Stéphane Dray

24.8k total citations · 9 hit papers
90 papers, 15.5k citations indexed

About

Stéphane Dray is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Stéphane Dray has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 15.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 33 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 32 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Stéphane Dray's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (38 papers), Plant and animal studies (26 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (24 papers). Stéphane Dray is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (38 papers), Plant and animal studies (26 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (24 papers). Stéphane Dray collaborates with scholars based in France, Canada and Netherlands. Stéphane Dray's co-authors include Anne‐Béatrice Dufour, Pierre Legendre, Pedro R. Peres‐Neto, Daniel Borcard, Jean Thioulouse, Thibaut Jombart, Wilfried Thuiller, Daniel Chessel, Sandrine Pavoine and Cajo J. F. ter Braak and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Bioinformatics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Stéphane Dray

89 papers receiving 15.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Theade4Package: Implementing the Duality Diagram for Ecologists

2007 4.6k citations Stéphane Dray, Anne‐Béatrice Dufour Journal of Statistical Software profile →
VARIATION PARTITIONING OF SPECIES DATA MATRICES: ESTIMATION AND COMPARISON OF FRACTIONS

2006 1.9k citations Pedro R. Peres‐Neto, Pierre Legendre et al. Ecology profile →
Spatial modelling: a comprehensive framework for principal coordinate analysis of neighbour matrices (PCNM)

2006 1.5k citations Stéphane Dray, Pierre Legendre et al. profile →
How to measure and test phylogenetic signal

2012 791 citations Stéphane Dray, Wilfried Thuiller et al. Methods in Ecology and Evolution profile →
CO-INERTIA ANALYSIS AND THE LINKING OF ECOLOGICAL DATA TABLES

2003 520 citations Stéphane Dray, Daniel Chessel et al. Ecology profile →
Community ecology in the age of multivariate multiscale spatial analysis

2012 519 citations Stéphane Dray, Pierre Legendre et al. profile →
TESTING THE SPECIES TRAITS–ENVIRONMENT RELATIONSHIPS: THE FOURTH‐CORNER PROBLEM REVISITED

2008 501 citations Stéphane Dray, Pierre Legendre Ecology profile →
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 →
Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data with ade4

2018 281 citations Stéphane Dray, Anne‐Béatrice Dufour et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stéphane Dray

