Yannick Chittaro

700 total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 327 citations indexed

About

Yannick Chittaro is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Yannick Chittaro has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 327 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 16 papers in Genetics and 14 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Yannick Chittaro's work include Plant and animal studies (12 papers), Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy (12 papers) and Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (11 papers). Yannick Chittaro is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (12 papers), Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy (12 papers) and Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (11 papers). Yannick Chittaro collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and Czechia. Yannick Chittaro's co-authors include Christian Monnerat, Yann Vitasse, Christian Rixen, Benedikt R. Schmidt, Sylvain Ursenbacher, Nigel G. Yoccoz, Geoffrey Klein, Thomas Wohlgemuth, Nicolas Strebel and Jonathan Lenoir and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Yannick Chittaro

29 papers receiving 315 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.

Phenological and elevational shifts of plants, animals and fungi under climate change in the European Alps

2021 153 citations Yann Vitasse, Sylvain Ursenbacher et al. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yannick Chittaro Switzerland	7	145	144	114	102	83	36	327
Cristiana Cerrato Italy	10	187 1.3×	159 1.1×	95 0.8×	172 1.7×	114 1.4×	23	327
Ramona Viterbi Italy	12	119 0.8×	161 1.1×	199 1.7×	134 1.3×	54 0.7×	22	379
Sarah J. Hill Australia	8	139 1.0×	122 0.8×	172 1.5×	192 1.9×	64 0.8×	11	401
Katharina Homburg Germany	6	186 1.3×	113 0.8×	143 1.3×	163 1.6×	67 0.8×	10	370
Yohann Chauvier Switzerland	7	86 0.6×	239 1.7×	144 1.3×	166 1.6×	36 0.4×	11	364
Petra Dieker Germany	11	167 1.2×	105 0.7×	64 0.6×	103 1.0×	87 1.0×	22	278
Dorit Lichter United Kingdom	2	180 1.2×	119 0.8×	184 1.6×	147 1.4×	65 0.8×	2	387
Anne Eskildsen Denmark	8	190 1.3×	271 1.9×	148 1.3×	198 1.9×	82 1.0×	9	406
Sarette Slabber South Africa	7	149 1.0×	110 0.8×	284 2.5×	56 0.5×	152 1.8×	7	431
Shoji Naoe Japan	10	142 1.0×	76 0.5×	175 1.5×	214 2.1×	32 0.4×	25	349

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20 of 20 papers shown

Chittaro, Yannick, et al.. (2025). The Diverse Reactions of Butterflies and Zygaenids (Lepidoptera) to Climate Change—A Large Scale, Multi‐Species Study. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 34(9).

Descombes, Patrice, et al.. (2024). Adapting to change: Exploring the consequences of climate‐induced host plant shifts in two specialist Lepidoptera species. Ecology and Evolution. 14(6). e11596–e11596. 1 indexed citations

Chittaro, Yannick, et al.. (2024). Composition and diversity of ground beetles within wooded pastures and alternative land-use systems in Swiss Jura mountains. Agroforestry Systems. 98(7). 2411–2430. 1 indexed citations

Prospero, Simone, Ludwig Beenken, Peter H. W. Biedermann, et al.. (2024). Distribution of the invasive ambrosia beetle Anisandrus maiche (Coleoptera, Scolytinae) in Switzerland and first record in Europe of its ambrosia fungus Ambrosiella cleistominuta. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8. 35–49. 2 indexed citations

Chittaro, Yannick, et al.. (2024). An updated checklist of the Hydradephaga of Switzerland (Coleoptera). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8. 87–119.

Chittaro, Yannick, et al.. (2023). On the occurrence of relict populations of Pytho abieticola J. R. Sahlberg, 1875 in Switzerland (Coleoptera, Pythidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7. 1–11. 2 indexed citations

Chittaro, Yannick, et al.. (2023). Genomic evidence for three distinct species in the Erebia manto complex in Central Europe (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae). Conservation Genetics. 24(3). 293–304. 6 indexed citations

Chittaro, Yannick, et al.. (2023). Asynchronous life cycles contribute to reproductive isolation between two Alpine butterflies. Evolution Letters. 7(6). 436–446. 3 indexed citations

Chittaro, Yannick, et al.. (2023). Annotated checklist of the Hydrophiloidea of Switzerland (Coleoptera). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7. 167–184. 1 indexed citations

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Gilgado, José D., Hans‐Peter Rusterholz, Brigitte Braschler, et al.. (2022). Six groups of ground-dwelling arthropods show different diversity responses along elevational gradients in the Swiss Alps. PLoS ONE. 17(7). e0271831–e0271831. 6 indexed citations

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Neff, Felix, Fränzi Korner‐Nievergelt, Matthias Albrecht, et al.. (2022). Different roles of concurring climate and regional land-use changes in past 40 years’ insect trends. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7611–7611. 45 indexed citations

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Vitasse, Yann, Sylvain Ursenbacher, Geoffrey Klein, et al.. (2021). Phenological and elevational shifts of plants, animals and fungi under climate change in the European Alps. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 96(5). 1816–1835. 153 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chittaro, Yannick, et al.. (2019). Annotated checklist of Bostrichoidea and Derodontoidea of Switzerland (Coleoptera: Bostrichiformia, Derodontiformia).. 175–205. 1 indexed citations

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Chittaro, Yannick, et al.. (2019). Liste commentée des Cleroidea (Coleoptera) de Suisse. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 141–167. 4 indexed citations

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Chittaro, Yannick, et al.. (2019). Diversity and relationships of Ampedini Gistel, 1848 (Coleoptera : Elateridae) in Switzerland and Europe. Invertebrate Systematics. 33(3). 544–555. 2 indexed citations

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Litman, Jessica R., Yannick Chittaro, Stefan Birrer, et al.. (2018). A DNA barcode reference library for Swiss butterflies and forester moths as a tool for species identification, systematics and conservation. PLoS ONE. 13(12). e0208639–e0208639. 19 indexed citations

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Pitteloud, Camille, Nils Arrigo, Tomasz Suchan, et al.. (2017). Climatic niche evolution is faster in sympatric than allopatric lineages of the butterfly genusPyrgus. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 284(1852). 20170208–20170208. 15 indexed citations

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Pitteloud, Camille, Nils Arrigo, Alicia Mastretta‐Yanes, et al.. (2017). Supplementary material from "Climatic niche evolution is faster in sympatric than allopatric lineages of the butterfly genus Pyrgus". Figshare. 1 indexed citations

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Chittaro, Yannick, et al.. (2017). Liste commentée des Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) de Suisse. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1. 57–90. 6 indexed citations

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Germann, Christoph, Beat Wermelinger, Martin К. Obrist, Yannick Chittaro, & Marco Moretti. (2015). Wiederfund und Bestätigung von <em>Lixus vilis</em> (Rossi, 1790) in der Schweiz nach über 100 Jahren (Coleoptera, Curculionidae). DORA WSL (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research). 1 indexed citations

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