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 United Kingdom. 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

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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. Theade4Package: Implementing the Duality Diagram for Ecologists
    2007 4.6k citations Stéphane Dray, Anne‐Béatrice Dufour Journal of Statistical Software profile →
  2. VARIATION PARTITIONING OF SPECIES DATA MATRICES: ESTIMATION AND COMPARISON OF FRACTIONS
    2006 1.9k citations Pedro R. Peres‐Neto, Stéphane Dray et al. Ecology profile →
  3. Spatial modelling: a comprehensive framework for principal coordinate analysis of neighbour matrices (PCNM)
    2006 1.5k citations Stéphane Dray, Pedro R. Peres‐Neto et al. profile →
  4. How to measure and test phylogenetic signal
    2012 791 citations Stéphane Dray, Wilfried Thuiller et al. Methods in Ecology and Evolution profile →
  5. CO-INERTIA ANALYSIS AND THE LINKING OF ECOLOGICAL DATA TABLES
    2003 520 citations Stéphane Dray et al. Ecology profile →
  6. Community ecology in the age of multivariate multiscale spatial analysis
    2012 519 citations Stéphane Dray, Pedro R. Peres‐Neto et al. profile →
  7. TESTING THE SPECIES TRAITS–ENVIRONMENT RELATIONSHIPS: THE FOURTH‐CORNER PROBLEM REVISITED
    2008 501 citations Stéphane Dray et al. Ecology profile →
  8. 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 →
  9. Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data with ade4
    2018 281 citations Stéphane Dray, Anne‐Béatrice Dufour et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Stéphane Dray 6.5k 6.0k 4.3k 2.5k 2.4k 90 15.5k
Mark Vellend 7.1k 1.1× 8.5k 1.4× 5.6k 1.3× 3.3k 1.3× 3.5k 1.5× 132 16.2k
Mark A. McPeek 6.4k 1.0× 6.7k 1.1× 6.4k 1.5× 2.5k 1.0× 2.6k 1.1× 129 15.9k
William F. Fagan 8.5k 1.3× 5.8k 1.0× 4.0k 0.9× 3.7k 1.5× 2.0k 0.9× 270 16.5k
Diane S. Srivastava 7.2k 1.1× 7.0k 1.2× 4.5k 1.0× 4.1k 1.6× 2.5k 1.1× 116 16.3k
Nicolas Mouquet 8.2k 1.3× 7.8k 1.3× 5.3k 1.2× 3.0k 1.2× 3.4k 1.4× 117 15.6k
Pedro R. Peres‐Neto 8.2k 1.3× 8.1k 1.3× 3.4k 0.8× 3.0k 1.2× 3.3k 1.4× 110 16.8k
Lou Jost 4.3k 0.7× 4.3k 0.7× 3.4k 0.8× 2.0k 0.8× 1.7k 0.7× 45 11.6k
Daniel Borcard 8.2k 1.3× 7.5k 1.2× 3.6k 0.8× 3.0k 1.2× 2.4k 1.0× 50 16.1k
Mathew A. Leibold 8.2k 1.3× 7.1k 1.2× 4.4k 1.0× 2.1k 0.8× 2.5k 1.1× 87 14.7k
Robert P. Freckleton 7.9k 1.2× 6.8k 1.1× 7.4k 1.7× 3.8k 1.5× 2.9k 1.2× 206 19.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stéphane Dray

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All Works

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Mièle, Vincent, et al.. (2025). Zero‐shot animal behaviour classification with vision‐language foundation models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 16(7). 1460–1472. 1 indexed citations
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Héquet, Vanessa, et al.. (2024). Community ionomics reveals a diversity of mineral nutrition in a species‐rich shrubland on infertile soil. Journal of Vegetation Science. 35(5). 3 indexed citations
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Cubaynes, Sarah, Olivier Giménez, Stéphane Dray, et al.. (2024). Insights on the effect of mega-carcass abundance on the population dynamics of a facultative scavenger predator and its prey. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4.
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Donnet, Sophie, Mark Keith, Mike Peel, et al.. (2024). Using the multivariate Hawkes process to study interactions between multiple species from camera trap data. Ecology. 105(4). e4237–e4237. 3 indexed citations
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Schmidt, Chloé, Jason Munshi‐South, Stéphane Dray, & Colin J. Garroway. (2022). Determinants of genetic diversity and species richness of North American amphibians. Journal of Biogeography. 49(11). 2005–2015. 6 indexed citations
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Refrégier, Guislaine, Elisabeth Hodille, Jean‐Luc Berland, et al.. (2022). Mycobacterium tuberculosis genetic features associated with pulmonary tuberculosis severity. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 125. 74–83. 8 indexed citations
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Botella, Christophe, Stéphane Dray, Catherine Matias, Vincent Mièle, & Wilfried Thuiller. (2021). An appraisal of graph embeddings for comparing trophic network architectures. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 13(1). 203–216. 5 indexed citations
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Dray, Stéphane, Hervé Fritz, Audrey Ipavec, et al.. (2021). Long‐term high densities of African elephants clear the understorey and promote a new stable savanna woodland community. Journal of Vegetation Science. 32(6). 7 indexed citations
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Mièle, Vincent, Catherine Matias, Stéphane Robin, & Stéphane Dray. (2019). Nine quick tips for analyzing network data. PLoS Computational Biology. 15(12). e1007434–e1007434. 15 indexed citations
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Crabot, Julie, et al.. (2018). Testing the Mantel statistic with a spatially‐constrained permutation procedure. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 10(4). 532–540. 54 indexed citations
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Braak, Cajo J. F. ter, Pedro R. Peres‐Neto, & Stéphane Dray. (2017). A critical issue in model-based inference for studying trait-based community assembly and a solution. PeerJ. 5. e2885–e2885. 33 indexed citations
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Chamaillé‐Jammes, Simon, et al.. (2016). Spatial Distribution of a Large Herbivore Community at Waterholes: An Assessment of Its Stability over Years in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe. PLoS ONE. 11(4). e0153639–e0153639. 26 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., Susan K. Wiser, Sarah J. Richardson, et al.. (2013). Functional Traits Reveal Processes Driving Natural Afforestation at Large Spatial Scales. PLoS ONE. 8(9). e75219–e75219. 11 indexed citations
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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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Kleyer, Michael, Stéphane Dray, Francesco de Bello, et al.. (2012). Assessing species and community functional responses to environmental gradients: which multivariate methods?. Journal of Vegetation Science. 23(5). 805–821. 248 indexed citations
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Reino, Luís, Pedro Beja, Miguel B. Araújo, Stéphane Dray, & Pedro Segurado. (2012). Does local habitat fragmentation affect large‐scale distributions? The case of a specialist grassland bird. Diversity and Distributions. 19(4). 423–432. 56 indexed citations
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Dray, Stéphane & Anne‐Béatrice Dufour. (2007). Theade4Package: Implementing the Duality Diagram for Ecologists. Journal of Statistical Software. 22(4). 4646 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dray, Stéphane, et al.. (2002). Modelling bovine trypanosomosis spatial distribution by GIS in an agro-pastoral zone of Burkina Faso. Preventive Veterinary Medicine. 56(1). 5–18. 17 indexed citations

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