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Zero‐shot animal behaviour classification with vision‐language foundation models 2025 ·Methods in Ecology and Evolution ·(unknown), Vincent Mièle, (unknown), Anne Delestrade, Stéphane Dray, Simon Chamaillé‐Jammes	1
2	Community ionomics reveals a diversity of mineral nutrition in a species‐rich shrubland on infertile soil 2024 ·Journal of Vegetation Science ·(unknown), (unknown), Vanessa Héquet, (unknown), (unknown), Stéphane Dray, Yohan Pillon	3
3	Using the multivariate Hawkes process to study interactions between multiple species from camera trap data 2024 ·Ecology ·(unknown), Sophie Donnet, Mark Keith, Mike Peel, Michael J. Somers, Lourens H. Swanepoel, Jan A. Venter, Hervé Fritz, Stéphane Dray	3
4	Determinants of genetic diversity and species richness of North American amphibians 2022 ·Journal of Biogeography ·Chloé Schmidt, Jason Munshi‐South, Stéphane Dray, Colin J. Garroway	6
5	Mycobacterium tuberculosis genetic features associated with pulmonary tuberculosis severity 2022 ·International Journal of Infectious Diseases ·(unknown), Guislaine Refrégier, Elisabeth Hodille, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jean‐Luc Berland, (unknown), (unknown), Gérard Lina, Florence Ader, Stéphane Dray, Laurent Jacob, François Massol, Samuel Venner, Oana Dumitrescu	8
6	An appraisal of graph embeddings for comparing trophic network architectures 2021 ·Methods in Ecology and Evolution ·Christophe Botella, Stéphane Dray, Catherine Matias, Vincent Mièle, Wilfried Thuiller	5
7	Nine quick tips for analyzing network data 2019 ·PLoS Computational Biology ·Vincent Mièle, Catherine Matias, Stéphane Robin, Stéphane Dray	15
8	Heterogeneity of water physico-chemical characteristics in artificially pumped waterholes: do African herbivores drink at the same locations and does it lead to interference competition? 2019 ·Journal of Arid Environments ·(unknown), (unknown), Florence D. Hulot, (unknown), (unknown), Stéphane Dray, Hervé Fritz, Marion Valeix	1
9	Testing the Mantel statistic with a spatially‐constrained permutation procedure 2018 ·Methods in Ecology and Evolution ·Julie Crabot, (unknown), Stéphane Dray, Thibault Datry	54
10	A critical issue in model-based inference for studying trait-based community assembly and a solution 2017 ·PeerJ ·Cajo J. F. ter Braak, Pedro R. Peres‐Neto, Stéphane Dray	33
11	Spatial Distribution of a Large Herbivore Community at Waterholes: An Assessment of Its Stability over Years in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe 2016 ·PLoS ONE ·Simon Chamaillé‐Jammes, (unknown), Stéphane Dray, Hillary Madzikanda, Hervé Fritz	26
12	Molecular phylogeny of the highly diversified catfish subfamily Loricariinae (Siluriformes, Loricariidae) reveals incongruences with morphological classification 2015 ·Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution ·Raphaël Covain, (unknown), Cláudio Oliveira, Jan H.A. Mol, Juan I. Montoya‐Burgos, Stéphane Dray	64
13	Combining the fourth‐corner and the RLQ methods for assessing trait responses to environmental variation breakdown → 2013 ·Ecology ·Stéphane Dray, Philippe Choler, Sylvain Dolédec, Pedro R. Peres‐Neto, Wilfried Thuiller, Sandrine Pavoine, Cajo J. F. ter Braak	448
14	Functional Traits Reveal Processes Driving Natural Afforestation at Large Spatial Scales 2013 ·PLoS ONE ·Norman W. H. Mason, Susan K. Wiser, Sarah J. Richardson, (unknown), Robert J. Holdaway, Stéphane Dray, Fiona J. Thomson, Bob Carswell	11
15	A guide for using functional diversity indices to reveal changes in assembly processes along ecological gradients 2012 ·Journal of Vegetation Science ·Norman W. H. Mason, Francesco de Bello, David Mouillot, Sandrine Pavoine, Stéphane Dray	343
16	Assessing species and community functional responses to environmental gradients: which multivariate methods? 2012 ·Journal of Vegetation Science ·Michael Kleyer, Stéphane Dray, Francesco de Bello, Jan Lepš, Robin J. Pakeman, Barbara Strauss, Wilfried Thuiller, Sandra Lavorel	248
17	Does local habitat fragmentation affect large‐scale distributions? The case of a specialist grassland bird 2012 ·Diversity and Distributions ·Luís Reino, Pedro Beja, Miguel B. Araújo, Stéphane Dray, Pedro Segurado	56
18	Theade4Package: Implementing the Duality Diagram for Ecologists breakdown → 2007 ·Journal of Statistical Software ·Stéphane Dray, Anne‐Béatrice Dufour	4646
19	TESTING SEXUAL SEGREGATION AND AGGREGATION: OLD WAYS ARE BEST 2007 ·Ecology ·Christophe Bonenfant, Jean‐Michel Gaillard, Stéphane Dray, Anne Loison, (unknown), Daniel Chessel	42
20	VARIATION PARTITIONING OF SPECIES DATA MATRICES: ESTIMATION AND COMPARISON OF FRACTIONS breakdown → 2006 ·Ecology ·Pedro R. Peres‐Neto, Pierre Legendre, Stéphane Dray, Daniel Borcard	1902

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