Sylvie Gourlet‐Fleury

9.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
107 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Sylvie Gourlet‐Fleury is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Forestry. According to data from OpenAlex, Sylvie Gourlet‐Fleury has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 45 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 41 papers in Forestry. Recurrent topics in Sylvie Gourlet‐Fleury's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (54 papers), African Botany and Ecology Studies (40 papers) and Forest ecology and management (31 papers). Sylvie Gourlet‐Fleury is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (54 papers), African Botany and Ecology Studies (40 papers) and Forest ecology and management (31 papers). Sylvie Gourlet‐Fleury collaborates with scholars based in France, Belgium and United Kingdom. Sylvie Gourlet‐Fleury's co-authors include Nicolas Picard, Frédéric Mortier, Adeline Fayolle, Plínio Sist, Maxime Réjou‐Méchain, Guillaume Cornu, Vivien Rossi, Alain Karsenty, Jean‐Louis Doucet and Dakis‐Yaoba Ouédraogo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Sylvie Gourlet‐Fleury

106 papers receiving 3.3k citations

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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.

Sustaining conservation values in selectively logged tropical forests: the attained and the attainable

2012 449 citations Sylvie Gourlet‐Fleury et al. profile →
Spatial validation reveals poor predictive performance of large-scale ecological mapping models

2020 371 citations Pierre Ploton, Frédéric Mortier et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sylvie Gourlet‐Fleury France	31	1.8k	1.8k	956	630	526	107	3.5k
Jefferson S. Hall United States	36	2.0k 1.1×	1.6k 0.9×	1.0k 1.1×	461 0.7×	618 1.2×	105	3.7k
Christophe Andalo France	19	2.2k 1.2×	1.5k 0.9×	792 0.8×	432 0.7×	792 1.5×	31	3.6k
Adeline Fayolle Belgium	28	1.6k 0.9×	1000 0.6×	520 0.5×	550 0.9×	324 0.6×	99	2.5k
Bernard Riéra France	16	2.5k 1.4×	1.8k 1.0×	796 0.8×	605 1.0×	900 1.7×	41	3.7k
Ghislain Vieilledent France	29	1.9k 1.1×	1.6k 0.9×	1.1k 1.1×	227 0.4×	769 1.5×	54	3.5k
Takuo Yamakura Japan	24	3.0k 1.7×	1.8k 1.0×	875 0.9×	572 0.9×	884 1.7×	70	4.0k
Mark Schulze United States	26	1.3k 0.7×	2.0k 1.1×	908 0.9×	340 0.5×	169 0.3×	54	2.9k
Raphaël Pélissier France	31	2.2k 1.2×	1.2k 0.7×	1.3k 1.3×	296 0.5×	823 1.6×	73	3.8k
Reuben Nilus Malaysia	25	1.6k 0.9×	1.1k 0.6×	853 0.9×	196 0.3×	545 1.0×	59	2.6k
Eileen H. Helmer United States	27	1.8k 1.0×	2.5k 1.4×	1.9k 2.0×	307 0.5×	1.2k 2.2×	50	4.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Sylvie Gourlet‐Fleury

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Pouteau, Robin, Charles Doumenge, Terry Brncic, et al.. (2024). The puzzling ecology of African Marantaceae forests. American Journal of Botany. 111(4). e16320–e16320. 2 indexed citations

Bénédet, Fabrice, Sylvie Gourlet‐Fleury, Fidèle Baya, et al.. (2024). 40 years of forest dynamics and tree demography in an intact tropical forest at M’Baïki in central Africa. Scientific Data. 11(1). 734–734. 2 indexed citations

Réjou‐Méchain, Maxime, Sylvie Gourlet‐Fleury, Frédéric Mortier, et al.. (2024). Evolutionary diversity impacts tropical forest biomass and productivity through disturbance‐mediated ecological pathways. Journal of Ecology. 112(10). 2344–2358. 4 indexed citations

Gourlet‐Fleury, Sylvie, Vivien Rossi, Éric Forni, et al.. (2023). Competition and site weakly explain tree growth variability in undisturbed Central African moist forests. Journal of Ecology. 111(9). 1950–1967. 5 indexed citations

