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  1. Does increasing human impact across the holocene result in simplification of vegetation composition and diversity across Europe? A pollen-based spatio-temporal approach

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, February 2026, Elsevier

    Prof. François Gillet

  2. Understory plant indicator values poorly perform at monitoring temporal changes in French forest soil chemical properties

    Article • Ecological Indicators, January 2026, Elsevier

    Prof. François Gillet

  3. Fossorial Form of Water Voles Select and Overexploit High‐Quality Habitats, Hindering Future Colonizations Evidence From Drone‐Based Monitoring of Dandelion‐Vole Interactions in Mountain Meadows

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, September 2025, Wiley

    Prof. François Gillet

  4. Water voles select and overexploit high-quality habitats, hindering future colonisations: Evidence from drone-based monitoring of dandelion-vole interactions in mountain meadows

    Article • January 2025, Wiley

    Prof. François Gillet

  5. Rarity and Sparseness in Plant Communities: Impact of Minor Species Removal on Beta Diversity and Canonical Ordination

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, January 2025, Wiley

    Prof. François Gillet

  6. Biogeography and ecology of the Algerian island flora

    Article • Plant Ecology and Evolution, June 2024, National Botanical Garden of Belgium

    Prof. François Gillet

  7. Ecological Indicator Values for Europe

    Article • Vegetation Classification and Survey, January 2023, Pensoft Publishers

    Prof. François Gillet

  8. A new automated macrocharcoal detection method

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, November 2022, Elsevier

    Prof. François Gillet

  9. Plant communities, synusiae and the arithmetic of a sustainable classification

    Article • Vegetation Classification and Survey, February 2022, Pensoft Publishers

    Prof. François Gillet

  10. Fine-grain beta diversity in Palaearctic open vegetation: variability within and between biomes and vegetation types

    Article • Vegetation Classification and Survey, December 2021, Pensoft Publishers

    Prof. François Gillet

  11. Fine-grain beta diversity in Palaearctic open vegetation: variability within and between biomes and vegetation types

    Article • Vegetation Classification and Survey, December 2021, Pensoft Publishers

    Prof. François Gillet

  12. Microbial transfers from permanent grassland ecosystems to milk in dairy farms in the Comté cheese area

    Article • Scientific Reports, September 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. François Gillet

  13. Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, July 2021, Wiley

    Professor Marko S. Sabovljevic, Prof. François Gillet, Dr Eliane Seraina Meier

  14. The climatic debt is growing in the understorey of temperate forests: Stand characteristics matter

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, May 2021, Wiley

    Prof. François Gillet

  15. Fine‐grain beta diversity of Palaearctic grassland vegetation

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, May 2021, Wiley

    Prof. François Gillet, Dr Anna A. Kuzemko

  16. Scale dependence of species–area relationships is widespread but generally weak in Palaearctic grasslands

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, May 2021, Wiley

    Prof. François Gillet, Kuber Bhatta, Dr Anna A. Kuzemko

  17. Recent changes in mountain hay meadows of high conservation value in eastern France

    Article • Applied Vegetation Science, April 2021, Wiley

    Prof. François Gillet

  18. DynaGraM: A process-based model to simulate multi-species plant community dynamics in managed grasslands

    Article • Ecological Modelling, January 2021, Elsevier

    Prof. François Gillet

  19. Vole disturbances and plant community diversity in a productive hay meadow

    Article • Acta Oecologica, July 2020, Elsevier

    Prof. François Gillet

  20. Towards the assessment of biodiversity and management practices in mountain pastures using diagnostic species?

    Article • Ecological Indicators, December 2019, Elsevier

    Prof. François Gillet

  21. Spontaneous ecological recovery of vegetation in a red gypsum landfill: Betula pendula dominates after 10 years of inactivity

    Article • Ecological Engineering, July 2019, Elsevier

    Prof. François Gillet

  22. Occurrence and ecological determinants of the contamination of floodplain wetlands with Klebsiella pneumoniae and pathogenic or antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli.

