Christian Messier

Nature and Landscape Conservation · 2000–2018

A researcher in the Science corpus: 27 papers; trusts 49 researchers and is trusted by 23 researchers here, as inferred from the citation graph.

Subfields

• Nature and Landscape Conservation — 338 citations into it; #820 of 6,941 by trust here, #540 by citations
• Global and Planetary Change — 210 citations into it; #1,055 of 10,225 by trust here, #721 by citations
• Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics — 174 citations into it; #1,934 of 6,648 by trust here, #1,027 by citations
• Ecology — 131 citations into it
• Ecological Modeling — 99 citations into it
• Plant Science — 91 citations into it
• Insect Science — 62 citations into it; #1,198 of 2,259 by trust here, #485 by citations
• Genetics — 21 citations into it

Whom Christian Messier trusts overall

Their strongest outbound trust, strongest first, inferred from their citations.

1. I. Aubin
2. David D. Ackerly
3. Owen L. Petchey
4. Karel Mokany
5. Etienne Laliberté
6. B. Graae
7. Francesco de Bello
8. Jérôme Chave
9. John P. Caspersen
10. B. Cardinale

Who trusts Christian Messier overall

1. A. Petritan
2. D. Forrester
3. I. Aubin
4. Yu Zhang
5. Hans Pretzsch
6. Baptiste Regnery
7. B. Lüpke
8. Daniel D. Kneeshaw
9. P. Ruiz‐Benito
10. Han Y. H. Chen

Papers from Christian Messier's perspective

Ordered by how strongly the researchers Christian Messier trusts endorse each paper. Same corpus, a different order for every researcher.

1. Functional diversity: back to basics and looking forward. (Ecology Letters)
2. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Current Knowledge and Future Challenges (Science)
3. Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity (Nature)
4. Predicting changes in community composition and ecosystem functioning from plant traits: revisiting the Holy Grail
5. Phylogenies and Community Ecology
6. Partitioning selection and complementarity in biodiversity experiments (Nature)
7. PLANT FUNCTIONAL TRAITS IN RELATION TO FIRE IN CROWN-FIRE ECOSYSTEMS
8. Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. (Ecology Letters)
9. TRY – a global database of plant traits
10. Assessing functional diversity in the field - methodology matters!

Their papers

• Synthesis and future research directions linking tree diversity to growth, survival, and damage in a global network of tree diversity experiments (2018) — 132 citations
• Traits to stay, traits to move: a review of functional traits to assess sensitivity and adaptive capacity of temperate and boreal trees to climate change (2016) — 205 citations
• Globally, functional traits are weak predictors of juvenile tree growth, and we do not know why (2015) — 193 citations
• Diversity increases carbon storage and tree productivity in Spanish forests (2014) — 308 citations
• Retention Forestry to Maintain Multifunctional Forests: A World Perspective (2012) — 834 citations
• The effect of biodiversity on tree productivity: from temperate to boreal forests (2011) — 894 citations
• Why we disagree about assisted migration: Ethical implications of a key debate regarding the future of Canada's forests (2011) — 126 citations
• Shade tolerance, canopy gaps and mechanisms of coexistence of forest trees (2010) — 127 citations
• TRIAD zoning in Quebec: Experiences and results after 5 years (2009) — 86 citations
• Old-Growth Forest Definitions: a Pragmatic View (2009) — 150 citations
• Silviculture for old-growth attributes (2009) — 633 citations
• Can plantations develop understory biological and physical attributes of naturally regenerated forests (2008) — 114 citations
• A shade tolerance index for common understory species of northeastern North America (2007) — 114 citations
• How resilient are northern hardwood forests to human disturbance? An evaluation using a plant functional group approach (2007) — 89 citations
• Can forest management based on natural disturbances maintain ecological resilience (2006) — 371 citations
• Reconciling niche and neutrality: the continuum hypothesis. (2006) — 778 citations
• Overstory influences on light attenuation patterns and understory plant community diversity and composition in southern boreal forests of Quebec (2006) — 135 citations
• Sapling size influences shade tolerance ranking among southern boreal tree species (2006) — 128 citations
• Comparing composition and structure in old-growth and harvested (selection and diameter-limit cuts) northern hardwood stands in Quebec (2005) — 188 citations
• The current state of boreal forestry and the drive for change. (2003) — 86 citations