Gourlet‐Fleury, Sylvie, Philippe Lejeune, Xavier Bry, et al.. (2023). Using high-resolution images to analyze the importance of crown size and competition for the growth of tropical trees. Forest Ecology and Management. 552. 121553–121553. 4 indexed citations

Panzou, Grâce Jopaul Loubota, Sylvie Gourlet‐Fleury, Jean‐Louis Doucet, et al.. (2022). Intensity, determinants, and impacts of liana load on tropical trees in central Africa. Ecosphere. 13(12). 4 indexed citations

Freycon, Vincent, Éric Marcon, Vivien Rossi, et al.. (2022). Macrotermes termite mounds influence the spatial pattern of tree species in two African rainforest sites, in northern Congo. But were they really forests in the past?. Journal of Tropical Ecology. 38(5). 267–274. 2 indexed citations

Picard, Nicolas, Frédéric Mortier, Pierre Ploton, et al.. (2021). Using Model Analysis to Unveil Hidden Patterns in Tropical Forest Structures. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 9. 4 indexed citations

Ligot, Gauthier, Sylvie Gourlet‐Fleury, Kasso Daïnou, et al.. (2021). Tree growth and mortality of 42 timber species in central Africa. Forest Ecology and Management. 505. 119889–119889. 10 indexed citations

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Ploton, Pierre, Frédéric Mortier, Maxime Réjou‐Méchain, et al.. (2020). Spatial validation reveals poor predictive performance of large-scale ecological mapping models. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4540–4540. 371 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kleinschroth, Fritz, et al.. (2017). LOGGING ROADS IN TROPICAL FORESTS: SYNTHESIS OF LITERATURE WRITTEN IN FRENCH AND ENGLISH HIGHLIGHTS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REDUCTION THROUGH IMPROVED ENGINEERING. BOIS & FORETS DES TROPIQUES. 328. 13–26. 8 indexed citations

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Fayolle, Adeline, Charly Favier, Laurent Brémond, et al.. (2017). Present-day central African forest is a legacy of the 19th century human history. eLife. 6. 42 indexed citations

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Gonmadje, Christelle, Nicolas Picard, Sylvie Gourlet‐Fleury, et al.. (2017). Altitudinal filtering of large-tree species explains above-ground biomass variation in an Atlantic Central African rain forest. Journal of Tropical Ecology. 33(2). 143–154. 19 indexed citations

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Gourlet‐Fleury, Sylvie, et al.. (2017). Floristic and structural changes in secondary forests following agricultural disturbances: the case of Lama forest reserve in Southern Benin. International Journal of Biological and Chemical Sciences. 10(4). 1602–1602. 5 indexed citations

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Mermoz, Stéphane, Maxime Réjou‐Méchain, Ludovic Villard, et al.. (2015). Decrease of L-band SAR backscatter with biomass of dense forests. Remote Sensing of Environment. 159. 307–317. 120 indexed citations

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Molto, Quentin, Maxime Réjou‐Méchain, Nicolas Bayol, et al.. (2015). Modeling forest biomass of the Congo basin from extensive commercial inventories. Agritrop (Cirad). 11657. 1 indexed citations

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Fayolle, Adeline, Nicolas Picard, Jean‐Louis Doucet, et al.. (2014). A new insight in the structure, composition and functioning of central African moist forests. Forest Ecology and Management. 329. 195–205. 52 indexed citations

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Gond, Valéry, et al.. (2010). Using MODIS Time Series to Characterize the Annual Dynamics of Photosynthesis in Tropical Forests of Central Africa. The International Forestry Review. 1 indexed citations

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Forget, Pierre‐Michel, et al.. (1998). Exploitation, chasse et régénération naturelle sont-elles compatibles en Guyane française ?. Journal d agriculture traditionnelle et de botanique appliquée. 40(1). 79–101. 2 indexed citations

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Gourlet‐Fleury, Sylvie, et al.. (1998). Parcelles permanentes de recherche en forét dense tropicale humide: eléments pour une méthodologie d'analyse des données. 8 indexed citations

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