Sandrine Pavoine

11.2k total citations · 7 hit papers
119 papers, 7.5k citations indexed

About

Sandrine Pavoine is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sandrine Pavoine has authored 119 papers receiving a total of 7.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 79 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 53 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 51 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Sandrine Pavoine's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (77 papers), Plant and animal studies (45 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (42 papers). Sandrine Pavoine is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (77 papers), Plant and animal studies (45 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (42 papers). Sandrine Pavoine collaborates with scholars based in France, United Kingdom and Italy. Sandrine Pavoine's co-authors include Michael B. Bonsall, Jérôme Sueur, Anne‐Béatrice Dufour, Amandine Gasc, Carlo Ricotta, Stéphane Dray, Stéphanie Duvail, Sophie Gachet, Olivier Hamerlynck and Jeanne Vallet and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Sandrine Pavoine

113 papers receiving 7.3k citations

Hit Papers

A guide to phylogenetic m... 2008 2026 2014 2020 2016 2010 2008 2009 2013 100 200 300 400 500
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. A guide to phylogenetic metrics for conservation, community ecology and macroecology
    2016 597 citations Matthew R. Helmus, Sandrine Pavoine et al. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society profile →
  2. Measuring biodiversity to explain community assembly: a unified approach
    2010 508 citations Sandrine Pavoine, Michael B. Bonsall Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society profile →
  3. Rapid Acoustic Survey for Biodiversity Appraisal
    2008 485 citations Sandrine Pavoine et al. PLoS ONE profile →
  4. On the challenge of treating various types of variables: application for improving the measurement of functional diversity
    2009 474 citations Sandrine Pavoine et al. profile →
  5. Combining the fourth‐corner and the RLQ methods for assessing trait responses to environmental variation
    2013 448 citations Stéphane Dray, Philippe Choler et al. Ecology profile →
  6. Acoustic Indices for Biodiversity Assessment and Landscape Investigation
    2014 360 citations Amandine Gasc, Sandrine Pavoine et al. profile →
  7. Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data with ade4
    2018 281 citations Stéphane Dray, Sandrine Pavoine 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
Sandrine Pavoine France 39 3.5k 3.4k 2.5k 1.6k 1.5k 119 7.5k
Robert M. Ewers United Kingdom 43 5.2k 1.5× 5.3k 1.6× 2.7k 1.1× 2.0k 1.2× 295 0.2× 140 10.9k
Vincent Bretagnolle France 51 5.1k 1.5× 2.0k 0.6× 4.1k 1.7× 828 0.5× 602 0.4× 326 9.2k
C. David L. Orme United Kingdom 38 4.8k 1.4× 4.2k 1.2× 2.5k 1.0× 3.2k 2.0× 209 0.1× 70 9.4k
Martin К. Obrist Switzerland 39 2.5k 0.7× 1.6k 0.5× 3.0k 1.2× 951 0.6× 938 0.6× 99 5.5k
John B. Dunning United States 25 4.1k 1.2× 2.8k 0.8× 1.4k 0.6× 1.0k 0.6× 245 0.2× 64 6.4k
Robert J. Fletcher United States 42 4.5k 1.3× 2.9k 0.9× 1.8k 0.7× 1.4k 0.9× 268 0.2× 195 7.3k
Franz Bairlein Germany 46 9.1k 2.6× 3.5k 1.0× 4.4k 1.8× 4.2k 2.6× 445 0.3× 173 14.0k
Erica Fleishman United States 39 3.2k 0.9× 2.8k 0.8× 1.0k 0.4× 1.8k 1.1× 235 0.2× 148 5.8k
Richard T. Holmes United States 63 10.9k 3.1× 4.6k 1.4× 4.2k 1.7× 2.7k 1.7× 507 0.3× 160 13.2k
Keith C. Hamer United Kingdom 55 6.5k 1.9× 2.9k 0.9× 3.1k 1.2× 1.1k 0.7× 254 0.2× 166 9.2k

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All Works

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Garnier, Éric, et al.. (2025). Defining biodiversity data. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 40(8). 731–735.
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Pavoine, Sandrine. (2025). The rich-Rao quadratic entropy. Ecological Indicators. 182. 114512–114512.
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Pavoine, Sandrine & Carlo Ricotta. (2024). Combining extinction probability and functional or phylogenetic distinctiveness to define conservation priorities. Biological Conservation. 295. 110657–110657. 2 indexed citations
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Pavoine, Sandrine & Carlo Ricotta. (2023). Identifying functionally distinctive and threatened species. Biological Conservation. 284. 110170–110170. 7 indexed citations
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Ricotta, Carlo, János Podani, Dénes Schmera, et al.. (2023). The ternary diagram of functional diversity. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14(5). 1168–1174. 11 indexed citations
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Ricotta, Carlo, Evsey Kosman, Fabien Laroche, & Sandrine Pavoine. (2021). Beta redundancy for functional ecology. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 12(6). 1062–1069. 6 indexed citations
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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
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Pavoine, Sandrine & Carlo Ricotta. (2021). On the relationships between rarity, uniqueness, distinctiveness, originality and functional/phylogenetic diversity. Biological Conservation. 263. 109356–109356. 11 indexed citations
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Robuchon, Marine, Daniel P. Faith, Romain Julliard, et al.. (2019). Species splitting increases estimates of evolutionary history at risk. Biological Conservation. 235. 27–35. 19 indexed citations
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Grandcolas, Philippe, et al.. (2019). Reconciling the concepts and measures of diversity, rarity and originality in ecology and evolution. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 94(4). 1317–1337. 59 indexed citations
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Pavoine, Sandrine, Michael B. Bonsall, Amaël Dupaix, Ute Jacob, & Carlo Ricotta. (2017). From phylogenetic to functional originality: Guide through indices and new developments. Ecological Indicators. 82. 196–205. 36 indexed citations
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Gasc, Amandine, et al.. (2015). Acoustic indices for biodiversity assessments: Analyses of bias based on simulated bird assemblages and recommendations for field surveys. Biological Conservation. 191. 306–312. 101 indexed citations
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Ricotta, Carlo, Giovanni Bacaro, & Sandrine Pavoine. (2014). A cautionary note on some phylogenetic dissimilarity measures. Journal of Plant Ecology. 8(1). 12–16. 8 indexed citations
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Pavoine, Sandrine, Michel Baguette, Virginie M. Stevens, et al.. (2014). Life history traits, but not phylogeny, drive compositional patterns in a butterfly metacommunity. Ecology. 95(12). 3304–3313. 32 indexed citations
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Clavel, Joanne, Nicolas Poulet, Emmanuelle Porcher, et al.. (2013). A New Freshwater Biodiversity Indicator Based on Fish Community Assemblages. PLoS ONE. 8(11). e80968–e80968. 13 indexed citations
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Dray, Stéphane, Philippe Choler, Sylvain Dolédec, et al.. (2013). Combining the fourth‐corner and the RLQ methods for assessing trait responses to environmental variation. Ecology. 95(1). 14–21. 448 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mason, Norman W. H., Francesco de Bello, David Mouillot, Sandrine Pavoine, & Stéphane Dray. (2012). A guide for using functional diversity indices to reveal changes in assembly processes along ecological gradients. Journal of Vegetation Science. 24(5). 794–806. 343 indexed citations
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Pavoine, Sandrine, Michel Baguette, & Michael B. Bonsall. (2010). Decomposition of trait diversity among the nodes of a phylogenetic tree. Ecological Monographs. 80(3). 485–507. 68 indexed citations

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