Sébastien Brosse

10.5k total citations · 5 hit papers
142 papers, 7.7k citations indexed

About

Sébastien Brosse is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Aquatic Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Sébastien Brosse has authored 142 papers receiving a total of 7.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 111 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 83 papers in Ecology and 45 papers in Aquatic Science. Recurrent topics in Sébastien Brosse's work include Fish Ecology and Management Studies (95 papers), Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (46 papers) and Fish Biology and Ecology Studies (44 papers). Sébastien Brosse is often cited by papers focused on Fish Ecology and Management Studies (95 papers), Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (46 papers) and Fish Biology and Ecology Studies (44 papers). Sébastien Brosse collaborates with scholars based in France, French Guiana and China. Sébastien Brosse's co-authors include Sébastien Villéger, Gaël Grenouillet, Thierry Oberdorff, Olivier Beauchard, Fabien Leprieur, Sovan Lek, Simon Blanchet, Pablo A. Tedesco, Bernard Hugueny and Aurèle Toussaint and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Sébastien Brosse

136 papers receiving 7.5k 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.

  1. How many dimensions are needed to accurately assess functional diversity? A pragmatic approach for assessing the quality of functional spaces
    2015 385 citations Gaël Grenouillet, Sébastien Brosse et al. Global Ecology and Biogeography profile →
  2. Decomposing functional β-diversity reveals that low functional β-diversity is driven by low functional turnover in European fish assemblages
    2013 372 citations Sébastien Villéger, Gaël Grenouillet et al. Global Ecology and Biogeography profile →
  3. Functional ecology of fish: current approaches and future challenges
    2017 358 citations Sébastien Villéger, Sébastien Brosse et al. profile →
  4. Human impacts on global freshwater fish biodiversity
    2021 352 citations Guohuan Su, Jun Xu et al. Science profile →
  5. Freshwater Fish Invasions: A Comprehensive Review
    2022 97 citations Sébastien Brosse et al. profile →

Peers

Sébastien Brosse
Emili García‐Berthou Spain
Gaël Grenouillet France
Nicholas E. Mandrak Canada
Fabien Leprieur France
Bernard Hugueny France
Gordon H. Copp United Kingdom
Thierry Oberdorff France
Alexander S. Flecker United States
Jansen Zuanon Brazil
Benjamin H. Letcher United States
Emili García‐Berthou Spain
Sébastien Brosse
Citations per year, relative to Sébastien Brosse Sébastien Brosse (= 1×) peers Emili García‐Berthou

Countries citing papers authored by Sébastien Brosse

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sébastien Brosse

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sébastien Brosse

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Brosse, Sébastien, et al.. (2026). Fishing ban halts seven decades of biodiversity decline in the Yangtze River. Science. 391(6786). 719–723.
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Lopes‐Lima, Manuel, Jérôme Murienne, Loïc Pellissier, et al.. (2025). No attenuation of fish and mammal biodiversity declines in the Guiana Shield. The Science of The Total Environment. 971. 179021–179021. 1 indexed citations
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Brosse, Sébastien, et al.. (2025). Global Patterns and Determinants of Multiple Facets of Freshwater Fishes Beta Diversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 34(12).
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Lopes‐Lima, Manuel, Arnaud Lyet, Vincent Prié, et al.. (2025). A stakeholder empowerment framework to advance eDNA biodiversity monitoring in Africa: Perspectives from Namibia. One Earth. 8(4). 101244–101244. 3 indexed citations
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Brosse, Sébastien, et al.. (2024). Evaluating the eDNA spatial signal in natural populations and its application for the monitoring of the threatened Harttiella (Siluriformes, Loricariidae). Limnology and Oceanography Methods. 22(9). 660–669. 2 indexed citations
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Covain, Raphaël, et al.. (2024). Monitoring the threatened Harttiella (Siluriformes, Loricariidae) with environmental DNA: A comparison between metabarcoding and targeted digital PCR. Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 34(2). 3 indexed citations
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Su, Guohuan, et al.. (2024). Social benefits and environmental performance of aquaculture need to improve worldwide. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 2 indexed citations
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Murienne, Jérôme, Sébastien Brosse, Sébastien Villéger, et al.. (2023). Inferring functional diversity from environmental DNA metabarcoding. Environmental DNA. 5(5). 934–944. 11 indexed citations
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Cantera, Isabel, Céline Jezequel, Tony Déjean, et al.. (2022). Low level of anthropization linked to harsh vertebrate biodiversity declines in Amazonia. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3290–3290. 32 indexed citations
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Cantera, Isabel, Tony Déjean, Jérôme Murienne, et al.. (2021). Characterizing the spatial signal of environmental DNA in river systems using a community ecology approach. Molecular Ecology Resources. 22(4). 1274–1283. 33 indexed citations
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Carmona, Carlos P., Riin Tamme, Meelis Pärtel, et al.. (2021). Erosion of global functional diversity across the tree of life. Science Advances. 7(13). 137 indexed citations
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Herrera‐R, Guido A., Thierry Oberdorff, Elizabeth P. Anderson, et al.. (2020). The combined effects of climate change and river fragmentation on the distribution of Andean Amazon fishes. Global Change Biology. 26(10). 5509–5523. 59 indexed citations
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Tedesco, Pablo A., Olivier Beauchard, Rémy Bigorne, et al.. (2017). A global database on freshwater fish species occurrence in drainage basins. Scientific Data. 4(1). 170141–170141. 154 indexed citations
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Villéger, Sébastien, Gaël Grenouillet, & Sébastien Brosse. (2013). Decomposing functional β-diversity reveals that low functional β-diversity is driven by low functional turnover in European fish assemblages. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 22(6). 671–681. 372 indexed citations breakdown →
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Blanchet, Simon, Gaël Grenouillet, Olivier Beauchard, et al.. (2010). Non‐native species disrupt the worldwide patterns of freshwater fish body size: implications for Bergmann’s rule. Ecology Letters. 13(4). 421–431. 92 indexed citations
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Gevrey, Muriel, et al.. (2010). Patterning and predicting aquatic insect richness in four West-African coastal rivers using artificial neural networks. Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems. 6–6. 8 indexed citations
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Leprieur, Fabien, et al.. (2006). Hydrological disturbance benefits a native fish at the expense of an exotic fish. Journal of Applied Ecology. 43(5). 930–939. 11 indexed citations
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Brosse, Sébastien, Sovan Lek, & Colin R. Townsend. (2001). Abundance, diversity, and structure of freshwater invertebrates and fish communities: An artificial neural network approach. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 35(1). 135–145. 30 indexed citations

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