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Ecology, June 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. François Gillet

  23. Action-orientated research and framework: insights from the French long-term social-ecological research network

    Article • Ecology and Society, January 2019, Resilience Alliance, Inc.

    Prof. François Gillet

  24. GrassPlot – a database of multi-scale plant diversity in Palaearctic grasslands

    Article • Phytocoenologia, August 2018, Schweizerbart

    Professor Marko S. Sabovljevic, Péter Török, Prof. François Gillet, Dr Anna A. Kuzemko, Professor Jan Leps

  25. The integrated synusial approach to vegetation classification and analysis

    Article • Phytocoenologia, May 2018, Schweizerbart

    Prof. François Gillet

  26. Modelling vegetation dynamics in managed grasslands: Responses to drivers depend on species richness

    Article • Ecological Modelling, April 2018, Elsevier

    Prof. François Gillet

  27. Sewage sludge as a soil amendment in a Larix decidua plantation: Effects on tree growth and floristic diversity

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, April 2018, Elsevier

    Prof. François Gillet

  28. Modelling the distribution and compositional variation of plant communities at the continental scale

    Article • Diversity and Distributions, March 2018, Wiley

    Prof. François Gillet

  29. Numerical Ecology with R

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. François Gillet

  30. Disturbance-grazer-vegetation interactions maintain habitat diversity in mountain pasture-woodlands

    Article • Ecological Modelling, September 2017, Elsevier

    Prof. François Gillet

  31. Contrasting processes drive alpha and beta taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity of orthopteran communities in grasslands

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, May 2017, Elsevier

    Prof. François Gillet

  32. Interpolation of temperatures under forest cover on a regional scale in the French Jura Mountains

    Article • International Journal of Climatology, March 2017, Wiley

    Prof. François Gillet

  33. Using Paleolimnology for Management and Restoration of Lakes

    Article • January 2017, Frontiers

    Prof. François Gillet

  34. Multiple Assembly Rules Drive the Co-occurrence of Orthopteran and Plant Species in Grasslands: Combining Network, Functional and Phylogenetic Approaches

    Article • Frontiers in Plant Science, August 2016, Frontiers

    Prof. François Gillet

  35. Landscape-scale simulation experiments test Romanian and Swiss management guidelines for mountain pasture-woodland habitat diversity

    Article • Ecological Modelling, June 2016, Elsevier

    Prof. François Gillet

  36. Recent changes in mountain grasslands: a vegetation resampling study

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, March 2016, Wiley

    Prof. François Gillet

  37. Impact of fertilizers on mountain grassland biodiversity.

    Article • Applied Vegetation Science, December 2015, Wiley

    Prof. François Gillet

  38. Multi-scale feedbacks between tree regeneration traits and herbivore behavior explain the structure of pasture-woodland mosaics

    Article • Landscape Ecology, November 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. François Gillet

  39. What is the robustness of early warning signals to temporal aggregation?

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, September 2015, Frontiers

    Prof. François Gillet

  40. Caractérisation microbiologique de 3193 logements français des enfants de la cohorte ELFE

    Article • Journal de Mycologie Médicale, September 2015, Elsevier

    Steffi Rocchi, Prof. François Gillet

  41. Functional responses of multitaxa communities to disturbance and stress gradients in a restored floodplain

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, July 2015, Wiley

    Prof. François Gillet

  42. A comparative framework for broad-scale plot-based vegetation classification

    Article • Applied Vegetation Science, June 2015, Wiley

    Prof. François Gillet

  43. Assemblages and paleo-diet variability of subfossil Chironomidae (Diptera) from a deep lake (Lake Grand Maclu, France)

    Article • Hydrobiologia, February 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. François Gillet

  44. Microbiological characterization of 3193 French dwellings of Elfe cohort children

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, February 2015, Elsevier

    Steffi Rocchi, Prof. François Gillet

  45. Cadmium accumulation in six common plant species associated with soils containing high geogenic cadmium concentrations at Le Gurnigel, Swiss Jura Mountains

