Antoine Guisan
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Antoine Guisan is a Swiss ecologist and professor at the University of Lausanne whose research focuses on biodiversity conservation, species distribution modelling, and global change biology.[1]
Guisan obtained his BSc from the University of Geneva in 1990. He continued with a MSc in 1992, and from 1993 to 1996 he worked on his PhD, both at the same university. He also obtained a Postgraduate Master in Statistics from the University of Neuchâtel in 1996.[2]
Career
In 1997, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University in the Center for Conservation Biology and later held a similar position at the Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. From 1998 to 2001, he worked at the Swiss Center for Faunal Cartography and later became an assistant professor at the University of Lausanne, specializing in plant biogeography and spatial ecology.[2] He became an associate professor in 2007 at the same institution, specializing in plant ecology.[2] He was promoted to full professor jointly between the Faculty of Biology & Medicine and the Faculty of Geosciences & Environment at the University of Lausanne in 2017.[2]
He is a member of the International Association for Vegetation Science, the International Association of Landscape Ecology, the Swiss Botanical Society, and the International Society for Ecological Modelling.[2]
His publications have been widely cited in the fields of spatial ecology and biodiversity modelling, and several of his papers are among the most frequently cited works in species distribution modelling.[3]
Research
Antoine Guisan's research focuses on spatial ecology and eco-geographical modelling, with a particular emphasis on predictive habitat distribution modelling.[2] His work examines ecological patterns and processes at the levels of species, habitats or ecological communities, and biodiversity. These modelling approaches are widely used in landscape ecology, conservation biology, and environmental science.[4]
His research includes modelling the impacts of climate change on plant species distributions and biodiversity, supporting conservation and management of rare and endangered species, evaluating the invasive potential of non-native plants and niche conservatism between native and colonized ranges, and analysing landscape patterns and habitat fragmentation.[2] He has also contributed to the development of dynamic models simulating species spread across landscapes and to long-term monitoring plots used to test ecological predictions under global environmental change.[5]
Selected publications
- Elith, Jane; Graham, Catherine H.; Anderson, Robert P.; Dudík, Miroslav; Ferrier, Simon; Guisan, Antoine (2006). "Novel methods improve prediction of species' distributions from occurrence data". Ecography. 29 (2): 129–151. doi:10.1111/j.2006.0906-7590.04596.x.
- Guisan, Antoine; Thuiller, Wilfried; Zimmermann, Niklaus E. (2017). Habitat Suitability and Distribution Models: With Applications in R. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781139028271. ISBN 978-0-521-76513-8.
- Guisan, Antoine; Zimmermann, Niklaus E. (2000). "Predictive habitat distribution models in ecology". Ecological Modelling. 135 (2–3): 147–186. doi:10.1016/S0304-3800(00)00354-9.
- Rey, Pierre-Louis; Adde, Antoine; Külling, Nathan; Lehmann, Anthony; Guisan, Antoine (2026). "Advancing species-based predictions of Nature's contributions to people". Trends in Ecology & Evolution. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2025.12.003.
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