Pierre Couteron

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 999 citations indexed

About

Pierre Couteron is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Environmental Engineering and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Pierre Couteron has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 999 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 11 papers in Environmental Engineering and 10 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Pierre Couteron's work include Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (11 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (10 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (6 papers). Pierre Couteron is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (11 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (10 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (6 papers). Pierre Couteron collaborates with scholars based in France, Belgium and Cameroon. Pierre Couteron's co-authors include Nicolas Barbier, Raphaël Pélissier, Christophe Proisy, Edwige Bellier, Pierre Legendre, Anne‐Béatrice Dufour, Einar Heegaard, F. Guillaume Blanchet, Pedro R. Peres‐Neto and François Munoz and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Pierre Couteron

17 papers receiving 984 citations

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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.

Community ecology in the age of multivariate multiscale spatial analysis

2012 519 citations Stéphane Dray, Raphaël Pélissier et al. Ecological Monographs profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pierre Couteron France	14	560	526	310	283	150	18	999
Arthur Compin France	16	671 1.2×	585 1.1×	110 0.4×	112 0.4×	159 1.1×	49	1.2k
Paulo Olivas United States	15	547 1.0×	489 0.9×	98 0.3×	381 1.3×	199 1.3×	29	1.2k
Jérôme Chave France	10	216 0.4×	768 1.5×	103 0.3×	414 1.5×	115 0.8×	11	1.1k
Jonathan A. Walter United States	17	563 1.0×	404 0.8×	71 0.2×	298 1.1×	95 0.6×	61	950
Jesper Erenskjold Moeslund Denmark	14	350 0.6×	414 0.8×	146 0.5×	243 0.9×	212 1.4×	29	829
Petra Šímová Czechia	21	637 1.1×	333 0.6×	178 0.6×	459 1.6×	372 2.5×	40	1.1k
Thomas E. Dilts United States	19	485 0.9×	361 0.7×	68 0.2×	426 1.5×	245 1.6×	41	952
Kevin E. McCluney United States	17	544 1.0×	472 0.9×	55 0.2×	259 0.9×	136 0.9×	34	1.1k
Pavel V. Krestov Russia	17	257 0.5×	423 0.8×	118 0.4×	278 1.0×	88 0.6×	54	942
Paulo Alves Portugal	17	324 0.6×	290 0.6×	80 0.3×	314 1.1×	285 1.9×	40	797

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pierre Couteron

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18 of 18 papers shown

Lescuyer, Guillaume, et al.. (2025). Contribution of artisanal chainsaw milling to forest degradation in Central Africa. Forests Trees and Livelihoods. 35(1). 42–58.

Barbier, Nicolas, Guillaume Cornu, Pierre Couteron, et al.. (2024). Combining satellite and field data reveals Congo's forest types structure, functioning and composition. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. 11(2). 200–220. 1 indexed citations

Dumont, Yves, et al.. (2020). A minimalistic model of vegetation physiognomies in the savanna biome. Ecological Modelling. 440. 109381–109381. 9 indexed citations

Bourgoin, Clément, Julie Betbeder, Pierre Couteron, et al.. (2020). UAV-based canopy textures assess changes in forest structure from long-term degradation. Ecological Indicators. 115. 106386–106386. 39 indexed citations

Blanchard, Élodie, Philippe Birnbaum, Thomas Ibanez, et al.. (2016). Contrasted allometries between stem diameter, crown area, and tree height in five tropical biogeographic areas. Trees. 30(6). 1953–1968. 58 indexed citations

Dumont, Yves, et al.. (2016). A minimalistic model of tree–grass interactions using impulsive differential equations and non-linear feedback functions of grass biomass onto fire-induced tree mortality. Mathematics and Computers in Simulation. 133. 265–297. 13 indexed citations

Guitet, Stéphane, Bruno Hérault, Quentin Molto, Olivier Brunaux, & Pierre Couteron. (2015). Spatial Structure of Above-Ground Biomass Limits Accuracy of Carbon Mapping in Rainforest but Large Scale Forest Inventories Can Help to Overcome. PLoS ONE. 10(9). e0138456–e0138456. 27 indexed citations

Barbier, Nicolas & Pierre Couteron. (2015). Attenuating the bidirectional texture variation of satellite images of tropical forest canopies. Remote Sensing of Environment. 171. 245–260. 16 indexed citations

Blanchard, Élodie, Philippe Birnbaum, Christophe Proisy, et al.. (2015). Prédire la structure des forêts tropicales humides calédoniennes: analyse texturale de la canopée sur des images Pléiades. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 141–147. 2 indexed citations

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Bastin, Jean‐François, Nicolas Barbier, Pierre Couteron, et al.. (2014). Aboveground biomass mapping of African forest mosaics using canopy texture analysis: toward a regional approach. Ecological Applications. 24(8). 1984–2001. 67 indexed citations

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Antin, Cécile, et al.. (2013). Crown allometries are less responsive than stem allometry to tree size and habitat variations in an Indian monsoon forest. Trees. 27(5). 1485–1495. 48 indexed citations

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Jia, Zhou, Christophe Proisy, Xavier Descombes, et al.. (2012). Mapping local density of young Eucalyptus plantations by individual tree detection in high spatial resolution satellite images. Forest Ecology and Management. 301. 129–141. 38 indexed citations

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Allouis, T., Sylvie Durrieu, & Pierre Couteron. (2012). A New Method for Incorporating Hillslope Effects to Improve Canopy-Height Estimates From Large-Footprint LIDAR Waveforms. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 9(4). 730–734. 14 indexed citations

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Dray, Stéphane, Raphaël Pélissier, Pierre Couteron, et al.. (2012). Community ecology in the age of multivariate multiscale spatial analysis. Ecological Monographs. 82(3). 257–275. 519 indexed citations breakdown →

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Barbier, Nicolas, Pierre Couteron, Jean‐Philippe Gastellu‐Etchegorry, & Christophe Proisy. (2011). Linking canopy images to forest structural parameters: potential of a modeling framework. Annals of Forest Science. 69(2). 305–311. 31 indexed citations

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Jia, Zhou, Christophe Proisy, Xavier Descombes, et al.. (2010). Tree crown detection in high resolution optical and lidar images of tropical forest. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7824. 78240Q–78240Q. 15 indexed citations

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Barbier, Nicolas, Christophe Proisy, Cédric Vega, Daniel Sabatier, & Pierre Couteron. (2010). Bidirectional texture function of high resolution optical images of tropical forest: An approach using LiDAR hillshade simulations. Remote Sensing of Environment. 115(1). 167–179. 29 indexed citations

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Barbier, Nicolas, Pierre Couteron, Christophe Proisy, Yadvinder Malhi, & Jean‐Philippe Gastellu‐Etchegorry. (2009). The variation of apparent crown size and canopy heterogeneity across lowland Amazonian forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 19(1). 72–84. 73 indexed citations

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