    Article • CATENA, January 2015, Elsevier

    Prof. François Gillet

  46. Contrasted taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity patterns in semi-natural permanent grasslands along an altitudinal gradient

    Article • Plant Ecology and Evolution, July 2014, National Botanical Garden of Belgium

    Prof. François Gillet

  47. Impact of management type and intensity on multiple facets of grassland biodiversity in the French Jura Mountains

    Article • Applied Vegetation Science, June 2014, Wiley

    Prof. François Gillet

  48. Biogeographic patterns of base‐rich fen vegetation across Europe

    Article • Applied Vegetation Science, October 2013, Wiley

    Prof. François Gillet

  49. A Contextual Analysis of Land-Use and Vegetation Changes in Two Wooded Pastures in the Swiss Jura Mountains

    Article • Ecology and Society, January 2013, Resilience Alliance, Inc.

    Prof. François Gillet

  50. Dynamics of Forage Production in Pasture-woodlands of the Swiss Jura Mountains under Projected Climate Change Scenarios

    Article • Ecology and Society, January 2013, Resilience Alliance, Inc.

    Prof. François Gillet

  51. Modeling Social-Ecological Feedback Effects in the Implementation of Payments for Environmental Services in Pasture-Woodlands

    Article • Ecology and Society, January 2013, Resilience Alliance, Inc.

    Prof. François Gillet

  52. Past and future landscape dynamics in pasture-woodlands of the Swiss Jura Mountains under climate change

    Article • Ecology and Society, January 2013, Resilience Alliance, Inc.

    Prof. François Gillet

  53. Sustainable Land Use in Mountain Regions Under Global Change: Synthesis Across Scales and Disciplines

    Article • Ecology and Society, January 2013, Resilience Alliance, Inc.

    Prof. François Gillet

  54. Evolution récente et future des paysages sylvo-pastoraux du Jura vaudois

    Article • Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Forstwesen, December 2012, Swiss Forestry Society

    Prof. François Gillet

  55. Structural relationships among vegetation, soil fauna and humus form in a subalpine forest ecosystem: a Hierarchical Multiple Factor Analysis (HMFA)

    Article • Pedobiologia, November 2012, Elsevier

    Prof. François Gillet

  56. Modern pollen rain and fungal spore assemblages from pasture woodlands around Lake Saint-Point (France)

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, October 2012, Elsevier

    Prof. François Gillet

  57. Numerical Ecology with R by Daniel Borcard, François Gillet, Pierre Legendre

    Article • International Statistical Review, April 2012, Wiley

    Prof. François Gillet

  58. How do plant community ecologists consider the complementarity of observational, experimental and theoretical modelling approaches?

    Article • Plant Ecology and Evolution, March 2012, National Botanical Garden of Belgium

    Dr Pierre Mariotte, Prof. François Gillet

  59. New insights in plant community ecology

    Article • Plant Ecology and Evolution, March 2012, National Botanical Garden of Belgium

    Prof. François Gillet

  60. Using “bryophytes and their associated testate amoeba” microsystems as indicators of atmospheric pollution

    Article • Ecological Indicators, February 2012, Elsevier

    Prof. François Gillet

  61. Long-term effects of grazing exclusion on aboveground and belowground plant species diversity in a steppe of the Loess Plateau, China

    Article • Plant Ecology and Evolution, November 2011, National Botanical Garden of Belgium

    Prof. François Gillet

  62. Human exposure to allergenic pollens: A comparison between urban and rural areas

    Article • Environmental Research, July 2011, Elsevier

    Prof. François Gillet

  63. Heterogeneity of soil carbon pools and fluxes in a channelized and a restored floodplain section (Thur River, Switzerland)

    Article • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, June 2011, Copernicus GmbH

    Prof. François Gillet

  64. Modelling natural disturbances in forest ecosystems: a review

    Article • Ecological Modelling, February 2011, Elsevier

    Prof. François Gillet

  65. A textbook to apply methods in numerical ecology using R

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Pierre Legendre, Prof. François Gillet

  66. Polyploidy and invasion success: trait trade-offs in native and introduced cytotypes of two Asteraceae species

    Article • Plant Ecology, August 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. François Gillet

  67. Community development along a proglacial chronosequence: are above-ground and below-ground community structure controlled more by biotic than abiotic factors?

