Patrick Venail

9.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
27 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Patrick Venail is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick Venail has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 11 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 10 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Patrick Venail's work include Plant and animal studies (14 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (9 papers) and Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (6 papers). Patrick Venail is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (14 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (9 papers) and Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (6 papers). Patrick Venail collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and France. Patrick Venail's co-authors include Anita Narwani, Bradley J. Cardinale, David Tilman, Georgina M. Mace, Anne Larigauderie, Shahid Naeem, J. Emmett Duffy, Gretchen C. Daily, Charles Perrings and Ann P. Kinzig and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, PLoS ONE and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Patrick Venail

26 papers receiving 6.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

2012 4.9k citations Bradley J. Cardinale, J. Emmett Duffy et al. Nature profile →
Defining and measuring ecological specialization

2009 580 citations Vincent Devictor, Joanne Clavel et al. Journal of Applied Ecology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Patrick Venail Switzerland	18	2.5k	2.5k	2.0k	1.5k	1.0k	27	6.3k
Anita Narwani Switzerland	22	2.4k 1.0×	2.3k 0.9×	2.0k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	890 0.9×	43	6.2k
Valerie T. Eviner United States	27	2.6k 1.0×	2.8k 1.1×	1.8k 0.9×	1.4k 0.9×	671 0.7×	59	6.9k
Julian Reid Australia	17	2.4k 0.9×	2.7k 1.1×	1.3k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	732 0.7×	30	6.1k
Lars Gamfeldt Sweden	26	3.3k 1.3×	2.8k 1.1×	2.7k 1.4×	1.4k 0.9×	735 0.7×	39	7.1k
Justin P. Wright United States	37	3.6k 1.4×	3.5k 1.4×	1.9k 0.9×	1.8k 1.2×	753 0.7×	81	8.1k
Anne Larigauderie United States	22	2.7k 1.1×	2.6k 1.1×	3.6k 1.8×	1.4k 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	30	8.0k
Jarrett E. K. Byrnes United States	27	2.6k 1.0×	3.3k 1.3×	2.5k 1.2×	1.4k 0.9×	802 0.8×	59	7.1k
Clarence Lehman United States	23	4.3k 1.7×	3.4k 1.4×	2.5k 1.3×	2.3k 1.5×	878 0.9×	45	9.4k
Amy J. Symstad United States	22	4.2k 1.7×	3.2k 1.3×	2.6k 1.3×	2.2k 1.4×	859 0.8×	50	7.8k
Salit Kark Israel	44	2.0k 0.8×	3.6k 1.4×	2.5k 1.2×	961 0.6×	1.3k 1.3×	121	6.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Patrick Venail

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Fields of papers citing papers by Patrick Venail

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Patrick Venail

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20 of 20 papers shown

Venail, Patrick, et al.. (2025). Hydrological Connectivity Enhances Fish Biodiversity in Amazonian Mining Ponds: Insights From eDNA and Traditional Sampling. Molecular Ecology. 34(11). e17784–e17784.

Venail, Patrick, et al.. (2024). Assessing fish diversity in abandoned mining ponds in Madre de Dios, Peru, using environmental DNA. Environmental DNA. 6(1). 3 indexed citations

Santa‐Maria, Mónica C., et al.. (2023). Evaluation of planktonic cyanobacteria in Peruvian freshwater lentic water bodies: prevalence and regulatory framework to aid policy making. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 195(7). 852–852. 2 indexed citations

Prinzing, Andréas, Sandrine Pavoine, Hervé Jactel, et al.. (2021). Disturbed habitats locally reduce the signal of deep evolutionary history in functional traits of plants. New Phytologist. 232(4). 1849–1862. 6 indexed citations

Manoylov, Kalina M., et al.. (2021). Highest Composition Dissimilarity among Phytoplankton Communities at Intermediate Environmental Distances across High-Altitude Tropical Lakes. Water. 13(10). 1378–1378. 1 indexed citations

Ibelings, Bastiaan W., et al.. (2019). Phytoplankton Diversity Relates Negatively with Productivity in Tropical High-Altitude Lakes from Southern Ecuador. Sustainability. 11(19). 5235–5235. 8 indexed citations

Шаров, А. Н., et al.. (2019). Diurnal variation in the convection-driven vertical distribution of phytoplankton under ice and after ice-off in large Lake Onego (Russia). Inland Waters. 9(2). 193–204. 21 indexed citations

Liu, Xiang, et al.. (2016). Functional dissimilarity, not phylogenetic relatedness, determines interspecific interactions among plants in the Tibetan alpine meadows. Oikos. 126(3). 381–388. 18 indexed citations

Narwani, Anita, Blake Matthews, Jeremy W. Fox, & Patrick Venail. (2015). Using phylogenetics in community assembly and ecosystem functioning research. Functional Ecology. 29(5). 589–591. 40 indexed citations

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Alexandrou, Markos A., Bradley J. Cardinale, John D. Hall, et al.. (2014). Evolutionary relatedness does not predict competition and co-occurrence in natural or experimental communities of green algae. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 282(1799). 20141745–20141745. 27 indexed citations

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Venail, Patrick, Markos A. Alexandrou, Todd H. Oakley, & Bradley J. Cardinale. (2013). Shared ancestry influences community stability by altering competitive interactions: evidence from a laboratory microcosm experiment using freshwater green algae. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 280(1768). 20131548–20131548. 12 indexed citations

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Barbosa, Camilo, et al.. (2013). Co-Evolutionary Dynamics of the Bacteria Vibrio sp. CV1 and Phages V1G, V1P1, and V1P2: Implications for Phage Therapy. Microbial Ecology. 66(4). 897–905. 19 indexed citations

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Venail, Patrick & Martha J. Vives. (2013). Phylogenetic distance and species richness interactively affect the productivity of bacterial communities. Ecology. 94(11). 2529–2536. 30 indexed citations

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Venail, Patrick & Martha J. Vives. (2013). Positive Effects of Bacterial Diversity on Ecosystem Functioning Driven by Complementarity Effects in a Bioremediation Context. PLoS ONE. 8(9). e72561–e72561. 18 indexed citations

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Bouvier, Thierry, Patrick Venail, Thomas Pommier, et al.. (2012). Contrasted Effects of Diversity and Immigration on Ecological Insurance in Marine Bacterioplankton Communities. PLoS ONE. 7(6). e37620–e37620. 17 indexed citations

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Cardinale, Bradley J., J. Emmett Duffy, Andrew Gonzalez, et al.. (2012). Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity. Nature. 486(7401). 59–67. 4891 indexed citations breakdown →

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Venail, Patrick, Oliver Kaltz, Isabelle Olivieri, Thomas Pommier, & Nicolas Mouquet. (2011). Diversification in temporally heterogeneous environments: effect of the grain in experimental bacterial populations. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 24(11). 2485–2495. 23 indexed citations

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Gravel, Dominique, Thomas Bell, Claire Barbera, et al.. (2010). Experimental niche evolution alters the strength of the diversity–productivity relationship. Nature. 469(7328). 89–92. 163 indexed citations

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Devictor, Vincent, Joanne Clavel, Romain Julliard, et al.. (2009). Defining and measuring ecological specialization. Journal of Applied Ecology. 47(1). 15–25. 580 indexed citations breakdown →

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Venail, Patrick, R. Craig MacLean, Thierry Bouvier, et al.. (2008). Diversity and productivity peak at intermediate dispersal rate in evolving metacommunities. Nature. 452(7184). 210–214. 137 indexed citations

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