Raphaël Pélissier

9.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
73 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Raphaël Pélissier is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Raphaël Pélissier has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 25 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 24 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Raphaël Pélissier's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (37 papers), Forest ecology and management (29 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (16 papers). Raphaël Pélissier is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (37 papers), Forest ecology and management (29 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (16 papers). Raphaël Pélissier collaborates with scholars based in France, India and United States. Raphaël Pélissier's co-authors include François Goreaud, Jean‐Pierre Pascal, Pierre Couteron, Stéphane Dray, Pierre Couteron, François Munoz, Nicolas Barbier, Pierre Ploton, Maxime Réjou‐Méchain and Daniel Sabatier and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Raphaël Pélissier

72 papers receiving 3.6k 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.

Community ecology in the age of multivariate multiscale spatial analysis

2012 519 citations Raphaël Pélissier, Pierre Couteron et al. profile →
Spatial validation reveals poor predictive performance of large-scale ecological mapping models

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

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Raphaël Pélissier France	31	2.2k	1.3k	1.2k	823	711	73	3.8k
Ghislain Vieilledent France	29	1.9k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	1.6k 1.3×	769 0.9×	730 1.0×	54	3.5k
R. Flint Hughes United States	35	2.2k 1.0×	2.0k 1.6×	1.8k 1.5×	869 1.1×	569 0.8×	61	4.3k
Stephen H. Roxburgh Australia	33	2.2k 1.0×	1.3k 1.1×	1.8k 1.5×	348 0.4×	866 1.2×	110	4.0k
Flávio Jorge Ponzoni Brazil	14	1.3k 0.6×	1.6k 1.3×	1.3k 1.0×	327 0.4×	1.1k 1.5×	62	3.9k
Sylvie Gourlet‐Fleury France	31	1.8k 0.8×	956 0.8×	1.8k 1.4×	526 0.6×	497 0.7×	107	3.5k
Stephan Getzin Germany	24	1.6k 0.7×	795 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	404 0.5×	561 0.8×	42	2.5k
Andreas Huth Germany	42	3.2k 1.4×	1.8k 1.4×	3.2k 2.6×	905 1.1×	840 1.2×	128	6.0k
Kerstin Wiegand Germany	37	3.0k 1.4×	2.1k 1.6×	2.5k 2.0×	555 0.7×	1.2k 1.7×	99	5.7k
Joseph Mascaro United States	32	2.2k 1.0×	1.8k 1.4×	1.7k 1.4×	1.8k 2.2×	465 0.7×	45	4.3k
Tommaso Jucker United Kingdom	32	2.1k 1.0×	990 0.8×	1.7k 1.4×	602 0.7×	435 0.6×	74	3.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Raphaël Pélissier

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Raphaël Pélissier

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20 of 20 papers shown

Pouteau, Robin, Charles Doumenge, Terry Brncic, et al.. (2024). The puzzling ecology of African Marantaceae forests. American Journal of Botany. 111(4). e16320–e16320. 2 indexed citations

Réjou‐Méchain, Maxime, Sylvie Gourlet‐Fleury, Frédéric Mortier, et al.. (2024). Evolutionary diversity impacts tropical forest biomass and productivity through disturbance‐mediated ecological pathways. Journal of Ecology. 112(10). 2344–2358. 4 indexed citations

Vieilledent, Ghislain, Adam Thomas Clark, Benoı̂t Courbaud, et al.. (2024). Beyond variance: simple random distributions are not a good proxy for intraspecific variability in systems with environmental structure. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 1 indexed citations

Maréchaux, Isabelle, Adam Thomas Clark, James S. Clark, et al.. (2023). Rethinking the nature of intraspecific variability and its consequences on species coexistence. Ecology and Evolution. 13(3). e9860–e9860. 7 indexed citations

Féret, Jean‐Baptiste, et al.. (2022). Exploring the link between spectral variance and upper canopy taxonomic diversity in a tropical forest: influence of spectral processing and feature selection. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. 9(2). 235–250. 14 indexed citations

Rounsevell, Mark, Almut Arneth, Calum Brown, et al.. (2021). Identifying uncertainties in scenarios and models of socio-ecological systems in support of decision-making. One Earth. 4(7). 967–985. 54 indexed citations

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 →

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

Tripathi, Nitin Kumar, Wirong Chanthorn, Warren Y. Brockelman, et al.. (2020). Forest aboveground biomass stock and resilience in a tropical landscape of Thailand. Biogeosciences. 17(1). 121–134. 27 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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Courbaud, Benoı̂t, et al.. (2015). Characterizing Tropical Tree Species Growth Strategies: Learning from Inter-Individual Variability and Scale Invariance. PLoS ONE. 10(3). e0117028–e0117028. 15 indexed citations

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Allié, Élodie, Raphaël Pélissier, Julien Engel, et al.. (2015). Pervasive Local-Scale Tree-Soil Habitat Association in a Tropical Forest Community. PLoS ONE. 10(11). e0141488–e0141488. 46 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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Munoz, François, et al.. (2013). Do Spatially-Implicit Estimates of Neutral Migration Comply with Seed Dispersal Data in Tropical Forests?. PLoS ONE. 8(8). e72497–e72497. 5 indexed citations

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Nath, Cheryl D., Anaïs Boura, Dario De Franceschi, & Raphaël Pélissier. (2012). Assessing the utility of direct and indirect methods for estimating tropical tree age in the Western Ghats, India. Trees. 26(3). 1017–1029. 10 indexed citations

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Couteron, Pierre, Nicolas Barbier, Christophe Proisy, Raphaël Pélissier, & Grégoire Vincent. (2012). Linking remote-sensing information to tropical forest structure : the crucial role of modelling. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 5 indexed citations

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Ploton, Pierre, et al.. (2011). Assessing aboveground tropical forest biomass using Google Earth canopy images. Ecological Applications. 22(3). 993–1003. 81 indexed citations

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Oddou‐Muratorio, Sylvie, Brigitte Demesure‐Musch, Raphaël Pélissier, & Pierre‐Henri Gouyon. (2004). Impacts of gene flow and logging history on the local genetic structure of a scattered tree species,Sorbus torminalisL. Crantz. Molecular Ecology. 13(12). 3689–3702. 57 indexed citations

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Goreaud, François & Raphaël Pélissier. (1999). On explicit formulas of edge effect correction for Ripley' s K-function. 19 indexed citations

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Pélissier, Raphaël & Bernard Riéra. (1993). Forest dynamics over ten years in a dense humid forest in French Guiana. Revue d Écologie (La Terre et La Vie). 48(1). 21–33. 4 indexed citations

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