× 4.8k 1.5× 1.7k 1.0× 132 10.9k
Richard G. Pearson United States 25 10.6k 1.7× 7.1k 1.7× 6.6k 1.7× 3.6k 1.2× 1.9k 1.1× 36 14.4k
Pedro Cardoso Finland 45 2.8k 0.4× 2.9k 0.7× 2.9k 0.7× 2.8k 0.9× 2.1k 1.2× 221 7.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Guisan, Antoine, Mathieu Chevalier, Antoine Adde, et al.. (2025). Spatially nested species distribution models (N‐ SDM ): An effective tool to overcome niche truncation for more robust inference and projections. Journal of Ecology. 113(7). 1588–1605. 6 indexed citations
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Adde, Antoine, Yohann Chauvier, Fabian Fopp, et al.. (2025). SDMapCH: a Comprehensive database of >7,500 modelled species habitat suitability maps for Switzerland. Scientific Data. 12(1). 1752–1752.
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Broennimann, Olivier, et al.. (2024). How sensitive are species distribution models to different background point selection strategies? A test with species at various equilibrium levels. Ecological Modelling. 493. 110754–110754. 17 indexed citations
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Chevalier, Mathieu, Olivier Broennimann, & Antoine Guisan. (2024). Climate change may reveal currently unavailable parts of species’ ecological niches. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(7). 1298–1310. 16 indexed citations
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Adde, Antoine, Olivier Broennimann, Juan Ignacio García‐Viñás, et al.. (2024). Spatially‐nested hierarchical species distribution models to overcome niche truncation in national‐scale studies. Ecography. 2025(3). 8 indexed citations
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Adde, Antoine, Fabian Fopp, Philipp Brun, et al.. (2024). Projecting Untruncated Climate Change Effects on Species' Climate Suitability: Insights From an Alpine Country. Global Change Biology. 30(11). e17557–e17557. 6 indexed citations
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Rosche, Christoph, Olivier Broennimann, Jiří Danihelka, et al.. (2024). Herbarium specimens reveal a cryptic invasion of polyploid Centaurea stoebe in Europe. New Phytologist. 245(1). 392–405. 4 indexed citations
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Adde, Antoine, Philipp Brun, Fabian Fopp, et al.. (2023). N‐SDM : a high‐performance computing pipeline for Nested Species Distribution Modelling. Ecography. 2023(6). 25 indexed citations
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Kass, Jamie M., Gonzalo E. Pinilla‐Buitrago, Andrea Paz, et al.. (2023). wallace 2: a shiny app for modeling species niches and distributions redesigned to facilitate expansion via module contributions. Ecography. 2023(3). 51 indexed citations
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Seppey, Christophe V. W., Enrique Lara, Olivier Broennimann, et al.. (2023). Landscape structure is a key driver of soil protist diversity in meadows in the Swiss Alps. Landscape Ecology. 38(4). 949–965. 9 indexed citations
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Broennimann, Olivier, et al.. (2022). Comparing climatic suitability and niche distances to explain populations responses to extreme climatic events. Ecography. 2022(11). 11 indexed citations
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Malard, Lucie, Heidi K. Mod, Nicolas Guex, et al.. (2022). Comparative analysis of diversity and environmental niches of soil bacterial, archaeal, fungal and protist communities reveal niche divergences along environmental gradients in the Alps. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 169. 108674–108674. 59 indexed citations
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Broennimann, Olivier, et al.. (2020). Temporal variability is key to modelling the climatic niche. Diversity and Distributions. 27(3). 473–484. 27 indexed citations
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Collart, Flavien, Olivier Broennimann, Rubén G. Mateo, et al.. (2020). Bryophytes are predicted to lag behind future climate change despite their high dispersal capacities. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5601–5601. 63 indexed citations
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Mateo, Rubén G., Aitor Gastón, Olivier Broennimann, et al.. (2019). Hierarchical species distribution models in support of vegetation conservation at the landscape scale. Journal of Vegetation Science. 30(2). 386–396. 47 indexed citations
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Seppey, Christophe V. W., Olivier Broennimann, Aline Buri, et al.. (2019). Soil protist diversity in the Swiss western Alps is better predicted by topo‐climatic than by edaphic variables. Journal of Biogeography. 47(4). 866–878. 34 indexed citations
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Zemanova, Miriam A., Olivier Broennimann, Antoine Guisan, Eva Knop, & Gerald Heckel. (2018). Slimy invasion: Climatic niche and current and future biogeography of Arion slug invaders. Diversity and Distributions. 24(11). 1627–1640. 25 indexed citations
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Mateo, Rubén G., Olivier Broennimann, Blaise Petitpierre, et al.. (2014). From climatic niche conservatism to spatial predictions: what can invasive mosses tell us?. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège). 2 indexed citations
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Vicente, Joana R., Rui F. Fernandes, Christophe F. Randin, et al.. (2013). Will climate change drive alien invasive plants into areas of high protection value? An improved model-based regional assessment to prioritise the management of invasions. Journal of Environmental Management. 131. 185–195. 89 indexed citations

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