Pierre Meerts

7.5k total citations
141 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Pierre Meerts is a scholar working on Plant Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Pierre Meerts has authored 141 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Plant Science, 56 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 56 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Pierre Meerts's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (53 papers), Plant and animal studies (28 papers) and African Botany and Ecology Studies (23 papers). Pierre Meerts is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (53 papers), Plant and animal studies (28 papers) and African Botany and Ecology Studies (23 papers). Pierre Meerts collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, France and Democratic Republic of the Congo. Pierre Meerts's co-authors include Nicolas Dassonville, Sonia Vanderhoeven, Nathalie Verbruggen, Grégory Mahy, Wolf Gruber, Mylor Ngoy Shutcha, Michel‐Pierre Faucon, Xavier Vekemans, Michel-Pierre Faucon and W. Grüber and has published in prestigious journals such as New Phytologist, Chemosphere and Oecologia.

In The Last Decade

Pierre Meerts

131 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Pierre Meerts Belgium 38 2.4k 1.1k 1.1k 1.1k 481 141 4.1k
Tanguy Jaffré New Caledonia 40 2.3k 0.9× 1.4k 1.2× 2.6k 2.3× 1.2k 1.1× 555 1.2× 153 5.4k
Nishanta Rajakaruna United States 26 1.4k 0.6× 565 0.5× 925 0.8× 1.0k 0.9× 379 0.8× 97 3.2k
José Oswaldo Siqueira Brazil 40 2.9k 1.2× 523 0.5× 597 0.5× 830 0.8× 422 0.9× 192 5.0k
Grégory Mahy Belgium 35 1.6k 0.7× 1.7k 1.5× 1.4k 1.3× 496 0.5× 761 1.6× 190 4.1k
W. H. O. Ernst Netherlands 34 2.8k 1.2× 743 0.7× 731 0.7× 1.1k 1.0× 685 1.4× 105 4.2k
Xin Chen China 38 2.3k 1.0× 486 0.4× 1.1k 1.0× 532 0.5× 668 1.4× 135 4.4k
T. McNeilly United Kingdom 34 2.2k 0.9× 484 0.4× 705 0.6× 338 0.3× 335 0.7× 86 3.1k
Kamal H. Shaltout Egypt 29 1.1k 0.5× 452 0.4× 597 0.5× 525 0.5× 709 1.5× 161 2.6k
Frank Forcella United States 42 4.8k 2.0× 865 0.8× 943 0.9× 344 0.3× 602 1.3× 191 6.3k
Bengt Söderström Sweden 30 1.8k 0.8× 492 0.4× 630 0.6× 250 0.2× 729 1.5× 51 3.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pierre Meerts

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Pierre Meerts. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Pierre Meerts 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 Pierre Meerts. Pierre Meerts is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Meerts, Pierre & Marc S.M. Sosef. (2022). (2911) Proposal to conserve the name Clerodendrum umbellatum (Labiatae) with a conserved type. Taxon. 71(4). 914–915. 1 indexed citations
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Migliore, Jérémy, et al.. (2022). Nuclear ribosomal phylogeny of Brachystegia: new markers for new insights about rain forests and Miombo woodlands evolution. Plant Ecology and Evolution. 155(2). 301–314. 4 indexed citations
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Meerts, Pierre, et al.. (2021). Alien flora of D.R. Congo: improving the checklist with digitised herbarium collections. Biological Invasions. 24(4). 939–954. 6 indexed citations
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Sosef, Marc S.M., Jérôme Degreef, Henry Engledow, & Pierre Meerts. (2021). Clasificación botánica y nomenclatura, una introducción. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations
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Migliore, Jérémy, et al.. (2021). Plastid introgression and evolution of African miombo woodlands: New insights from the plastome‐based phylogeny of Brachystegia trees. Journal of Biogeography. 48(4). 933–946. 15 indexed citations
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Delhaye, Guillaume, et al.. (2020). Interspecific trait integration increases with environmental harshness: A case study along a metal toxicity gradient. Functional Ecology. 34(7). 1428–1437. 26 indexed citations
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Bauman, D.E., et al.. (2020). Phenotypic plasticity, not ecotype differentiation, explains the broad ecological niche of a tree species in African dry woodlands. Environmental and Experimental Botany. 178. 104186–104186.
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Bauman, D.E., et al.. (2019). Trait divergence of woody species in relation to affinity for termite mounds in Upper Katanga (DR Congo). Journal of Vegetation Science. 31(1). 162–172. 6 indexed citations
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Delhaye, Guillaume, et al.. (2019). Plant community assembly along a natural metal gradient in central Africa: Functional and phylogenetic approach. Journal of Vegetation Science. 31(1). 151–161. 8 indexed citations
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Bauman, D.E., et al.. (2018). Edaphic specialization in relation to termite mounds in Katanga (DR Congo): A reciprocal transplant experiment with congeneric tree species. Journal of Vegetation Science. 29(5). 921–932. 4 indexed citations
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Faucon, Michel-Pierre, Gilles Colinet, Petru Jitaru, et al.. (2011). Relation between Cobalt Fractionation and its Accumulation in Metallophytes from South of Central Africa. Mineralogical Magazine. 75(3). 4 indexed citations
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Shutcha, Mylor Ngoy, et al.. (2010). PHYTOSTABILISATION OF COPPER-CONTAMINATED SOIL IN KATANGA: AN EXPERIMENT WITH THREE NATIVE GRASSES AND TWO AMENDMENTS. Dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles). 47 indexed citations
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Dassonville, Nicolas, et al.. (2008). Impacts of alien invasive plants on soil and ecosystem processes in Belgium: lessons from a multispecies approach. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège). 2 indexed citations
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Meerts, Pierre, et al.. (2007). Fallopia ×bohemica est beaucoup plus répandu que F. sachalinensis dans la région de Bruxelles. Dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles). 92. 22–24. 2 indexed citations
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Meerts, Pierre, et al.. (2006). Effect of defoliation on silica accumulation in five tropical fodder grass species in Benin. Dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles). 139. 87–102. 10 indexed citations
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Rossum, Fabienne Van, Xavier Vekemans, Pierre Meerts, Emmanuelle Gratia, & Claude Lefèbvre. (1997). Allozyme variation in relation to ecotypic differentiation and population size in marginal populations of Silene nutans. Heredity. 78(5). 552–560. 52 indexed citations
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Rossum, Fabienne Van, Xavier Vekemans, Pierre Meerts, Emmanuelle Gratia, & Claude Lefèbvre. (1997). Allozyme variation in relation to ecotypic differentiation and population size in marginal populations of Silene nutans. Heredity. 78(5). 552–560. 56 indexed citations
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Meerts, Pierre & Claude Lefèbvre. (1989). Observations génécologiques sur une population hybridée d'Agrostis capillaris L. et A. stolonifera L.. Dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles). 122(2). 161–169. 2 indexed citations

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