Simone Fontana

968 total citations
22 papers, 706 citations indexed

About

Simone Fontana is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Simone Fontana has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 706 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 12 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 8 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Simone Fontana's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (13 papers), Plant and animal studies (12 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (8 papers). Simone Fontana is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (13 papers), Plant and animal studies (12 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (8 papers). Simone Fontana collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and Netherlands. Simone Fontana's co-authors include Marco Moretti, Francesco Pomati, Fabio Bontadina, Thomas Sattler, Mridul K. Thomas, Marta Reyes, Owen L. Petchey, David Frey, Michael Kehoe and Francesco de Bello and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Ecology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Simone Fontana

22 papers receiving 696 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Simone Fontana Switzerland 14 286 256 218 200 119 22 706
Marcin R. Penk Ireland 9 237 0.8× 393 1.5× 93 0.4× 152 0.8× 71 0.6× 25 613
Paula Sardiña Argentina 13 155 0.5× 334 1.3× 61 0.3× 194 1.0× 90 0.8× 16 581
Massimo Migliorini Italy 17 228 0.8× 255 1.0× 402 1.8× 111 0.6× 66 0.6× 31 783
Nicole L. Kinlock United States 10 242 0.8× 171 0.7× 199 0.9× 141 0.7× 92 0.8× 17 548
Gillian L. Rapson New Zealand 15 487 1.7× 337 1.3× 279 1.3× 191 1.0× 124 1.0× 37 856
Kazimierz Więski United States 12 238 0.8× 428 1.7× 209 1.0× 92 0.5× 46 0.4× 21 673
Andrei S. Zaitsev Russia 11 232 0.8× 228 0.9× 316 1.4× 127 0.6× 98 0.8× 20 624
Félix Picazo Spain 17 215 0.8× 428 1.7× 116 0.5× 91 0.5× 108 0.9× 34 666
Isabelle Gounand Switzerland 14 359 1.3× 575 2.2× 236 1.1× 183 0.9× 158 1.3× 27 918
Andros T. Gianuca Brazil 13 303 1.1× 366 1.4× 133 0.6× 81 0.4× 101 0.8× 22 609

Countries citing papers authored by Simone Fontana

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Fields of papers citing papers by Simone Fontana

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simone Fontana

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Simone Fontana. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Simone Fontana 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 Simone Fontana. Simone Fontana 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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Casanelles‐Abella, Joan, et al.. (2023). Spatial mismatch between wild bee diversity hotspots and protected areas. Conservation Biology. 37(4). e14082–e14082. 10 indexed citations
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He, Peng, Simone Fontana, Chengcang Ma, et al.. (2022). Using leaf traits to explain species co-existence and its consequences for primary productivity across a forest-steppe ecotone. The Science of The Total Environment. 859(Pt 1). 160139–160139. 9 indexed citations
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Barabás, György, Jürg W. Spaak, Simone Fontana, et al.. (2022). Measuring individual‐level trait diversity: a critical assessment of methods. Oikos. 2023(4). 2 indexed citations
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Casanelles‐Abella, Joan, Simone Fontana, Bertrand Fournier, David Frey, & Marco Moretti. (2022). Low resource availability drives feeding niche partitioning between wild bees and honeybees in a European city. Ecological Applications. 33(1). e2727–e2727. 21 indexed citations
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Moretti, Marco, Simone Fontana, Kelly A. Carscadden, & J. Scott MacIvor. (2021). Reproductive trait differences drive offspring production in urban cavity‐nesting bees and wasps. Ecology and Evolution. 11(15). 9932–9948. 5 indexed citations
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Fontana, Simone, Sergio Rasmann, Francesco de Bello, Francesco Pomati, & Marco Moretti. (2021). Reconciling trait based perspectives along a trait‐integration continuum. Ecology. 102(10). e03472–e03472. 20 indexed citations
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Fontana, Simone, Mridul K. Thomas, Marta Reyes, & Francesco Pomati. (2019). Light limitation increases multidimensional trait evenness in phytoplankton populations. The ISME Journal. 13(5). 1159–1167. 25 indexed citations
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He, Peng, Simone Fontana, Jordi Sardans, et al.. (2019). The biogeochemical niche shifts of Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica along an environmental gradient. Environmental and Experimental Botany. 167. 103825–103825. 21 indexed citations
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Fontana, Simone, Matty P. Berg, & Marco Moretti. (2019). Intraspecific niche partitioning in macrodetritivores enhances mixed leaf litter decomposition. Functional Ecology. 33(12). 2391–2401. 11 indexed citations
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Frey, David, et al.. (2019). Urban bumblebees are smaller and more phenotypically diverse than their rural counterparts. Journal of Animal Ecology. 88(10). 1522–1533. 56 indexed citations
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Thomas, Mridul K., Simone Fontana, Marta Reyes, Michael Kehoe, & Francesco Pomati. (2018). The predictability of a lake phytoplankton community, over time‐scales of hours to years. Ecology Letters. 21(5). 619–628. 60 indexed citations
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Thomas, Mridul K., Simone Fontana, Marta Reyes, & Francesco Pomati. (2018). Quantifying cell densities and biovolumes of phytoplankton communities and functional groups using scanning flow cytometry, machine learning and unsupervised clustering. PLoS ONE. 13(5). e0196225–e0196225. 25 indexed citations
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Ellers, Jacintha, et al.. (2018). Diversity in form and function: Vertical distribution of soil fauna mediates multidimensional trait variation. Journal of Animal Ecology. 87(4). 933–944. 41 indexed citations
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Fontana, Simone, Xin Sui, Arthur Geßler, et al.. (2018). Scale dependent responses of pine reproductive traits to experimental and natural precipitation gradients. Environmental and Experimental Botany. 156. 62–73. 9 indexed citations
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Fontana, Simone, et al.. (2017). Individual-level trait diversity predicts phytoplankton community properties better than species richness or evenness. The ISME Journal. 12(2). 356–366. 56 indexed citations
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Krismer, Jasmin, Manu Tamminen, Simone Fontana, Renato Zenobi, & Anita Narwani. (2016). Single-cell mass spectrometry reveals the importance of genetic diversity and plasticity for phenotypic variation in nitrogen-limited Chlamydomonas. The ISME Journal. 11(4). 988–998. 23 indexed citations
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Fontana, Simone, Owen L. Petchey, & Francesco Pomati. (2015). Individual‐level trait diversity concepts and indices to comprehensively describe community change in multidimensional trait space. Functional Ecology. 30(5). 808–818. 53 indexed citations
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Fontana, Simone, Jukka Jokela, & Francesco Pomati. (2014). Opportunities and challenges in deriving phytoplankton diversity measures from individual trait-based data obtained by scanning flow-cytometry. Frontiers in Microbiology. 5. 324–324. 19 indexed citations
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Moretti, Marco, Francesco de Bello, Sébastien Ibanez, et al.. (2013). Linking traits between plants and invertebrate herbivores to track functional effects of land‐use changes. Journal of Vegetation Science. 24(5). 949–962. 65 indexed citations
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Fontana, Simone, Thomas Sattler, Fabio Bontadina, & Marco Moretti. (2011). How to manage the urban green to improve bird diversity and community structure. Landscape and Urban Planning. 101(3). 278–285. 165 indexed citations

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