    Article • Journal of Ecology, July 2010, Wiley

    Prof. François Gillet

  68. Long-term dynamics of aboveground fungal communities in a subalpine Norway spruce forest under elevated nitrogen input

    Article • Oecologia, June 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. François Gillet

  69. Restoration of Threatened Arable Weed Communities in Abandoned Mountainous Crop Fields

    Article • Restoration Ecology, March 2010, Wiley

    Prof. François Gillet

  70. Effect of dung deposition on small-scale patch structure and seasonal vegetation dynamics in mountain pastures

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, January 2010, Elsevier

    Prof. François Gillet

  71. Statistical Assessment of Variability of Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis Applied to Complex Microbial Communities

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, September 2009, ASM Journals

    Prof. François Gillet

  72. Modelling vegetation dynamics in heterogeneous pasture-woodland landscapes

    Article • Ecological Modelling, September 2008, Elsevier

    Prof. François Gillet

  73. Determinants for the conservation of a vulnerable fire-dependent species at its marginal range

    Article • Plant Ecology, March 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. François Gillet

  74. Succession secondaire et perte de diversité végétale après réduction du broutage dans un pâturage boisé des Alpes centrales suisses

    Article • Botanica Helvetica, June 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. François Gillet

  75. Simulation modelling of ecological hierarchies in constructive dynamical systems

    Article • Ecological Complexity, March 2007, Elsevier

    Prof. François Gillet

  76. Effect of cattle activities on gap colonization in mountain pastures

    Article • Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica, September 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. François Gillet

  77. How elevated pCO2 modifies total and metabolically active bacterial communities in the rhizosphere of two perennial grasses grown under field conditions

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Ecology, March 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Nathalie Fromin, Prof. François Gillet

  78. Spatial and Seasonal Patterns of Cattle Habitat use in a Mountain Wooded Pasture

    Article • Landscape Ecology, February 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. François Gillet, Helene H Wagner

  79. Soil Microbial Community Changes in Wooded Mountain Pastures due to Simulated Effects of Cattle Grazing

    Article • Plant and Soil, December 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. François Gillet

  80. Is there a future for wild grapevine (Vitis vinifera subsp. silvestris) in the Rhine Valley?

    Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, June 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. François Gillet

  81. Seasonal dynamics of plant species at fine scale in wooded pastures

    Article • Community Ecology, June 2004, Akademiai Kiado

    Prof. François Gillet

  82. Seasonal vegetation changes in mountain pastures due to simulated effects of cattle grazing

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, February 2004, Wiley

    Prof. François Gillet

  83. Succession from bog pine (Pinus uncinata var. rotundata) to Norway spruce (Picea abies) stands in relation to anthropic factors in Les Saignolis bog, Jura Mountains, Switzerland

    Article • Annals of Forest Science, May 2003, EDP Sciences

    Prof. François Gillet

  84. Statistical analysis of denaturing gel electrophoresis (DGE) fingerprinting patterns

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, December 2002, Wiley

    Prof. François Gillet

  85. PATUMOD: a compartment model of vegetation dynamics in wooded pastures

    Article • Ecological Modelling, January 2002, Elsevier

    Prof. François Gillet

  86. Dynamics of bog-pine-dominated mires in the Jura Mountains, Switzerland: A tentative scheme based on synusial phytosociology

    Article • Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica, September 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. François Gillet

  87. Influence of tree cover on the diversity of herbaceous communities in subalpine wooded pastures

    Article • Applied Vegetation Science, February 1999, Wiley

    Prof. François Gillet