Yves Basset

14.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
148 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

Yves Basset is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Yves Basset has authored 148 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 112 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 78 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 39 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Yves Basset's work include Plant and animal studies (94 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (76 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (37 papers). Yves Basset is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (94 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (76 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (37 papers). Yves Basset collaborates with scholars based in Panama, United States and Czechia. Yves Basset's co-authors include Vojtêch Novotný, Scott E. Miller, George D. Weiblen, Pavel Drozd, R. L. Kitching, Milan Janda, Thomas M. Lewinsohn, Birgitta Bremer, Alan J. A. Stewart and Simon R. Leather and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Yves Basset

144 papers receiving 6.8k 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.

Interpreting insect declines: seven challenges and a way forward

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yves Basset Panama	46	5.0k	3.6k	2.3k	2.1k	1.6k	148	7.2k
Vojtêch Novotný Czechia	43	4.6k 0.9×	3.5k 1.0×	2.1k 0.9×	1.9k 0.9×	1.6k 1.0×	195	7.1k
Hans Van Dyck Belgium	45	4.7k 1.0×	3.3k 0.9×	2.1k 0.9×	1.4k 0.7×	2.3k 1.5×	140	7.4k
Owen T. Lewis United Kingdom	42	3.9k 0.8×	3.6k 1.0×	2.2k 1.0×	1.6k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	139	6.9k
Paulo A. V. Borges Portugal	42	3.2k 0.7×	2.8k 0.8×	2.8k 1.2×	1.6k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	327	7.5k
Elizabeth E. Crone United States	41	4.1k 0.8×	3.6k 1.0×	2.6k 1.1×	1.6k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	143	6.9k
Juan J. Morrone Mexico	49	5.3k 1.1×	2.7k 0.7×	2.5k 1.1×	918 0.4×	1.4k 0.9×	341	10.2k
Jochen Krauß Germany	40	3.7k 0.7×	3.4k 0.9×	1.9k 0.8×	1.4k 0.7×	773 0.5×	98	6.5k
Toomas Tammaru Estonia	37	3.4k 0.7×	1.9k 0.5×	1.9k 0.8×	1.7k 0.8×	1.9k 1.2×	131	5.8k
James A. Fordyce United States	40	4.3k 0.9×	2.7k 0.7×	3.3k 1.4×	1.5k 0.7×	2.7k 1.8×	128	8.6k
Konrad Fiedler Germany	47	5.3k 1.1×	2.3k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	2.1k 1.0×	4.0k 2.5×	220	7.3k

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Basset, Yves, et al.. (2025). The magnitude of cryptic insect diversity in one tropical rainforest. Insect Conservation and Diversity. 18(6). 1163–1174.

Basset, Yves, et al.. (2025). Climate drives the long-term ant male production in a tropical community. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 428–428.

Souto‐Vilarós, Daniel, Ana Zamora, Greg P. A. Lamarre, et al.. (2025). Navigating the seven seas of arthropod collection protocols: Metabarcoding arthropod diversity in a tropical forest. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 16(10). 2395–2407.

Lamarre, Greg P. A., et al.. (2024). Population trends of insect pollinators in a species-rich tropical rainforest: stable trends but contrasting patterns across taxa. Biology Letters. 20(12). 20240170–20240170. 1 indexed citations

Souto‐Vilarós, Daniel, Yves Basset, Petr Blažek, et al.. (2024). Illuminating arthropod diversity in a tropical forest: Assessing biodiversity by automatic light trapping and DNA metabarcoding. Environmental DNA. 6(2). 4 indexed citations

Basset, Yves, Andrew J. Bladon, Irena Klečková, et al.. (2023). Tropical butterflies use thermal buffering and thermal tolerance as alternative strategies to cope with temperature increase. Journal of Animal Ecology. 92(9). 1759–1770. 17 indexed citations

Laird‐Hopkins, Benita C., Yves Basset, Irena Klečková, et al.. (2023). Thermoregulatory ability and mechanism do not differ consistently between neotropical and temperate butterflies. Global Change Biology. 29(15). 4180–4192. 8 indexed citations

Basset, Yves, Petr Blažek, Daniel Souto‐Vilarós, et al.. (2022). Towards a functional classification of poorly known tropical insects: The case of rhinoceros beetles (Coleoptera, Dynastinae) in Panama. Insect Conservation and Diversity. 16(1). 147–163. 4 indexed citations

Lamarre, Greg P. A., et al.. (2022). More winners than losers over 12 years of monitoring tiger moths (Erebidae: Arctiinae) on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Biology Letters. 18(4). 20210519–20210519. 16 indexed citations

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Basset, Yves, José G. Palacios‐Vargas, David A. Donoso, et al.. (2020). Enemy-free space and the distribution of ants, springtails and termites in the soil of one tropical rainforest. European Journal of Soil Biology. 99. 103193–103193. 4 indexed citations

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Basset, Yves, David A. Donoso, Mehrdad Hajibabaei, et al.. (2020). Methodological considerations for monitoring soil/litter arthropods in tropical rainforests using DNA metabarcoding, with a special emphasis on ants, springtails and termites. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 12 indexed citations

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Basset, Yves, Greg P. A. Lamarre, Simon T. Segar, et al.. (2017). The Saturniidae of Barro Colorado Island, Panama: A model taxon for studying the long‐term effects of climate change?. Ecology and Evolution. 7(23). 9991–10004. 19 indexed citations

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Basset, Yves. (2013). Diversity and abundance of insect herbivores collected on Castanopsis acuminatissima (Fagaceae) in New Guinea: Relationships with leaf production and surrounding vegetation. European Journal of Entomology. 96(4). 381–391. 7 indexed citations

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Basset, Yves, Rod Eastwood, David J. Lohman, et al.. (2011). Comparison of rainforest butterfly assemblages across three biogeographical regions using standardized protocols. Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera. 44. 17–28. 26 indexed citations

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Basset, Yves, et al.. (2002). L'éducation civique aujourd'hui : dictionnaire encyclopédique. 1 indexed citations

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Basset, Yves. (2001). Communities of insect herbivores foraging on saplings versus mature trees of Pourouma bicolor (Cecropiaceae) in Panama. Oecologia. 129(2). 253–260. 61 indexed citations

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Adis, Joachim, Yves Basset, Andreas Floren, Peter Hammond, & K. Eduard Linsenmair. (1998). Canopy fogging of an overstory tree - recommendations for standardization.. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. 4. 93–97. 38 indexed citations

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Basset, Yves, et al.. (1996). A review of methods for sampling arthropods in tree canopies. Agritrop (Cirad). 74 indexed citations

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Basset, Yves. (1996). How many species of host-specific insects feed on a species of tropical tree?. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 59(2). 201–216. 4 indexed citations

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Basset, Yves. (1994). Palatability of tree foliage to chewing insects: a comparison between a temperate and a tropical site. Acta Oecologica. 15(2). 181–191. 27 indexed citations

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